Thinking about re-launching my old BBS

[Duce]

Excelsior! BBS is entirely free and very CNet like, tbh.  Runs fine on a XP/UAE box I have.  Can be DL'ed at:

http://www.excelsiorbbs.com/downloads.html

One of the devs/caretakers of E! is also here on A.org too - LamboJay, and is a tremendous help, super nice fellow to boot.

I've run Zeus and DLG mainly lately, but Zeus handles my PPC SAM 440  better than DLG so I've mainly stuck with Zeus.  It's not free (Zeus), but only like $30 or something  to buy and it's a great piece of software that is still maintained to some degree.

DLG is now open source, including the source code.  DLG BB/OS isn't as pretty and intuitive as the more GUI BBS like Zeus and E! are from the sysops end, but it's absolutely rock solid and blazing fast esp. if you plan on having usenet or FTN's.  DLG can be found on Aminet, including the source - and works well in an emulated environment.  It's entirely modular and likely the fastest, most stable BBS software I ever ran back in the day in combo with GMS Mailer and MailManager.

I would recommend taking a peek at Zeus first, tbh - it really is a nice BBS program and can be setup in all sorts of ways, the GUI on it is just great and virtually everything is just Arexx based.  Likely the best Amiga BBS prog out there if you enjoy a real customized setup for your users.  I was a beta tester for Zeus back in the day and it's still every bit as good as it was back in the 90's.

http://www.zeusdev.co.uk/

As for CNet, much like everyone else I've been trying to get ahold of it for what seems like years now, as I was a 3.x regged user of it, but had zero luck.

Good luck!

[Duce]

Hack and Slash will run on all the Amiga BBS software.  I've run it on E!, DLG, CNet and Zeus just fine, it's just a standard STDIO/DOS door, so if the BBS software can just pass the args thru it, it works fine.

IIRC, there's even a standalone version of H&S for the Amiga, requiring no BBS.  The ASCII and ANSI art could all be reused in any BBS program as your welcome.txt, or what have you.

[Duce]

Need a hand with anything, just holler - I'm still quite familiar with all the old Amiga BBS SW.  Some of the old stuff like "mailers" are pretty much redundant now in the internet age, and there's a pretty decent Amiga version of binkd, which allows you to get into FTN (Fido Type Networks) a lot easier and more modern, though I still use the PC version of bink and just use SAMBA to read them off the PC from my Amiga.

If you enjoyed CNet, you'll likely enjoy Excelsior a lot - I found it to be quite similar, real nice to use from the sysop and very similar to CNet on the users end.