First post, by Tark
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- Newbie
I discovered this while trying to figure something else out.
You can use Dosbox to connect to telnet BBSes and you can do it using DOS dial-up terminal programs.
Here is how to do it, assuming you have a broadband Internet connection and that you connect through a network card:
1. Use Dosbox 0.73 -- which I prefer for telnet purposes. Download and install Winpcap, which is free and downloadable from www.winpcap.org..
2. Set up your network card using this approach:
Before you can access the NE2000 emulation function, you
have to tell DOSBox which REAL network card in your system
you want it to wrap to. In the dosbox.conf file [ne2000] section
you will see a line like this:
realnic=list
When that is set to "list," the DOSBox console window
will show you a numbered list of network adapters found
in your system. Remember the number of your network card
(usually 1 or 2).
Close Dosbox and re-open the dosbox.conf file, and change
the word "list" in the realnic line to the number of your
card.
Save dosbox.conf.
3. In the dosbox.conf [serial] section, change the serial1 line to serial1=modem listenport:23 -- start Dosbox and make sure the console tells you that the modem is listening on port 23. If not, something is wrong and you should go back to step 2.
4. Unzip your terminal software to a directory on your computer. (The Lync terminal program is attached to this post. It's a good program to use because its dial directory allows URLs in the phone number field. If you use lync30.zip, attached to this post, and you unzip it with Winzip, the files will go into c:\unzipped\lync30.)
5. In dosbox.conf add this to the autoexec section at the end:
mount c c:\unzipped\lync30 (use the correct path for your system)
ne2000.com 0x0060
c:
lync
NOTE: Checking this after I posted, I found that this process doesn't work without running the ne2000 driver. I'm adding that file below. Put it in the same directory as the lync files.
6. Start Dosbox and if you use Lync, configure the terminal as shown in the graphic.
Once you've completed that, you are ready to connect to a BBS. I humbly suggest you connect to
bluelobster.dyndns.org
because it's a pretty good board, it's completely free, and it belongs to me.
Blue Lobster BBS
telnet://bluelobster.dyndns.org