Downtime

Due to the severe weather that’s supposed to move through this evening and into overnight I will be taking down the BBS and any other internal servers for the evening. Depending on when the storm moves through it may be tomorrow evening before I come back online (Have to leave for work around 6ish.) The…Read more

Internet Outage

Charter Spectrum apparently has an internet Outage in my area so the BBS and mailer are down until they get it fixed.

Down Time

The BBS and Mailer will be down for just a little bit while I make a backup and upgrade to the latest alpha version of Mystic A45. Shouldn’t take long as it’s just a straight xcopy to another PC where I sync everything to a dropbox folder.

A how-to on getting DOSBox to work with Mystic BBS (Windows version)

Maskreet over at Throwbackbbs.com has this pretty good write-up that’s been up at least a couple of years. I needed it earlier this week and his site was temporarily down so I’ve decided to mirror it here. Everything below is courtesy of him: Written by maskreet 12/3/2014(updated 1/19/2018; newest DOSBox SVN) First of all, if…Read more

New Content on the Board

Added a bunch of lit packs today as well as several hundred old BBS mods and art packs. Still need to separate the art packs into different sections at some point. Also have added email validation. Expect that the next time you log in. If you don’t have a valid email address, update it from…Read more

BBS Screenshots

Here are some example screenshots of menus on the board. Thanks mostly to Luciano Ayres at https://www.ansigarden.com/ for the awesome menus. There’s no way I could have such a good looking BBS without them. I am OK at Ansi/Ascii and can edit existing stuff but my work pales in comparison to most of the great…Read more

Happy Anniversary Shadowscope!

Apparently I missed it. Shows how much I care 🙂 At some point in October or November of 1999 I converted over from a BBS to a web site. Ran it using a dynamic dns url for about a year and purchased shadowscope.com in December of 1999 (I think) My first couple of months were…Read more

Some BBS Updates

Wow. 2019. Looks like I haven’t posted since 2017. Time flies right? Anyway, you can access still access the BBS from the menu links above by choosing the ftelnet option. I have also got a small applet hosted at shadowscope.noip.us, as Mystic now has a builtin web server. I am in the process of adding…Read more

How to Control the Xiaomi Mi Vacuum from HomeSeer

Back about a decade ago we had a Roomba I had received while doing the payperpost . The wife and I liked it and it did a pretty good job. It eventually died as electronics do and I wasn’t able to resurrect it. Eventually it went to the dump. Rather than replace it we just…Read more

Short downtime

My BBS and corresponding internal web site will be down for a while this afternoon as I change my network over. Should be back up in the next couple of hours. Updated – The BBS itself should be available now as well as the Fidonet mailer. If there’s any issues please let me know. Best…Read more