Thoughts about a new atari bbs software?

[Doctorx]

I do understand that atari term programs can do ansi… that being said - does anyone find any value in a true atari hardware bbs?

[+DarkLord]

Is this a joke? That has to be a trick question...  

 

[Doctorx]

I can’t tell if you are being cheeky or serious…

 

from what i understand bbs express (which i did actually buy and run back in the day) can be endlessly modified down to prompt levels - but it never really captured my interest as much as carina/oasis or even forem 1030/marshware… with the hardware mods that are available these days with atari i just thought perhaps there might be some things that could be done now that could not be done back in the day… 

 

total apologies if i asked a stupid question… certainly was not my intent.

[+DarkLord]

There are quite a few "emulated" Atari BBS's out there, almost all 8bit, but

there's still Atari BBS's running on real hardware. Check the list below.

 

http://sfhqbbs.org/ataribbslist.php

 

Advancement's over the last few years in the Atari scene do help quite a bit.

 

DarkForce! is  running on a Mega ST with:

 

4 megs of RAM

AdSpeed accelerator (16mhz/cache)

Cloudy TOS decoder (TOS v2.06 and EmuTOS, switchable)

Lightning ST mod - can give IDE but I'm using it for the superb USB support. Just

                            pop in a SD card do file backup/transfer with ease.

ICD's Link 2

4 Gig SCSI hard drive

2x SCSI CD-ROM

SyQuest EZ135 SCSI removable

Audio mod - brings the ST sound out to external speakers - no need to leave the monitor

                   on all the time for sound.

RSVE mod - standard serial port bumped up to 38.4k speed.

WiModem232 - awesome device!

PicoWiFi - for faster wireless file transfer.

Atari SC1224 monitor (JVC brand - the view is good).

 

I use HDDriver v11.x and ExtenDOS by Anodyne Software for the CD-ROM.

 

HTH's.