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  • "Doorway mode" issues (ke

    From blakespot@FREEWAY to All on Sun Jun 2 17:06:00 2019
    I login to two BBS that run SynchroNet, regularly -- Black Flag BBS and
    The ByteXchange. Both in ANSI mode present a menu that needs to be navigated with arrow keys in the messages area. I can do this fine in SyncTerm, but on
    my vintage machines -- Amiga and Tandy 1000 -- I can navigate the menus on
    The ByteXchange but not on Black Flag, and of the two only Black Flag carries RetroNet. Not all MSDOS term programs support doorway mode -- I am using
    Qmodem (which is too slow really on this Tandy) and Commo.

    Anyone had such issues and have advice to help? I'd like to use the vintage machines (equipped with a WiFi232) to login.

    OR -- does anyone know of another BBS carrying RetroNet that does not use doorway mode menus? Or at least doesn't run SynchroNet? Thanks.

    bp

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (80:774/22)
  • From deepthaw@FREEWAY to blakespot on Mon Jun 3 16:16:00 2019
    On 02 Jun 2019, blakespot said the following...

    I login to two BBS that run SynchroNet, regularly -- Black Flag BBS and The ByteXchange. Both in ANSI mode present a menu that needs to be navigated with arrow keys in the messages area. I can do this fine in SyncTerm, but on my vintage machines -- Amiga and Tandy 1000 -- I can navigate the menus on The ByteXchange but not on Black Flag, and of the two only Black Flag carries RetroNet. Not all MSDOS term programs
    support doorway mode -- I am using Qmodem (which is too slow really on this Tandy) and Commo.

    Anyone had such issues and have advice to help? I'd like to use the vintage machines (equipped with a WiFi232) to login.

    Black Flag is running Mystic, not Synchronet - but if you choose Amiga Ascii
    as your theme either at login or within your user settings, it'll revert the doors menu back to hotkeys rather than a lightbar.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (80:774/22)
  • From blakespot@FREEWAY to deepthaw on Mon Jun 3 16:39:00 2019
    Black Flag is running Mystic, not Synchronet - but if you choose Amiga Ascii as your theme either at login or within your user settings, it'll revert the doors menu back to hotkeys rather than a lightbar.


    Ah. Odd, my confusion there.

    I tried the Amiga mode, and still the menus for navigating the list of
    messages is arrow-key controlled, it seems. Let me check profile settings, perhaps I can turn off lightbar.

    bp

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (80:774/22)