Telnet65 is a program that allows an Atari 8-bit computer (XL/XE) to access another machine connected to the Internet. This is shown by the video published by Viktor “w1k” Čech (Slovakia) where the client emulates a VT100 terminal using telnet protocol. On the video “w1k” is using Telnet65 v1.2 to connect to an IRC server.
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The program was developed by Oliver Schmidt targeting initially the Commodore 64 and Apple II. The network layer is based on IP65, a TCP/IP stack for 6502-based computers and the terminal portion was based on CaTer, a machine language program also created for the C64.
As explained by Schmidt on his Github repository, the Atari version is compatible with the ethernet interface Dragon Cart and requires a computer with at least 32Kb of RAM.
Source: Atariteca
