December 2012

BBS Update…

So I’ve added a few more games and things to do on the BBS foryou to check out. I also managed to get Ftelnet working as well. Using that page (above) as my default log in now just because it’s much easier for this old man to see . Anyway, I am about 60% of…Read more

How to Set Up EleBBS Under Linux

Over at R&M Software Rick Parrish has several how-to’s posted I wanted to make sure and archive. This is one of them. You can visit the original here. All of this is from his site, I’ve just borrowed (stolen) it here. This HOWTO is based on the following software: RedHat 7.3 EleBBS 0.09g1 First, the…Read more

How to Set Up Tribbs to Access Fidonet

Here’s another how-to from zharvek over at Archaic Binary. The original post can be found at the link. Tribbs was the second BBS software I ran way back in the early ’90s. I probably used it for about a year or so before moving on to something I could modify a bit more. Ah what…Read more

Creating Custom Message Headers for SBBS

Updated – I found an easier way to do this (knew I would…) and it’s at the bottom of the post One of things I used in my Proboard and RG setups in the ’90s was custom message headers…i.e. OBV/2 style. I’m trying to get away from the stock setup and this is one of…Read more

Lunatix, Netfoss and SBBS

I finally managed to get Lunatix running on my SBBS system tonight. Originally I was trying to use it with Synchronet’s built-in fossil support but it was so fucking slow as to be unusable so I set it up with Netfoss and kept getting errors that netfoss.dll couldn’t be found. As with anything one I…Read more

DOSEMU Synchronet Doors How-To

This is about 10 years old but it’s still valid information. DOSEMU Synchronet DOORS HOWTO Author: Michael Capp <laffer(at)exeonline(dot)com> 07 February 2003 Complete installation guide on configuring DOSEMU and Synchronet to run DOS doors under Linux utilizing DOSEMU. Copyright (c) 2003 Michael Capp Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the…Read more