doctorclu Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 (edited) Meaning????? Means, at least when I checked the BBS yesterday, it is down. edit: But today it is back up. Great to see! Missed that BBS. Edited January 4, 2015 by doctorclu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 (edited) I'm happy to report that if you call the Prison Board BBS at telnet://rdfig.net or 972-329-0781 the entire 2015 Atari BBS list has been added for quick access. Simply call the BBS, at the first prompt select "A" for the Mystic BBS. Get to the Main Menu. Select X for Internet, then A for Atari. This was a service started in 2007 primarily set for Lantronix users who only have IP addresses to work with can access the basically stable IP address of the Prison Board at IP 108.204.186.225. Of course it is also good for users that want to call a BBS with a modem and then telnet out to all the other BBS's from there. Either way it opens up the entire Atari BBS world with just one stop. Edited January 6, 2015 by doctorclu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRotCod Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Due to lack of activity/interest, I am taking The Electric Cafe' down. I will pull the plug at the end of the week. Thank you all who have supported the BBS. We gave it an honest try and left the BBS up for quite some time but for whatever reason it just did not catch on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Due to lack of activity/interest, I am taking The Electric Cafe' down. I will pull the plug at the end of the week. Thank you all who have supported the BBS. We gave it an honest try and left the BBS up for quite some time but for whatever reason it just did not catch on. Hey Doc...sorry to hear that. I thought your BBS was doing okay - I know I called occasionaly and while it didn't seem like people were beating the door down to get in, so to speak, I did think it was fairly active. Hoping you'll change your mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 If there is ever a BBS program, which is important to thousands of us, it is: SIMPLEREL.ACT for Action! If anyone of you BBS guys has this file and can post it here or via pm, you are my hero of 2015! Yes, we have Jan... Thank you so much in advance, you are very welcome. -----------------------------------------ACTION OBJECT CODE RELOCATION PROGRAMThe program SIMPLREL.ACT on this BBSmay be used to cause an ACTION!program to load and run at adifferent address than that addressat which it was compiled. The sameprogram will also work for assemblylanguage object files, providing youalso follow the given instructions.The program takes two object files asinput and produces a third file whichwill load and run at a desiredaddress. The relocating programprompts the user for the two inputfiles, which must have been compiledone page (256 bytes) apart. It thenprompts for an output file name (therelocated file), the page number ofthe starting address of the firstfile, and the page number of thedesired destination address. Bothpage numbers must be decimal values.For example, specifying 32 as thedestination page will cause theoutput file to load at address 32*256($2000), not $3200.See part V, "The ACTION! Compiler",chapter 2, page 144, for informationon compiling programs to a specifiedaddress (Used to compile the twoobject files one page apart).In order to use the relocatingprogram, download SIMPLEREL.ACT andread the instructions therein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Cygnus Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Due to lack of activity/interest, I am taking The Electric Cafe' down. I will pull the plug at the end of the week. Thank you all who have supported the BBS. We gave it an honest try and left the BBS up for quite some time but for whatever reason it just did not catch on. Ohhh no! Sorry to hear this. I enjoyed calling. Thanks for the time you had it live! /|\TARI RULZ -=[Lord Cygnus]=- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Is the BBS currently down, or is it going down next weekend? Either way it will be missed. I've certainly enjoyed off an on throughout the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Cygnus Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I think I'm going to change the port #23 to a different port # on YYZ BBS. It sustains too many bot scans each day and gets hung fairly often. This is the reason you can't connect to YYZ BBS sometimes. I have to keep an eye on it and make sure it's connected ready and not hung. -=[Lord Cygnus]=- Telnet: yyzbbs.no-ip.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I think I'm going to change the port #23 to a different port # on YYZ BBS. It sustains too many bot scans each day and gets hung fairly often. This is the reason you can't connect to YYZ BBS sometimes. I have to keep an eye on it and make sure it's connected ready and not hung. -=[Lord Cygnus]=- Telnet: yyzbbs.no-ip.org Yeah, those suck. Might have to do that myself. I was getting as many as 70 a day last year... down to about 30 now... but still considering that it runs the mailer, then possibly having to time out at the login screen each time can take a few minutes - and that assumes that it doesn't occasionally crash it. Before that though I'm going to try logging it to see where they come from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I'm still using port 23, guess I've been lucky. I'm sure I've been probed and attacked as well, but in the case of my Mega ST4 and BBS Express! ST combination, it doesn't crash or shut anything down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I see usually at least 1 or 2 'probes' when I am looking at it (which isn't often), but it doesn't crash (BBS:Express PRO v2.1a). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The only reason I can be sure of mine is that when someone calls, RatSoft runs BinkleyTerm (the fido mailer) first, which does the famous "press escape to enter"... Binkley keeps track of all call attempts, so if a call lasts longer than the escape timeout, it logs it as a "BBS" call and returns to RatSoft (which usually by that time detects there is no connection and just resets). Sometimes the connection doesn't hang up and on those occasions, rarely, it might have a problem. The only reason I know how often it happens if I'm not watching it is looking at the number of "BBS" calls.... As of right now, 2:46pm today, I have about 30+ calls to the BBS. .... .... .... I didn't get 30+ calls today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I used to run BT back in the 90's but BT was already running and answered the phone, not the BBS. What is Ratsoft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) I used to run BT back in the 90's but BT was already running and answered the phone, not the BBS. What is Ratsoft? The BBS Software I'm running...... As to Bink, you can run it that way, or you can run it in a batch mode. It makes it easier on the event scheduler for RatSoft if I run it that way. Edited February 18, 2015 by Tillek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I used BT for all my event scheduling (when I was running BT). I also ran Seadog, Opus, Frontdoor and Intermail as mailers. Are you still in Fidonet? I was NC264 for a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Ratsoft was pretty popular at one time. Wasn't it about the last commerical BBS software release for the ST? I actually bought a copy and tried it out once. Couldn't quite get into it though. I had already sunk a lot of time and effort into DarkForce using BBS Express and was quite comfortable with it so I finally sold my copy of Ratsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I used BT for all my event scheduling (when I was running BT). I also ran Seadog, Opus, Frontdoor and Intermail as mailers. Are you still in Fidonet? I was NC264 for a few years. I assume you were running a PC then? I'm not sure how different the Binks got between the ST and PC versions.... Yes, still in it. Even got the same node number back. 1:2215/1701.... Actually, I was part of the group that helped split from Cleveland's 157 to bring 2215 to Akron... those were the good old days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hmm, could this be port 23 "intrusions"? If so, BBS Express! ST and my setup just keeps on going after a few seconds, with no particular problems. I'm fairly sure that there are not that many honest failed logon attempts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I'm sure that is exactly what they are... I watch them here all the time. They don't crash me either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Just wanted to let it be known, having a few hard drive issues right now on the BBS. Looks more like corruption more than a physical issue, but when I tried running the fix on it... well, you know how it can be with lost clusters... just makes everything worse. Fortunately, I backed everything up before messing with it, but it is going to take me some time to get it all straightened out and I'm in the middle of midterms and midterm projects so I have to work on a few school things first. So expect SFHQ is going to be offline for a few days. If I get really productive with schoolwork I could have it up by the end of the weekend, but I had so much overhauling I wanted to do to it anyway, I may just start working on that. I've been wanting to re-do the hard drive partitions and rearrange a few things anyway, like re-doing the Fido setup... may as well do it now. I think you'll like some of what I have planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Just an update... Got SFHQ back up this morning. Decided not to keep it down until everything was re-done (got some stuff on order, want to experiment with some things). Fixed the main problem with the partitions (luckily, no bad sectors/clusters... not bad for a hard drive that is older than many of my fellow students at school!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Glad you got it sorted out. I know what you mean about running ancient hard drives - the one that DarkForce is using is 15-20 years old. 4 gig SCSI and still going strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MacRorie Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Hello all, I apologize if this is the wrong thread. Feel free to tell me where to go, if I should post elsewhere. I want to resurrect my BBS. Many years ago (in the 90s) I ran The Bates Motel BBS on my 130XE/MIO w/ BBS Express Pro. I took it down and am getting back into the 8bit. I have been looking at solutions and I really like the Lantronix solution. I understand the MSS-100 is now discontinued, but the DS-10 will work. What else would I need? I need to find a new/used copy of BBS Express Pro as I sold/lost my copy two decades ago. Thanks for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Well, the Lantronix will replace the modem, so other than that, what you need is what you had to run the BBS - what you still have.... Assuming you still have all your drives, cables, etc. you probably just need the software. Here is some information and files.... http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/ATARI/EIGHTBIT/BBSEXPRESSPRO/ I'm sure some others here can give you more specific help on that software. Once you get your Lantronix I'm sure we can help you get it set up. After that, it's all about setting up the BBS software, which you already probably know how to do (it is just like falling off a bike, you never forget how). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 The link above is for the original BBS:Express software... not PRO. Steve Carden still sells a newer version of PRO. Lance (I forget his last name) also sells an older one. Who is the owner? Your guess is as good as mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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