Fox-1 / mnx Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 On 1/5/2021 at 10:40 PM, JohnPolka said: No. Neither original BBS Express! nor BBS Express Pro! have a scripting language. Pro!-BBS can do limited script-like things by using batch files. It supports parameters and one can call existing modules to do all kind of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amis Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 #BBSweek - After a month or so of grinding on the code, Fuji Amis is online and undergoing UAT and stability testing.. Modified extensively from the 1986 MACE original code, built for FujiNet or Altirra with variable baud rates, a screen driver, updated features and a bunch of improvements for the sysop, message board navigation and the option to turn on user profile / user passwords. Additional feature to reduce the once complex message compactor, is now an automated feature.. If you have a chance, atascii over to amis86.ddns.net:9000 as this is a nice piece of history and restoration that brings AMIS back after at least 20 years of being off line... Placing this project under the Southern Amis Group of Projects including the parent bbs southernamis.ddns.net:23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) Tried connecting to Amis 86... it connects and then immediately disconnects. It's working now... great stuff! Edited February 17, 2021 by bf2k+ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Hmm, so amis is ATASCII only? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amis Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 20 hours ago, DarkLord said: Hmm, so amis is ATASCII only? Thanks. Southernamis.ddns.net:23 is Atari / Atascii only. The restored/New Build of AMIS, Fuji Amis is Atascii and Ascii.. A bit more to the Atascii side.. amis86.ddns.net:9000 Lets not forget it is Atari Message Information System.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Okay, only reason I asked was that the board rejected a telnet call made from a Win7 box... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 2 hours ago, DarkLord said: Okay, only reason I asked was that the board rejected a telnet call made from a Win7 box... I thought you were anti Windows/Linux only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPolka Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 12 hours ago, DarkLord said: Okay, only reason I asked was that the board rejected a telnet call made from a Win7 box... If you want to connect from Windows (or Mac, Linux, etc.) then try Syncterm whch supports ATASCII. https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/ -JP 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 46 minutes ago, JohnPolka said: If you want to connect from Windows (or Mac, Linux, etc.) then try Syncterm whch supports ATASCII. https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/ -JP Qodem works well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amis Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 19 hours ago, DarkLord said: Okay, only reason I asked was that the board rejected a telnet call made from a Win7 box... The board also has Busy BBS running which if the board is in use, gives you a fast message and disconnects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amis Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 6 hours ago, Mazzspeed said: Qodem works well... But SyncTerm has Atascii so you get this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 I use AT_Telnet in Windows 10. No file transfers but I don't need them... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 5 hours ago, Amis said: But SyncTerm has Atascii so you get this: Qodem supports ATASCII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPolka Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Mazzspeed said: Qodem works well... How do you know ATASCII on qodem works well? I don't see any ATASCII BBSs in your dial list. -JP Edited February 21, 2021 by JohnPolka 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 7 minutes ago, JohnPolka said: How do you know ATASCII on qodem works well? I don't see any ATASCII BBSs in your dial list. -JP I knew someone would catch me on that! TBH, it probably is something worth testing. Do you have a BBS I can call John? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPolka Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, Mazzspeed said: I knew someone would catch me on that! TBH, it probably is something worth testing. Do you have a BBS I can call John? Yeah, the Basement BBS (basementbbs.ddns.net:9000). That would be a good test. Besides ATASCII graphics, there are also some screens and menus that use ATASCII cursor controls to create scrolling text, etc. southernamis.ddns.net:23 and alcatrazbbs.ddns.net:9000 are good test BBSs for ATASCII too. -JP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Hmmm. I select ATASCII mode and southernamis boots me off without letting me log in. Alctatraz BBS appears to be offline altogether? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlight_mile Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Hmmm. I select ATASCII mode and southernamis boots me off without letting me log in. Alctatraz BBS appears to be offline altogether?I was actually logged on and I was doing a few things with it. I will try to implement John polkas busy bbs app in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 2 hours ago, moonlight_mile said: I was actually logged on and I was doing a few things with it. I will try to implement John polkas busy bbs app in the near future. I can't get ATASCII or even PETSCII working under either Qodem or SyncTerm, do you need fonts or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlight_mile Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Not that I am aware of. Did you try hitting the enter button a couple of times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 13 minutes ago, moonlight_mile said: Not that I am aware of. Did you try hitting the enter button a couple of times? Yep. It's not picking up that I'm running ATASCII (or PETSCII) terminal emulation. There's something odd going on, no doubt at my end, just don't know what. I wonder if there's an ATASCII terminal program for the Amiga? That's the only other computer I've got to try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 13 hours ago, bf2k+ said: I use AT_Telnet in Windows 10. No file transfers but I don't need them... Where did you download this from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPolka Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, Mazzspeed said: Hmmm. I select ATASCII mode and southernamis boots me off without letting me log in. Alctatraz BBS appears to be offline altogether? Sounds like you were not in ATASCII mode when you called Southern Amis. Southern Amis is ATASCII only. Southern Amis will ask you to press Return and if you send it a non-ATASCII return, it will print a message like "Atascii only - change term or Syncterm mode to Atari" and log you off. If you're in ATASCII mode and press Return, then the term program should send an ATASCII return. -JP Edited February 21, 2021 by JohnPolka 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzspeed Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, JohnPolka said: Sounds like you were not in ATASCII mode when you called Southern Amis. Southern Amis is ATASCII only. Southern Amis will ask you to press Return and if you send it a non-ATASCII return, it will print a message like "Atascii only - change term or Syncterm mode to Atari" and log you off. If you're in ATASCII mode and press Return, then the term program should send an ATASCII return. -JP There's something buggy going on with both SyncTerm and Qodem, both don't seem to actually enable ATASCII as well as PETSCII. I'm still trying to work it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPolka Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 38 minutes ago, Mazzspeed said: There's something buggy going on with both SyncTerm and Qodem, both don't seem to actually enable ATASCII as well as PETSCII. I'm still trying to work it out. That's weird. On Syncterm, I just set Screen mode to Atari under the BBS listings. For example, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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