Table of Contents

Stand-alone
Web-based
Mobile
See Also

Terminal Programs

BBS Compatible Terminal Programs

Stand-alone

Name	Windows	Linux	FreeBSD	MacOS	Telnet	RLogin	SSH	Serial	X/Y/Z¹⁾	ANSI²⁾	RIP³⁾	PETSCII⁴⁾	ATASCII	Notes
AbsoluteTelnet	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	???	???	No	No	Commercial
Blocker	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Z	Yes	No	No	No
CBMTerm	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	C64 Terminal for Windows (v3 C# source code)
CGTerm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Sorta	No	No	No	X	No	No	Yes	No	Open source, platform independent terminal program for C/G telnet BBSes
dataComet	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Z	???	???	No	No	Commercial
Hilgraeve HyperTerminal PE v6	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	X/Y/Z	Yes	?	No	No	Included with Windows XP, ZMODEM uploads broken, v7 no longer free for personal use
IcyTERM	Yes	Yes	???	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Open source
Le Putty	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Z	No	No	No	No	Fork of putty, uses external rz/sz, possibly build-your-own for *nix
MagiTerm	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Microsoft telnet.exe	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No⁵⁾	No	No	No	Included/available with all Microsoft Windows NT+ OSes. After XP (Vista and later), the ANSI-BBS/CP437 support is horrible. Not recommended for BBS use
mTelnet	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Z	Yes	No	No	No	Win32/OS2 versions. Author, Tom Fotherby is MIA. free/closed source
MuffinTerm	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Planned	New BBS-terminal for Mac, iPad, iPhone
NetRunner	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Z	Yes	No	No	No	From the developer of Mystic BBS Software
PuTTY	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Defaults to non-CP437 character set
Qodem	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Open source Qmodem clone
RIPtel	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	The “official” RIPscrip Telnet client from TeleGrafix (circa 1997)
SyncTERM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	From the Synchronet developers, free, open source, official releases are here
ZOC Terminal	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X/Y/Z	Yes	No	No	No	Commercial
ztelnet	No	Yes	Yes	???	Yes	No	No	No	Z	???	No	No	No	Free, open source, uses external rz/sz. Appears to be abandoned.

Web-based

Name	Telnet	RLogin	SSH	X/Y/ZMODEM	RIP	Notes
Flashterm	Yes	No	No	No	No	Requires Adobe Flash Player and compatible web browser
fTelnet	Yes	Yes	No	YModem-G Only	Partially	More features than Flashterm! Intended to be installed by SysOps on their BBS's website. See the “My fTelnet” entry for user-focused implementation. Requires Adobe Flash Player and compatible web browser
HtmlTerm	Yes	No	No	YModem-G Only	No	Intended to be installed by SysOps on their BBS's website. Requires a compatible web browser (supporting Canvas and WebSockets)
JavaTelnetSSH	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Poor ANSI-BBS support, Version 1 here
My fTelnet	Yes	No	No	YModem-G Only	No	Web based, free, open source. It's basically HtmlTerm ready to be used by users, unlike the HtmlTerm entry above which is more for SysOps. Requires a compatible web browser (supporting Canvas and WebSockets)

Mobile

Name	iOS	Android	Telnet	RLogin	SSH	X/Y/ZMODEM	RIP	Notes
iSSH	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Telnet/SSH client for Apple iOS
ANSI Terminal	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Decent Telnet client for Andriod. Costs $1.00 USD
MuffinTerm	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	New ANSI-BBS terminal for macOS, iOS, iPadOS

See Also

terminal, client

¹⁾

X/Y/ZMODEM file transfer protocols support

²⁾

ANSI-BBS/CP437 terminal support

³⁾

RIPscrip terminal support

⁴⁾

C64/C128 terminal support

⁵⁾

older versions of telnet.exe supported ANSI-BBS