Hi everyone, I'm looking for some punishment by way of (hopefully)
some new users :)
I used to frequent BBSes in the early 1990's using Qmodem 5.0 on a 8
MHz XT clone and 2400 baud modem. I was into collecting files,
Fidonet (HolySmokes!), and doors (TradeWars 2002, SRE, BRE). Sadly,
by the time I got a Cyrix 486SLC/25MHz and 14.4k most people were
using PPP and my favorite boards were falling off.
Many years later I was working with server-side *nix and realized that
I needed a lot of the features of the quality BBS clients like
scrollback, capture, screen dump, zmodem, and keyboard macros. I
couldn't find any terminal emulators that would do what I wanted -
particularly as I wanted to be able to work directly on the raw Linux
console. So I started writing a fresh re-implementation of Qmodem
called 'qodem'.
7 years later qodem has grown up a bit and has nearly all of the
features I wanted for myself. It is both a BBS client with CP437,
ANSI.SYS, x/y/zmodem/kermit, scrollback, capture, dump, etc., and it
is also a ncurses-based *nix-style terminal with really decent
vt100/vt220 emulation including UTF-8 for linux and xterm emulations.
It talks both raw serial I/O and ssh/rsh/rlogin/telnet/shell via
forkpty().
I am working on a new release (0.2.1) with better xterm emulation,
x86_64 support, keepalive, and maybe limited proxy support (still
thinking about this). I invite everyone running Linux to give qodem a
try and see if it works for you. It is available at
http://qodem.sourceforge.net . The "official" 0.2.0 download runs
well on 32-bit Linux, and the 0.2.1 "pre-release" works on x86_64. I
am open to bug reports, feature requests, and patches (qodem is
GPLv2+).
Since qodem relies on Unicode and ncurses it needs a decent Unicode
font with CP437 characters. Terminus and unifont are decent under
uxterm; the default8x16 Linux VGA font (what you typically get running
'setfont' with no arguments) works best on the console.
I just re-discovered the online BBS community and hope that qodem can
help someone out there.
... Direct from the Ministry of Silly Walks
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