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There is also Spectranet[1] and clones for the Sinclair Spectrum, which allows for a much richer Internet-connected experience. It can load and boot remote prog
by mark_round 11mo ago
There is also Spectranet[1] and clones for the Sinclair Spectrum, which allows for a much richer Internet-connected experience. It can load and boot remote programs from a server which allows you to get quite creative and produce sites like my TNFS server[2]. You can also try it out from an emulated Spectrum in a web browser at https://jsspeccy.markround.com https://jsspeccy.markround.com if you don't have the original hardware lying around to see the sort of stuff you can build!
There's also Telnet clients so you can access old-school BBSes, and a variety of interesting "bridges" that grant access to Gopher or even parse websites. Quite amazing to access the modern Internet on an 8-bit machine from the early 80s that originally loaded games from cassette tape :)
[1]=https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=3515 https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=3515
[2]=https://tnfs.markround.com https://tnfs.markround.com
- anthk 11mo agoOnce you have telnet you just get an SDF account and do anything you want with a Unix shell. And, if you fire up Emacs, you are god. IRC, EMail, Jabber, Mastodon, gopher, gemini, a calculator, a Lisp environment, play ZMachine games with Malyon (and spawn full v5 and v8 games unlike the Speccy which could just handle v3 ones)...