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So how do you do connect? I recommend using a telnet terminal program that supports IBM PC color ANSI graphics. If you're more libertarian-minded, you might even pursue BBSes as a way to gather on the 'Net outside the purview of the usual data-scarfing giants like Google or Facebook.Īnd about that whole net neutrality issue-well, I'm not going to even pretend that BBSes can replace the modern web, but they feel like safe place for people who want out of the usual toxic online rat race. We do it to share messages with a tight-knit group of people and have fun. Why would you want to do that, you ask? Well, among my group of Twitter friends-all vintage computer enthusiasts-we do it as a hobby for nostalgia's sake. Thanks to the antique text-only protocol called telnet, you can use a terminal emulator program to start BBSing just like the glory days. While few BBSes remain today compared to their height in the early-mid 1990s, one can still connect to a BBS using the internet.

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Way back in the 1980s and early 1990s, before the internet reigned supreme, many PC owners dialed up Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes), which were other PCs running special software that allowed users to connect and share messages, play games, or download files.

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Read this bug is already fixed in newest SyncTerm code but this is kind of useless if nobody can compile it.įound someware a prebuild binary SyncTerm 1.2b that has the bug fixed but therfore has a SDL scaling bug and UI only fills 1/4 of window. It is a pitty since prebuild binary SyncTerm 1.1 is in principal running on macOS via Rosetta but it has on German keyboards this bug from SDL so that this key can not be pressed witch is a bad since most BBS exect a email-address to register with is hard without key. Looks like nobody tired to build it for macOS in a while and so the problems summed up. Then errors during compiling with problems in some src/xpdev/genwrap.h, src/xpdev/gen_defs.h and src/xpdev/dat_file.c files. smblib/crc16.c and list of problems goes on. Then saw that src/syncterm/CMakeLists.txt contains error and searches for crc16.c and crc32.c in wrong subfolders. DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ncurses/6.3 Tried the cmake classics without success:Ĭmake -B build -S.

How to build SyncTerm from source for/on macOS 12.5 ? Please consider updating Version 1.1 and 1.2b of SyncTerm on Sourceforge with SLD2 version 2.0.22. I am pretty sure the same fix will work with SyncTerm 1.2b on Lion.

Now the SyncTerm 1.1 application will run just fine under Lion!!.Replace the SDL2 binary found inside Contents:Frameworks:amework with the SDL2 binary found in the SDL2-2.0.22.dmg image.Replace the Versions folder inside Contents:Frameworks:amework with the Versions folder found in the SDL2-2.0.22.dmg image.Right click on SyncTerm and click on 'Show Package Contents'.I had to replace SDL2 inside the SyncTerm Application with the latest SDL2 version (Version 2.0.22) from the official SDL website įYI - For those who are interested, below are the steps for the fix:

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I finally got SyncTerm v1.1 to run on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.

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