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  4. Posted

    Thought about RIP for DarkForce when it first came out. Decided against

    it because I never saw a working RIP terminal/app for the ST and didn't

    want to use graphics that an ST user couldn't see.

     

    ANSI was really dominant/popular at that time too....

    Where I was, I basically was the ST community, so actually, VT-52 was what I had no use for.

  7. Posted

    Yeah, I actually had planned to get into some IG (maybe with a game) and RIP (there was a RIP thing for RatSoft that I had installed just before the big crash in 93, which I lost all of it)....

     

    But then the BBS died.... :( (But if we can archive the stuff in case I ever decide to put it up or someone is stupid enough to try again....)

  8. Posted

     

    I remember logging into Atari BBSes- they'd have you push return/enter and determine from the code sent whether you had an Atari or something else. Most sent dready looking ASCII screens if you didn't have ATASCII. having a graphical ANSI alternative would be cool, though ANSI wasn't quite a thing then.

     

    Even the ST didn't have ANSI, It had a VT-52 terminal by default. IIRC, ANSI was based on VT-220. I actually wrote a terminal program for the ST that interpreted and displayed ANSI code properly on ST for these BBSes. Not sure I ever finished it though.

    Other people did finish theirs. ANSITerm and TAZ both seemed to handle it well, others handled it ok... Even the 8-bit has ICE-T.

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    We supported ASCII, ATASCII, VT52, Instant graphics, Color Graphics System, and ANSI so I'd say yes. It certainly was supported back in the day.

    Anyone know of any IG or CGS documentation? I recently "think" I got the CGS for BobTerm working, but when I went to The Resistance, all the files were missing (got file not found errors on all screens and menus).

     

    I'd like to try to implement IG and CGS, but without any docs, I'm guessing it's a lost battle.

  10. Posted

    Well, not really. Most of the routers or gateways I've worked with have a DMZ function where any unsolicited traffic that isn't handled by the firewall just gets forwarded to a specific IP if activated. Generally, you'd never want to do this... unless that specific IP goes to another router or firewall device that is itself protected. From there, he just configures whatever he wants, however he wants and doesn't have to worry about the idiots downstairs as long as they don't kill the DMZ. I doubt it would add any significant latency (and if it did, who cares, we're simulating old school 9600 baud modems). ;)

     

    The downside is needing the 2nd router.

    (And yeah, I'm sure you know this Doc, but others might be trying to follow the bouncing ball.... especially since I wasn't really clear the first time I said it, being on my phone and all.....)

  12. Posted

    Forgive me if you tried this, since I missed a staff meeting or two it seems. ;)

     

    Would it work to get another small inexpensive router for yourself (I actually had a good Belkin wireless router from maybe 10-ish years ago that would even do the dynamic dns updating for me so I didn't have to rely on a PC client) and then maybe just have the gateway set up with a DMZ to your router?

     

    Maybe we could take up a collection to get you squared away (or if I can find that router laying around here somewhere......)

  19. Posted

    Feeling bad about mine sitting in the basement since 1996. Kept it back then as it was worth next to nothing and I had some data on it that I couldn't copy onto the PC (such as my old FidoNet messagebase). Wonder whether I should take the data off and sell it no or keep it to finance my retirement ;)

     

    Even Atari-8-bit-aware kids say "uninteresting, as it has a desktop/mouse just like a Win/Mac computer".

    What BBS software/Fido software was it running?

  22. Posted

    Just out of curiosity, what did the utility do? Was there an error message? Did it just not work?

     

    Because.... I had a thought. What if the date format is causing an error since it is probably written for European date formats and you probably entered in a US one? You know, how they put the day before the month, because somehow that makes logical sense to nations that didn't fake footage of putting a man on the moon like we did)!!!!!!

     

    (Really though... nothing but love for our overseas brothers... just wondering if that might have been an issue... I know I've run into it on the A8 with versions of the SpartaDos time and date setting where sometimes, depending on the version and where it came from, wants the European date format).

  24. Posted

    Actually, do any Atari BBS programs actually support ATASCII? I know RatSoft doesn't, and I tried to find a way to do it.... the problem is that it doesn't support the CR/LF/EOL/WHATEVER translation since the ST uses a "standard" CR/LF scheme.

     

    I really wish RatSoft allowed me to do it, but since the author lost the source code and it's not in a language like BASIC... I'm not sure re-writing it is worth the trouble as I'd have to be dealing with modifying a disassembly.

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