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Ping.

Introducing Flynn. A telnet and finger client for the Macintosh you refuse to throw away. Now in 256 glorious colors on System 7.

Flynn running four color sessions on System 7

Four simultaneous sessions. One 68000 processor. Zero apologies.

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Retro. Not obsolete.

Everything a terminal should be. Nothing a Mac Plus can't handle.

Telnet & Finger

Full IAC negotiation, VT100/VT220/xterm emulation, ANSI-BBS with CP437, OSC sequences, and RFC 1288 finger with forwarding. Yes, finger. It's 1986 somewhere.

Four sessions

Up to 4 simultaneous connections in resizable windows, each with 192 lines of scrollback and per-bookmark fonts, terminal types and themes.

256 colors

Color QuickDraw on System 7, monochrome elegance on System 6. UTF-8 box-drawing, Unicode glyphs, emoji and Braille patterns — on a 68000.

A good citizen

MacTCP and Open Transport. Apple Events, telnet:// URLs, movable modal dialogs, persistent preferences. Aligned with the 1992 Human Interface Guidelines. Naturally.

The thrill of telnet.
The agony of choosing a theme.

Eleven built-in themes, plus Ghostty-format import for four of your own. Now for the hard part: which one will it be?

$ hello

Light

Mono. The default.

$ hello

Dark

Mono. After hours.

$ hello

Solarized Light

Schoonover approved.

$ hello

Solarized Dark

The other half.

$ hello

TokyoNight Day

Neon, at noon.

$ hello

TokyoNight

Neon, at night.

$ hello

Amber CRT

Phosphor nostalgia.

$ hello

System 7

The CLUT classic.

$ hello

Dracula

Bites in purple.

$ hello

Nord

Arctic and calm.

Mono themes run on everything, including the Mac Plus. Color themes want a Mac II or later — Flynn checks so you don't have to.

Black tie optional.

On System 6 Flynn wears monochrome, and wears it well. One bit per pixel. Every bit earned.

Flynn telnet session running neofetch
Telnet session — neofetch over MacTCP, as nature intended.
Flynn running tmux with split panes
tmux split panes — multiplexing on a machine older than tmux.
Flynn connect dialog
Connect dialog — host, port, go. The 1992 HIG would be proud.
Flynn BBS and terminal in multiple windows
Multi-session ANSI-BBS — Business in front. Party in the back.

Fit for a floppy.

Three editions. One 800K disk each. Choose your commitment level.

Flynn

All of it. Four sessions, 256-color themes, scrollback, finger, bookmarks, the works.

~1024KB of memory

.dsk .sit

Flynn Lite

The core. One session, favorites, monochrome. For Macs that count their kilobytes.

~340KB of memory

.dsk .sit

Flynn Minimal

Only the essentials. One session, smallest footprint. Runs where nothing else will.

~256KB of memory

.dsk .sit

.dsk is an 800K floppy image; .sit is a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive. Also on Macintosh Garden. Requires a Mac Plus or later, 4MB RAM recommended, System 6.0.8+, and MacTCP or Open Transport.

Flynn. Think retro.

Flynn was 100% vibe coded with Claude Code. Source available on GitHub.

© 2026 ecliptik/flynn. ISC licensed. Flynn is a telnet client and, coincidentally, a guy who got stuck inside a computer. Macintosh, System 6 and System 7 are trademarks of their respective owners, most of whom have moved on. Telnet is a protocol, not a suggestion.