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
- Internationalization

Get binaries

Get the latest release here: https://github.com/mkrueger/game_cheetah/releases/latest

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.

Build instructions

Install rust toolchain: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
Running: "cargo run"
Building release version: "cargo build --release" - in target/release the icy_term executable is all you need

Building redistrib

Bugs