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Originally Posted by metalx1000
Just found out that the art on the BBS I go to is better then it appears in Linux.
Someone told me to try to connect in Windows and see how it looks.
First time in years I found something Windows does better then Linux.
The art in the Windows terminal was amazing.
I read up on it and found out it's not really ASCII art but ANSI art (Sometimes called ASCII "BLOCK" art) and no OS other then Windows/DOS has supported it.
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I doubt it. The problem with ASCII art is that it will not display the same if you don't use the exact same character set every time. There are two things that matters: the code page itself, and the font you use. You don't have to worry about that because windows terminals use always the same font with the same limited charsets.
So you have two separate issues: the character set that you use and the font. Since most character sets should respect the first 7-bit subset for compatibility with ASCII and such things, I would try changing the font you are using. This can be done configuring your terminal emulator if in X, and configuring the console font if outside X in plain console.
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any help would be great.
Does anyone know of a telnet app that runs in DOSBOX maybe?
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I don't know of any, but if dosbox uses an alternative font that can emulate the dos codepages 100% then that might be another solution. But I've never tried the modem stuff under dosbox, and have absolutely no idea how complicated can it be to get it working.