To get started, you could call into my BBS (bbs.deepskies.com:6400) from a C64 or C128, and then use Xmodem to download Saturn3 from my board. Then transfer that over to your VIC-20 and start surfing the boards on your mighty VIC!
#RetroComputing #Commodore #VIC20 #Terminal #BBS #BulletinBoardSystem
Just updated the VIC-BBS to include Xmodem uploads and downloads. There's a complementary VIC-20 terminal program called "Saturn3" that also includes Xmodem upload and download.
So now, VIC-20 users can finally do file transfers without having to rely on a friend with a C64! Keep in mind I didn't test this much, but give it a shot if you're interested.
bbs.deepskies.com:6400
https://github.com/VA3DSO/VIC-BBS
#Commodore #VIC20 #RetroComputing #BBS #BulletinBoardSystem #Xmodem #FileTransfers #Modem #DialUp #80sTech #RetroComputing
Ah! This takes me back! Surfing the BBSes on my Commodore VIC-20. I use a custom terminal program, but one of the screen colour choices emulates the original VICTERM from Commodore back in 1981. This is how visiting the boards looked to me in the early 80s!
#Commodore #VIC20 #RetroComputing #BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #C64 #Commodore64 #8Bit
Did 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.
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
#z80
Speaking of the - now abandoned - #MagickaBBS: I've preserved the last "known to compile and run" version of the code on my #Codeberg because I really like this software and always thought it was a pity that the project was halted.
I've also been able to preserve some of the original documentation for the software, although I can *not* guarantee that it will match the checked in codebase in any way. Yet, I still think it's useful.
addendum: I've found something more or less useful to do with the aforementioned setup. I'm still trying to iron out a few things, but it's amazing what a little overclocking can do.
I'm quite impressed at how responsive #NetBSD on the #RapberryPi Model 1 B (without the "plus" but with 512MB RAM - it's a rather early board manufactured in 12/2011) is.
So I decided to run #MagickaBBS on it, simply because it was the only #BBS software that I was able to compile on NetBSD - most other #bulletinboardsystem #software will not compile on #NetBSD (evbarm platform) for one or another reason - what a shame.
Anyway: about five years ago, I've had quite a creative burst and designed several #ANSI screens (example: see below) that I've never put into use. But this seems to be the right time to finally change that.
Stay tuned or follow: #netbsdonoldpi (NetBSD on old Pi) - I'll try to provide further updates in case you are interested ...
Aaron Revives RAMifications: A 1990s Commodore 128 BBS Returns Online
#Commodore128 #BBS #C128 #RetroComputing #TelnetBBS #VintageTechnology #RAMifications #BulletinBoardSystem #CommodoreBBS #RetroBBS
https://theoasisbbs.com/aaron-revives-ramifications-a-1990s-commodore-128-bbs-returns-online/?feed_id=3022&_unique_id=680f7ead93e4c
Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.
This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.
Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!
Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.
American Users Discover Snobsoft BBS – A 40-Year-Old System Still Thriving
#Commodore64 #C64 #BBS #RetroComputing #SnobSoft #VintageTech #80sComputing #BulletinBoardSystem
https://theoasisbbs.com/american-users-discover-snobsoft-bbs-a-40-year-old-system-still-thriving/?feed_id=1779&_unique_id=67b889426efb1
Happy BBSday !!
On this day today in 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess took the world's first bulletin board system (the "CBBS") officially online.
#BBSDay
#CBBS
#WardChristensen
#RandySuess
#BulletinBoardSystem
A Tour of The Dark Lord’s C-Net 12.0 BBS (1988)
#C64 #Commodore64 #BBS #Sysop #RetroComputing #VintageTech #CNet12 #80sComputing #ClassicMods #BulletinBoardSystem
https://theoasisbbs.com/a-tour-of-the-dark-lords-c-net-12-0-bbs-1988/?feed_id=1591&_unique_id=67ab5960aba47
I have updated my BBSing resource page, for anyone with a hankerin' to "dial in" once again.
https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
#BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #terminal #telnet #client #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #nostalgia #dialup #modem #AT #retrocomputers #vintagetech #blog #screenshot #video #SyncTerm #MuffinTerm #ByteCellar
... an update from the trenches:
the code snippet which has been loosely resembling #BBS core functionality (the one I once wrote in #DXForth) has seen a few updates recently.
so now "DX BBS" is able to read and output ASCII text files (it could only read #Forth screen blocks before).
I've also fixed several issues where a connection drop would sometimes allow the next caller to "capture" the previous session.
Next on the list will be the whole "post-a-message" process: writing an index file entry for each new message and storing the corresponding message text etc.
long distant future design goals (so far):
(+) implement DX Forth SIO/2 driver
(+) implement a stable (disconnect proof) BBS program loop
(+) stay true to pure ASCII output only, no fancy escape squences or colors - just like RBBS / RCBBS do
(+) implement text (ASCII) file output
(-) store BBS configuration in plain ASCII text file
(-) implement mesage posting procedure
(-) implement message reading procedure
(-) implement message maintenance procdure (delete msg.)
(-) implement user database
(-) implement user database maintenace procedure (delete / modify user)
(-) implement simple user ACL / flag system
(-) implement (x)modem transfers
I don't have a real roadmap, my motivation may vary and the above is just what I think are the minimum requirements for a classic CP/M based bulletin board system. To give you an impression: it should resemble what #rc2014 #rcbbs does at the moment.
#rc2014
#cpm
#retrocoding
#forth
#bulletinboardsystem
#funwithforth
On Friday, #WardChristensen, co-inventor of the computer #BulletinBoardSystem (#BBS), died at age 78 in #RollingMeadows, #Illinois. Christensen, along with #RandySuess, created the first BBS in #Chicago in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of #DigitalCommunity-building that presaged much of our online world today.
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/?comments-page=1#comments
Finally got a FTN-based message network setup on the #bbs.
Using an old OS/2 software certainly was shooting myself in the foot repeatedly, because a more modern software wouldn't have been nearly as much of a complicated yakkity-sax level of disaster.
But, the important thing is it now works, and I can move on to adding a couple of more now that I figured out how to make binkd and squish and Telegard talk to each other and like, use passwords where passwords were needed which, shockingly was harder than you'd think: security wasn't really a concern when you called someone on the phone 30 years ago to transfer files because you pretty much knew who you were talking to.
Now on to more door games, I suppose, whilst I wait for more applications.
#retrocomputing #bulletinboardsystem
The Excalibur BBS client had led me down the most crazy rabbit hole in the last week.
It's 16-bit, and not like, good 16 bit so the newest OS that can run it is absolutely ancient: XP.
So I thought, hey, wine can run 16 bit apps! Well, no, wine won't run this particular one.
Then I was like 'I could make a VM and distribute that to people to use it!' and sure, I could and did.
But I found something even more cool: you can just like, do it in your browser instead.
Found a project, v86, which is a bundle of WASM and JS and is basically a subset of QEMU and after far far too much fiddling, breaking stuff, and reading JS code (I do not like JS, I really do not.) I've set up a website that you can literally just load, and instantly up comes a Windows 95 machine with the client running ready for someone to use.
The future is great, especially when you're using it to access the past. #retrocomputing #retropc #bbs #bulletinboardsystem
A pretty fascinating multi-part look at the IGS BBS protocol (Instant Graphics, later Instant Graphics & Sound) on the Atari ST.
This is part of the #BBS scene that I missed, I must say. By 1990 I was still BBSing full tilt, but had moved off of Atari.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/01/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-1-introduction/
#BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #dialup #Atari #AtariST #IGS #BBSs #telecommunications #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #TOS #GEM #modems #blog #screenshot
