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

Thu Mar 6 13:38:19 EST 2008

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek"
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] How to Acess Internet Telnet BBS's & MUDS on a CoCo

> May want to try editing the flow control in the programs .ini file (the 
> xonxoff setting).

 Sorry. I should have included the current setting:

; Handshake: None, RTS, XonXoff, RTS/XonXoff
Handshake=XonXoff

 Perhaps I should turn RTS on? It's in my cable and the RS232 port along 
with CTS and RD. When I built those RS232 ports, I included all the 
handshaking that the 6551 allowed.

 This "Internet Modem" thing is pretty cool.... so far as I can tell.

George
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> George Ramsower <georgeramsower at gmail.com> wrote: I'm using a home-built 
> RS232 board. Supercomm on /t2 9600,8,N,1
> George
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Derek"
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] How to Acess Internet Telnet BBS's & MUDS on a CoCo
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>> Are you using a RS-232 pack or the 4 pin DIN serial port on the coco?
>>
>>
>>
>> George Ramsower  wrote:  I tried Internet Modem
>> again this morning and it worked, if only briefly.
>> When I connected to vbarnet.org, the modem errored out.
>> Here's the log of that session:
>> 3/5/2008 7:45 AM - Loading Character Code Translations
>> 3/5/2008 7:45 AM - Opening COM1,9600,8,None,1,XOnXOff
>> 3/5/2008 7:45 AM - ModemCommandString = AT
>> 3/5/2008 7:45 AM - Modem Error Code = 0
>> 3/5/2008 7:46 AM - ModemCommandString = ATDT VBARNET.ORG
>> 3/5/2008 7:46 AM - Dialing: static-66-16-202-219.dsl.cavtel.net
>> (66.16.202.219) on port 23
>> 3/5/2008 7:46 AM - Connection established.
>> 3/5/2008 7:46 AM - Modem Error Code = 1
>>
>> When I get time, I'll play with this again. It was fun to actually be on
>> the
>> system with my coco, even if it wasn't very long.
>> George
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Derek"
>> To: "CoCo List"
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 2: Edit the InternetModem .ini file and set the following items like 
>>> this
>>> SerDataBits=8
>>> SerParity=None
>>> SerStopBits=1
>>> Handshake=XonXoff
>>> Baud=19200 (You may have to adjust this down to the 2400, 9600 range if
>>> your  if your using the built Serial Port on the Coco (RS-232 Pack users
>>> should be able to leave this at 19200.) I am using the built in 4 pin 
>>> DIN
>>> Serial Port on the CoCo  and I can not go above 9600 baud. I left all 
>>> the
>>> other settings in the .ini file set to default.
>>>
>>> 3: Get a terminal program for your coco. For 512K Coco III users I
>>> recommend Sockmasters Twilight Terminal Software as it has ANSI support
>>> and works great. http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/twi-term.html
>>>
>>> 128K Coco III or Coco I & II Users can find many good terminal programs
>>> from here ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/RSDOS/TELECOM I was able to get
>>> GETerm
>>> from there to work just fine.
>>>
>>> 4: Once you get your coco terminal program configured go to terminal 
>>> mode
>>> and you "dial" out by using the Hayes AT Command set. For example if you
>>> want to  access a telnet bbs you would type this ATDT vbarnet.org it can
>>> also access the bbs via a direct ip addresses so ATDT 216.62.20.217 is
>>> what you would type if you only have the BBS IP address (both of those
>>> are
>>> working BBS's I have accessed with my CoCo and this setup.) The Internet
>>> Modem software defaults to Port 23 but if the BBS uses a port other than
>>> 23 you would enter the "dial" command like this ATDT BBSNAME.COM:8801
>>>
>>> Thats it. If anyone needs help getting the terminal programs onto a coco
>>> floppy let me know or if you have any questions I will do my best to
>>> answer. I have used this same method to access BBS'S and MUDS on my 
>>> Apple
>>> IIE, Atari 800XL , Atari Mega ST 2 and Amiga 1000 so if you own other
>>> vintage systems the same instructions would basically apply.
>>>
>>> You can find updated telnet bbs listings here :
>>> http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
>>>
>>> You can find a huge listing of online MUD, MUSH type of games you can
>>> play
>>> via telnet here http://www.mudconnect.com/
>>>
>>> My Personal Favorite MUD Game is http://www.aardwolf.com/
>>>
>>> Hope someone finds this useful
>>>
>>> Derek
>>>
>>> *  I posted this on coco3.com message forum but also wanted to post on
>>> the
>>> e-mail list as folks may find it useful and this message list gets
>>> archived online for future access.
>>>
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