Re: Telnet BBS cable?

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dboomsma <dboomsma@gmail.com> wrote:

> I suppose you put one side of the cable into the Apple IIe, but where
> does the other end go into?
> 
> I've been playing with the same thought for a long time, only different:
> I'd love to see Sweet16 to be able to accept a telnet connection and
> forward it to a virtual modemport that the ProDOS 8 system (METAL/
> FutureVision) will accept.
> 
> Mr Brad, seen recently here in csa2, has a setup as follows: Windows PC
> with cable to Apple IIgs with (Null?) modem to BBS software. On the
> Windows side he's got software running that will intercept the Telnet
> calls and forward to the serial port.
> 

That's what I plan to do -- I have a null modem cable running to a virtual
machine through a serial to USB adapter.  The problem is that the
communication is only one way at the moment.  Commands can be sent to the
Apple II but nothing comes back through the cable out to telnet.

I was able to get a telnet connection as you describes above using KEGS or
maybe it was XGS.  It wasn't completely reliable but it did let me log into
my AppleNet BBS for the first time in 20 years :).  I'd really like to run
this "new" one on actual hardware.