Mastodawn

Daniele Verducci 🧉Dec 26, 2024

Now it's time for some BBSing... Right now is behaving correctly: no more spurious resets, and I'm using the #C64 to power it, very conveniently.
I'm using it along with the #KungFuFlash to load #CCGMS , so I'm probably driving the #commodore 's 5v line pretty hard... Until now, I only had a couple of missed boots from the KungFuFlash, probably due to an unstable voltage on turn on. Once it boots, btw, it seems pretty stable. The original power brick may not be having the best time of its life...

#BBS #zimodem #commodore64 #esp8266

Daniele Verducci 🧉Dec 24, 2024

I just tried the #zimodem #wifi modem for the #commodore I built. It works, but it was a bumpy ride... at first the #esp8266 was resetting continuously. I thought that the #commodore64 wasn't providing enough current, so I cut the 5v cable and connected to usb power, to no avail: it keeped resetting every now and then. Then i checked with the multimeter and there was a low resistance between the reset pin and ground. Cut that as well, but I got only garbled characters. At the end I noticed a comment in the page I used to download #ccgms 2021 saying it wasn't working on certain modems. They suggested trying the 2017 version and... it worked flawlessly!

Wintermute_BBS Jun 4, 2024

I am currently doing some testing with #rc2014bbs and there is something strange here:

#rcbox #BBS runs on a Z80 CP/M system ( #rc2014 ) and I am using the CP/M file transfer tool KMD.COM to #transfer #files to and from the system via #xmodem (CRC and 1K - both possible).

This seems to work as long as the client machine up- or downloading files is an #8bit machine: a RC2014 with #Qterm works, a #Commodore64 with #CCGMS works - but as soon as I try to use #Syncterm or #Qodem or any other modern #Linux #terminal #program the transfers fail with either "error in header" or, more often, with "CRC error".

How is this possible?! 🤔