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  • Feature Request: Atari ATASCII

    From Shane O'Neill@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 12:35:53
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281

    With the PETSCII support can we see ATASCII in the future for all the Atari folks?
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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tuesday, July 06, 2021 16:31:05
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281#note_2059

    PETSCII is pretty similar to ASCII, which made supporting it (PETSCII) along with US-ASCII, CP437, and UTF-8 practical. ATASCII is not similar to ASCII at all, making it much more difficult to support (as an input and output character set) in Synchronet.
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  • From Shane O'Neill@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wednesday, July 07, 2021 13:12:51
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281#note_2060

    I guess that explains why at time the ATASCII support on the Commodore Centipede 128 BBS software does not always look 100%. I hear it is currently being worked on for Image BBS but have yet to see how that looks. Well bummer, it was worth asking. ;)
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  • From Deucе@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Friday, March 07, 2025 08:34:57
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281#note_6736

    I'm saying there's a chance...
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  • From Deucе@1:103/705 to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Monday, March 31, 2025 10:35:55
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281#note_6957

    So yeah, this would be pretty simple to add now, but we would need someone who cares enough about it to develop and debug menus and stuff as well as actually run a BBS and report issues.
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