Hammer, my SSH BBS, grew up this week. Door games through BBSLink and DoorParty (LORD, Trade Wars, Zork), inter-BBS chat over MRC, plus telnet, rlogin, FTP and even ports for the Commodore 64.

ssh -p 2323 hammer.pablomurad.com

#BBS #RetroComputing #C64 #SSH #RetroGaming

Hammer, my little BBS over SSH, can play NES games now. Press g in the menu and you get 16 free homebrew games running on a real emulator on my server, drawn right in your terminal with sixel graphics. Saves follow your SSH key, and two people can share a game. #BBS #retrocomputing

From a terminal:

ssh -p 2323 hammer.pablomurad.com

To play you need an SSH key (ssh-keygen -t ed25519 makes one) and a terminal that speaks sixel: WezTerm, foot, iTerm2 or Windows Terminal 1.22+. No sound there, but it plays.

SyncTERM is the best way in: add an entry, pick SSH, address hammer.pablomurad.com, port 2323. It plays the game's sound and knows when you're holding a key, so platformers feel like a real pad.

Super Tilt Bro., Nova the Squirrel, Thwaite, The Legends of Owlia, robotfindskitten and more. All homebrew whose authors let it be shared, no Nintendo ROMs. The door is nesdoor by Alex Corris. Only 3 seats at a time, so if it's full, grab a coffee and come back.