SyncTERM is a BBS terminal program which supports:

  • Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, and FreeBSD
  • X/Y/ZModem up/downloads
  • Full-screen mode on ALL platforms (ALT-Enter switches modes)
  • *nix versions using SDL, X11, or curses
  • Full ANSI-BBS support
  • Full CGTerm Commodore 64 PETSCII support
  • Full Atari 8-bit ATASCII support
  • DoorWay
  • IBM low and high ASCII including the face graphics (☺ and ☻) and card symbols (♥, ♦, ♣, and ♠) which so many other terms have problems with (may not work in curses mode... depends on the terminal being used).
  • Phone books
  • Multiple screen modes (80x25, 80x28, 80x43, 80x50, 80x60, 132x25, 132x28, 132x30, 132x34, 132x43, 132x50, 132x60)
  • ANSI Music (through the sound card if installed)
  • Telnet, RLogin, SSH, RAW, modem, shell (*nix only) and direct serial connections
  • Auto-login with Synchronet RLogin
  • Large Scrollback
  • Mouse-driven menus
  • Copy/Paste
  • Character pacing for ANSI animation as well as the VT500 ESC[*r sequence to allow dynamic speed changes
  • 43 standard fonts, and allows the BBS to change the current font *and* upload custom fonts. (Fontraption will allow you to create fonts for use with SyncTERM.)
  • Operation Overkill ][ Terminal emulation

For detailed specs on SyncTERMs handling of ANSI, as well as it's many extensions, refer to this document.

To install SyncTERM as your default telnet:// and rlogin:// handler follow the instructions for *nix Mozilla/Firefox or Win32.

Please file bug reports at the SourceForge bug tracker and feature requests in the Feature Request tracker.

SyncTERM v1.2rc6 is now available for Mac and Windows

Stable releases are available from the SourceForge.net Logo project page.

If you haven't chosen your favourite terminal yet, why not try out MagiTerm, EtherTerm, Qodem, NetRunner, and IcyTerm too!

Also check out the SyncTERM cloud service!

You can get the latest git code with the following command:
git clone https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs.git

Or you can download the latest official release here.

Alternate downloads
OS Last recompiled File size
Nightly builds have been unlinked during the release process. Please use the latest release as linked above.
The rest of these should be built from source whenever possible.
Nokia N8x0 Tablet Version (thanks to qwerty!) Mon Jan 05 2009 07:45:18 220K

Or download the Complete Source as of Wed Nov 20 2024 22:24:12 (10,353K)

DON'T FORGET, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SYNCHTERM HERE: