Subj : Syncterm and Atari BBSes
To : All
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed Sep 24 2025 10:47 am
I recently saw an add for an Atari BBS and wanted to check it out. The ad said
that "atari ascii" support was required to connect, so I set Syncterm up to use
Atari XEP80.
The connection worked well overall. Not having done this before, I do have a
few questions. Should I have expected to need to use CTRL-M instead of the
Enter key on my linux PC? Also, should I have expected that the BKSP key would
not work?
Been so long since I had used an Atari BBS I could not remember if that was
thing back in the 1980s/90s, too, so I didn't want to assume that these quirks
were/were not bugs without asking. Thanks!
