MuffinTerm vs TinyTERM Enterprise AS Usage & Stats
MuffinTerm: A terminal crafted for the classic BBS experience.
Dive back into the glory days of dial-up bulletin board systems… just, without the dialing up. (Though we’ll always miss that modem sound.)
BBSes were once the way that almost anyone “online” got online. The modern Internet might have stolen a bit of the spotlight, but BBSes are still around if you know where to look—and MuffinTerm can take you there.
Connect to telnet-enabled BBSes from around the world, with a terminal that’s designed to bring the classic experience to devices of today. (And no more busy signals!)
Select from among text modes and terminal hardware of the DOS and home computer era, with pixel-accurate CP437, PETSCII, and ATASCII support for the popular systems of the day, reproduced in exacting detail to help you really feel at home. (All rendered with a custom Metal shader—it is the 21st century, after all.)
• MDA with white (P4), green (P31), or amber (P3) phosphor
• CGA in 40- or 80-column mode
• EGA in 25- or 43-line mode
• VGA in 25- or 50-line mode
• VIC-II (C64/PETSCII) in NTSC, PAL, or borderless mode
• ANTIC (ATASCII) in NTSC, PAL, or borderless mode
Fuel your nostalgia further by enabling various aesthetic effects:
• Simulated modem speed — from the 110cps teletype crawl of the 1970s to the “blazing fast” 56K of the awesome ’90s. Slow down that ANSI animation to look the way it was originally intended, or just relive the feel of watching the bytes roll in. (Fortunately, without the cross-town toll charges this time around.)
• CRT curvature — Turn your flat-screen device into the spitting image of a classic ’tube.
• Scan lines — Reject the modernity of your perfect high-DPI display and embrace the scanlines that once reigned supreme.
• Warm tube tint — Harken back to an era of dubiously calibrated picture tubes and iffy RF adapters.
• VIC-II luma bars — Relive the experience of poorly isolated clock lines (and the resulting visual artifacting).
• Overscan borders — View the terminal as it would appear on a typical TV, or flout the factory calibration and show the full borders of the display field.
• Select a custom app icon from among several inspired by modems of the BBS era (plus a couple of floppy disks).
Some features are functional as well as fun. For example, who hasn’t stuck a sticky note or two to the side of their monitor at some point? Fortunately, the digital era is no bar to this ancient practice. Each BBS in your dialing directory gets its own digital sticky note (pick a color!), plus another that’s shared between them all. Record notes, make reminders, or be naughty and jot down a password or two. (We won’t peek.)
Of course, the basics are still all there. Traditional ANSI, PETSCII, and ATASCII terminal emulation give you the proper BBS experience; teletype (TTY) and “raw mode” provide support for special-use systems. Upload and download files using the standard XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM protocols. Save transcripts of your calls as text or raw data logs. There’s even a session timer in the status line to show you how long you’ve been connected. (Not responsible for flashbacks to long-distance bills from the 1980s.)
A comprehensive dialing directory helps you to keep track of your favorite systems. You can also import up-to-date BBS lists from popular online BBS directories. Have multiple devices? Automatically sync your dialing directory and call history between them all—whether iOS, iPadOS, and macOS—via iCloud.
And last but not least, it’s free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no weird tracking shenanigans. It’s just you and the soft glow of the pixels calling out to you.
It’s time to get back online with MuffinTerm.
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TinyTERM Enterprise for iOS combines secure terminal emulation with highly configurable keyboards to allow creation and deployment of purpose-based and scanning devices requiring access to legacy hosts or HTML 5/Javascript application in modern mobile environments.
The included secure SSH, SSL, and telnet IBM/VT/ANSI/Wyse/ADDS terminal emulation provides macros, printing and automation capabilities with scanner support. TinyTERM Enterprise provides enterprise deployment capabilities including configuration push, user interface lockdown and extensive configuration import/export management.
TinyTERM’s industrial browser includes comprehensive scanning capabilities for scanning bar codes into input fields, redirecting QR scan codes to web pages and full compatibility with Safari.
The Scandit software-based barcode scanner provides lightning-fast scanning speed to power today’s enterprise-grade solutions. Scandit’s precision scanning performs in the most adverse of conditions, such as low lighting, glare and warped surfaces, and works with all major 1D and 2D barcode symbologies. TinyTERM Enterprise includes a 14-day trial of the Scandit software barcode scanner solution for evaluation.
Features
• Display custom keyboards automatically based on screen content
• Keyboard swipe of custom keyboards
• Customer requested enhancements added for pre-sales requirements
• Secure SSH, SSL and telnet access over WiFi, cellular and VPN networks
• Comprehensive RSA/DSA key generation and management with key export
• SSL Host certificate authentication
• Multiple session support
• Japanese, Korean & Chinese support
• User interface customization including no title bar, lock down
• Onscreen UI for remapping keys to actions, macros and character strings
• Configuration import/export with multiple configuration package file wrapping
• .tpx adjustable connection time-out
• TE Proxy server
• Split View support
• Application display can be precisely configured for each keyboard mode in both landscape and portrait orientations
• External Bluetooth/dock keyboards supported with function, arrow & control keys
• Industrial scanning browser with HTML5 & javascript execution
• Phone & email technical support
Keyboard Layouts
• Transparent keyboard option for continuous full screen visibility
• Fully customizable keyboards – generate layouts to meet needs
• Configurable onscreen PC, VT and IBM-style keyboards with & without fn keys
• Custom programmable keyboards in VT220, IBM3151, numeric 10-key and PC 101-key English, Spanish, French, German, Norwegian layouts
Printing
• Text screen and host transparent print to AirPrint and email
Automation
• Macro record/playback to automate connecting and host application startup
• Macro can prompt for username/password or store separately in connection info
• Auto-connect on start allows one-touch connectivity from home screen
• Auto-login on connect associates macro with connect/login sequence
• Auto-reconnect re-establishes connection and auto-login if dropped
• Prevent disconnect enforces proper host system/application logoff
• Close on disconnect for quick exit
Software Scanning Support
• Scandit
• Software scanner using camera
Scanner Support
• Cognex
• Honeywell
• Infinite Peripherals
• Bluetooth devices
Terminals Emulated:
ADDS: Viewpoint, 60, A2
Alpha Micro: WYCOL/Esprit III
ANSI: ANSI 3.64, SCOANSI, AT386, Linux Console
Digital: VT100, VT220, VT220-7, VT320, VT320-7, VT420
IBM: TN3270E Models 2-5, TN5250 Models 3179-2/3477-FC/5555-C01, 3151, 3101
Wyse/TVI: Wyse 50, Wyse 60, Wyse 60-25, Televideo 912, 925, 950
Other: ATT 4410, ADM1, PCTERM, TTY
Application display can be precisely configured for each keyboard mode in both landscape and portrait orientations.
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MuffinTerm VS. 
TinyTERM Enterprise ASDecember 30, 2024