[Coco] anyone on here run a dialup BBS?

David Ladd davidwladd at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 23:52:31 EDT 2015


Thanks for posting that link.  I didn't even know there were still live
dialup BBS around.

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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Chris Oliver <chris.w.oliver at me.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> Just got my Coco1 to connect to some of the BBS’s at
> http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/dialbbs/dialbbs.htm <
> http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/dialbbs/dialbbs.htm> via my Modem I/RS-232
> Program Pak.  Wanted to see if anyone on this forum runs a BBS of their own
> — happy to check out your stuff if so.  :)
>
> Question I do have, in general: Regardless of whether I connect via the
> Modem I/RS-232, or the Direct Connect Modem Pak, I’m finding that I can’t
> render various ANSI codes that map to colors.  (So those codes — instead of
> rendering into colors — end up junking up my display.  Format example is
> “1;36;40m”.)
>
> Is there just an inherent limitation here, with the Coco1 display, the
> communication hardware, or a combination of the two?  Or is there some way
> to fix this?
>
> Many thanks!  Hard to believe that I can connect at 300 baud in 2015…
>
> Chris
>
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