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There are 25 lines available. If theres EVER a user login problem via log in nodes, I will be surprised.
New Door Games: LORD, LORD2, PLANETS: TEOS, and TradeWars.
Trade wars is connected separately via port 2002. It is unregistered so there is only 1 player slot. If there was ever going to be donations, it would be a registered TradeWars Account (no preassure).
LV1 BBS Post
So I have been looking into BBS’ and making one for the community to play with. Whether it would be named Level1BBS or L1BBS is still in planning, but, I am mostly plotting out how I am going to use this. I have quite a few things that I would like this thing to do for me.
For one, I want a place I can stow away notes and such things while I am out and about. I know this seems a little ridiculous but to know how I work on research papers and such os a little ridiculous as well. In fact I’m just writing thi on a windows 2000 machine in abiword. But, as a place I can pop open a terminal and throw a note onto and pull down later, a BBS might work really well for that.
Another thing I want it to do is give a place for us to talk about old shit and have some community collabs on some really old shit, the BBS itself being a spearhead for that all to start in. There isn’t a real place to talk about vintage computers and old systems on this forum, nor (honestly) is this the place to talk about such things. While it would be great, still not the place. So if labeled LV1 or not, it is still an extension of the forum, I think, until it gets used as something else.
Lastly its a large experiment to see how much of this sort of stuff I can hook into each other. Maybe network some BBS together if I can, maybe integrate some of my own code into the system, but that is all to come. It will be in flux if you intend to be a user :3
So, I have also been looking at what system to use. I thought of just coding my own, but I thought about what I wanted to be accessible and at the ready as a server application and I found Synchronet to be a great match. Its free, easy to set up, running on telnet, and looks like it can have some things added in as you go. I’m not sure if the source is available, but I will still be looking into open source BBS if SNet doesn’t have the code available.
Lastly, I need to have hardware to run it on, obviously. You don’t need much to make all of this run as it is only a BBS. I’ve decided I do want to use Windows 2000 if I can as it is super light and uses minimal amounts of memory, which is my main concern. XP is an option as well as linux but XP has some ram issues of its own and linux won’t run too well on the hardware that I have available. All that I have read has said to just have 1 GB of ram, something for a hard drive, and something for a processor. It doesn’t have to be a billion cores and 6 TB ram as its just a BBS and is all text based. I doubt it’ll get big, so a pentium 4, spare 200 GB (IDE) HDD, and whatever I have for 2 GB ram should all do fine I think.
I’m not big into BBS and such, so I don’t know what can be shoehorned into them now. I would think that something like FTP could be fed into it as SNet has some file hosting utilities so I wonder if there could be some space for us all to trade code projects and such on it. If theres a door game you fondly remember please let me know about it and I will try to find it. I’m interested in games like netHack, text adventures, and some RPG things. I’ll probably pull from other BBS’ if I can.
Pics and stuff coming up.