Aunty Entity Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Hey Guys, For a new retro blast from the desperately late 80's early 90's The Lower Planes BBS is back in business.(Read play) at tlp.zapto.org Either telnet or ssh login as bbs with the password bbs, and it will forward you to the first available node, of which there are 5. If cli is no good to you, you can also get there by http just have a look about and head to the login page. This thing actually runs on x86 hardware, when I first fired it up, I didn't have the cash to buy a second IIgs to turn into a BBS, so I got a 286 with a massive 40Mb HD. Best peripheral for your Apple II We have Online Games, Message Areas with QWK support and 600year Warez dude. And its the only SuperBBS in the world. I have pong what've you got to trade for it? ftp is also available.... Have a better one, Aunty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted October 17, 2018 Author Share Posted October 17, 2018 Ye ASCII version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 ________________________________________________________________| 0 |:::::::::: T H E L O W E R P L A N E S B B S :::::::::::: 0 || |================================================================ || 0 | | 0 || |Online Games: | || 0 | - Tradewars 2002 - Scrabble | 0 || | - Barren Realms Elite (2 Worlds) - Murder Motel | || 0 | - The Pit - Global War | 0 || | - Operation Overkill | || 0 | | 0 || |---------------------------------------------------------------| || 0 | | 0 || |1 Trillion Gigglybytes of Message Areas | || 0 | 30yr old warez dude | 0 || | - Apple II 8 bit - Apple II | || 0 | - Apple IIGS 16 bit - DOS | 0 || | - DOS networking/bbs - Waffle | || 0 | | 0 || |---------------------------------------------------------------| || 0 |::::::::::::: Telnet:SSS:WWW - tlp.zapto.org -:::::::::::::::: 0 || |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byte Knight Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 That's an impressive amount of warez! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 Well it sounds impressive... isn't thats what those files were always for? Who knows how large a gigglybyte is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 TLP managed to snarf a mention in this edition of Paleotronic. https://paleotronic.com/paleotron1018/paleotronic1018-75dpi.pdf I've also had some Finnish guys looking around, at the last SuperBBS in existance. Risto turned up first, Author of the SuperBBS Software followed by a "journalist" doing an article on Finlands halcyon BBS days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted January 3, 2019 Author Share Posted January 3, 2019 We have an alternate single page Mega Menu up as well as the original hierarchic menus. Mega Menu can be selected from the Main Menu should you wish to try it. It'll probably be slower to display, but with hotkeys enabled quicker to navigate once you get used to where all the keys are. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted January 11, 2019 Author Share Posted January 11, 2019 TLP's sister, pineapple.zapto.org has got its Hardware Database flying. It now matches manuals for cards if they available from the library, and the library itself is reasonably stocked, I didn't get as many matches as I thought I might from hardware to manuals, but then the library is full of other things aside from just manuals. On both sides, the PHP logic has improved so you don't get null results displayed, and any links are accurated not a click and pray affair. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 http://pineapple.zapto.org/library has hit the 385 document mark... http://pineapple.zapto.org/hard.shtml has reached 300 items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6502_workshop Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Cool! >And its the only SuperBBS in the world. Is SuperBBS the software you are using? Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 >And its the only SuperBBS in the world. Is SuperBBS the software you are using? Yes it is, SuperBBS is a MS-DOS based piece of software, I used to run on a 2/386 30 odd years ago, so I could keep using my IIgs as my daily compute. It used to be a pretty common piece of software back in the day, so far as I can tell and find, TLP is now the only one in existance. AA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6502_workshop Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Awesome. I ran a BBS in the mid 1990s using SuperBBS and Front Door on a 386. I haven't heard that name in a long time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE=====================================================================The Lower Planes now has.... A local weather page, not much use to you guys NOT in Melbournebut still, its an advancement. I've had to install a replacement ADSL modem, I suspect both latencyand throughput will have improved. It's negotiating better ADSL speeds than the previous one. Newsgroups remains in the pipes, RSN as they say, I'm getting closer though, I've found the old software I used to use, its just a matter of finding a UUCP host and getting it fully configured.A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 any phreaking apps in the file libs that arent on asimov? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted April 1, 2019 Author Share Posted April 1, 2019 dunno, I haven't trawled asimov... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 What's new? We have TETRA online in the games dept. Anyone that enjoys a spin at Tetris will enjoy having a crack at this. You do want a reasonable ANSI emulation though, its all blocks strangely enough. The menus have been revamped again. There are new "Pretty" ANSI screens which look nice, but are slower to load, "Basic" ANSI which are far faster, but less fandangled, and of course you've got the ASCII screens for the rest of us. I've added some pictures, these were made with MegaTerm, a nice solid emulation with good colour use. I haven't tried spectrum but it ought to give reasonable results also. No guesses to the origin of the goodbye screen... an oldy but a goodie.... A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 I just noticed that my ADSL modem has cut off port 80 again. Having done threatened it with violence of a sledge its back to behaving itself. So if anyones gone looking for http://tlp.zapto.org or http://pineapple.zapto.org and found them missing, you'll find them on the air again now. Apologies, A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 (edited) File transfer menu, rendered in MegaTerm on a IIgs. Online Games menu also rendered on an Apple IIgs. Edited May 11, 2019 by Aunty Entity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Entity Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 Been a while... The Lower Planes has changed the telnet port from 23 to 6502, got tired of being hammered by wacky scripts/compromised systems trying to login and confusing some of the software. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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