After reading Devia's note about having problems with the early C64's, I pulled out a C128 and tried the mmc64+rr+rrnet combination with guruterm. It worked.

It would seem at least the combination of mmc64+rr+rrnet problems can be blamed on not working well together on the early C64's. However, the problem with just a straight rr+rrnet is still confusing. I suppose it could be chalked up to being an early rr/rrnet.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Very odd indeed! It seems my RR-net detection doesn't work in this case for some reason. However, I have successfully tested it on a 1982 C64 with blue "Final" 2001 RR and 2003 Rev.D RR-net. I'll take a look at the Contiki init code for RR-net...

Oops! Silly me!


Good idea!

Hi, I tried Guruterm today and it is a very nice program.

I connected to Unauthorised Access BBS and this worked without problems. Great!

However, Cottonwood BBS did not work, it hanged. Jammingsignal also did not work, after I selected '2' for C64 nothing more happened. Inner Circle BBS worked up until I was supposed to "press any key" and it did not matter that I pressed a key, I did not get further with that BBS.

Do only certain telnet BBSs work with Guruterm?

I use MMC64 + RRnet. The MMC64 is in a cartridge expander but I tried also without the cartridge expander and I had the same problems. I tried loading from the MMC64 and from disk and the same things happened.

Edit: http://www.jammingsignal.com did not work with CGterm either, but innercirclebbs and cottonwood work with CGterm.

Edit2: Now cottonwood worked with guruterm

Jamming Signal is currently down. My USB/Serial adaptor is acting up (doesn't receive data from the 64, even though the BBS answers).

So, the problem's on my end

It works with all BBS's as far as I know. You were probably just out of luck that day. Interesting that it works with the port expander though as that would have been my first suspect for your problems.

Hello,

I run InnercircleBBS, yeah the "press any key" thing really chokes Guruterm. Im running a SCPU, talking to a 1Mhz C64, I think that has something to do with it?? There's a lot of color changes, cursor movement, and text repeated over and over and over.

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Telnet to my C= BBS: bbs.innercirclebbs.com
Port 23 = Centipede, Port 64000 = C-Net 128

Maybe I could add more checks for a keypress, but my Centipede bbs is going to be Archived soon anyway so the problem will fix itself in time.

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Telnet to my C= BBS: bbs.innercirclebbs.com
Port 23 = Centipede, Port 64000 = C-Net 128

Yeah, GuruTerm is only sending between each received ethernet packet. That means in worst case GT has to process 1500 characters before sending. If the TCP/SER gateway is buffering as well, your BBS will have time to fire away serveral kB before receiving that "any key". You should perhaps consider a little re-design

Anyone know how to change the port in guruterm?

I tried:

bbs.bbsname.com:6400
bbs.bbsname.com 6400

But nothing... Just curious if you can change the port?

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I've been using GuruTerm for a few weeks now and I think it's fantastic. I really hope you continue to work on it.

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It it possible irc with Guruterm somehow?

I tryed irc.gimp.org:6667

But I always get timeout..

And after this command I cant type User or anyother commands..

No, you need an IRC client to connect to IRC. GuruTerm is just a "dumb" terminal. There is a simple but working IRC client bundled with Contiki though.

You can irc with a telnet client, it's just not very user friendly =)