phigan wrote to Bob Worm <=-

some decent software for BBSing on XP? Even via serial would be fine,

Have you tried good ol' Telix or Telemate? I don't remember if they run well under XP or not, but it's worth a shot.

Procomm Plus for Windows was nice - resizable, rescalable screens and
decent ANSI emulation. I'm sure there are some old copies floating
around the aether.

There was a Telix for Windows, I don't remember much about it except
for it using the same "bloop boop beep" connect sound.

I was doing work on systems that needed full VT220 emulation, and
Procomm Plus for DOS/Windows were the only common apps that provided a
decent emulation.


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I'm going to see if I have the archives for Telix and Telemate here still ( using Telix right now) and make sure they're on my board.

They're over here if you need them.

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Procomm Plus for Windows was nice - resizable, rescalable screens and
decent ANSI emulation. I'm sure there are some old copies floating
around the aether.

I use procom plus for windows myself on my win 3.1 rig. Its the only terminal emulator I've found thus far that has decent ANSI emulation & has telnet support that will run on win 3.1. It works rather well to be honest.

I wonder if the more recent versions of it will run in win xp without needed
to be run in a VM?

I know for a fact that procom plus 2 for windows will work in win 10 using otvdm/winevdm (mendelson.org/otvdm.html), I tried it in the weekend and it runs just fine which surprised me. I wonder if that would work in win xp??

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Re: Re: BBSing on early WinXP era systems
By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Mon Aug 11 2025 08:51:49

Procomm Plus for Windows was nice - resizable, rescalable screens and
decent ANSI emulation. I'm sure there are some old copies floating
around the aether.

I was just ranting on Phigan's board about the amount of effort it takes to get off the starting blocks with Windows XP. It can't do modern SSL / TLS ciphers so even on the newest version of Chrome it will run you can't open half of the Internet. Even most retro style terminals live on GiHub or Sourceforge, which basically don't work on XP.

After many attempts at various softwares (lynx browser, Syncterm, etc, etc) I've now got Netrunner up and running, with thanks to Winrar from archive.org. It makes this laptop run hot as hell but at least now I have x/y/zmodem and can try pulling something a bit kinder off a BBS somewhere.

Procomm Plus would definitely tick my nostalgia box - I am pretty sure it was Procomm Plus that my dad used when I got to watch him connect to a BBS once in the late 80s / early 90s.

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.

BobW
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