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Bolkonskij
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on: January 16, 2026, 10:34
hey folks, so I've found and connected to a pretty nice BBS using my Commodore 64 Ultimate. It actually offers some fun content, like a bridge to access Wikipedia, various news aggregators, an active live chat, stuff like a mainframe version of Oregon Trail to play etc. I would like to visit it from my IIci / System 7.1 as well. However, it seems to use PETSCII (not ASCII) to display its contents. At least when setting my Terminal emulator to ASCII, all I get is garbled up characters that won't allow you to make out things. Does anybody know of any terminal emulator for System 7 capable of displaying PETSCII graphics? Oh and in case anybody would love to give this a try, the BBS in question is at bbs.retrocampus.com:6510 |
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Last Edit: January 16, 2026, 10:36 by Bolkonskij
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68kmac
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32 MB  Posts: 51 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #1 on: January 16, 2026, 11:36
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You also need a c64-Font for your mac to display petscii graphics. And Petscii <> Ascii. :-)
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wove
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Reply #2 on: January 16, 2026, 17:04
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There is an old Commodore emulator on the Garden. Perhaps it would allow you to run Desterm or some other Commodore terminal emulator, which would connect to a Commodore BBS. SyncTerm which is open source, but for OS X which does Petscii. There is also MuffinTerm, which is not open source, but is available for OS X and iOS from the app stores, which also does Petscii. Using Desterm on the Commodore can connect to the communication module of Claris Works via a null modem cable allowing you to move data between Commodore hardware and Mac hardware going back to at least System 6.0.5. (ClarisWorks 3 requires at least 6.0.5 to use the communication module.)
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