Demand for a BBS?

[McVenco]

I'm thinking of re-making my old BBS as well (TrionBBS - available on Aminet, I even got the keyfile again from the author).

I'm not planning to set up a dial-up connection though, so maybe I'll have to make some piece of software to fake a dial-up via some sort of ip-connection.

As far as your questions go:
1 Yes, but not too regular
2 Retro-feeling, and for fun
3 Probably not (sorry)
4 Not much, but I'm no speed freak at all actually
5 As many as possible :-)

[McVenco]

omnicron10 wrote:
You can use telser device to make a serial based bbs work over Telnet. I have done it and it works.  I had it working with cnet amiga.

It is the telser.device  You should be able to find it on Aminet.

Tim

Great! That sounds just like what I need.

Maybe I should speed up things to get my A4000 up and running, and start trying to find out how TrionBBS worked again. Maybe The Missing Channel BBS will be online again this year then (after a 12 year break :lol: )

Anyone know a good ANSI editor? I really can't remember which one I used back in the days.

[McVenco]

James wrote:

@McVenco look for The Draw on google, it's freeware and it rocks.

That's an ms-dos program. Why would I want to use that?

Anyway, I did a short search on Aminet and immediately recognised the name of the program I used 10 years ago: HyperANSI. I remember it being a true WYSIWYG editor, which was very good. I'll download it again and give it a try again, although I doubt my ANSI-art skillz are still existing :lol:

[McVenco]

dammy wrote:

I really do not see the need for a new BBS software anymore.

That wasn't the point really. I agree that it's nonsense to make new BBS software, but it IS fun to set up a BBS, just for old time's sake, even if only 2 people will come and visit it.

I used to have lots of fun dialing in to my own BBS via nullmodem.device, that was even more fun than having people actually dialing in from somewhere else :-D