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    From Heisenberg@21:3/211 to All on Sun Sep 7 06:46:43 2025
    Hi Everyone,
    so i just got a doorgame working.. Tradewars 2002, but its not displaying ANSI graphics properly.

    Im using SyncTerm, and when im in the BBS, the graphics/ANSI displays properly but as soon as i go into tradwars, the ANSI graphics look like garbage.. Ive checked, and Font is set to CP437 in Syncterm.

    I connect with putty and change encoding to utf8 and it works perfectly.


    Syncterm does not seem to have the option for utf8 so what do i do.. i dont like using putty.

    thanks,
    Michael

    ... Everyone smiles in the same language.

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Heisenberg on Sun Sep 7 09:48:58 2025
    Hey Heisenberg!

    On Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:46:42 +0000, you wrote:

    so i just got a doorgame working.. Tradewars 2002, but its not
    displaying ANSI graphics properly.

    Im using SyncTerm, and when im in the BBS, the graphics/ANSI displays properly but as soon as i go into tradwars, the ANSI graphics look
    like garbage.. Ive checked, and Font is set to CP437 in Syncterm.

    I connect with putty and change encoding to utf8 and it works
    perfectly.

    Syncterm does not seem to have the option for utf8 so what do i do..
    i dont like using putty.

    You shouldn't need putty. Are you running this doorgame with dosemu/dosemu2 or some other kind of DOS emulator? If so, the setting would be in dosemu.conf as:

    $_internal_char_set = "cp437"
    $_external_char_set = "cp437"

    I believe those settings are commented out on a new dosemu/dosemu2 install.

    Regards,
    Nick

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