Should I re-open my telnet BBS?

[darkage]

I think it would be great to have another amiga BBS up and running..  Yeah only problem is ppl just really login for nostalgia reasons as other posters  mentioned.

I've been logging in to BBS's whenever I can find them, and pretty everytime they dont really have content.. ie. No good files to download or old shareware sources from the 90's..

I wonder if someone had a BBS with good content.. perhaps realtime forum posting with A.org (sometime meaningful) I wonder if ppl will use it a bit more as theres a new reason created to actually use the system.

But anyways just to get one up and running just for a FUN exercise would be a great thing to do but expect not many ppl to call..    

Actually I want setup one up myself, only since I  want to learn how to setup a BBS on a Amiga I was only active for setting up BBS's on Pcceeesss back in the day and also I always wanted my own BBS back in the day but my parents of course wouldn't pay for another phone line... thats crazy talk for them when your phone bill is already 4x as much...  

Best of luck and let us know when its up and running if you choose too set one up!

[darkage]

I've never used a BBS before, what's the best software for access?

For PC I would say SyncTerm is great since its a DOS Client and looks apart like the old terminal clients back in the back..

http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

For Amiga, Im not sure you just need a Telnet client that properly supports ANSI and File X/fers if you like. .

Have a look on Aminet and test some out..

http://aminet.net/search?query=telnet

[darkage]

A good Amiga BBS would be great and as darkage has already suggested if we could get it to pull forum data from Amiga.org that would make it really useful. Most Miggy users probably can't view amiga.org on a real Miggy due to the system specs required for modern web pages but most probably can via telnet.

Exactly if a BBS was attached to A.org then it would create a reason to actually use a BBS instead of for nostalgia purposes *well I hope*  but A.org content is owned by A.org and they would have to give you their blessing to mirror forum data I suppose.

Haha!  well I guess we could setup a Aminet mirror within a BBS, at least thats harder to place redirects on

I user NCOMM or Term to view BBS's, using Telser.device to emulate a modem over ethernet. Full versions all available for free on Aminet.

Go NCOMM!!  I used Jr Comm alot until NComm came along..   NComm looks more cool I think from memory..   Then shortly after that I defected to PCcceeee using Telemate then Terminate..  

Looking back on things, I think only switched to PC for BBS Chat and downloading files since I didn't have a HDD on my Amiga so was more convenient...    But still used the Amiga for games..

[darkage]

This Telnet BBS list looks like its regularly kept upto date... Last update in 2012

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/