BBS Software

[illy5603]

Don27dog is being modest folks... His board is up and better than ever!

If you wanted fidonet and all that stuffy professional stuff you went with C-net.

Of course... If you were in the scene, there was only one type of BBS to run and that was Ami-Express!

Before Ami-express I ran sigma-express, Tempest and BBS-PC! but am currently back on the old faithful!

If you want to get back into the BBS scene from an Amiga, I recommend the DCtelnet software.

[illy5603]

l ran cnet version 4.26 was a great amiga bbs package only thing it didnt support well was cdrom support etc a bbs program inside cnet wasint well done as 3rd party add on
and my best freind ran a ibm bbs after seen mine l guess thought l can run one he can which is cool way things work . he always said the ibm ansi worked better on pcs also just the way it looked not how it ran . l brought 2 new amigas so chould better restart my bbs
but my isp provider has my ip adress is in use by some else which is werid but when type in my private ip adress l get some esle bbs in the way is there anyway can fix this as l cant get my bbs going till then and l cant change isp either ..

thanks in advance

Unless you are paying for a private IP address then you don't have a private IP address. You are in a POOL of dynamically assigned IP addresses. Do as the poster above stated and you will be fine. Don't worry about your IP address, just get your domain setup and let their utility track your IP address changes and route your domain name over through dyndns.org. Of course you will have set your home router / firewall up to NAT port 23 (telnet) to the system running your bbs.

[illy5603]

I ran several Amiga BBS programs from '86 - '95.  Started out with BBS-PC! and then moved to Paragon which later became Starnet and finally MEBBBSNet before the author quit supporting it.  Moved on to Excelsior then before shutting down in 1995 when I moved an the calls just quit coming in.

Miss those days and would like to set up a telnetable bbs.

Tim Grooms
Former SysOp of The CIA Amiga BBS

Hi Tim,

I just wanted to say that I still have my old BBS-PC! install running on my A1200 but it is not connected to Telnet like Ami-Express is. I log on locally sometimes just to re-read old threads.

If I remember correctly, BBS-PC! had trouble with modems faster than 2400 bps and could not handle RTS/CTS correctly.

Like another poster mentioned, your BBS sounds familiar...

[illy5603]

I may someday write a new one, but no telling when...

What the community really needs is someone to work on the rather shoddy telnet implementation in some BBS software. I don't know about C-Net but my Ami-Express hangs all the time due to the telnet / Miami DX combo...