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Offline Ilwrath

Re: Setting up a Amiga BBS
« on: August 30, 2004, 05:23:48 PM »
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I always liked C-net on the C-64 and I know some programs were converted over. Was C-Net BBS one of them? And has it been revisied for telnet?


I went through thinking about setting up a BBS again a while back, so my news is current as of about 10 months ago.  

CNet Amiga hasn't seen a new revision in a long time (since the late 90's).  The newest is CNet Amiga 5 Pro.  Though from a user standpoint, it doesn't look much different from the old CNet 2.6 I used to run in the early 90's.  I hear it has some nicer SysOp features, though.  The CNet Amiga 5 can run off telnetd.device to be telnet-aware.  Possibly older versions can run off this device, as well.  I haven't actually tried my 2.6 on it, since the only working copy I have installed anywhere is on an unexpanded A1200 that doesn't have TCP/IP installed.

Now, the bad news is that CNet Amiga seems to be caught up in a dispute, or something.  It's still commercially copyright protected, so you can't just download a full version.  You may be able to purchase a full version and keyfile from the author(s), if you can find them.  HMetal on here may be able to give more information, as he was an owner of the rights to CNet at one time.

Some other Amiga BBS, including DLG, have been released free with source, so you might want to look into some of those, as in this day in age, you are going to be your own support.  ;-)
 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: Setting up a Amiga BBS
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2004, 08:25:40 PM »
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I'm almost 900% positive that Argo meant telnet bbs's. I think that would be cool.


Yes, I was assuming that the original poster and Argo were both referring to BBS that you can TELNET into, rather than actually using a modem to call directly.  (Who wants that kind of phone bill, nowadays?  And heck, if you have a dedicated connection of some kind, who still has a modem set up?  I haven't had a modem out of the storage closet in 4 years, but I still occasionally connect to a BBS.)

AmigaZ-BBS is a nice example of a modern CNet Telnet system.

telnet://bbs.amigaz.org/