+bf2k+ Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Well, I use syncterm and it does atascii. They mentioned it in the article I believe. That's it! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Just a heads up for anyone wanting to contribute something BBS related to Atari User, we're now working on the next issue, so any submissions are welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 what happened with zelazny.freenode.net? i cant connect few days..:/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Hmm, not been able to logon to yyzbbs or Starfleet the last couple of days.... Hoping everything is alright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Storms in VA have been knocking me down for the past week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Sorry. Meant to say something. I took SFHQ down since we were getting nailed with storms and Im out of town until Monday. It will be back up then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Awesome. Sorry about the storms but glad you'll be back up soon. Have had our share of outages from "thunder boomers" here in KY as well. One of the (many) reasons I started keeping a UPS on my setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Well, the truth is, the thing has been a bit flaky lately. For some reason, when Binkley gets a call from my boss node under Ratsoft it sometimes errors out on the mail packet. If I quit Ratsoft and run Bink from the desktop it works 100% every time. I think it's the FastSerial I have going so I can get it to 56k. I just haven't had time to dig into it. On top of that, the Falcon has just been a bit flaky too. Not sure why. I think I got most of it nailed down (found out it was booting from G and not C for some reason, so fixed that). But the keyboard is now causing me problems. After firing it up today it's even worse. Half the keys press other things when I hit them. Hit L and get l7) ... So combine all that with the storms and me going out of town for a week...... Uh... no. But it is up now..... bbs.sfhqbbs.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 "Flakiness" = not good... If your hardware isn't absolutely solid, it will drive you crazy. I know. Over the years, I've run DarkForce on a 1040 ST, Mega ST4, Mega STe, and a TT030. Of them all, the Mega ST4 has turned out to be the "tank" of the group. Since 1987, it;s had 1 motherboard replaced and a few power supply swaps. I did add TOS 1.04, another 2 megs of RAM, and an AdSpeed accelerator over the years. I understand how you must like that 56k speed (I know I would with DarkForce!) but the Falcon is a bit overkill for a BBS. You might want to consider a different ST for your needs. Just using HSModem and the AdSpeed accelerator, DarkForce "feels" considerably faster than a stock Mega ST. Hope you get it all sorted out soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 I'll be moving it to the Mega 4 STE that originally ran it but just have not found it in the basement. I picked up another Mega 4 STE recently, so I might move it to that one, but I really would prefer to have it on the original system..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Cygnus Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 (edited) Some shots of YYZ BBS (Atari 8-bit board) telnet: yyzbbs.no-ip.org (port 23) Give us a ring! ATASCII or ASCII 40/80 columns -=[Lord Cygnus]=- Edited July 8, 2013 by Lord Cygnus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Cygnus Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 (edited) Everything is alright! Sometimes power outages during a thunderstorm will outlast my 20 min. battery backup unit. Hey, Darklord, here is a screenshot when I accessed your BBS with Firefox browser with telnet plugin: http://flic.kr/p/f5bJJ7 Cool huh? Ahh... the world of telnet! BBS's live forever! -=[Lord Cygnus]=- Edited July 8, 2013 by Lord Cygnus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRotCod Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 (edited) Well guys I may be a glutton for punishment but i've come to a decision. I mentioned awhile back my BBS is down for good. But there have been some changes in my life where I have reconsidered my position. #1 is we recently moved our office to a bigger facility. In doing so, i've now got an extra office dedicated to my projects like a8 and whatnot. I can set up my BBS there and it won't be in the way. #2 I am working with Steve Carden and I am going to be converting it to CF and try to use the SIDE 2 device which is en route as we speak. So, stay tuned! Edited July 8, 2013 by DocRotCod 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Always room for more Atari BBS's.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Glad to have you back!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 (edited) Had an interesting thing happen to DarkForce this morning. I dropped to the ST desktop to change the prompt file (edit, compile, copy to the BBS folder), all per usual, then tried to restart the actual BBS.PRG software itself, only to have it tell me that the high message marker limit was nearly reached and it shutdown to the desktop. The higher marker limit appears to be in the area of 327xx or thereabouts. It actually listed a program in the warning (and it was also logged to the BBS caller log) that I would have to use to renumber the message database. Amazingly enough, even after all these years, I didn't have this program anywhere on my setup that runs the BBS. Fortunately, I did find it in the last public release archive of BBS Express! ST. Thank goodness. Took awhile to run too - over 32k messages to renumber is a chunk, I guess. Edited July 15, 2013 by DarkLord 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Guess we've been posting too much lately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Guess we've been posting too much lately Nah, can't post *too* much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRotCod Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 The Electric Cafe's is back online! I was able to get everything moved over how I want it to Compact Flash using KMK/JZ's IDE Plus 2.0 and a P:R: Connection. Telnet to: thecafe.dtdns.net If you had a user account before the last time it went offline then it is still there! I'll post some pics of my rig ASAP. Thomas 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) Great news James - glad to see you back online! PS Hmm, tried to get on just now, got the connection notice, but then it hangs... "darklord@darkforce:~$ telnet thecafe.dtdns.net Trying 24.249.100.44... Connected to thecafe.dtdns.net. Escape character is '^]'." Edited July 25, 2013 by DarkLord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRotCod Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Same thing is happening to me. I'll check it out when I get to my office in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRotCod Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Should be good now. Apparently I left my APE device connected to the SIO port and it was messing with the R: Handler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+HatNJ Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Wo Same thing is happening to me. I'll check it out when I get to my office in the morning. Working good here Just Registered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRotCod Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Just validated you. One thing, I noticed you were going through the 'other bbs' listings and dropped off. I just went through there and deleted a whole bunch of listings that were out of date. I am going to see if I can find a way to allow users to abort the listings instead of having to view them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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