The following steps can be used to make using Mystic a joy with OSX's Terminal.App so that a simple login icon can be created to log right into your BBS, or type ./mystic on the command prompt will give you a nice looking and working BBS login. This guide was written using OSX Lion, so some option names may change in future versions.

• Open the Terminal.app and use the top window bar to select “Terminal > Preferences”

• Set the style to “Pro” to give a decent starting point, with a black background, etc.

• Now we need to fix the keys so that home/end/pageup/pagedown works in the BBS instead of moving the stupid terminal scrollback! Do this by clicking on the keyboard tab and make the following changes:

     Key: End
     Modifier: None
     Action: Send String to Shell
     Text: (ESCAPE) [ K (press those keys and it should read \033[K )
     
     Now do the same for HOME but set it to (ESCAPE)[H  (it should read \033[H)

     Now do the same for PAGEDOWN but set it to (ESCAPE)[6~ (it should read \033[6~)
     
     Now do the same for PAGEUP but set it to (ESCAPE)[5~ (it should read \033[5~)

• Under the Text tab, set the following values to fix up the font:

     Font: Andale Mono 24pt
     Character Spacing: .998
     Line Spacing: .928
     
     [X] Antialias text
     [X] Use bold fonts
     [X] Allow blinking text
     [X] Display ANSI colors
     [X] Use bright colors for bold
     
     On the "Text" and "Bold" boxes on the right, click and increase the RGB sliders
     to 255 for all 3 values (red, green, and blue).

• Under the Windows tab set Window Size to 80×25 lines, and then click the background, where you can set that to black and the opacity to 100% (or if you like a little transparency 85 or 90 works well too)