I'll explain how to install tcpser and socat, and then how to wire them together so your emulated Atari can telnet to a BBS. Use 'screen' as a serial terminal emulator Authored by: erictbar on Feb 26, '09 10:37:49AM thanks for all your help, especially bboy for the cheaper cable, and wcontello for the AppleScript. Hatari will sometimes freeze on the Mac if you start the modem emulation too soon. It's important to do this LAST because Hatari's serial emulation code doesn't work well with the way Macs and other BSD-type OSes handle file locking.
Now, we need to open Hatari's preference panel and activate modem emulation. Screen /dev/cu.usbmodem6A68DE4F00,cs8,-parenb,-cstopb That will open the Screen terminal. Enter your actual response within the next command, to start the terminal emulator. The response looks like: /dev/cu.usbmodem6A68DE4F34311. Open Mac's Terminal app and run the following command to find Serial Port info. If you don't, check out this guide to setting up Hatari. The tutorial assumes that you are familiar with Hatari and know how to configure it for normal emulation. The instructions should translate well to Linux, but probably not Windows. This tutorial is based on my experiences on the Mac. Select this com port from the terminal emulation software and create a new connection to it.
I've written in the past about my adventures telnetting to BBSes from terminal programs running inside the Hatari emulator. A screenshot of ANSIterm running in the Hatari emulator.