hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

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Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 07:43 pm

hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

what? never heard of it.
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Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 07:43 pm

hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

Many of us are aware of fTelnet. fTelnet has been around for years as an HTML widget (and Flash before that), which allows sysops to put a telnet widget on their BBS web page.

I think the Android fTelnet app works relatively well, though the display is quite small in portrait mode (where both the display and keyboard can fit on the screen, at least on my phone). When in landscape mode, the display is easier to read, but the keyboard takes up a lot of the display space.

Nightfox

Re: BBSing on Android
By: MRO to Oderus on Sun Aug 04 2019 14:52:12

Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 07:43 pm

hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

what? never heard of it.

yeah i just found it. seems to work well

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Re: BBSing on Android
By: Nightfox to Oderus on Sun Aug 04 2019 17:17:40

Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 07:43 pm

hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

Many of us are aware of fTelnet. fTelnet has been around for years as an HTML widget (and Flash before that), which allows sysops to put a telnet widget on their BBS web page.

I think the Android fTelnet app works relatively well, though the display is quite small in portrait mode (where both the display and keyboard can fit on the screen, at least on my phone). When in landscape mode, the display is easier to read, but the keyboard takes up a lot of the display space.

Nightfox

ya theres a aetting to change the landscape keyboard to another mode but everything you said is spot on

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Re: BBSing on Android
By: Nightfox to Oderus on Sun Aug 04 2019 05:17 pm

I think the Android fTelnet app works relatively well, though the display is quite small in portrait mode (where both the display and keyboard can fit on the screen, at least on my phone). When in landscape mode, the display is easier to read, but the keyboard takes up a lot of the display space.

i have a 5.5" display on my phone and i cant go any bigger for comfort reasons.

ftelnet does a good job of rendering but i cant really use it on my phone.
it's not ftelnet's fault. it's probably best for tablets.
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Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to MRO on Sun Aug 04 2019 06:31 pm

Re: BBSing on Android
By: MRO to Oderus on Sun Aug 04 2019 14:52:12

Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 07:43 pm

hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

what? never heard of it.

yeah i just found it. seems to work well

i was joking, i was a beta tester for it 4 yrs ago i think
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Quoting MRO to Nightfox <=-

ftelnet does a good job of rendering but i cant really use it on my
phone. it's not ftelnet's fault. it's probably best for tablets.

It's almost usable on a tablet. I have it on the ipad and I can use
it in a pinch, but when I still ran MagickaBBS I would use the web
interface instead as it was just a bit easier. (Keyboard takes up too
much screen space is the issue)

Shawn

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Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 07:43 pm

hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

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I use a client that uses all the protocols and I save profiles for the different services. It's called juicessh. It has plugins that add power to the tool. There are options, just saying.

Daniel Traechin

Re: BBSing on Android
By: calcmandan to All on Tue Aug 06 2019 01:22:52

Re: BBSing on Android
By: Oderus to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 07:43 pm

hey theres a nice app on the playstore called fTelnet that works great for bbsing.

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I use a client that uses all the protocols and I save profiles for the different services. It's called juicessh. It has plugins that add power to the tool. There are options, just saying.

Daniel Traechin

ooo i will have to take a look!1

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