Re: A modern BBS
A direct solution is instead of POTS (old skool term for the basic phone service) compatible modem
at the end of a serial line use one of the serial connected Ethernet or Wifi modems.
Or use a
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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Re: A modern BBS
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
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Richard Cini
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Re: A modern BBS
bill rowe wrote:
I've never run across telnet. I'll have to look it up and see what it is!
If it's capable of functioning as a serial link between two computers, I would think it could work with any
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Lee Hart
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Re: A modern BBS
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
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bill rowe
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Re: A modern BBS
ajparent1/kb1gmx wrote:
I once got a used S-100 computer (made by SD Sales around 1980) that worked like that. It ran MP/M, and had a 4 MHz Z80 as its "master" CPU, 256k of banked RAM, a Corvus hard
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Lee Hart
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Re: A modern BBS
Serial Ethernet is not CPnet.? ?Nor was it Ethernet as we know it since about
1987 or later.
However I've worked with networking at the lower speed serial level
with collision detect and its fairly
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#136
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Re: A modern BBS
CPnet is CP/M with a few adds for intersystem data transfer (login, logout and protocols).
Its pretty bare like CP/M and add little to make networking easier as most of that is in the
bios extension
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#135
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Re: A modern BBS
Bill,
Yes and no.? CP/M (and multiprocessing cousin MPM) are operating systems.
As such you can load a program and save a program do a directory listing.
Things like ERA (erase files) would not be
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#134
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Re: A modern BBS
maybe. I'm not familiar with cpm or mpm - would that provide BBS functions like messaging and file downloads?
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bill rowe
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Re: A modern BBS
Like this:
http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/cpm/Miscellany/cpnet.html
There’s also the serial-ethernet bridge link I sent the other day.
Rich
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Richard Cini
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#132
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Re: A modern BBS
It’s more the BBS server we would need to find I think.
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bill rowe
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#131
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Re: A modern BBS
Here’s the link…
https://github.com/asve79/z80-telnet
Rich
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http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
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Richard Cini
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#130
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Re: A modern BBS
I found this on Github that looks like a Z80 client.
Rich
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http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
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Richard Cini
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#129
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Re: A modern BBS
Rather than trying to accommodate HTML and a browser. It might be worthwhile to pursue telnet which is sort of TTY over TCP/IP. The only hardware interface you need is the kind of ethernet card you
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bill rowe
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Re: Z80MC Front panel problem.
Paul,
It's not a problem.? It's just not well explained in the manual.? The FE soft reset is detected in the Keyboard Scanning within the ISR.? It is to bring you back to the Monitor program, but
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joshbensadon
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#127
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Re: A modern BBS
I think Leif even runs an internet BBS from his home.? He's a good guy, local to me, we used to see each other at the monthly TPUG meetings before covid.
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joshbensadon
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#126
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Z80MC Front panel problem.
I've got wierd problem on my Front panel board.
All keys work fine and display and LEDs are ok, but the F+E soft reset doesnt do anything.
F+0 does a Hard Reset with display showing F-0? 01,, after
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Paul Bigwood
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#125
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Re: A modern BBS
Contiki? has one major problem as I check often.? Its hardware specific, and
no sources.? I think it wants a C128 or similar.? Generally the Commieswere
pretty slick machines but those that could
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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#124
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Re: A modern BBS
Richard Cini wrote:
There was a web browser for the C64 called Con-Tiki, I think. It provided a Windows-like user interface, and used some little box to connect to the internet, via an ethernet
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Lee Hart
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#123
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Re: A modern BBS
Found it:
https://github.com/LeifBloomquist/BBSServer
and this one (a fork of one from Jim Brain): https://github.com/FozzTexx/tcpser
Rich
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Richard Cini
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#122
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