Bobterm, Atari 800xl and Fujinet question.
Sorry to be a bother, but figured I'd reach out here since this is my first time using an Atari to dial BBS. I have dialed other BBSs on other platforms such as the Commodore 64. When reading an article I was able to hit key combos to stop the text from outputing too fast. Do you guys have a resource or a cheat sheet that would help with learning this new platform? If this has been answered a million times before, I'd be happy to delete my post, but figured I'd start here. Edit: I figured I'd say I'm dialing into southern amis. Thanks for helping a n00b!
-Csolo
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You're not doing anything incorrectly... the data comes across too fast on these internet BBSes for you to pause it manually...
I added a new feature to AT_Connect that is specifically designed to thwart this issue... and it works perfectly... proving that the problem is, in fact, that by the time you hit the Ctrl-S, the data is already on your machine thus preventing the pause from occurring.
But these computer things are very fast... and the computer can send the Ctrl-S much faster than you can hit the keyboard. This new feature allows you to click a button ([A]gain + Ctrl-S) which redisplays the current message and then a few milliseconds later, sends the Ctrl-S for you which interrupts the message at the beginning of the display and then allows you to restart and stop it using ctrl-s at your leisure. Ctrl-S both stops and restarts it.
This new version of AT_Connect 3.12 will be released this coming weekend (12/15 at the Zoom meeting). It should be available shortly after on this website under the AT_Connect section which is where you can read all about AT_Connect. It has only been tested under Windows 7 or 10. No versions available for Linux or Mac.