mtatton / icy_term

Old school ANSI/AVT terminal program for modern systems.

icy_term

IcyTERM is a BBS terminal program with allows you to connect to BBSes. Visit https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ for a start to enter the BBS world.

Features supported so far:

• Connection
  • Telnet
  • SSH
  • Raw
• Terminal encoding support
  • Ansi
  • Avatar
  • Petscii
  • Built in fonts, many DOS fonts, C64, Amiga & Atari font supported.
  • ATASCII
  • Viewdata
• File transfer protocols
  • Xmodem, 1k & 1k-G (implemented but needs testing)
  • Ymodem batch & Ymodem-G (implemented but needs testing)
  • Zmodem/ZedZap (implemented but needs testing)
• Auto login
  • IEMSI
  • Terminate style auto login system
• Misc features
  • Scrollback buffer (scrollwheel)
  • Exporting buffer to disk
  • IEMSI/Autologin editor (you need to edit it as text for the moment)
  • Better rendering engine (maybe switching the UI to OpenGL)
  • Copy & Paste

Screenshots

Code page 437 (aka "DOS") support:

Petscii screenshot:

Atascii screenshot:

Viewdata screenshot:

History

I had an own BBS back in the 90'. When I started rust I searched a project and some days earlier I spoke with my wife about the good old days, PCBoard and then I got the idea to improve the PPL decompiler we used these days. That was my first project and it was successful (https://github.com/mkrueger/PPLEngine). Around that time I learned that there are still BBSes in the internet and I started to update my old ansi drawing tool (MysticDraw) however I lost a bit track because of the gtk4 bindings. It's very difficult to write even a mid sized UI application with these.

I tried to use druid & egui for that but none of these libraries felt that it was the way to go.

Now I want to make some small real world projects for each.

• I made a small prototype for the ansi drawer in druid (feels very comfortable to work with but the APP looks bad)
• Made a game cheating tool with egui - very nice tool but the APPs still have not the look & feel
• Now I made a terminal app with iced - PopOS! is switching to that library.

With all my ansi & buffer routines I've already written it makes sense to make a terminal. I need one program as well - most terminal programs are a bit too old school. Time to change that.

Bugs

Please file some - I'm sure the protocols still have issues