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  • Re: 'Door Game' Networks - but..

    From paulie420@21:2/150 to deon on Tue Mar 10 18:52:58 2026

    Interesting - are you gonna lean it up as time permits???

    "lean it up"? Whatcha talkin' bout Willis?

    I meant - are you going to put this idea, a BBS Software 'Door' system up @ your BBS or some domain.com:port??

    ... I had momentarily taken Bucko's suggestion of just using other active BBSes that are currently running - but I stopped because I was trying to add ALL BBS softwares, but the C=, Atari, etc etc NON-ANSi/ASCII ones won't look correct when users are logged into my bbs.

    Your 'platform' sounds really awesome, and while I'm not suggesting that you do something you weren't trying to do before, but you mentioned that you started... I still want to offer all the MS-DOS and ANSi/ASCII compatible BBS softwares at some point - and am willing to build/host, I was just asking if you were gonna continue with this project.



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  • From deon@21:2/116 to paulie420 on Wed Mar 11 14:23:16 2026
    Re: Re: 'Door Game' Networks - but..
    By: paulie420 to deon on Tue Mar 10 2026 06:52 pm

    Howdy,

    I meant - are you going to put this idea, a BBS Software 'Door' system up @ your BBS or some domain.com:port??

    ... I had momentarily taken Bucko's suggestion of just using other active BBSes that are currently running - but I stopped because I was trying to add ALL BBS softwares, but the C=, Atari, etc etc NON-ANSi/ASCII ones won't look correct when users are logged into my bbs.

    So yes...

    I'm in mixed mind as to whether to have them all directly accessible - so you can connect to the right "port" to get to the experience that you want to get to, and/or having them accessible via a single frontend - that behaves like a door server...

    For systems that are not DOS/ASCII/ANSI directly accessible might be the desired approach, given the frontend may not know how to present those systems that are not DOS/ASCII/ANSI...

    So maybe both?

    But as you suggest, I wouldnt mind "trying" to host non DOS/ASCII/ANSI systems as well, so maybe a proxy frontend (which should be easy) that speaks the clients rendering characters, with a like set of targets (amiga client to amiga BBSes, etc)

    But as to directly access via the public internet - maybe not, via intus (which is yggdrasil) just to reduce the bots that might tie up nodes, since many of these BBSes might be single node only.

    Connecting to intus is not difficult, and happy to help make it easier if I can...

    (Just moving stuff around, so that clrghouz can join the intus network, since the plan is to feed those systems mail from it, if it's not too much effort.)


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  • From Retroswim@21:2/121 to Paulie420 on Sat Apr 11 22:25:54 2026
    Here's my idea; on 2oFB, I'd like to offer a Menu where users can boot
    up MANY different BBS softwares... they'd all be bone stock - just to
    show all the various BBS softwares that were popular; Telegard,
    Renegade, Obv/2, iMPULSE, VBBS, Wildcat, etc etc etc.

    don't forget Maximus ;)

    And Ezycom
    And RemoteAccess

    The list will end up being pretty crazy lol!

    Cheers,
    RetroSwim

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