Hosting a PLATO protocol server?

[Hosting a PLATO protocol server?]

Hello there,

I don't really know if that's the right category for this topic, don't know where else to put it... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Does anyone have experience in hosting a server for the PLATO protocol (like irata.online:8005)? I'd like to try it out, nothing serious though, just for fun.... so is there possibly any software or instructions available? Because I couldn't really find what I'm looking for on irata and I don't know any other sites who host PLATO. 
Thanks in advance for any advice.

Cheers

[Execute string as command in basic?]

9 hours ago, Rybags said:

There might be a way by calling the relevant routine in the Rom.

But the easiest way would be by using E: forced input.

 

Sample - it puts more blank lines than needed in case an error message is generated.

 

10 DIM A$(30)
20 INPUT A$
30 ? CHR$(125) ; : ? : ? : ? A$ : ? : ? : ? : ? "G. 50"
40 POSITION 0,0 : POKE 842,13 : STOP
50 POKE 842,12

 

You can disable the ? prompt by using INPUT #16,A$

 

Thank you for the help, the thing with the E: input worked out just fine! Appreciated 

[Execute string as command in basic?]

Hi there, i was wondering if anyone could tell me if it's possible to "execute" a string (for example from an INPUT statement) as a basic command. For example:

 

10 DIM A$(30)

20 INPUT A$
30 [execute a basic command, for example PRINT "HELLO WORLD.", that was put into the string]
40 GOTO 20

 

or something like that... like some kind of command interpreter.

Maybe it's really obvious I'm kinda new to the whole thing and don't have that mich experience in programming BASIC, so thank you for any suggestions :)

Cheers.