Re: Best terminal for BBS
  By: Dimitri Papadopoulos to Rob Swindell on Thu Feb 26 2009 10:12 pm

 >   Re: Best terminal for BBS
 >   By: Rob Swindell to Dimitri Papadopoulos on Thu Feb 26 2009 06:25 pm
 >
 > > HyperTerminal *comes with* Windows XP. I'm not sure why you didn't try
 > > it.
 >
 > True, HyperTerminal comes with XP, amd I did try it.  My issue with that
 > one is that my screen resolution on my desktop computer is 1280x1024 and
 > when I telnet to a BBS at 80x24 ANSI, the 'telnet terminal' is just a
 > quarter of the screen.

So increase the font size. I'm running 1280x1024 with an 80x40 HyperTerminal
window fills about 3/4 of the screen (that with an 11pt font), and it's great.
I, personally, don't want my Telnet terminal to fill the screen, I just want my
text very readable with 40-50 rows.

 > I tried also other Telnet software which ran in a
 > sort-of-a-DOS window in XP, but when I tried Full-Screen, the text seemed
 > bizare.

Maybe you have a bizzare video card? Console mode programs, when maximized, use
the fonts of your VGA controller, so there should be nothing weird or different
from running DOS on the same system and using DOS-based console programs.

 > Anyway, I like it, and I just wanted to share my experience.  I guess that
 > there are different tastes out there with options to serve all.

Tastes are one thing, but you seemed to claim that RIPtel was the *only* Telnet
client for Windows that could do the things you claim... like:

 > I just like the idea that I can have a real 80x24 full-screen ANSI in a
 > Telnet session, just like I used to have in the DOS days.

Right. And there are several very good terminals that can do that
(HyperTerminal is not one of them). You can even do that with Windows
telnet.exe (ctrl-Enter)!

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