Did I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!
Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.
Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!
P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
#z80
+++ Another Sysop News +++ Another Sysop News +++
Aside from (hopefully) working around the recent connectivity issues with RC-BOX BBS, I've also purged the "General" message file and moved all existing messages to a new "Archive" message file. It's read-only but it cotnains all the posts to "General" from july 2022 - january 2025.
Also, the "Making", "Code & Co." and "Announce" message files have been dropped as they have never been used.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
+++ Sysop News +++ Sysop News +++
Over the past few months I have witnessed some strange behavior with RC-BOX BBS (the world's first - and currently only - RC2014 based BBS) where the Wifi modem would loose connection over night and not restore it properly. As a result the BBS was unreachable.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happens but may have found a workaround.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
Season's Greetings - Ho! Ho! Ho!
RC-BBS the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based Bulletin Board System wishes you happy holidays!
Connection information can be found in the #Alt #Text and on my profile page.
#rcbox
#rc2014bbs
#rc2014
#bbs
#cpm80
#rcbbs
#seasonsgreetings
... an update from the trenches:
the code snippet which has been loosely resembling #BBS core functionality (the one I once wrote in #DXForth) has seen a few updates recently.
so now "DX BBS" is able to read and output ASCII text files (it could only read #Forth screen blocks before).
I've also fixed several issues where a connection drop would sometimes allow the next caller to "capture" the previous session.
Next on the list will be the whole "post-a-message" process: writing an index file entry for each new message and storing the corresponding message text etc.
long distant future design goals (so far):
(+) implement DX Forth SIO/2 driver
(+) implement a stable (disconnect proof) BBS program loop
(+) stay true to pure ASCII output only, no fancy escape squences or colors - just like RBBS / RCBBS do
(+) implement text (ASCII) file output
(-) store BBS configuration in plain ASCII text file
(-) implement mesage posting procedure
(-) implement message reading procedure
(-) implement message maintenance procdure (delete msg.)
(-) implement user database
(-) implement user database maintenace procedure (delete / modify user)
(-) implement simple user ACL / flag system
(-) implement (x)modem transfers
I don't have a real roadmap, my motivation may vary and the above is just what I think are the minimum requirements for a classic CP/M based bulletin board system. To give you an impression: it should resemble what #rc2014 #rcbbs does at the moment.
#rc2014
#cpm
#retrocoding
#forth
#bulletinboardsystem
#funwithforth
Yay! π₯³
Fixed an annoying bug in my #rcbbs #code which led to heavily fragmented text output when listing message headers.
this was a PITA for so long and the eventual fix for this was just one line of code .. *doh*
fix is already out on the "production" system #rc2014bbs so no more cluttered / fragmented message headers ... π
Connected to RC2014 #TelnetBBS with my Brother EP-44 thermal #typwriter
(screenshot from Syncterm for connection info. Other images are the thermal "fax paper" as things printed on my typewriter in #terminal mode with warts and all)
Connected to RC2014 #TelnetBBS with my Brother EP-44 thermal #typwriter
(screenshot from Syncterm for connection info. Other images are the thermal "fax paper" as things printed on my typewriter in #terminal mode with warts and all)
refining the full message scan by adding a "quiet scan" option and a nifty summary.
+++ SYSOP NOTICE +++ SYSOP NOTICE +++
RC-BOX BBS has been updated and now includes an optional full message scan during login.
That way, you can easily scan all subject files (boards) for new messages to you.
The original RBBS 4.1 implementation did not have that feature, requiring you to manually select each message file. I found that annoying so I changed it.
As always, you can find the connection information for RC-BOX BBS in my profile.
Wintermute_BBS
HowToPhil
HowToPhil (Phillip R)