Tag: pc

  • Bringing dry bones back to life: The Kirschen software collection

    Bringing dry bones back to life: The Kirschen software collection

    It’s time to bring some dry bones back to life. In coming days, I will publish a curated collection of lost software developed by the Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen together with programmers from Gesher Educational Affiliates as well as from his own studio, LKP Ltd. The collection includes 12 games, demos, and experiments in artificial…

  • Telnet to a BBS using a PC terminal program within the DOSBox emulator

    Telnet to a BBS using a PC terminal program within the DOSBox emulator

    A few months ago I wrote about my experiences trying to telnet in to Atari BBSes using an emulated Atari on my Mac. Basically the solution boiled down to this: Use tcpser4j to change a telnet connection to a serial connection, use socat to pipe that serial connection to a file, and set the Hatari…