making an telnet Atari BBS ides...

[Atari-Collector]

I'm playing with the idea of making my first Atari BBS. I've ran PC based boards in the past and thought I might be fun to try, I think I snagged the file atr file for Express 850 bbs or something like that a while back but never did anything with them.. Here's the crazy idea I have, my 800XL, 850 and SIO2SD to be 4 drives for the BBS and a Lantronix mss100 for telenet connections since I have no land line and is seems Magicjack no longer works good enough to support data calls now..

 

So crazy, dump, workable??

 

EDITED TYPE: SIO2SD no CD... my bad..

Edited September 30, 2017 by Atari-Collector

[Kyle22]

Perfectly do-able. I do not know anything about SIO2CD. Is this a CD drive interface, or is it a typo where you meant to say SIO2SD?

 

It should run slowly on your hardware. To do it right, you need a U1M and SIDE2. I have my Pro BBS running on an Incognito 800. I am using a (DIRT CHEAP!) Seagate ST1 CF MicroDrive (4GB).

 

Sadly, the BBS will run, but has constant errors and corruption under SDX. Sparta 3.x is required for proper operation. That also means that you need an R-Time8 cart for Sparta 3. Sparta 3 hasn't been updated (yet) for the new clock hardware in the U1M and Incognito.

 

You need an Atari CX88 Terminal cable and a DB25 Gender-changer (a physical piece of hardware, NOT some of this "Politicallacly Correct" BS).

 

Best and B&C should have them in stock.

 

If we can convince the "powers that be" to stop fighting and get along and release the whole thing, then we could make it really great! (Steve, Lance)

 

BBS Express Pro is really the best I have ran. I have tried several, and some of them had slow, fiddly BASIC code, and others were just crashy. Pro has been VERY stable for me and works well. I highly recommend it.

 

I just gotta re-learn Action to make a better Call SysOp module that uses GTIA instead of PoKey cause I have the monitor off most of the day. The 800's internal speaker will beep if the monitor is off.

 

I am using an 850 @ 9600 Baud with a LANTronix UDS-10 as a MoDem.

 

The Resistance Cove BBS: Telnet://23.25.83.98

 

Standard port 23, Static IP.

 

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Please note: still under construction. Some of the ANSI and ATASCII screens are not perfect yet.

 

Let me know (PM me, NOT HERE) if you find any glaring, bad, in your face sort of errors.

 

Thanks.

 

Edit: TYPOs.

 

Also, remember: UDS-10 uses a CX87 cable, and the MSS uses a CX88 and a gender changer. The difference is that the MSS requires a Null MoDem cable.

Edited September 30, 2017 by Kyle22

[Atari-Collector]

Yes, I meant SIO2SD... duh I don't know the U1M and SIDE2, but from what you said it connectors to a hard drive? I'll take a look at the LANTronix UDS-10 also, the MMS100 is just a model I read about on another site.

[Kyle22]

Ultimate 1 Meg and SIDE2. Search them here. U1M is a Multi-OS, Highspeed SIO Configurable Dream of a peice of hardware, but only if you have Jon's BIOS on it.

 

http://atari8.co.uk/firmware/ultimate-1mb/

 

Lotharek sells it all: http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=67

http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=68

[Kyle22]

Atari dealer B&C ComputerVisions has the CX88 cable for sale here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CX-88-Atari-850-Terminal-Null-Modem-Cable-New-800-XL-XE-/140954304558

[Marius]

Years ago I wrote a little tool that downloads time from U1MB into Sparta 3.3 systemclock. That is not the same as a real-time clock since it only sets time and date once but it worked pretty well.

 

I did run a BBS on my Atari 8bit for years and I used a black box and later a MyIDE for storage.

 

Later I wrote a small CMD for BBS Pro! That downloads time from U1MB which did run every hour so the time and date stayed right in sync. I remember there was a bug in Pro! That made the time and date go wrong on random ocassions when you did run it without RT8 ... this tool fixed that.

 

I would have to do a very deep search to find this stuff again....

[Kyle22]

Years ago I wrote a little tool that downloads time from U1MB into Sparta 3.3 systemclock. That is not the same as a real-time clock since it only sets time and date once but it worked pretty well.

 

I did run a BBS on my Atari 8bit for years and I used a black box and later a MyIDE for storage.

 

Later I wrote a small CMD for BBS Pro! That downloads time from U1MB which did run every hour so the time and date stayed right in sync. I remember there was a bug in Pro! That made the time and date go wrong on random ocassions when you did run it without RT8 ... this tool fixed that.

 

I would have to do a very deep search to find this stuff again....

 

Any BBS stuff you can find would be helpful.