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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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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Rich Cini
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
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/cini
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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#128
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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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Re: A modern BBS
There is something for the Commodore computers which did just that. It was PC software, acting as serial to Ethernet bridge basically. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name; I’m trying to find
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Richard Cini
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Re: A modern BBS
Mark Moulding wrote:
Richard Cini wrote:
This is exciting news! There are lots of CP/M C compilers (BDS-C, Small-C). I had assumed that a CP/M browser for the Z80 was a near-impossibility. But this is
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Lee Hart
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#120
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Re: A modern BBS
There’s a smaller Lynx for DOS called “Links”. I have not tried it but I did download the source for it. It also looks like it’s written in C.
Get Outlook for
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Richard Cini
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#119
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Re: A modern BBS
I just fired up an old copy of Lynx under Win32, and was able to even use Google.? It in no way requires a mouse - it uses key strokes to select the next/previous "clickable" item (or text field).?
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Mark Moulding
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#118
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Re: A modern BBS
Lee, I was just browsing your site with Lynx with no issues.? Obviously it wouldn't render images but that was pretty much the only difference.? Also when selecting a link to a .pdf file Lynx
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Bob Kay
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