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Accurate ANSI Emulation in Mac OS X?
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."
I can think of few things that would make bash cooler than if it could render colors like the ANSI ones.
It's scary to think that we can send a robot to Mars running linux, but we can't get more than 7 colors out of our Bash shells.
It doesn't seem like terribly difficult code to write. I'd do it myself if I could find the time.
Does anyone have any pointers or starting points on where to begin doing this?
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Well, since OS X has such great Java support, either natively or via a web browser (also native, but different interface, y'know?), are there any JAVA ANSI terminal emulators/telnet interfaces that could either be opened directly or as an applet in Safari or whatnot?
The only feature Snak brings to the table is that it has a GUI.
Um. It seems to me that what Snak brings to the table is that it works on your Mac.
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