[Coco] How to Acess Internet Telnet BBS's & MUDS on a CoCo

[William Schaub]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008, Derek wrote:
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>> I just wanted to pass along information on how I have been able to use my
>> CoCo III to access BBS's  and Online MUD Games via Telnet on the Internet.
>> You will need to have a serial cable with null modem adapter running
>> between the coco serial port and your windows system's serial port.
>>
>> 1: Download the Internet Modem Application from here :
>> http://boycot.no-ip.com/InternetModem This is a Windows XP Program that
>> basically emulates a Modem and allows you to use your Windows System as a
>> Gateway.
>>
>> 2: Edit the InternetModem .ini file and set the following items like this
>> SerDataBits=8
>> SerParity=None
>> SerStopBits=1
>> Handshake=XonXoff
>> Baud=19200 (You may have to adjust this down to the 2400, 9600 range if your
>>  if your using the built Serial Port on the Coco (RS-232 Pack users should
>> be able to leave this at 19200.) I am using the built in 4 pin DIN Serial
>> Port on the CoCo  and I can not go above 9600 baud. I left all the other
>> settings in the .ini file set to default.
>>
>> 3: Get a terminal program for your coco. For 512K Coco III users I recommend
>> Sockmasters Twilight Terminal Software as it has ANSI support and works
>> great. http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/twi-term.html
>>
>> 128K Coco III or Coco I & II Users can find many good terminal programs from
>> here ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/RSDOS/TELECOM I was able to get GETerm from
>> there to work just fine.
>>
>> 4: Once you get your coco terminal program configured go to terminal mode
>> and you "dial" out by using the Hayes AT Command set. For example if you
>> want to  access a telnet bbs you would type this ATDT vbarnet.org it can
>> also access the bbs via a direct ip addresses so ATDT 216.62.20.217 is what
>> you would type if you only have the BBS IP address (both of those are
>> working BBS's I have accessed with my CoCo and this setup.) The Internet
>> Modem software defaults to Port 23 but if the BBS uses a port other than 23
>> you would enter the "dial" command like this ATDT BBSNAME.COM:8801
>>     
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> This is neat, I wonder if something like this can be cobbled together for 
> linux?
>
> Also, and I really should upload this after I find it on the disks I brought 
> home from the tv station, I have that quite old vt-100 progrram that has been 
> brought up to date and compatible with all known vt-220 codes.  For OS-9 of 
> course.  I'd assume it could work for this?  IIRC, I also built in zmodem 
> triggers & responses while I was at it.
>
>   
Well, yes you can do this with linux. just spawn a getty on the serial 
port on the linux box
use a vt100 emulator on the coco and login to the linux box to telnet to 
muds or whatever.



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