Shift838 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 All, I believe after quite some time my FuSiON BBS is ready for testing. I want to prove it out on an emulator, namely MAME to be running on a Geneve 9640 emulated system. I have tested it on real hardware and it seems to be stable. I am making a the last few text files like HELP, and a few ANSI screens, etc. I will be putting it up within the next couple of days for some testing before i go out of town. Support for 40/80 column modes and ANSI. I will be posting the telnet address when it's up. (sorry no dial-up).. This is just a test for stability on an emulator. I will be setting the message bases to cycle every 10 to 15 messages to test message base functionality. So I will be needed callers to test it. Any issues anyone sees please report them to me via PM or direct email. Once I am satisfied it is working good then I will reset everything and it will be open for business. If all goes well this will be the first TI-99/4A and Geneve supported BBS to run on an emulator. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 20, 2016 Author Share Posted February 20, 2016 Ok people. I need a handful of testers to put the BBS through it's paces. I am thinking of 10 to 20 users right now. PM me for the connection information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 (edited) I decided to just post this to get more testers. Any issues you find please report to me via PM or email with exactly what you did to see an error. Suggestions too.. DNS : fusionbbs.ddns.net Port : 9640 Also please remember this has been activated for User Testing to help me identify issues with the BBS that I may have not encountered in my testing. Edited February 21, 2016 by Cschneider 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 DNS : fusionbbs.ddns.net For you guy's logging in with 'Real Iron' and UDS-10's, the IP# is currently: 99.122.140.172,9640 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodLightning Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Checked in with Hyperterminal and Windows 7 (no "real iron" setup at the moment). Plain 40 column looked good, full color 80 column ansi was very slick and functional. I didn't have the rank on first login to post or view messages. One liners feature could use a few more characters, none of my ideas would fit.... and I thought Twitter was tough !!! Do the one liners get posted for the next caller, as I have seen on a few other boards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 Checked in with Hyperterminal and Windows 7 (no "real iron" setup at the moment). Plain 40 column looked good, full color 80 column ansi was very slick and functional. I didn't have the rank on first login to post or view messages. One liners feature could use a few more characters, none of my ideas would fit.... and I thought Twitter was tough !!! Do the one liners get posted for the next caller, as I have seen on a few other boards? Yes once the One Liner is saved the next caller will see one of the one liners that is randomly pulled from a file. it only shows when first logging in right before the email check I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 I had an interesting thought around these Telnet and Dialup BBS's. It would be cool if the message boards on them also were captured out to a website. I wouldn't want to take away from the participation, so maybe a delay, like a monthly digest. Maybe this is wrong for modern BBS's, if the social contract is exclusivity from the archives of the web. Just a thought. -M@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 i had to take the One Liners off line because I was getting an error from a statement i used to randomly generate numbers. One liner section is not working for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 really looks nice. I am using VanDykes SecureCRT (older version, in LAN) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 One Liners back online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'll check it out again in a couple of minutes as I just got off of Heatwave, and when I'm done there I'll fire up Start's Internet browse and go see if Schmitzi had made his chess move yet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Well I tried to login, it appears the login file is missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Share Posted February 22, 2016 Well I tried to login, it appears the login file is missing. hmm.. odd. i just accessed it as soon as I saw this message. did the same. stopped the program and restarted all fine now. Damn Fuzzy Gremlin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 bump 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 telnet fusionbbs.ddns.net 9640 Trying 99.122.140.172... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 telnet fusionbbs.ddns.net 9640 Trying 99.122.140.172... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused connection refused usually indicates someone is already on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 FYI. I also have a setting on the UDS that after 10 or 15 minutes of inactivity the UDS will drop the connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 yes, bbs seems to be busy. like me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 ahh k..got on later seems like it works 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 spoke too soon, posted a message then list message .. stuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 ah yes, blank screen and cursor at the moment. I´ll dial later alligator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 i definitely got some work to do on the message base code. There is one quirk that is just annoying the hell out of me. so until I get it fixed I am going to take the BBS down.. may take a week or so depending on how much time I can carve out to work on it before my trip. Thanks for all the testing over the last few days. Will post when it's back up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 I have made quite a bit of progress I believe. I have fixed the reply on read and new message scan where it does not start the scan over at the original new message you have already viewed or the start of the messages you selected. It goes to the next one. That's the quirk that was bugging the hell out of me. I have also been working on consolidating other code where I could and have been able to decrease the size of the main BBS file to 85 sectors. It was 100! I am still going through it a bit to see if there is any where else I can trim fat. One liners are now 80 columns instead of 40! I am thinking maybe I just may put in an 'Expert Mode' for menus. i had this enabled on my old BBS back in the 80's where if you had it selected it would not display any menus unless you put in the '?' for menu. it would be flagged on/off by pressing 'X' at the main menu. not sure on this one just yet. once i have it back completely up i will post again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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