TELNET SERVICES
A collection of little services meant to be used from vintage computers over a serial/wifi modem or any telnet client — chat with an AI, check the weather, read about today in history, or pull down ZX Spectrum and Amiga games straight onto real hardware. Everything lives behind one telnet server, so you connect once and pick what you want.
Connect to solvalou.com on port 32323 and, at the service menu, type the name of the service you want. With a Hayes-compatible wifi modem: ATDTsolvalou.com:32323
At any time, press # to open an options menu where you can tweak things to suit your terminal — line length, remote echo, newline format, upper/lower case — or jump to another service.
At the service menu, type: ZX
Search ZX Spectrum games by name, pick one from the results, and choose a file to download straight to your Spectrum. If the file is a zip you can send the whole archive or extract and send just a single file from inside it. Transfers go over XMODEM or ZMODEM, and the service prints the file's MD5 hash so you can verify it on the other end. Powered by ZXInfo.
Search for ZX Spectrum games.
Download via XMODEM or ZMODEM.
Powered by ZXInfo (zxinfo.dk).
Type "exit" to disconnect.
Search ZX game: manic miner
Searching for "manic miner"...
Found 3 game(s):
1. Manic Miner (1983, Bug-Byte Software)
2. Manic Miner (1983, Software Projects)
3. Manic Miner 128 (1998, Revelation)
Enter number or search again: 1
Files for Manic Miner (1983, Bug-Byte Software):
1. ManicMiner.tap - Tape image - 18.5 KB
2. ManicMiner.tzx - TZX tape image - 19.1 KB
3. ManicMiner.zip - Archive - 22.8 KB
Enter file number: 3
W]hole zip, one F]ile from inside zip, C]ancel: F
Files in zip (3):
1. ManicMiner.tap (18.5 KB)
2. ManicMiner.tzx (19.1 KB)
3. readme.txt (412 B)
Number, W]hole zip, B]ack: 1
Select: X]modem Z]modem C]ancel: X
Preparing ManicMiner.tap...
Ready to download ManicMiner.tap
MD5: 1d8f3a0c6b2e7d914a55b3c9c4f82e10
Start XMODEM receive now...
Transfer complete!
Remember to only download games you own!