Kailef
BETA MANAGER
Vanguard of the leading edge
Posts: 424
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: Apple
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1985 (I think)
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Post by Kailef on Aug 4, 2016 6:42:13 GMT
This is definitely shameless self-promotion, but given the sort of people that are here for Sundog: Resurrected Legacy, I figured this might be of interest to some of you. I have gotten a copy of GBBS 1.3j (and old Apple //e based BBS software) up and running and connectable via Telnet! If you are interested in seeing a piece of BBS and computing history in general in it's original form, you can Telnet to the BBS at telnet://sanctumbbs.com:6502 You don't even need ANSI, because back then, Apple BBS systems didn't support more than the standard 128 letters in the original ASCII character set. The BBS itself doesn't even know it's on the Internet, as I've got a "modem emulator" running on the serial port that the BBS has access to. Basically it pretends to be a modem on the serial port side. It looks and behaves like a modem from a programmatic point of view. However, on the other side, it's a Telnet server that receives incoming Telnet connections and passes them through to the other side of the emulator, pretending to provide a "ring" and and "answer" and a "carrier" signal that the BBS can understand and respond to. It's pretty cool from a technical standpoint. Anyhow, for people who haven't done BBSing before it probably won't be too interesting, but for those of you that used to BBS back in the 80s, you will probably get a kick out of this if for no other reason that the nostalgia of it. We even got a little writeup over at BBS Index which is really cool, too.
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Nanos
Beta Tester
Posts: 4
Played SUNDOG on what OS?: TOS
What year did you first play SUNDOG?: 1986
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Post by Nanos on Aug 30, 2016 10:13:39 GMT
For those of us with Windows 10, who find that telnet isn't there anymore, may find one of this guide useful in how to install/run it ! www.rootusers.com/how-to-enable-the-telnet-client-in-windows-10/> I keep getting error 740 when I use your dism command. I got that too ! > Enabling the telnet client through the graphical user interface That worked though ! Windows also preferred the following santax: telnet sanctumbbs.com 6502
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