Demand for a BBS?

[James]

I was wondering...as I am presently setting up a little BBS.

Is there any demand for an oldschool BBS at all? I know we've moved forward to this internet thing here...but still. Personally I never quite got the feeling of community I had back in the days of the BBS.

In any case.. here are my questions:
1- Would you use a telnet BBS?
2- What would make you use such a system?
3- Would you contribute to keep the site up?
4- What do you expect in terms of file transfers?
5- Doors?

[pan1k]

I miss the old days. I'd like to connect to a BBS and chat and play door games. I'm not sure what kind of files that you can offer since everyone has the internet now...but i'd like to see more BBS;s

[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 :-)

[omnicron10]

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

[dandelion]

AND...I contacted the author of Telser a couple of years ago and convinced him to release the keyfile So that's on Aminet too. This means not only can you have a telnet friendly Amiga bbs, but it can have multiple nodes! Mmmmm - chat!

By the way, I think files and file transfers are an important part of the BBS community. Having an array of dodgy old files and pictures makes a change from the usual too-much-choice internet and in many ways is more interesting because they tend to reflect the personality of the board. I'd recommend against any upload/download ratios and if possible support anonymous uploading! Oh Yeah. BBSes were SUCH fun.

[Rabbi]

James wrote:
I was wondering...as I am presently setting up a little BBS.

Is there any demand for an oldschool BBS at all? I know we've moved forward to this internet thing here...but still. Personally I never quite got the feeling of community I had back in the days of the BBS.

In any case.. here are my questions:
1- Would you use a telnet BBS?
2- What would make you use such a system?
3- Would you contribute to keep the site up?
4- What do you expect in terms of file transfers?
5- Doors?

1- Yes
2- an Amiga Telnet client that supports RIP graphics & the use of RIP graphics on the BBS.
3- Depends what's offered
4- Certainly no pirated or cracked s/w, as I'm a programmer myself, albeit a mainframe programmer.
5- interactive games, like chess, etc.

Is there an Amiga telnet client that supports RIP graphics?  I know that my dial-up bbs client s/w, Termite, supports it.  I like it & point & click is faster than reading, especially for those of us, like me, who can't read a lick. :lol:

[James]

I've never heard of an Amiga RIP terminal...there's a project for ya!

[edited out]

Here's my plan so far:
[Interface]
First get an ANSI version up and running. Then start to work on an Amiga-Compatible version (ascii, with the backslash style of the amiga scene). A RIP version would be a distant third.

[Doors]
Trade Wars 2002, Legend Of The Red Dragon, Barren Realms Elite. These are the doors I used to play way back when. I don't know of any other fun doors... so place suggestions!

[Files]
[edited out]

The board is presently online and fully functional, albeit with the stock menus in. They look terrible! I only need to fiddle around with that a little and then I can put it up!

[HopperJF]

Since Apple now have 5% market share with OS X how about making it Mac compatible as well? Pretty please?  :-)

And don't forget the Linux users as well, many of which seem to speak very fondly of the Amiga!

[Dr_Righteous]

RIP?! RIP was replaced by HTML. If you're gonna do a BBS, good ol' ANSI graphics is what you want. Let Remote Imaging Protocol Rest In Peace.

[Piru]

@James

Excuse me, but doesn't the posting guidelines prohibit posting about illegal activities? (such as setting up a BBS with pirated games and applications)

And if such BBS is set up, and any link to it is posted, it'd also break "Do not post links or requests for warez" rule.

[kd7ota]

I never did too much BBS with the Amiga, but id at least check it out. I mainly do BBS on the c64.  Good luck with it.

[James]

There....edited.

[mikrucio]

BBS's for the WIN!!

[odin]

Ah, the magical days of 14k4 long distance calling and huge phonebills.

[Rabbi]

odin wrote:
Ah, the magical days of 14k4 long distance calling and huge phonebills.

Heck, I started out dialing at 300 bps on a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (U.S. equivalent of the Sinclair ZX81) & saving on cassette tapes.  I progressed to the Timex/Sinclair 2068 (U.S. equivalent of the Sinclair Spectrum) with the 3" CF2 Portuguese disk system (FDD3000) which I used more often than not in the CP/M 2.2 mode.  It had a 3rd mode with a cartridge that would emulate the Spectrum almost perfectly to run Spectrum games & programs.  With the 2 serial ports on back of the FDD3000 disk system, I was running it at 19.2k first into a 1200 baud modem, then into a 2400 baud modem, then onto a 14.4k baud modem using the late Irv Hoff's IMP (Improved Modem Program) with the Zebra h/w overlay (Irv misspelled it Zerbra).  Zebra marketed the Portuguese disk system here in the states.  I had also attached an Amdek Amdisk III to the FDD3000 to get 4 disk drives online at once.  

I even ran a piece of software called "CasBoard" that was a bbs server for it using the T/S 2050 modem @ 300 baud!  What a hoot!  It was the first Jewish-oriented BBS in NYC at the time.