#BBS

Wintermute_BBSDid I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rc2014bbs</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rcbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rcbox</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rc2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rc2014</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/rcbbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rcbbs</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/bulletinboardsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bulletinboardsystem</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#z80</a>

300baudWir feiern das 40 jährige Jubiläum der Snobsoft. Ruft am 5.10 fleißig den alten <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commodore</a> 64 <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a> Dinosaurier an.040 609 43485 - 300 Baud, 7N1Snobsoft User Dave ist in monatelanger harter Arbeit gelungen die komplette alte 85er Snobsoft BBS zu reparieren und wieder an den Start zu bringen. So ist jetzt erstmals seit Jahrzehnten wieder das Original Snobsoft Modem online. Das 300 Baud Eigenbau Unikat von Snobsoft Gründer Christain basiert auf dem Datenklo vom <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CCC</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bdr0yqMBD4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bdr0yqMBD4</a>

John Goerzen<a href="https://retro.social/@kelbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kelbot</a> Can I say the <a href="https://floss.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a>? It was sorta a pre-Internet tech, but definitely collided with the Internet when they became telnettable. There's never been anything like it with local digital communities since. In many areas, a choice of local digital communities even. I'll call <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> maybe a spiritual successor but it hasn't captured the local feel. Local Facebook groups is mostly people selling stuff and griping. BBSs were run by locals for locals but still networked internationally.

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀I was feedbacking to sysop, and they broke into chat! Solved it.You have to go into individual BBS settings, and change Telnet to Raw. Still get some CRC-16 errors, then it downloads fine!Turns out FREEWAY.ATR was actually a 7Z of 2600 Freeway games, but ENCOUNT is actually an Atari 8-bit game file, copy it into an ATR image and you get to play Encounter, a Battlezone-like!Leechin' like it's 1984! I'll go find something to upload in a bit, keep my U/D high! <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atari</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀What I need to do is get FujiNet or something working with Atari800MacX or the new emulator, then I can dial in from a more authentic experience.OR, same but for my SpecNext, and have an authentic machine experience, but then I have to use only ASCII, unless there's Speccy boards I dunno. <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atari</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀So I visited SouthernAmis <a href="https://www.southernamis.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.southernamis.com</a> and posted a bit, but I couldn't get SyncTerm to download xmodem correctly.You have to start the download on the board, then hit opt-D, type the filename, pick Xmodem, and it supposedly works… but mine just errored out with CRC-16 errors, gives up before doing CRC-8, still failing. Ergh.(yes, I can get all files off archive, that's not the POINT).Still, fun to explore. <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atari</a>

Wintermute_BBS... went back to my <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DXBBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DXBBS</a> codebase today after taking a longer break from my hobbyist <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coding</a> activities. I updated the code for displaying text (ASCII) files which is now less bloated.I also started to format and add comments to the code. I already did that long before and it helped big time when coming back to it today.Convinced myself that my custom message base implementation isn't too bad at all but needs formatting and comments for the sake of sanity (and readability).<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Forth</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroCoding</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RC2014" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RC2014</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CPM80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CPM80</a>

skippyWhat was/is your favorite thing about a <a href="https://dungeoncrawler.world/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> ? Forums? Door games? ANSI art? Something else?

SuperIlu<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IchBinSoAlt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IchBinSoAlt</a> das mein “Internet” noch “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mailbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mailbox</a> (oder <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a>) hieß und 2400bps schnell war. Ausserdem weiß ich noch wie die Telekom die getaktete Abrechnung im Berliner Ortstarif eingeführt hat. 🥴 Vorher gab es aber in den BBS schon Zeitbeschränkungen weil kaum ein System hatte mehr als 3 Telefonleitungen für gleichzeitige Nutzung...

vga256i absolutely admire <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@beatscribe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@beatscribe</a>'s attention to detail in their gameboy color BBS adventure/hacking gamethat 2400 baud dialup handshaking sound is 👌 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuFL29vgNeE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuFL29vgNeE</a>play here: <a href="https://beatscribe.itch.io/gbbbs95" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://beatscribe.itch.io/gbbbs95</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroGaming</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/gameboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gameboy</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/adventureGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventureGames</a>

Toni WestbrookI have a few goals with Cloudburst Connection (BBS themed adventure RPG). First and foremost, I want it to be a fun adventure for the player. I also want it to feel like what BBS life was back in the 80s/90s. AND I'm sneakily getting some education in there too! Text files are a big part of the game, providing necessary info and hints to advance the story. But many text files will include actual historical accounts of the BBS world. Hoping this helps spur curiosity in players and encourages them to discover even more outside the game!<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#text</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiedev</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiegame</a>

vga256bbs enthusiasts might remember the name Telegard - a bbs server written based on wwiv's source code and hugely popular with the ibm pc/ms-dos crowdtelegard had a long and tumultuous history by its authors, and its own source was eventually leaked and was modded into many more popular (pirate-friendly) ms-dos boards like Renegade, Oblivion and Iniquity. while i was doing research a few months ago on the history of those systems, i found out that telegard.net - the original home of tg - was taken over by a domain squatter in 2010, populated with ads for the past 15 years.two months ago, i noticed that the squatter had not renewed the domain, and it went into the long grace/redemption/auction/expiry cycle. i checked on it every single morning, and to my absolute delight, it was released this morning for purchase. 💸 the domain will be used purely for historical preservation of telegard and its many descendantsupdate: restored the old site from the WBM archived version to <a href="https://telegard.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://telegard.net</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/warez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#warez</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarePreservation</a>

Martin Rundkvist1980s <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a> s: there's this colourful autistic guy who posts a lot and is clearly dyslexic. Some acquaintances trick him into installing a "optimised keyboard driver", which is actually simply the standard one *with b and d switched*.

vga256in case anyone was wondering what a 1995 era dial-up ISP might look like in 2025nothing has been hooked up yet, as i need to craft a bunch of very arcane cables for the job.this is how it works in theory: that fat scsi-looking plug on the Mediatrix 4124 is to attach 24 plain old analog telephone lines via a fat octopus cable. the mediatrix is an ATA or Analog Telephone Adapter. it translates VOIP/voice-over-IP calls to plain old telephone service that you could hook up any old telephone to.but we're after dial-up internet service, so - normally those 24 lines would go to external modems, but it'd be silly to have 24 black boxes with 24 power adapters plugged into the wall.so, instead, the Mediatrix telephone lines run to that black US Robotics Total Control Modem Pool 16. it lets 16 modems ask for an internet connection via SLIP or PPP - the dial-up protocols you used in the 1990s.the total control appliance has sixteen 33.6Kbaud internal modems inside (each on a small circuit board). the modems speak analog on the telephone line side, and speak digital on the serial side.the serial side of the total control box then runs sixteen RS-232 serial cables to the box above it: a Cisco 2511 Access Server.the access server has sixteen serial ports on the back, which accept the serial connections from the modem pool. this is where the internet magic happens. the rear of the cisco 2511 has a port for connecting to the outside world on behalf of each modem line. it gives an IP address to each modem line, and routes all traffic to the internet. this is where the SLIP/PPP protocol is used.so in essence:your modem dials my number -> mediatrix 4224 accepts the incoming call -> total control mp16 accepts the call on one of its modem ports -> cisco 2511 accepts the modem's request for an IP address and begins routing internet traffic back to you, via the exact same chain of hardware in the opposite direction.(also pictured just for fun: a big yellow google search appliance, circa 2002 - back when the company featured useful tools like searching the web for things. the GSA is a fancy Dell server with a tool that lets you search document databases on an intranet. the kind of thing a medical firm, oil company or rich dentist office would have)<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialup</a>

vga256look, i don’t have all the answersbut i do have all the modems. this US Robotics Total Control modem bank just arrived. this is what some ISPs used in the mid-90s for incoming dialup lines. your 33.6Kbaud modem would dial into this machine, which would forward all of the incoming/outgoing data to the terminal server for SLIP/PPPwaited 3 long years for one to show up on ebay at a reasonable price.now i can finally start offering the 16 line dialup service the world needs more than ever. <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialup</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a>

A-Net Online BBSs<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TELNET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TELNET</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#90s</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GAMES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GAMES</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SOFTWARE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SOFTWARE</a>A-Net Chess and A-Net Red Dagon Quest ][ out now!<a href="https://a-net-online.lol/anetsoftware" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://a-net-online.lol/anetsoftware</a>Telnet: bbs.a-net.online:1337<a href="http://a-net.fyi" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://a-net.fyi</a>Brought to you by: StingRay of A-Net Online BBS<a href="https://a-net-online.lol/achess" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://a-net-online.lol/achess</a> <a href="https://a-net-online.lol/rdq2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://a-net-online.lol/rdq2</a>

Paolo AmorosoMichael Nordmeyer reminisces on how he has been accessing online services and the Internet since the early 1990s, from BBSes and CompuServe to ISDN, DSL, and fiber. Over this online journey his setup was typical of those years.<a href="https://michaelnordmeyer.com/in-1993-i-went-on-the-internet-for-the-first-time" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaelnordmeyer.com/in-1993-i-went-on-the-internet-for-the-first-time</a><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbs</a>

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OCTADEI am seeking <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBS</a> software for <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> that has built-in <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=nntp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NNTP</a> server and can feed with other <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Usenet</a> servers. I would like some suggestions and reasoning. A BBS with actually secure passwords and authentication would be best, since a lot of them are not secure by modern standards. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/selfhosting" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@selfhosting@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/retro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@retro@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/usenet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@usenet@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bbs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bbs@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@linux@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nostalgia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nostalgia@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/opensource" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@opensource@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/networks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@networks@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/infostorm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@infostorm@a.gup.pe</a>

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