Hello, All.

Yesterday, I discovered a guy has actually successfully set up a BBS on a smartphone. I telneted onto it and it worked. I'm not sure if it is running full time or what, but as I get more details, I'll share them here.

Perhaps with a BBS on a phone of my own.

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Hello Charles!

** On Wednesday 18.11.20 - 07:14, Charles Pierson wrote to All:

Yesterday, I discovered a guy has actually successfully set up a BBS on a smartphone. I telneted onto it and it worked. I'm not sure if it is running full time or what, but as I get more details, I'll share them here.

But how practical can it be in the long run? I mean.. if it
still requires pressing the arrow keys to navigate? Sure,
many interfaces double with hot-keys, but how does this
actually look? Is the whole menu of key options on one screen?
How does an 80char wide presentation of the bbs interface
render on a smarphone for the user (or is it a different menu
design)?

How 'bout some screenshots? :)


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Hello, August Abolins.
On 11/18/20 8:59 AM you wrote:

But how practical can it be in the long run? I mean.. if it
still requires pressing the arrow keys to navigate? Sure, many interfaces double with hot-keys, but how does this actually
look? Is the whole menu of key options on one screen? How does
an 80char wide presentation of the bbs interface render on a
smarphone for the user (or is it a different menu design)?

Easily as practical as any other device.

I've never really manuevered with Arrow keys on BBSes, I prefer the menu keys, be it a numbered menu or what have you.

The entire menu is on the screen. At this point, he's running a basic Mystic, no real fancy ANSI yet.

It's apparently scaled well. My telnet terminal (Termius) Shows it fine. I don't have a good ANSI terminal that I can get to work consitantly yet, so I can't judge on that account. But as I said, he doesn't have much ANSI there that I can tell.

How 'bout some screenshots? :)

As far as screenshots go, as soon as I remember what password I have on there, and I get the ok from the sysop, I'll be glad to.


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