The “modem emulator” programs, like the link I sent the other day, will basically traffic serial over Ethernet using a PC, sort of like the all-in-one solutions from Olimex and Wiznet (??) which are board-level products.
I have a test setup in the shop so I hope to play around with this a bit. I have a PC with a Digi-PCI 8-port serial board, some modems, an analog telephone switch and BBS software (SynchroNET, which I think also does TCP) running on XP. I’ve seen a Z80 BBS running within an emulator, but of course that’s not real hardware.
This is an interesting listing of Citadel versions:
Rich
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?On 8/21/20, 11:39 AM, "Lee Hart" <
[email protected] on behalf of leeahart@...> wrote:
bill rowe wrote:
> I can't help thinking telnet is a good answer to this. it gives you a
> tty interface over the internet with simple hardware and can be run on
> small systems. I know there are telnet bbs's - i just don't know if
> they run on z80's.
I've never run across telnet. I'll have to look it up and see what it is!
> even a chat program would be a fun start.
If it's capable of functioning as a serial link between two computers, I
would think it could work with any of the BBS software that worked with
modems.
We probably don't really need a vintage machine on the server end; that
could be a PC or something modern with mass storage. But the client end
would need Z80 CP/M software.
It still leaves me uncertain of how a Z80 connects to the web with
telnet. Hardware-wise, I assume it still needs to talk to an ethernet
connection on your router?
Lee
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