Check out Viewtronics!
The best things in life are often silly, and in this case gloriously retro. Blocktronics, a collective of the best textmode artists around the world, have released their second art pack entitled “Codename Chris Wirth” in homage to the legendary ANSI artist RaD Man. No, it’s not 1995, and yes, this kind of art is still being produced in stunning fashion.
Along with the pack, this marks the debut of a textmode viewer I’ve been working on for some time called Viewtronics. The project is a refinement of my AS3ANSI engine which powers Flashterm, and includes features such as multiple fonts, zooming, and image generation.
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I’m happy to announce that Flashterm has entered open beta, and is now available for download. Flashterm is an ANSI capable telnet terminal for the web based off the AS3ANSI library. The BBS community has been very helpful in testing the waters for the client. In particular, I’ve got to thank Frank Linhares for running a support forum on his BBS disksh0p.
Keep in mind, Flashterm is still beta and bugs do exist (particularly with cursor position). Please use it at your own risk.
Check it out
I’m happy to launch my Flash telnet client, which I’m calling FlashTerm, based off the AS3ANSI library. FlashTerm is only meant to be a UI for AS3ANSI, which handles all the parsing and viewing operations for both ANSI and telnet controls and will remain open source.
The demo is a default installation of Synchronet (fantastic BBS software which is still very actively maintained) that I have running on an crappy old WinXP HP server. The socket security policy server was fairly straightforward to set up. I used a PHP script from Maxim Sprey, but there are numerous server scripts written in different languages all over the web (Adobe posted some in Perl and Python).
Please keep in mind that this is still in early beta, and I’m aware of the numerous bugs that still exist. A few Sysops have agreed to help beta test, and I hope to have a more stable client is the very near future. Thanks to everyone who has provided their feedback and encouragement.
Don’t forget to click on the Flash object to enable keyboard focus! (UI fix for that in the future)
www.flashterm.com
