Alternatives to Startty.com?

[orsty3001]

I noticed a little while back that StarTTY went down. I was curious if anyone knew of any alternatives out there that exist today.

[Stull]

There's the Alternative Electronic Information Network. I've never actually used it.

[RedWolf]

I don't know of any right offhand.

AEIN is not the same sort of thing, as StarTTY was entirely ASCII and telnet-based.

It wouldn't be that hard to code a replacement for StarTTY or something similar -- assuming one had the time and the inclination.

Perhaps I should contact the fellow who made StarTTY (forgot his name now, it's been years) and see if I can get a copy of the software.  I'd be happy to run it on the VC&G server.

[orsty3001]

I loved to have a copy of his software.

It might not be that hard to create something like that either. I might look into it.

[idisjunction]

I've been teaching myself shell scripting, and I've been meaning to write a basic script to display the time and school closing information for my school age siblings anyway. I've uploaded a basic prototype to GitHub if anyone wants to try it out. It basically just displays the time and the latest blog posts from vintagecomputing.com. Time zone and format (12 or 24-hour) are user-selectable, but only 4 time zones plus UTC are listed. Most of the other limitations are listed in the README.

I haven't decided on some key implementation details because I don't know how others are interested in running it (such as with a real Telnet daemon or via netcat).

P.S. - If anyone has some screenshots of the time display from StarTTY, I can make the clock look more like it. I found them for most of the numbers, but I had to make a couple from scratch (6, 7 and 9, I think). Also, did StarTTY support ANSI color codes?