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  1. Kirkman
    Probably so. You wouldn't need tcpser4j, I would imagine. Just socat to connect the virtual serial ports on whatever machines you're using.
  2. Kirkman
    I did it! I was able to telnet to Dark Force BBS and play a VT-52 session of Space Empire Elite. The key ingredients were Hatari, tcpser4j, and socat. I wrote about how I got it work to work on my Break Into Chat blog here: http://breakintochat.com/blog/2012/12/13/telnet-to-bbs-within-emulator/
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    I could back in the days when I had phone service, but I cancelled that last year after our house was affected by a tornado. Now we are internet only.
  4. Kirkman
    I asked a similar question on stackoverflow, but I figured I'd ask here as well. I use the Hatari (Atari ST) emulator on a Mac. Since there are a number of Atari ST BBSes out there still today, I'd love to be able to connect to them using a VT-52 compatible Atari terminal program, like Freeze Dried Terminal, TAZ, or VanTerm. But how can I get Hatari to work with telnet? I see that Hatari offers RS232/serial emulation. The manual suggests writing Hatari RS232 input/output to a file like /dev/ttyS0. And I found something called socat that lets you transfer data between various channels. So: is there a way to make socat take a telnet session and pipe it into a file that can be read by Hatari's RS232 emulation? Any ideas? I'm a unix novice, but I'd love to get this to work.
  5. Kirkman
    So I obviously found this thread way too late, but if you have a leftover s-video/composite cable, I'd LOVE to buy it.
  6. Kirkman
    Hmm, was looking around and almost forgot about The Assassins Grove BBS. Its another reincarnated Atari BBS from the 80's. Its got a good list of games, including "Space Trader Elite"... I'm not sure if thats the one you're talking about or not? Check it out at: http://www.skeleton.org/bbsindex.html Yes, I have been on the Grove for a while now... Space Trader is a similar game (with a similar name), but it is not SEE. SEE was very popular on FoReM ST / Fnet boards and was inter-BBS capable. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Empire_Elite --Josh
  7. Kirkman
    I have added it to my list. However, I do have one question... I have not yet found any BBS running "Space Empire Elite." Anybody know of an Atari BBS that has it going? (Or will any of you sysops install it?) --Josh
  8. Kirkman
    I will check it out today... I finally found a decent ANSI terminal emulator for MacOS X, called SyncTerm. I'm trying to build a list of good telnet BBSes (Atari and PC) to visit regularly. BTW - Any of you SEE/SRE fans might want to check out a web port of SRE called "Solar Imperium"... it's at http://imperium.mrgtech.ca The game is still in active development, but it's quite good. --Josh
  9. Kirkman
    I found this thread because I am an old FANSI user (though I never registered, sorry Eric). I was just getting into ANSI screens and could only make them by using TheDraw through PC emulation on the Atari. It was VERY slow. Anyhow, FANSI was cool, and though I was never an "artist," I did enjoy making menus and ads for BBSes Anyway, just wanted to reply and say that Solar Realms Elite (SRE), the PC game by Amit Patel was based on the Atari version of Space Empire Elite. SEE came first, then SRE. Amit's brother Mehul later wrote Barren Realms Elite (BRE) as a multiplayer derivative of SRE. I first got into this whole genre of online game through the Flash BBS here in St. Louis, which ran FoReM ST software and had SEE. That was a fun game, though I have to once I discovered SRE on other PC BBSes, I grew to enjoy SRE more. Anyway, hope to see ya'll at the Grove. --Josh
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