Настоящий андеграунд: современные BBS

За окном ночь и огни большого города, в кружке горячий кофе, а на экране монитора медленно грузится стильная ASCII-заставка. Наконец появляется приглашение: Welcome to Vortex BBS. Press a key. Нет, это не очередная история времен бурной молодости автора и на дворе все также 2026 год, а не начало 90-х. Но даже в 21 веке с ИИ, роботами и Илоном Маском в сети еще остались удивительные места, где время остановилось.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/1039720/

#bbs #демосцена #ascii #asciiart #mud #freebsd #syncterm #underground #хардкор #timeweb_пятничное

News from the #Floppy #Museum!

A friend of mine, fusion[1] from #OS2Warez, has written a tiny wrapper for #BBS #door programs so I can run them without needing a full-blown BBS. Combined with rlfossil, a telnet-to-serial-port emulator for DOS (yes, really!), you can now read and write messages in my little forum!

Just telnet to floppy.museum on port 8023 - I recommend using #SyncTERM or some other client that implements the IBM 437 codepage, or 850 in a pinch. The experience should be fairly period-correct, something akin to a 1200 baud modem based on my testing.

And just a reminder: This is a 286 machine, which also runs a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server and all of the above at the same time. It's not fast, but it gets the job done.

Also: Only one node at the moment. If it's busy, try again later! Consider it an early beta, for the moment! :D

[1] https://dcclost.com/

#RetroComputing #Why #Patience

Syncterm v1.6 running on OpenIndiana through pkgsrc

#bbs #syncterm #illumos #pkgsrc

Deuce recently added support for the Atari ST flavor of VT52 to his SyncTerm program.

I first requested this feature 14 years ago. I was so excited it finally happened, that I made a new VT52 animation to celebrate.

Plus I dug up six more that I have never seen published anywhere else.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/02/15/some-love-for-vt52-on-the-atari-st/

#atarist #atari #textmode #textanimation #animation #asciiart #vt52 #syncterm #textart

I have updated my BBSing resource page, for anyone with a hankerin' to "dial in" once again.

https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/

#BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #terminal #telnet #client #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #nostalgia #dialup #modem #AT #retrocomputers #vintagetech #blog #screenshot #video #SyncTerm #MuffinTerm #ByteCellar

I finally got #syncterm working, and I've been poking around bbs's listed in an old copy of 2600 I had lying around. there aren't that many users, but it's like a fun little scavenger hunt, where the goal is to find more sites to connect to.

But also, how do I download things? do I need a second client?

#bbs #xmodem #retrocomputing

Video showing connecting to #mysticBBS (configured for #ASCII not #ANSI) #telnetBBS over #meshtastic (using the --tunnel option in the #CLI tool).

#SyncTerm is the BBS/Telnet client

#shortfast #medfast and #longfast
#telnet