Connecting to BBS using Sio2OSX

[Pengwin]

Has anyone managed to connect to a BBS using Sio2OSX?

 

I've been trying tonight with BobTerm and can't seem to get anywhere. Any help would be appreciated.

[Marius]

Has anyone managed to connect to a BBS using Sio2OSX?

 

I've been trying tonight with BobTerm and can't seem to get anywhere. Any help would be appreciated.

 

How far do you get? Do you hear the 'beeeeeeeep' from the r: coming over to Bobterm? (If not: bobterm probably notifies you that there is no R: handler).

 

make sure that you do not have another R: device attached to your atari (like atari 850 or blackbox or mio or whatever), since Bobterm will not download another R: driver if it is already in memory.

 

Ok ... if you are 100% sure you succeeded in getting into bobterm with the things in mind I described above, type this:

 

ATZ (press now return)

 

if you see:

 

OK

 

your connection with Sio2OSX is ok. If not, try it again one or two times.

 

After that OK, type this:

 

ATDT <address of bbs> <portnumber>

 

after ATDT there is a space

after the address of the bbs also a space in case you want to give in a portnumber

 

try this:

 

ATDT bbs.inspiration-soft.com

 

or

 

ATDT bfbbs.dtdns.net

 

or

 

ATDT thunderdome.homeip.net 471

 

this should do the trick!

 

Greetz

M.

[Pengwin]

Thanks Marius...it works now...not sure what I was doing wrong

[+bf2k+]

ATDT bfbbs.dtdns.net

 

 

Actually I suggest:

ATDT bfbbs.no-ip.com

 

The first one may not always work since the IP address is subject to change randomly.

[+DarkLord]

You can run a small background daemon under Linux (or app under Windows) to take care of that.

 

I use DDclient on my Kubuntu box for my BBS...

 

It wakes up every 5 minutes, if there is an ip change, reports it to dyndns.org, if not, it goes back

to sleep... Brilliant.

[Pengwin]

Things are up and running now, so my apologies for to the sysops of the BBS's, I am like a kid in a sweetie shop :-)

 

(Had to change that, the whisky is affecting my typing)

Edited February 14, 2012 by Pengwin

[+Stephen]

Things are up and running now, so my apologies for to the sysops of the BBS's, I am like a kid in a sweetie shop :-)

 

(Had to change that, the whisky is affecting my typing)

Hope to see you on a few of the BBSes I frequent.

[+bf2k+]

You can run a small background daemon under Linux (or app under Windows) to take care of that.

 

I use DDclient on my Kubuntu box for my BBS...

 

It wakes up every 5 minutes, if there is an ip change, reports it to dyndns.org, if not, it goes back

to sleep... Brilliant.

 

I run two different ones at the same time... one as a Windows service and the other is an app. But they are only as good as the update module currently functioning at DTDNS which is spotty sometimes as you may have seen.

[+DarkLord]

Actually, I've seen fairly good results with my setup. At least we're up and available most of the time...

[Marius]

I have a static IP number. That is rather common here in The Netherlands.

 

Not in the USA I guess?

[Fox-1 / mnx]

I don't think yours is static, as it's about with all Dutch ISP's. The fact it hasn't changed for even years still doesn't mean it's static. If for some reason their network goes down chances are your IP will change.

 

Sometimes you can get a static IP at request, at an additional fee, but in that case the IP is mentioned at forehand on the contract deal you made with the ISP.

[+DarkLord]

I have a static IP number. That is rather common here in The Netherlands.

 

Not in the USA I guess?

 

I'm with Suddenlink here in the US. Only available provider in my area. No

DSL at all.

 

I can get a static IP if I request they change my account from personal to

business - with an accompanying price hike.

 

So I stick to using scripts (a daemon) on my Linux box to just update

whenever there is an IP change.

 

Users never know it - they still just logon to "darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org",

so it's all good.