Due to popular demand (that of myself), I have put the BBS back online. I have not completely finished configuring it, so I am sure there are plenty of bugs. You can access it through the link at the top,…
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I mentioned something in my post the other day about how this web site got started as an electronic bulletin board system and started getting all sentimental so I am in the process of setting up a telnet/web bbs site.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mentioned last week that I was going to put my Electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS) back online and I have done so. BBSes are old school, how we connected to each other BEFORE the web. Back in the day[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So as I mentioned in an earlier post, the BBS is back online. You can access it through the links above and to the right OR via telnet at rmiles.myhomeseer.com I am in the process of trying to get netmail[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mentioned yesterday that I needed a bit of help setting some things up. I still do but as I’ve searched I’ve found a wealth of information out there. Unfortunately there seems to be less and less as time goes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The directions over at the SBBS wiki didn’t seem to work for me so I did some hunting and found the following instructions which allowed it to work using Netfoss: Synchronet BBS 3.1x USAGE Synchronet already has its own FOSSIL[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After doing a lot of hunting I finally came across this guide and am putting it here for posterity. I did switch from Argus to Radius (an Argus Clone) and went through this guide exactly as spelled out and it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I finally managed to get EleBBS working together with Fastecho and Radius! Very happy about it. Synchronet seems pretty cool and I’ll continue playing with it in a VM but my “production” board will continue to be ELE. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Originally I wasn’t going to have any file areas. I changed my mind and while I don’t have the menu complete I have started adding file areas. I also put in a couple more local doors now we are up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This article was originally written by Nick in 2009 and in keeping with what I wanted to do in archiving all of these difficult to find how-to’s I figured I would post it here. If you find it helpful please[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ok, so as I ended up sticking with the Synchronet setup due to the fact network and internet integration is so much better/easier to set up than using EleBBS. It does have a greater learning curve as far as configuring[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So the next thing I decided to tackle on the board was the default user settings screen on my board. I initially attempted to change the text strings in my baja menu source by using the REPLACE_TEXT command in it.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had to change one line in the prompt below. Where it says @SMB_LAST_MSG@ that should read @SMB_TOTAL_MSGS@. The last message @-Code gives a total number of messages in the sub including deleted, dupes, etc…which may not match what the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roger Shays has put up a Fastecho tutorial for those interested. Thanks Roger. You can find it here.
I could really use some help with WP from an “expert” Currently shadowscope is installed in it’s own subdirectory off of my main site but I have it resolve to shadowscope.com In order to do that I had to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were some issues with Lunatix crashing and marking people as being logged in even though they weren’t. That has been fixed. Sorry about that if you got stuck not being able to log in.
Door games are not currently working. My BBS laptop finally bit the dust so I have moved it to a VM on my main system and unfortunately something broke in the move. Getting this error in my Synchronet logs currently:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shadowscope BBS is back online and the move is complete (sort of lol.) The message networks have all been moved as have a large portion of the games. I will put my Ansi and menus back up over the next[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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