qodem (BBS-oriented terminal emulator) qodem is a from-scratch clone implementation of the Qmodem communications program made popular in the days when Bulletin Board Systems ruled the night. Qodem emulates the dialing directory and the terminal screen features of Qmodem over both modem and Internet connections. qodem also emulates ATASCII (Atari 8-bit) and PETSCII (Commodore 8-bit), and can be used to run a local shell. Note: qodem-x11 doesn't handle PETSCII correctly. Instead, launch qodem in a terminal with the PETSCII font (adjust the size= to your taste): $ urxvt -fn "xft:C64 Pro Mono:size=13" -e qodem More information on BBSes can be found here, along with an up-to-date list of telnet BBSes: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/