Subj : Quo vadis, FD?
To : Conrad J. Koehler
From : Joaquim Homrighausen
Date : Sun Sep 24 2017 07:01 am
Hello Conrad :)
cjk> machines, kept screen line #25 free for payload and had a mostly
cjk> error-free interpretation of AVATAR codes.
Hmmm ... which part did I miss? I worked closely with Stanislav to get this
stuff properly implemented, but maybe I forgot something?
cjk> Ward now brought me
cjk> back into Fido, and I'm (slowly.. very slowly) going towards
cjk> using a classical POTS EMSI mailer via Telnet. Specifically, in a
cjk> DOSBox.
Cool!
cjk> JoHo seems to work on the same thing, but I'm not so sure whether
cjk> or not this means FD is in development again.
Actually, it does mean that. There's a lot of stuff to port, before I can begin
adding features. But that time will come.
cjk> Using FD term in DOSBox gets me disconnected on most Telnet BBSs
cjk> because they 'detect a port scanner', which I'm certainly not
cjk> using. In a BBS that doesn't use such a detection, I can move
cjk> around as I used to, but there's no way to get anything via
cjk> ZModem. The ZModem transfer screen pops up, but it's unable to
cjk> transfer a single block.
Have you tried Janis Kracht's system(s)? Or Mark Lewis?
