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Re: Stuff and Things.

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rubber_jonnie wrote: Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:15 am Well, back in the day (80's & 90's), I couldn't afford a phone line, so never got on line to experience the fun of BBSes.
I decided this weekend would be a good chance to see what I missed out on back then, so have connected to and joined both ST Guild and
So Jon, do you actually have to connect with a modem or is it a telnet/ssh connection these days. What do they have on bbs’s these days?
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PaulJ wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:59 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:15 am Well, back in the day (80's & 90's), I couldn't afford a phone line, so never got on line to experience the fun of BBSes.
I decided this weekend would be a good chance to see what I missed out on back then, so have connected to and joined both ST Guild and
So Jon, do you actually have to connect with a modem or is it a telnet/ssh connection these days. What do they have on bbs’s thes days?
There are games, competitions in the case of Darkforce, and even ways to contact other users, so what you'd class as email. It's all what you'd perhaps call 'Lo-Fi', but a bit of fun.

Once I am able to get my ST stuff set up again, I may well try connecting using a WiFi modem setup using a real machine, but for now I'm connecting using my Mac and a telnet client.
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@rubber_jonnie , thought I would check it out but you can't get there from here. where is dark force dark force located?

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@PaulJ Darkforce is at telnet://darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org:520

Sorry I should have said it's on telnet but a different port. ST Guild is standard telnet.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:14 pm @PaulJ Darkforce is at telnet://darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org:520

Sorry I should have said it's on telnet but a different port. ST Guild is standard telnet.
Hmm, I used the darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org from his webpage and there was no port specification on his telnet definition.
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@PaulJ I had to do a little digging to find the port, but can connect fine now.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:36 pm @PaulJ I had to do a little digging to find the port, but can connect fine now.
Still hangs here Jon. Say after a minute "Unable to connect to remote host".
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PaulJ wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:07 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:36 pm @PaulJ I had to do a little digging to find the port, but can connect fine now.
Still hangs here Jon. Say after a minute "Unable to connect to remote host".
I was just logged on so I know it's working. You are using telnet and not ssh?

Have you tried: Stguild-bbs.ddns.net

That has no fancy ports and I was also just connected there, just telnet again.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Yes, was using telnet, tried a ping with no response.. maybe a mega doesn’t even do ping? Also traceroute doesn’t get there either so I’ll chalk the experience up to the opportunity to build telnet on the new machine. It was more a novelty to check it out anyway so not a great loss. I use telnet quite a bit and hadn’t bothered to install it yet.
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PaulJ wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:40 pm Yes, was using telnet, tried a ping with no response.. maybe a mega doesn’t even do ping? Also traceroute doesn’t get there either so I’ll chalk the experience up to the opportunity to build telnet on the new machine. It was more a novelty to check it out anyway so not a great lost. I use telnet quite a bit and hadn’t bothered to install it yet.
Weird, works fine on my Mac, what machine did you try on?
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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