I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various projects that are STILL popping up...

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

All I know is that US, doing all the thing together, are making BBSing cool again in 2p26!!!!

Lets g00000.



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I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came
back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various projects that are STILL popping up...

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

I think that the biggest project that needs to be tackled would to make a working terminal program for mobile devices. With so many people using phones and tablets now and very few folks still on actual computers, it's needed more than ever. Maybe if someone that knows what they're doing could maybe port Netrunner or Syncterm to mobile, that would be great and probably the easiest rather than building one from scratch.

-FltCapt Dallas Vinson, SFI

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Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

BinkleyTermPHP looks pretty cool. ;)


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Hello Geri!

25 Feb 26 08:17, Geri Atricks wrote to paulie420:

back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various
projects that are STILL popping up...
Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome,
KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

I think that the biggest project that needs to be tackled would to
make a working terminal program for mobile devices. With so many
people using phones and tablets now and very few folks still on
actual computers, it's needed more than ever. Maybe if someone that knows what they're doing could maybe port Netrunner or Syncterm to mobile, that would be great and probably the easiest rather than
building one from scratch.

ConnectBot for Android has been around for many years. But have you ever tried fitting an 80x25 terminal window on a 6-inch screen?

Regards,
Jegor

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Re: Our community
By: paulie420 to All on Tue Feb 24 2026 20:57:21

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

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Geri Atricks wrote to paulie420 <=-

I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came
back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various projects that are STILL popping up...

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

I think that the biggest project that needs to be tackled would to make
a working terminal program for mobile devices. With so many people
using phones and tablets now and very few folks still on actual
computers, it's needed more than ever. Maybe if someone that knows
what they're doing could maybe port Netrunner or Syncterm to mobile,
that would be great and probably the easiest rather than building one
from scratch.

See above where "TERMinator" was mentioned? That was just recently
released and is a port of SyncTerm. Works great, and available in the
Apps stores for both IOS and Android.



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Re: Our community
By: paulie420 to All on Tue Feb 24 2026 20:57:21

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

Everything is Awesome.
Everything is cool when you're part of a team.
Everything is Awesome when you're living out a dream.
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On 24 Feb 2026, paulie420 said the following...

I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came
back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various projects that are STILL popping up...

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

All I know is that US, doing all the thing together, are making BBSing cool again in 2p26!!!!

Lets g00000.

pAULIE42o
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I could not agree more, Paulie!!! Well said!

2026 is going to be a great year for the BBS community.


=:-)


-StingRay

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Hello Geri,

25 Feb 26 08:17, you wrote to paulie420:

I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I
came back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and
various projects that are STILL popping up...

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome,
KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

I think that the biggest project that needs to be tackled would to
make a working terminal program for mobile devices. With so many
people using phones and tablets now and very few folks still on actual computers, it's needed more than ever. Maybe if someone that knows
what they're doing could maybe port Netrunner or Syncterm to mobile,
that would be great and probably the easiest rather than building one
from scratch.

MuffinTerm is really good if you have Apple stuff.

ByEbYe
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Hello paulie420,

24 Feb 26 20:57, you wrote to All:

I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came
back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various
projects that are STILL popping up...

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome,
KNK2025 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

All I know is that US, doing all the thing together, are making BBSing
cool again in 2p26!!!!

Lets g00000.

Amen! GL HF!


ByEbYe
--
Daniel

telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-

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Hello Gamgee!

See above where "TERMinator" was mentioned? That was just recently released and is a port of SyncTerm. Works great, and available in the
Apps stores for both IOS and Android.

What is the best way to find it? keywords terminator and syncterm don't find anything except termux which might be similar.

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Ogg wrote to Gamgee <=-

Hello Gamgee!

See above where "TERMinator" was mentioned? That was just recently released and is a port of SyncTerm. Works great, and available in the
Apps stores for both IOS and Android.

What is the best way to find it? keywords terminator and syncterm
don't find anything except termux which might be similar.

I can't speak for Android, as I'm using an iPhone, but searching for "terminator" in the App Store shows it just fine for me.



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Re: Our community
By: paulie420 to All on Tue Feb 24 2026 08:57 pm

I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various projects that are STILL popping up...

I enjoy it as well. And I am STILL meaning to play in one of your monthly Doom games, and haven't made it yet..

Nightfox
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I enjoy it as well. And I am STILL meaning to play in one of your
monthly Doom games, and haven't made it yet..

Nightfox

I'm planning to join... I haven't played the original dooms in decades!

-grim

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Re: Re: Our community
By: Gamgee to Geri Atricks on Wed Feb 25 2026 10:53 am

See above where "TERMinator" was mentioned? That was just recently released and is a port of SyncTerm. Works great, and available in the Apps stores for both IOS and Android.

I'm curious about TERMinator. I had a look in the Google Play Store and searched for TERMinator, but I'm not sure I'm seeing it. I (naturally) see a lot of references to apps based on the Terminator movies.. I saw that TERMinator seems to be made by the sysop of Absinthe BBS and it can be downloaded there, so I checked out his BBS but it wasn't really obvious where to download it from. Unless I just missed something..

Nightfox
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I'm curious about TERMinator. I had a look in the Google Play Store and searched for TERMinator, but I'm not sure I'm seeing it. I (naturally) see lot of references to apps based on the Terminator movies.. I saw that

Yeah I just looked now as well, there is nothing yet on google play.

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Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

See above where "TERMinator" was mentioned? That was just recently released and is a port of SyncTerm. Works great, and available in the Apps stores for both IOS and Android.

I'm curious about TERMinator. I had a look in the Google Play Store
and searched for TERMinator, but I'm not sure I'm seeing it. I (naturally) see a lot of references to apps based on the Terminator movies.. I saw that TERMinator seems to be made by the sysop of
Absinthe BBS and it can be downloaded there, so I checked out his BBS
but it wasn't really obvious where to download it from. Unless I just missed something..

Yea, I don't know anything about the Android side of things, and didn't/haven't looked at Absinthe. I saw and got it from the IOS App
Store.



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See above where "TERMinator" was mentioned? That was just recently released and is a port of SyncTerm. Works great, and available in the Apps stores for both IOS and Android.

I just searched and could not find it in the Google Play store.

-FltCapt Dallas Vinson, SFI

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I can't speak for Android, as I'm using an iPhone, but searching for "terminator" in the App Store shows it just fine for me.

I had issues when it was first announced for the iPhone. Couldn't find it until day 2. Perhaps it's related to what country people are in?

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Geri Atricks wrote to Gamgee <=-

See above where "TERMinator" was mentioned? That was just recently released and is a port of SyncTerm. Works great, and available in the Apps stores for both IOS and Android.

I just searched and could not find it in the Google Play store.

Yea, apparently there is some delay for the Android version. The
IOS/iPhone version is available.

-FltCapt Dallas Vinson, SFI

What does this mean?



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niter3 wrote to Gamgee <=-

I can't speak for Android, as I'm using an iPhone, but searching for "terminator" in the App Store shows it just fine for me.

I had issues when it was first announced for the iPhone. Couldn't find
it until day 2. Perhaps it's related to what country people are in?

Could be, yep. I probably didn't look until day 2 or 3. It's been
updated in there since then (the version has incremented, currently at
1.1.7).



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Re: Re: Our community
By: Geri Atricks to Gamgee on Thu Feb 26 2026 01:46 am

I suspect this may be it, but there's no release available here, either:

https://github.com/omniphil/TERMinator-Android
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Jegor wrote to Geri Atricks <=-

ConnectBot for Android has been around for many years. But have you
ever tried fitting an 80x25 terminal window on a 6-inch screen?

I ran Multimail in DOSBOX on an Android phone. Turned landscape mode
with an external keyboard it worked pretty well.

https://realitycheckbbs.org/images/androidqwk.JPG



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-FltCapt Dallas Vinson, SFI

What does this mean?

That is my rank in STARFLEET International. We are the largest fan run Star Trek organization on the planet. And my Rank is Fleet Captain, which is the step between Captain and Comodore. You can check out the organization at: sfi.org

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Hello poindexter!

26 Feb 26 07:39, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jegor:

ConnectBot for Android has been around for many years. But have you
ever tried fitting an 80x25 terminal window on a 6-inch screen?

I ran Multimail in DOSBOX on an Android phone. Turned landscape mode
with an external keyboard it worked pretty well. https://realitycheckbbs.org/images/androidqwk.JPG

Nice, but it's not always convenient to use an external keyboard on the go. And with the on-screen keyboard you'll get tired of constantly switching it back and forth, since in landscape mode it covers almost all of the content.

When ssh-ing to my node in ConnectBot, I have to shrink the terminal window to 50-60 cols so the font isn't too small in portrait mode: https://temp.jegor.net/ftn_ssh.jpg

But I doubt it's possible to visit BBSes online in the same way, with an arbitrary terminal window size.

Regards,
Jegor

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When ssh-ing to my node in ConnectBot, I have to shrink the terminal window to 50-60 cols so the font isn't too small in portrait mode: https://temp.jegor.net/ftn_ssh.jpg

Dunno if this has been brought up yet or not, but would it be possible to make menu themes that are targeted for the smaller devices? And then detect on login that it's a device in a certain orientation? Or offer the "mobile" theme option.

Menu options might have to be pared down so everything would fit legibly on the smaller screen, but could be interesting.

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On 26 Feb 2026, GRiM said the following...

When ssh-ing to my node in ConnectBot, I have to shrink the terminal window to 50-60 cols so the font isn't too small in portrait mode: https://temp.jegor.net/ftn_ssh.jpg

Dunno if this has been brought up yet or not, but would it be possible
to make menu themes that are targeted for the smaller devices? And then detect on login that it's a device in a certain orientation? Or offer
the "mobile" theme option.

Menu options might have to be pared down so everything would fit legibly on the smaller screen, but could be interesting.

i know in mystic you can create alternate versions of all of your theme files and it'll display them if it detects that size. 40 column is pretty common from other mostly non-PC stuff.. two birds with one stone.

i think if i were to do it i might make a 40, 60, and 80 column setup. i use cp437 ( https://github.com/keaston/cp437 ) and plain linux telnet @ 80 columns on my phone under Termux and it's okay for me.. ~65 is 'comfy' if i'm tinkering with other non-BBS stuff and 40 just seems jombo. everyone's phone and preference will be different..

a lot of those sizes that are 'comfy' to read are also at least 30 rows.. so you could certainly make up for lack of width with some extra message space down below.

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Geri Atricks wrote to Gamgee <=-

-FltCapt Dallas Vinson, SFI

What does this mean?

That is my rank in STARFLEET International. We are the largest fan run Star Trek organization on the planet. And my Rank is Fleet Captain,
which is the step between Captain and Comodore. You can check out the organization at: sfi.org

Oh. OK.




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Hey Nightfox!

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:22:48 -0800, you wrote:

I'm curious about TERMinator. I had a look in the Google Play Store and searched for TERMinator, but I'm not sure I'm seeing it. I (naturally)
see a lot of references to apps based on the Terminator movies.. I saw
that TERMinator seems to be made by the sysop of Absinthe BBS and it can
be downloaded there, so I checked out his BBS but it wasn't really
obvious where to download it from. Unless I just missed something..

I think there has been issues with Google Play's verification process. The .apk files are available for download on Absinthe, and if I remember right, it was some "sysop favorites" menu off of the main menu.

And while the sysop of Absinthe had a very big part in the making of the app, he didn't program it. One of his users did.

Regards,
Nick

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I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came back, to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various projects that are STILL popping up...

Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2 is awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

I think that the biggest project that needs to be tackled would to make a working terminal program for mobile devices. With so many people using phones and tablets now and very few folks still on actual computers,
it's needed more than ever. Maybe if someone that knows what they're doing could maybe port Netrunner or Syncterm to mobile, that would be great and probably the easiest rather than building one from scratch.

Well, thats exactly what TERMinator is trying to do RIGHT NOW. Download at deadmodemsociety.com, aBSINTHE BBS or 2o fOr beeRS. Currently on v1.18 with the dev [Xpilot] very receptive to input on zer0net...



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Its so freaking awesome. You are awesome; TERMinator is awesome, KNK2025 awesome - where are we headed in 2026??

BinkleyTermPHP looks pretty cool. ;)

You are corrent - I need to revisit!! :P



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I love this community - from all the FTNs that were here when I came to the new Door Games, Terminal Softwares, BBSes and various projects are STILL popping up...

I enjoy it as well. And I am STILL meaning to play in one of your
monthly Doom games, and haven't made it yet..

They've calmed down a BIT, but cool thing is almost every month we're playing a new map and seeing some friends...

Jump on in - I've had trouble having the machine I HAVE ON ME being setup w/ Zandronum AND DoomSeeker... but its there every 1st month. Come on by!!! :P



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Jegor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Nice, but it's not always convenient to use an external keyboard on the go. And with the on-screen keyboard you'll get tired of constantly switching it back and forth, since in landscape mode it covers almost
all of the content.

I would love a modern phone with a swing-out keyboard, like in the
2000s. Those save the entire screen for display instead of taking up
half of it for the keyboard.

Pinephone makes a nice keyboard case for their phones, but I'm not ready
for a Linux phone. Yet.



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Re: Our community
By: Accession to Nightfox on Thu Feb 26 2026 07:38 pm

I think there has been issues with Google Play's verification process. The .apk files are available for download on Absinthe, and if I remember right, it was some "sysop favorites" menu off of the main menu.

I'll have to check again.

And while the sysop of Absinthe had a very big part in the making of the app, he didn't program it. One of his users did.

I think it's still cool to see another BBS-compatible telnet client for mobile devices.

Nightfox
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