Re: QLink question

Kelli Halliburton wrote: 
What are the odds that someone could come up with a QLink terminal client
for some other platform?

I'm thinking that the other older computer systems' users might enjoy the
features. Atari 400/800, Apple ][, maybe CoCo and Spectrum... I mean,
these are the systems that had 40-column color screens. If memory
serves, they also have the same number of text rows (25), so the screen
layout would be the same. The CoCo and Spectrum even have the graphics
characters, though not the same wide variety as PETSCII.

Since we have gone to the trouble of reverse-engineering the QLink server
code, after all, why not build new clients for machines that were
contemporaries of the C64 but never had access to QLink?

At this point in time, I am NOT recommending that a client be written to
support any operating system for the IBM PC. I am also not recommending
any client for any of the 68000-based systems of the mid-80s, such as the
Atari ST, Amiga, or Macintosh.

There is no need to write a client for the IBM PC. One has already been written. It is called AOL 1.0
.

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