Marius #1 Posted January 2, 2011 How cool is this... who would have thought this in the 80's ... that Bobterm would show me: Happy New Year 2011!!! Posted by Dr. Clu on Boot Factory BBS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MEtalGuy66 #2 Posted January 2, 2011 Nice BlackBox setup.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marius #3 Posted January 2, 2011 Nice BlackBox setup.. Yeah. It is using ACARD SCSI -> IDE converter, with Maxtor 80GB harddisk. Had very lot harddisk problems in the past, but I have to 'knock it off' ... it works errorfree at the moment. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MEtalGuy66 #4 Posted January 2, 2011 (edited) Yeah.. The ACARD is awesome. It works with everything Ive tried hooking up to it, on both the blackbox and MIO, and the onboard termination options make it very simple to set up. It also gets really fast transfer rates when compared to real SCSI devices. I hooked a 500gb Western Digital "Caviar Blue" (16meg cache) drive up to it, and it was the fastest thing Ive ever seen on the MIO.. Too bad ACARDs are so hard to come by these days. For anyone interested, Vesalia.de still shows to have them in stock, for a reasonable (comparatively speaking) price. It's nice to see someone who still uses real drives, instead of becomming a total "flash junkie". heheh. Edited January 2, 2011 by MEtalGuy66 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+doctorclu #5 Posted January 2, 2011 Hey Marius glad you liked that! I got the Happy New Year 2011 from Steve in the IRC chat from New Year 2001, and made a few changes. You know what was weird, I found that the Boot Factory and Atari BBSs could not use "\" or "|" for the art. I'm on a C64 BBS and other characters did not work. It was strange. So I'm learning the difference between Atari, Commodore, and regular PC BBSs this weekend working on that art. Truth is, I want to make more Ascii art for the Atari BBS messages this year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+bf2k+ #6 Posted January 2, 2011 Hey Marius glad you liked that! Nice - I just saw it - been out of town for the holiday. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fox-1 / mnx #7 Posted January 2, 2011 You know what was weird, I found that the Boot Factory and Atari BBSs could not use "\" or "|" for the art. The back-slash issue, tell me about it. A long time ago, when BBS' were still running with analog modems on real phonelines, and the police were riding on pigs, John K. Picken wrote an ultra fast ramdrive for Sparta-Dos. Several sysop's were interested and since we were all connected to the "International Atari Network" he posted it as UEncoded data, filling up several messages. Sysop's could easily merge the code into one chunk of data and decode it to a binary. After sending the whole code 3 or 4 (5,6?) times it still didn't work. No one could turn the UEncoded data into a working binary, which is no wonder as BBS-Pro! has filtered out all the back-slashes. Replacing all the back-slash characters with a lowercase "z" prior to posting it solved that issue. To the point... I think only BBS-Pro! "suffers" from this Pro!-blem. For a very short while I had a Carina BBS and Forem-XE set-up and from what I remember using a back-slash was no problem with these. I discussed this issue (tried to) with Bob Klaas (K-Products) but never got a real answer. The only info I got (I think it was from Stephen Carden) was that the back-slash was a special control character used in the Pro! message bases. This sounds plausible but doesn't explain why it can't be used on anything that's not message base related. For Pro!-BBS, I wrote an ASCII-art player which replaced the back-slash with the Atari control character (ctrl-G) in the process which of-course only works when connected in ATASCII. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+doctorclu #8 Posted January 2, 2011 Now here is the million dollar question... why are the characters filtered? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marius #9 Posted January 2, 2011 @fox-1 Pro! has more pro!blems and you know that Hey did you recognise your 2.16 rom label on the eprom that's the BlackBox that did work for ages here, and stopped working after the moment you touched it :D remember? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+DarkLord #10 Posted January 2, 2011 How cool is this... who would have thought this in the 80's ... that Bobterm would show me: Happy New Year 2011!!! Posted by Dr. Clu on Boot Factory BBS. Nice! I think its very cool when programmers have such long term vision. DarkForce does this as well, but its because I update the script every year, not from any foresight of the original programmers. (not knocking them though, mind you). Very cool stuff though - thanks for posting Doc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fox-1 / mnx #11 Posted January 3, 2011 Pro! has more pro!blems and you know that Unfortunately, I know, but many can be solved by modifying some things or by using 3rd party CMD's. Hey did you recognise your 2.16 rom label on the eprom Only viewed the small picture but now I see the full resolution I can even recognize my handwritten text on the label :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_The Doctor__ #12 Posted September 23, 2019 It would be nice to list all Pro's problems and the workarounds/modules correcting them... /s 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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