[Coco] anyone on here run a dialup BBS?

[Bill Pierce]

Chris, I don't think the Coco 1 can do ANSI colors, or at least any of the software produced for it (??).
The ANSI code is converted by the software which has to be running on hardware capable of doing the colors. At the time of the Coco 1, I don't think ANSI graphics had come of age yet.
However... The Coco 3 WILL do ANSI graphics and colors. There were several programs available that advertised ANSI capability (both RSDOS & OS9). I know SuperComm & OSTerm for OS9 handled ANSI pretty well and there were a quite few others. I remember logging onto BBSs that had ANSI intro screens that were pretty amazing.

Man I miss those days!
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Oliver <chris.w.oliver at me.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 11:42 pm
Subject: [Coco] anyone on here run a dialup BBS?

 
 
 
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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