[Coco] How to Acess Internet Telnet BBS's & MUDS on a CoCo

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek"
To: "CoCo List" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:29 AM
Subject: [Coco] How to Acess Internet Telnet BBS's & MUDS on a CoCo


>I just wanted to pass along information on how I have been able to use my
>CoCo III to access BBS's  and Online MUD Games via Telnet on the Internet.
>You will need to have a serial cable with null modem adapter running
>between the coco serial port and your windows system's serial port.
>
> 1: Download the Internet Modem Application from here :
> http://boycot.no-ip.com/InternetModem This is a Windows XP Program that
> basically emulates a Modem and allows you to use your Windows System as a
> Gateway.

When I saw this message last night, I went there and tried to download that
package and discovered I already had it, thanks to the following message
from last year:
For some reason, it won't work for me.
George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek"
To: "CoCo List" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 11:19 AM
Subject: [Coco] Serial to Telnet Gateway Progrm (Web surf with Coco)


> http://boycot.no-ip.com/InternetModem/
>
> I found this program while I was doing some research to get my Apple 2
> connected to my Windows box. I was able to fire up a Terminal Program on
> the Apple and after loading the Internet Modem software in Windows XP I
> was able to telnet into a couple of bbs's and also it worked allowing me
> to connect to the dalnet IRC server.(I have a null modem cable between the
> apple and PC). There is documentation on the web site. The software used
> the Hayes AT command set so to telnet into a bbs the command is ATDT
> a2central.com:23
>
> There should be no reason why this can not work on the Coco or other
> machines. I do not have an RS-232 pack handy to test it with on the coco.
> I will be testing it with my Atari ST here soon. Just thought someone here
> would find this as neat as I do.
>
> Derek