Thanks, appreciate those...

Apologies for the very late reminder... Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for tonight, Friday, April 19th 2024 at 8pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the meeting starts). As you well know, the agenda is always subject to change and the whims of whoever actually attends, but what is planned is... Followup discussions on AtariAge BBS Guru Club threads. I may have just found a decent VT52 editor sitting around on my own hard drive! More fun with SEXPOTS? Hell's BBS Demo (for the ST) And whatever else we find ourselves discussing! I apologize for the late notice but still I hope to see you there!

Thanks Darklord for being my only and regular visitor on my BBS LOL. Here is a blog post on the HeinzNixdorfMuseum site about the event. https://www-hnf-de.translate.goog/das-hnf/presse/pressemitteilungen/ansicht/artikel/2700-besucher-beim-retro-computer-festival.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp You can find some live video from the 2 days of the RetroComputerFestival here Saturday Sunday with a short appearance of yours truly at 00:30 , looking for a demo to load on AVG cart to compete with the filmer's C64 SID tunes (shown first in the lasercut case) On Sunday I was gone for 2 hours visiting the museum upstairs hence you will not see me anymore apparantly in the later part of the video. The 800XL in the thumbnail actually didn't work on Saturday. His modded Commodore monitor would show a garbled screen. He tried it at the ABBUC stand with another monitor and it worked. I gave him another video adapter , still didn't work, until I got an AHA moment and swapped his Atari brick PSU with my modern PSU , it then finally worked.

And...that one worked fine - thanks!

Yes indeed I just downloaded it myself and weird, the original on my PC does extract correctly so here is a new upload of it. HNF.zip

Okay, some great pictures there! Loved the acoustic modem. I'm also a big fan of those old style IBM keyboards that weigh about 10-15 pounds and are near indestructible. I love that responsive feel and aggressive click. Unfortunately, I could not get HNF.ZIP to uncompress. Windows 10 here kept saying it was an invalid file...

Okay, just finished reading it - good stuff. I have only -1- complaint. For some reason, I couldn't find a listing for "The DarkForce! BBS" among the other BBS's. This is obviously an oversight...

Since all my photos are almost 600Mb in total, please find attached all the pictures I took at the RetroComputerFestical last weekend in the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn. The report I will write on my BBS with another video there to download. The attachments consist of EXHIBITIONS.ZIP The more interesting things that were exhibitioned by the people attending the RCF HNF.ZIP Are the pictures I took from the 2 floors of the Museum on my very 2 hour short tour there. The Museum itself is really worth a longer visit. RCF.ZIP These are some pictures of the venue itself and the ABBUC members who attended it and where there at the ABBUC stand. Exhibitions.zip HNF.zip RCF.zip

The Atari BBS list at http://www.sfhqbbs.org/ataribbslist.php now has fTelnet links for all BBSs, using Atascii (or ANSI) for 8 bit BBSs and ANSI for ST BBSs! Just hit the blue fTelnet button under Links with their listing. Let me know if you encounter any issues (except for a busy message, I can't help it if Atari BBSs are popular!

Well, anything to bring in people is a good thing, IMHO.

Awesome, thanks! Looking forward to reading it.

Still in Paderborn, Germany , leaving in 2 hours on my trip back to Belgium. My initial idea was to upload all pictures to my BBS but I think I will just create a report there in the Message Thread and create a forum post here with all the pictures. Too much pictures which need context. I had the Rob O'Hara book laying on my table at the RetroComputer Festival in Paderborn . (I read it on the trains towards Paderborn) https://www.robohara.com/Commodork/chapter.htm It's basically his whole experiences with BBSes and Wares from a C64 point of view but still very relatable to anybody heavily involved with BBSing in his younger years. Some people approached me about the book and shared their youth experiences with BBSing so I showed them Syncterm and Fujinet (I had an 800XE with me) and my BBS and I might have sparked a few people to check out Telnet BBSes again. Initially missed the deadline for the reservation for GEMTOS 2024 in France, I did get a reservation thanks to the organizer so first weekend of May I hope to spread the word around Telnet BBSes in France.

Since I do not know if everybody is an ABBUC member of the Sysop community, I extracted the BBS Articles of ABBUC Magazine 156 into a PDF so you can have a look ( the entire magazine is member only basically). Keep in mind this was created in January and released in March on the first part is a lookback at BBS experiences from a German perspective, second part delves into Fujinet and telnet BBSing to 8 bit BBSes. ABBUC_Magazine_156_BBS_Articles_English.pdf

Awesome, thanks for the report - looking forward to additional information.

Hahaha, no problem. I'm usually the bug. Now go, forget this stuff (only for a while) and have a great time in Germany. Don't forget - we want pictures!

So a bit late to the party as usual , the whole idea I had presented on the last Zoom chat , has already been done. ABBUC Magazine 156 has 2 articles , one more catered around BBS history in Germany and it's current state, one about using a Fujinet as a modem and here there is a focus on some of the 8bit Atari BBSes. But since I will be in Paderborn with some of the ABBUC staff and members, I will see if I can't do a follow-up geared towards running a BBS on the 16bit machines and using Fujinet on an 8bit machine to also connect to a 16bit BBS.

Todays updates Registered users now get 2 hours a day instead of the default 1 hour. Added Atari ST BBSes to the logoff sequence ( will add a seperate entry to the main menu later to add ALL Atari BBSes but haven't worked out how I want to implement this) Added all releases from the PsychoHack 2024 demo-event Added some more message topics as a base and a getting-a-feeling of what is the best way to approach this Changed the Newsbulletin to reflect current uploads Updated the static events list @DarkLord you have found another bug in my Graffiti Wall 🤣 thank you for your perseverance , I love it . I will need to cleanup this stuff , but for now I hang up my Sysop hat and focus on preparing for my trip to Germany this weekend. Otherwise I will keep tinkering and tinkering and by the time I leave this Friday I might have broken the BBS again .

An interesting chat once again and the sheer energy has given me a lot of inspiration. BUSY and MAINTENANCE messages are first thing I need to implement, got some good ideas now from the Chat on how to accomplish it Urgently cleanup the LASTCALLERS file and remove all my test calls Upload all releases from PsychoHack 2024 Currently all user registrating are validated immediately, not sure if I will keep it this way but I also need to find a way to track when NewUsers have logged on and many more ideas that are stirring up in my mind

Tried it myself , dates of the ZIP files are ok on my end ?

Looks like I still have some work to do. A file I uploaded today to the BBS has the correct date on the MegaSTe and Michtron as far as I can tell. However if the ZIP file is downloaded it has a date of 10-Jan-2043. (so Michtron is VERY Y2K able build for the future 😁 ) The contents of the ZIP file are correct , my BBS ad from 02-Mar-2024 and the actual files of the ZIP are dated on the 5th of April 2024 like they should be. Ymodem transfer speed of a 199 Kb file, 5min46 seconds at 586 cps. Xmodem (not 1K block sizes) around 1800 cps .

So I asked a fellow German ABBUC member to try the Downloads and also to get an first impression of the BBS by a non-Sysop user. I never know whether a user would actually like the way I have set it up. His Xmodem transfers (not 1K) were 1800 cps and his Ymodem transfer was around 560 cps (both with Syncterm) so that looks to be the same results that I am getting .

Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for Sunday, April 7th 2024 at 3pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the meeting starts). As you well know, the agenda is always subject to change and the whims of whoever actually attends, but what is planned is... - Followup discussions on AtariAge BBS Guru Club threads. - FANSI (ANSI editor for the ST) install and brief demo. - How to use a real dial-up modem to call an internet BBS... - ... using a new toy! The Viking DLE-200B Two-Way Line Simulator - Get yours here -> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004PXK314?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details I apologize for the late notice but still I hope to see you there!

Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for Sunday, April 7th 2024 at 3pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the meeting starts). As you well know, the agenda is always subject to change and the whims of whoever actually attends, but what is planned is... - Followup discussions on AtariAge BBS Guru Club threads. - FANSI (ANSI editor for the ST) install and brief demo. - How to use a real dial-up modem to call an internet BBS... - ... using a new toy! The Viking DLE-200B Two-Way Line Simulator - Get yours here -> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004PXK314?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details I apologize for the late notice but still I hope to see you there!