Hey friends, for some reason, Netrunner is segfaulting for me on my new arch x86_64 build. I've ldd'd it, made sure all the relevant libraries
are where they belong. For some reason, the thing loads, and once I try
to dial out to a board, it immediately segfaults. No idea why.
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Why on earth are you using Netrunner? Use SyncTERM, it's a much better experience, has many more font supports, sound supports.
The font smoothing. Running smoothed fonts in Netrunner on a 16:9
monitor is pretty nice. I could never get Zmodem between my BBS and Netrunner working, so I use SyncTerm for most things nowadays.
Hey friends, for some reason, Netrunner is segfaulting for me on my new arch x86_64 build. I've ldd'd it, made sure all the relevant libraries
are where they belong. For some reason, the thing loads, and once I try
to dial out to a board, it immediately segfaults. No idea why.
Why on earth are you using Netrunner? Use SyncTERM, it's a much better experience, has many more font supports, sound supports.
I don't need different fonts or sounds. Netrunner has always had my preferred look and feel.
NR sucks for transfers, period... I use Sync for mostly everything, but for idling @ 2oFB I usually have a nice, pretty, NR window at fullscreen.
It's not so much about what you prefer, more what the bbs you connect to offers. If you connect to mine for example, using SyncTERM it will have quite a few extra fonts in places that make the look and feel a bit more polished than if you just use it with a single font.
You should give it a go sometime with SyncTERM. Once you get to see what it can do, you prolly won't go back to netrunner imho.
What's 2oFB?
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I transfer a LOT over zmodem; some people prefer HTTP/S, I don't. :P
I transfer a LOT over zmodem; some people prefer HTTP/S, I don't. :P
I just got kermit working on tqw, sadly syncterm nor netrunner handle kermit, but install qodem, and give that a try, it's actually quite
nice, simple but nice... and kermit transfers seem faster and more
stable.
Anywho, I've tried running the Windows version in wine which works fine, but it makes my fans spin up like crazy. So I am hoping to find
something lighter weight that has a similar feel. I can work with
SyncTERM but am curious if folks have other alternatives that they use.
It's better than SyncTerm if you want to turn off the SDL texture filtering to see the text sharp vs blurred. For me it's more old
fashioned and that's one of the reasons why I like to telnet from
internet connected MS-DOS.
I don't like the antialiased text in netrunner or syncterm, I turn that off but do prefer syncterm over much else... except lately I have been using qodem a lot, mainly because I managed to get Mystic to work with Kermit and qodem handles that superbly, where as syncterm and netrunner doesn't have the capability, yet.
How did you turn the anti aliasing off in SyncTerm?
I achieved that in that MSDOS terminal via 86box by turning texture filtering from linear to nearest as one of the graphics option over
there.
I assume SDL rendering in SyncTerm by default uses linear filtering, thus the anti aliasing you see.. but I found no option to actually turn it
off in the app.
In syncterm, at the address book screen, press the right arrow to get
into the settings pane, then go down to "Program Settings" and toggle
off the option for "Blocky Scaling"
all right. I don't have it on my MacOS version of the software, but I
also learned that I can set it to use ncurses only and syncterm launches in regular terminal instead of separate SDL window. that comes with completely different font clarity as well. I doesn't work with custom fonts as regular rendering window. No Topaz etc... but still interesting discovery.
Nice discovery, yeah I used the ncurses version a few times too.
What version of SyncTERM are you running? I think the Blocky Scaling was introduced in v1.2 so if you're still on v1.1 then you might wanna
upgrade just in case that's an option on the MacOS version I mean.
Nice discovery, yeah I used the ncurses version a few times too.
What version of SyncTERM are you running? I think the Blocky
Scaling was introduced in v1.2 so if you're still on v1.1 then
you might wanna upgrade just in case that's an option on the
MacOS version I mean.
Yeah. I'm on v1.1 and I had thought this is still the latest.
I checked syncterm's website and sourceforge and I still see 1.1 as
the latest.
Any link to stable 1.2 for MacOS?
I went through all the links here:
https://syncterm.bbsdev.net
to find this (v1.2b):
https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/SyncTERM-macOS.zip
but it's not stable to me. It just renders the terminal in 1/4 of the screen (top left) and just can't scale to cover the whole app window.
looks like a beta bug to me.
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