Accurate ANSI Emulation in Mac OS X?

Posted by pudge on Tuesday August 24, 2004 @11:42AM from the all-terminals-suck dept.

bedouin writes "I occasionally telnet to some BBSs that are very rich in ANSI graphics. While I can usually navigate fine through message areas and file boards, playing classic door games like Food Fight is almost unbearable. For about a year I've been searching for a Mac OS X terminal emulator that can accurately draw ANSI graphics just as they would appear on DOS systems with ansi.sys, but haven't found anything yet. Any suggestions? A native (and free or shareware) Mac OS X app would be prefered, but I'm willing to use an X11 or maybe even classic alternative as well. So far I've experimented with iTerm, GLterm, and aterm with unimpressive results."

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Re:iTerm (International Terminal Emulator) for OS by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-25 08:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

BitchX and irssi both support something that I've used for almost a decade and that is detaching the session and reconnecting from another host. This is but one of the features that Snak doesn't support.

You might call these programs obsolete, but seeing as how the IRC protocol has remain more or less unchanged for a really long time, I fail to see how Snak innovates. The only feature Snak brings to the table is that it has a GUI. Whoop-de-shit.