Get the BBS Scene Vibes back with Neon Modem Overdrive (lemmy client)
Get the BBS Scene Vibes back with Neon Modem Overdrive (lemmy client)
Miss the internet from the 80s? Want to (re-)experience BBS scene vibes but still participate in today’s conversations? Then Neon Modem Overdrive is for you!
Running it in cool-retro-term with the IBM Dos profile:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/8923a5ee-e63b-48f9-991e-9116b428f42b.png
Theoretically, if run on a terminal that supports Sixel (most modern virtual terminals) or the kitty graphics protocol, and it got support, it could display graphical thumbnails and inline images too).
Cool-retro-term doesn't seem to have Sixel support currently, but it looks like someone is banging on it:
https://github.com/lxqt/qtermwidget/issues/552
Last month:
@tsujan @stefonarch I am working on porting the latest konsole sources to pure Qt. If I understand correctly, Konsole has sixel support. If I succeed in the porting work (I'm at least a couple of months from any reasonable result), we can have sixel support.
There's also an emacs lemmy client, lem.el. That has image support if you're running emacs in a GUI environment, though I don't know if there's a way to convince emacs-in-a-terminal to translate it to sixel or kitty.
Thats a cool setup :)
Probably not authentic as getting a secondary monitor that's an old-school CRT and an an HDMI/DP/USB-C-to-VGA plug and sticking it right into an authentic CRT, but I'm on a laptop in a restaurant and can't screenshot that anyway.
You can still get the keyboard, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicomp
In 1996, Lexmark International was prepared to shut down their Lexington keyboard factory where they produced Model M buckling-spring keyboards. IBM, their principal customer and the Model M's original designer and patent holder, had decided to remove the Model M from its product line in favor of cost-saving rubber-dome keyboards.
Rather than seeing its production come to an end, a group of former Lexmark and IBM employees purchased the license, tooling and design rights for buckling-spring technology, and, in April 1996, reestablished the business as Unicomp.
I have one of their Endura Pros at home, which is an old-school IBM buckling-spring keyboard. That has the IBM Trackpoint nipple mouse. The buckling spring keyswitches will last forever, as far as I can tell, but I wore out the mouse button keyswitches. They might have fixed that over the years, but I would probably just one without the Trackpoint if I got another.
If you have one of those and are typing away ("click ping! click ping! click ping!"), looking at a CRT, that's probably about as close as you get to the BBS era.
Probably a way to rig up simulated 9600 baud too.
Its a lemmy (and a host of other) TUI client. I like the look and performance. GH link is here: https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem