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#MTCP Telnet for DOS update with Graphics, Mouse and Extended Keyboard Support!


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MTCP, the venerable TCP client for old DOS computers has had an unofficial fork which adds support for bitmapped graphics, mouse (with copy/paste), extended keyboard (pgup/dn etc), printer and unicode. It's a bumper update, which if you do any telnetting in DOS, you really want to check this out!

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TOC:

0:00 Introduction
1:30 What is MTCP?
4:08 What are the new features?
13:29 Demo of features
14:14 Unicode UTF-8 encoding
16:53 Enhanced keyboard support
17:44 Mouse support
20:56 Graphics (Sixel) support
23:53 Summing my review up

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