Setting up DMS multi node BBS

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#1

@mrhavens and I had a good conversation about setting up a BBS for DMS.

I would like to see us get the real experience for it.

I think it should include:

  • Use real DOS based BBS software that might have been used back when BBSes were popular
  • Web based terminal for people wanting to access it
  • Door Games
  • DosBOX on a VM should work
  • WWIV has a config for doing something similar ( http://docs.wwivbbs.org/en/wwiv51/ )
  • Write a Talk Door for posting on Talk from the BBS
  • Some good ANSI Color Artwork
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#2

WWIV apparently compiles under Linux ā€¦ so we might want to use that and DOSBox for Doors

#3

We have one already, BBS.dapla.net. it runs mystic bbs has fidonet access, gopher, Usenet and a whole host of other things.
Check it out and we can even do a few classes on this one.

#4

I would like the fun of setting one up and Mark has run WWIV before back when it was run in the 80s/90s.

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#5

Cool, that makes for a great project for setting up netmail and fidonet style echos.

Think we could turn it into a class?

#6

http://docs.wwivbbs.org/en/wwiv51/linux_installation/

#7

I didnā€™t mean to start a spamming of Talk about BBSes series ā€¦ one thread is quite enough IMO

#8

I didnā€™t mean to start a spamming of Talk about BBSes series ā€¦ one thread is quite enough IMO

This was a bit of documentation thatā€™s been in the wings for a while. I was planning on releasing it later on the weekend when it got polished but your post reminded me that itā€™s best to get it out right away before some other fire comes along.

#9

Gotcha ā€¦ wouldnā€™t the wiki be a better place for it, if it is just information and not a conversation?

#10

its there and no one reads the wiki.

https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Interactive_Computer_Museum#XM_Core_BBS

Besides, none of this means Mystic is the only board software out there. Just documenting one of the project @Team_VCC has been running since the inception of the committee.

Now, If people want to run a class on setting up other board code bases then Iā€™d love for us to get that on the calendar.

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#11

That differs from your posts. And I wouldnā€™t say noone reads the wiki. You could make a Mystic BBS section with other parts. Iā€™m sure people on the web would be happy to have it, if not people here.

#12

For the naysayers:

Hereā€™s the wiki category for BBS articles. Lets get it populated with some great items. Best articles will get added to the zine and show cased on youtube.

#13

This technically has nothing to do with anything, but am enjoying the BBS discussion.

They have a fond place in my heart. I met my husband on one 23 years ago, when BBSs roamed the earth :heart:

If asked how we met, itā€™s easier to gloss over things and just say ā€œthe Internetā€ since saying ā€œa BBSā€ usually causes a confused look. :stuck_out_tongue:

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#14

I think you captured why we want to set one up and use it . So many good memories. I helped run one back in the day and played games and talked with people in my area that I could go out and meet. We all have a sghtly different reason but really it is all about the good memories.

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#15

@Draco take a look at these for your BBS door idea

https://pypi.org/project/pydiscourse/

http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=python

Code example for displaying rss on mystic as a door:

wouldnā€™t be too hard to convert that over to use the pydiscourse module.