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Edited: Mar 14

AT_Connect III released!!!

I have decided to finally do some much-needed work on AT_Telnet... it began last night. For those who don't know, AT_Telnet was originally developed by Tom Hunt in and around 2000 and I took it over about this time. It is a PC-based terminal client for accessing ATASCII BBSes on the internet from your PC. It is my primary terminal program.

I will be renaming the program AT_Connect - The ATASCII Terminal Client and upgrading the version to v3.oo. This change is about 85% complete as of right now. Telnet was never a part of this program... it was simply the name that was used back in 2000 when this began.
Swatted five minor bugs that have been around for 10 years or thereabouts.
Plan to address what I call the 1 major bug in the screen processing section of the code. Currently the Ctrl-Del key is not processed correctly. I have prevented it from shutting down the program by simply ignoring the key (or incoming char as the case may be) however, I do want to get this fixed. I may need some help.
Plan to update the 'Help' system. Also started on this last night.
Plan to get a better handle on the implicit changes to the system caused by the way the UAC system in newer versions of Windows interacts with the older VB6 programs..
At least one new major feature to be added... more on this later.
No plans to upgrade from vb6 to a newer version of VB. This cannot be done due to THE major component of AT_Connect no longer existing in VB.
What else??? I am open to suggestions.

58 comments

58 Comments

bf2k+

Mar 14

Now that v3.10 is released, I won't be doing any more development on it for a while, unless someone finds a bug that needs swatting. I think I will start playing with HDTOOLS again.

southernamis

Mar 14

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Great job and outstanding modz!! Thank you!

tillek

Mar 14

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Sounds like a well deserved break -=> straight into the next project. Great work.

bf2k+

Mar 08

Quoting messages is now working in AT_Connect III. This will be released in v3.10 soon!

southernamis

Feb 15

A Dedicated Page accessible in the header of the web site is now available for AT_Connect II. More content to be added but you get a download button for now..

bf2k+

Jan 29

Coming Back to Life...

bf2k+

Jan 21

I actually got the Ctrl-Del and Ctrl-Ins working tonight on both the terminal and the ATEditor. Ctrl-Ins was already working in the terminal. How did I fix Ctrl_del? Pulled an old archive of AT_Telnet I and copied one 'PaintPicture' instruction to ATC_3. Somehow that instruction got messed up at some point in time and was causing AT_Telnet to crash which led to trapping and ignoring the error. The old code solved the problem... don't ask me how it got screwed up. My troubleshooting skills are not what they once were as evidenced by my Computer breakdown earlier this week... whew!

Craig Abruzzese

Jan 21

The other day, I tried to install this on crossover, playonmac, and a hacked version of wine. (Version 7.20). Could not get it to work. I was using a win10 version of emulation. Going to try a windows 7 wrapper next time I work on it. I did import it to my fully working windows 10 parallels vm. I got to the bobterm screen and when I click on the “on” button. It crashes. Says my install is missing something.

I will keep plugging along. I just wish I could have gotten it to work in a nice wine wrapper.

Craig Abruzzese

Jan 23

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I only got an EXE. I did look into it quickly this morning. Appears it is missing a bunch of the Visual Basic dependencies. I did a quick install of "required components". Gets a little further but still crashes due to missing files.

I did create a wine bottle of the VB 6 and then ran the EXE and I get a little further.

The button I was referring to was the little green on off button in the lower right hand of the box. I tried clicking on the screen of the app and still get the VB run time errors. But we are getting a little closer!

bf2k+

Jan 23

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You have not installed it. The first link I sent you was for the full installation package however since Dropbox sux now, maybe you didn't get it. The exe links are for subsequent updates that don't require a full install... just a single file copy to the application folder. I will send you the first link again...

Craig Abruzzese

Jan 25

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Yeah dropbox kept telling me the file was deleted.

well I got the full installation package from you and put it in crossover and it seemed to work. At least it didn’t crash. I didn’t really get a chance to play with it beyond getting it installed.

Now, I have very very little knowledge of windows these days. I am guessing, is it a 32 bit application? If so, this is why I can’t seem to get it in a wrapper for wine by itself. Latest couple of macOS is strictly 64 bit, which extends to the stand alone versions of wine I have been able to find. I can just guess crossover is doing some voodoo to get 32bit running on 64 bit Mac. But again I could be all wet.

Let me know how clueless I am. Lol

bf2k+

Jan 18

When I originally announced AT_Connect at the top of this message thread, I indicated that one new major feature would be added to the system. As of right now, there are 4 new major features as outlined here in this excerpt from the help file:

I think now with all of this, I will start to clean up the program and get ready to release it for human consumption. If anyone has anything to report (good or bad), please do so now so I can address it.

bf2k+

Jan 09

So now there is another new feature in AT_Connect. ATC can detect a URL in the incoming text, and place it in a link for you to click on from within ATC... no cutting or pasting necessary.

It will retain the last 5 links it encounters. I am thinking about saving them... or maybe having more than 5. Anything is possible...

bf2k+

Jan 10

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I also have determined that this code executes on a link that you are typing into a BBS editor... not just data coming from the BBS. Some of the early beta releases of this are a little buggy. 400 would only load the last link detected regardless of which link you click. I was so intent on detecting the URLs that I forgot to write the backend code to process the clicks on the links. Duhh... fixed in 404. Also in 400 & 404, the URL detection only worked in BaudSim mode... fixed for next release.

John Polka

Jan 10

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How fitting that the release that fixes the URL clicking problems is number 404 which is the same number as the HTML Error message "404 Not found", eh? 😆 I also posted a question on BF2K+ with the real-time URL detection. Does ATC pick up the corrected URL if you make a typo and need to backspace to correct the URL? -JP

bf2k+

Jan 10

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Answer... if you type it in the Text Box then you have the option of fixing it yourself before it gets sent...

The real answer is that I'm sure it will not ignore the backspace key (although that gives me an idea.) 👁‍🗨

bf2k+

Dec 23, 2022

We are rolling now...

Cosmic-Charlie

Dec 22, 2022

Once you're done and have a clean program, let's port it to iOS!

bf2k+

Dec 22, 2022

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Never happen Charlie... it is written in Micro$oft Visual Basic 6!!

bf2k+

Dec 21, 2022

I have also built my test VM for installing ATC in the Windows 10 environment. I still have a few little bugs to swat but I have installed it roughly 10 times since this morning.