Commodore 64/128 meeting up.

[kd7ota]

Redrumloa and I came up with the idea that for ones who are interested in meeting up on either Qlink or Temporal Vortex are more then welcome to Friday night.  I myself will leave my C128 on qlink all day.  I have classes up until noon, but the rest of the day should be open.

Short explanation for people w/o a C64 and wish to join Temporal Vortex:

Download CGTerm
(For Linux/Windows/Mac OS X)

then once you extracted it in the desired folder, Follow:
Open up CGTerm
Press ESC, then press D to connect.
Type this in the address --> BBS.PETSCII.COM 6400 (Yes, there is a space between the address and the port #)

And after pressing enter, give it time to connect itself.
Right now, Temporal Vortex is down, but pray that its up and running by Friday.

If Temporal is not working by then, then you can also link by using Qlink. This process is actually a mess if you try to use a real C64, but here is the link for it:

Quantumlink Reloaded

From my side of experience, you will have to configure TCPSer4J correctly, so I went ahead and uploaded my folder of it on how it came to work.
Doffo's config of TCPSer4j

Once you got both ends talking with eachother, you will have to have Qlink configured as the website of quantum reloaded says, but once your commodore is loaded properly, type in

ATDT 5551212 once the green screen comes up with the type in the modem commands.  After it says CONNECT 1200, press F1 and give it a moment to connect, and WHALA! It should be connected.

For those who dont have a Commodore computer to do this with and wish to connect to Qlink, the Quantum Reloaded site explains how to connect using winvice.


Goodluck and hope some of you show up on friday.  :-D

I will also be more then happy to try to help some of you on this and please post up any questions.

Doffo

[neuroflip]

Wow good idea!

it could be great to connect via real c64, but i don't have an RS232 adaptor. I have tested CGTerm connecting to Riktronics (rkbbs.net on port 23). Works great!! I have remembered me playing medina MUD years ago... good feelings


 :-D  :-D  :-D

Where to obtain an RS232 adaptor? i have taken some time looking this  Handmade adaptor but i have no experience with electronics (not more than simple welds   :crazy:

i'll be there on friday!!!

[yetihw]

Wow!!!!!!I have no idea what your talking about but it sounds like something cool to do to your c64...


Well I hope it works

[the_woz]

I just got my 64 on Qlink for the first time last saturday, and joined #c64friends thru it.

I'll try to be there on friday!!   :-D

[kd7ota]

Great to hear some feedback.

I was also wondering how you connect through c64friends via qlink.  I know at one point I connected to it because the room was listed in the public, but now im unsure how to do it since its not listed.

Definately awsome there are some of you who are gonna be on.  :-)

[kd7ota]

Great fun!

Neroflip and I just got done playing Hangman and Sea Strike on the Qlink games menu, and I must say, im impressed it works!

Another great thing is the mail options work on there too, so you can leave mail to people who use qlink.

This definately should be fun for friday.  :-)

[neuroflip]

really funny!!! these classic machines never let surprise to me!!!

 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

i have tested QLink with the easy install package for Windows. it's really easy to use (from here). i really want to experience this with a real c64!!!

we'll see you on friday!  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:

[buzz]

If you want to connect from the C64, but would like to use your Amiga as a gateway rather than a PC, then you can use Serial Bridge (Which I wrote for this purpose)

http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=serialbridge

Just bridge the serial.device (connected to c64), with telser.device and you can dial from C64 comms software (I use novaterm)

[LoadWB]

Or you can talk your ISP into setting up a dial-up account which connects to the Q-Link server :-)  I can actually connect to Q-Link with my real 64 with a real modem.  Ummm, of course I haven't had time to play with this since I did it last year.  Once I move into the house I will be digging everything back out again.

[spihunter]

This sounds like alot of fun. I get on the next one when I have my Commodore stuff working right.

[giZmo350]

Wow, really cool! I occasionally check the old Q-Link member list http://www.sillious.net/QLink/contact.asp There I am on the list - Gizmo. Notice my name here on A.O....  gizmo350. I've been gizmo on a LOT of BBS's and forums. I was also KingSalami on the old Q-Link. lol  I had no idea Q-Link was back up in this form. I wonder who created this? I thought this was the real retro Q-Link though...  http://www.qlink.org/  Any old Q-Link members here? Hmmmm, do I have to fight to get my old name back? I would assume so since I doubt they have the old member DB. Is there any correlation between these two sites I've posted here? Well, I'll see you all Friday!  :-)

[LoadWB]

<- BungeeJmp, Forager, and I'm pretty sure I tied down LoadWB on QLR.  I lived on Q-Link for many years, up until the unceremonious shut down.  I still have a big F&*@! YOU for AOL over that.

[kd7ota]

@gizmo

Its not like the old Qlink. Its the same interface and software, but the creator just reverse engineered the server and slowly adding on to it. All you have to do is get the qlink disk from his site and register with that nickname.  :-)

[Damion]

I was a Q-Link user back in the late 80's... "Buck33" was my nick IIRC...

[weirdami]

I heard that when QLink was killed, all the files were deleted. What files are on QLR?