NilTerm

NilTerm - an ANSI BBS terminal for the Amiga
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NilTerm calls BBSes the way SyncTERM does on a PC: its own screen with 80
columns of the IBM PC font in the 16 PC colours, a dialing directory with
auto-login, a status bar, scrollback, session capture, and ZMODEM downloads
that start by themselves.  Telnet, rlogin, raw TCP, or a modem on the serial
port; an Amiga screen mode (Topaz, Latin-1) for Amiga BBSes; modem-speed
emulation for ANSI animations; iCE colours.  The full manual is NilTerm.guide.

NEEDS
  AmigaOS 3.0+ on a 68020 or better, and a TCP/IP stack (Roadshow, AmiTCP,
  Miami, or an emulator's bsdsocket emulation) - or just a modem.  A 640x400
  screen mode: a graphics card, or the chipset's High Res Laced.

INSTALLING
  Double-click Install_NilTerm.  It copies the NilTerm drawer (the program,
  its icon, this ReadMe and the manual) where you choose.  An update replaces
  the program and the manual and keeps your dialing directory and settings
  (they live in ENVARC:).

  By hand: copy the NilTerm drawer anywhere.  That's all it needs.

  Use the .lha: a .zip can't carry the AmigaDOS protection bits.  After
  unpacking a .zip, run  Protect NilTerm/NilTerm +e  (the installer does it
  for you).

USING IT
  Double-click NilTerm: the dialing directory opens.
    A add a system  E edit  D delete  C quick connect host:port
    S settings      Return call it     Q quit
  A system's entry holds its connection (telnet / raw / rlogin / modem),
  address or phone number, user name + password (auto-login), screen (PC or
  Amiga), line speed, iCE colours and download folder.
  On a call:
    Alt+D directory   Alt+H hang up    Alt+B scrollback  Alt+C capture
    Alt+L send login  Alt+U upload     Alt+R receive     Alt+S settings
    Alt+Up/Down line speed             Alt+X quit
    Amiga+C copy the screen   Amiga+V paste   Help the keys
  (Capture moved from Alt+L to Alt+C in 1.2, as in SyncTERM.)
  ZMODEM downloads start by themselves; Esc cancels a transfer.  Downloads go
  to the system's own folder (set in its directory entry) or the one in
  Settings.

  From a Shell:  NilTerm HOST=bbs.example.org PORT=23   calls straight away.

FILES
  ENVARC:NilTerm.lst     the dialing directory (passwords in it are NOT
                         encrypted)
  ENVARC:NilTerm.prefs   the settings

CREDITS
  NilTerm is part of NilBBS, a telnet BBS for AmigaOS.  MIT licence (LICENSE).
  Font: IBM VGA 8x16 from "The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack" by VileR,
  https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ - CC BY-SA 4.0,
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Building

With the bebbo amiga-gcc toolchain (m68k-amigaos-gcc) on PATH: make -> out/NilTerm.

NilTerm is developed as part of NilBBS, whose ZMODEM / X/YMODEM code it shares (src/node); this repo holds just the files it builds from. The release .lha has the installer, the AmigaGuide manual and the icons.

Licence

MIT - see LICENSE. The built-in IBM VGA 8x16 font (VileR, int10h.org) is CC BY-SA 4.0.