Subj : Re: Avatar Chat Universal InterBBS chat door
To   : Cozmo
From : Hm Derdoc
Date : Thu May 07 2026 05:30 pm

Hey Cozmo,

Thanks for the report. Tagged v0.1.7 with a fix that should handle
your case.

What changed: the door now wraps stdout with go-colorable on Windows.
It auto-detects whether the console can render ANSI escapes natively
and translates them to Win32 console API calls when it can't. No-op
on non-console handles (door-mode pipes / sockets), so it's safe
across every Windows configuration we ship for.

Best guess at what was happening, based on the symptoms you described:
your console likely wasn't getting VT output processing enabled at
startup, so our ANSI escapes were printing as literal "^[[31m"
characters scrolling down the screen. That would also explain why the
same windows_386 binary worked on Win10 64-bit (modern ConHost more
likely to have VT auto-enabled). I haven't confirmed that on your
specific machine -- v0.1.7 should fix it regardless of which exact
Win10 console quirk caused it, but if it still misbehaves, the new
stderr warning will tell us what's actually happening.

Grab v0.1.7:

  https://github.com/hmderdoc/avatar_chat_universal/releases/tag/v0.1.7

If it still misbehaves, run it once and send me whatever shows up on
stderr -- there's a new diagnostic line that fires when VT enable
fails, which will narrow it down.

Cheers,
Hm

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