Any Decent Amiga BBS's

[darkcoder]

Hello!

 For the purpose of testing the Amiga serial port and the old modems, I am searching for some dialup BBS. Are there any left?

[Duce]

Was a few dialup PC based BBS's still kicking around a few months ago when I last checked.  See:

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/dialbbs/dialbbs.htm

I've been running my Amiga BBS since '08 on a SAM 440.  Not many callers these days, to put it mildly, but it's fun nonetheless.  I've had an urge to throw a dial up line up just to see if I would get any callers, but I suspect I'd be sorely disappointed, heh.

[don27dog]

Nice to see another /x board back online

[Ordyne]

I've thought about adding a dial up node, its all set up with modem, I just don't know if its worth the cost of the line!

[Duce]

As cool as it would be to have an actual dialup node, I doubt it'd get much use at all.

I suspect most BBS's with dial-up nodes get a fair number of "tire kickers", but the regular callers of said BBS's might try the dial-up node once or twice for the sake of nostalgia, then go back to the far quicker and far more reliable telnet nodes.

Most people I know don't even have land lines anymore, or if they do, it's solely to facilitate a *DSL connection like myself.  I've got 2 pairs of physical copper phone pairs coming in, in a bonded DSL set, but absolutely no dial tone or actual phone number allotted to it (aka Dark DSL).

[Acill]

Man this brings back some huge nostalgic memory. I should get on a few of these.

[Greyspirit]

I haven't seen a single dialup or Telnet in my area in years.

I have CNet 3.05 slowly being brought back up after being reinstalled from scratch. Telnet was a mo.....err difficult to get working. Haven't opened doors yet but do have H&S and Hacker ( the Marijuana Man version - not the aminet version). Slowly moving over another 30 or so pfiles from old board's backup. Got side tracked trying to get InformLoader working but it isn't playing nice yet.

Anyone know an outbound telnet pfile? Want to link a GameSrv server in as another door ( Auto login where I can direct link the doors from that would be even better)

[Duce]

Give CNet 5 a try, it's excellent and far more stable.  Last version of CNet I think I paid for was rev 3.x and I did manage to get ahold of the current developer and he shot me a copy of 5.x no charge, which is greatly improved and came with a very easy to use setup guide for telnet.  I was very impressed with the software and the support itself, considering the BBS age petered out nearly 20 years ago.

Holler if you have any interest in the latest version and I'll dig up the fellers contact info out of my old email bin - I am very happy with 5.x, anyways, and I'm currently using it despite being a paid user of DLG, E! (both of which are now free, btw, but I'm a paid user going back to the 90's, nonetheless), and Zeus.  I've found CNet 5.x rock solid, even on my SAM440ep under 4.1u6.

A very neglected blog I have dedicated to Amiga BBS'ing at the below URL if anyone is at all interested - would be more than happy to hear out of any other remaining Amiga sysops.

http://amigabbs.blogspot.ca/

[Greyspirit]

I thought about CNet 5 but I keep seeing guys saying its been impossible to get license for it and all I can find is the demo license

[electric-magic]

Great book from amazon, and cheap.
Brings back memories.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Commodork-Sordid-Tales-BBS-Junkie-ebook/dp/B001U3YI1I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=143654

[Duce]

Commodork is a terrific book, highly recommended.

I also highly recommend the BBS Documentary film by Jason Scott of textfiles.com fame, it's a great blast from the past.  Can find it on YouTube at:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgE-9Sxs2IBVgJkY-1ZMj0tIFxsJ-vOkv

[Greyspirit]

Hey Duce - How'd you contact CNet dev?

[Duce]

Have not been in touch with him for some time, but the last time we talked he emailed me from:

dan at stormsedge.com

URL is:  http://www.cnetbbs.net/

Minus the spaces and replace "at" with @, of course.  I don't want the poor fellow to get spammed to death from mailbots, heh.

Last time I spoke to him, I simply told him I was a paid customer for 3.x and I was looking for the latest version, and he was kind enough to send me 5.10h with a how to on setup and how to get a new keyfile off him, since I have no way to access my old original CNet disks.

He was a terrific help to me, anyways.  Good luck!

Excelsior is free now as well, and is terrific and very CNet like if you ever wanted to give that a poke.  I ran it for some time and it was absolutely bulletproof.  DLG is also now free (including source!) and on Aminet.

Good luck on reaching him.

[kickstart]

haha! I know the word Decent is a bit hard to use with BBS's these days..

But I was just wonder if anyone knows of any good Amiga related BBS's to telnet'up

A decent BBS is full of warez... on present day this is impossible.

[Duce]

Plenty of warez systems around, lol.

There are simply too many whiners and armchair lawyers trying to enforce copyright on principle for companies that have released the rights for their stuff anyways to be dropping telnet addresses on Amiga forums.

[Greyspirit]

Well, I now have CNet 5.10b registered as of today. Did a scratch install instead of upgrade. Slowly getting things configured.

I'll post when I open the doors to public.

BTW - From Dan. CNet 5.11a update may be ready possibly in a few weeks and CNet 6.0 is in the works!