• can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?

    From mary4@21:2/150 to All on Mon Jun 16 13:22:40 2025
    hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
    it meraculously works!
    and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

    it has an old accelerator card in it and a multi i/o card for pc serial and parallel oh snap!

    it's quite fast! :D

    i spent alot on getting adapters and peripherial stuff for it! :D

    i got a keybopard for it too

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to mary4 on Mon Jun 16 15:17:54 2025
    Re: can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?
    By: mary4 to All on Mon Jun 16 2025 01:22 pm

    hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
    it meraculously works!
    and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

    it has an old accelerator card in it and a multi i/o card for pc serial and parallel oh snap!

    That's cool. :) If I had room, I might think about buying a used Amiga.. But then, I worry I'd only play with it for a little while and then get bored with it and won't be able to think of what to use it for..

    Nightfox
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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to mary4 on Mon Jun 16 19:00:42 2025
    hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
    it meraculously works!
    and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

    Awesome news - is this your first Amiga???

    I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repair, and other, info videos...



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  • From Nigel Reed@21:2/101 to All on Mon Jun 16 23:32:52 2025
    On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:22:40 -0700
    "mary4" (21:2/150) <mary4@f150.n2.z21.fidonet> wrote:

    hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
    it meraculously works!
    and it has a hdd and a tape drive and a FLOPPY! :D

    it has an old accelerator card in it and a multi i/o card for pc
    serial and parallel oh snap!

    it's quite fast! :D

    i spent alot on getting adapters and peripherial stuff for it! :D

    i got a keybopard for it too

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    Sure. Isn't that what FSX_RETRO is for?
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to mary4 on Tue Jun 17 16:34:04 2025

    Hello mary4!

    16 Jun 25 13:22, you wrote to all:

    hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd
    it meraculously works!
    [...]
    i got a keybopard for it too

    Open her up and remove the battery if it's not already been done.

    They leak acid all over the mb and destroy them.
    Do a youtube search for cleaning the board up.


    Vorlon


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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to paulie420 on Tue Jun 17 13:48:15 2025
    Awesome news - is this your first Amiga???

    HELL YES!
    I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repair, and other, info videos...

    sick!
    i already heard about him! :D



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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to Vorlon on Tue Jun 17 13:49:04 2025
    Open her up and remove the battery if it's not already been done.
    done by seller
    They leak acid all over the mb and destroy them.
    Do a youtube search for cleaning the board up.
    the amimi4 is all good! :D

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  • From phigan@21:3/193 to Nightfox on Thu Jun 19 10:56:46 2025
    e able to think of what to use it
    for..

    Demos.


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  • From Retroswim@21:2/121 to mary4 on Fri Jun 20 23:33:20 2025
    hey i recently got my amiga 2000hd

    Congratulations!

    Reach out in FSX_RETRO if you ever want help!

    Enjoy this magical time, where you get your first Amiga, and you think you'll be happy with just one Amiga. :P

    I still need to get my CD32 going again, get a new case for my A500, make new KS ROMs for my A1200...... The fun never ends!

    Cheers,
    RetroSwim

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  • From RetroSwim@21:2/150 to paulie420 on Fri Jun 20 06:46:30 2025
    I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repair, and other, info videos...

    Adrian Black (Adrian's Digital Basement) and Jan Beta are good too!

    Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to RetroSwim on Fri Jun 20 19:48:12 2025
    I suggest Chris Edwards youtube channel if you ever need to repair anything - he's covered every model and has dozens and dozens of repa and other, info videos...

    Adrian Black (Adrian's Digital Basement) and Jan Beta are good too!

    Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 videos. :P I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

    Lucky lucky.



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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to RetroSwim on Sat Jun 21 04:21:24 2025
    Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

    Kind of weird, they were kinda not popular here, although they had their one eyed fanboys. A little like AppleIIs they had their own religion :P I could probably count on one hand the number I actually saw out in the wild...

    ST

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  • From Retroswim@21:2/121 to paulie420 on Sat Jun 21 15:04:12 2025
    Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 videos. :P I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

    Clearly a man of culture ;)

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to RetroSwim on Sat Jun 21 07:51:11 2025
    Adrian Black (Adrian's Digital Basement) and Jan Beta are good too!

    Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

    YO I SEE ADRIAN AT VCF-SW!~!!! :DD amiga gang!~

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to Retroswim on Sat Jun 21 07:51:50 2025
    Congratulations!

    Reach out in FSX_RETRO if you ever want help!

    Enjoy this magical time, where you get your first Amiga, and you think you'll be happy with just one Amiga. :P

    I still need to get my CD32 going again, get a new case for my A500,
    make new KS ROMs for my A1200...... The fun never ends!

    Cheers,
    RetroSwim
    thanks m8! <3

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to StormTrooper on Sat Jun 21 08:58:39 2025
    StormTrooper wrote to RetroSwim <=-

    Kind of weird, they were kinda not popular here, although they had
    their one eyed fanboys. A little like AppleIIs they had their own religion :P I could probably count on one hand the number I actually
    saw out in the wild...

    In college, most everyone who wasn't in CS got a Mac Plus on one of
    those horrendous, Apple Credit cards with the 24% APR.

    CS geeks had cobbled together ATs and the odd 386, using Procomm to
    connect to big iron and Turbo C or MS C to compile locally.

    I had an XT case with an AT motherboard bought at a swap meet. Soldered
    in fsaster clock crystal. Most of the stand-offs didn't line up, so the motherboard was secured to the case with one screw and pieces of
    styrofoam. An RLL drive that sounded like a bathroom fan, keyboard port
    didn't quite line up, and once in a while you had to jiggle the power
    switch to get it to come on.

    I only knew one Amiga user, come to think of it didn't even know they
    had a simple compiler for student use!



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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to paulie420 on Sun Jun 22 11:03:37 2025
    Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 videos I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

    Lucky lucky.

    wow Paulie that's really cool! Link to video please?! I haven't seen that video and I watch a lot of his vids.


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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jun 22 09:05:11 2025
    In college, most everyone who wasn't in CS got a Mac Plus on one of
    those horrendous, Apple Credit cards with the 24% APR.

    CS geeks had cobbled together ATs and the odd 386, using Procomm to connect to big iron and Turbo C or MS C to compile locally.

    I had an XT case with an AT motherboard bought at a swap meet. Soldered
    in fsaster clock crystal. Most of the stand-offs didn't line up, so the motherboard was secured to the case with one screw and pieces of styrofoam. An RLL drive that sounded like a bathroom fan, keyboard port didn't quite line up, and once in a while you had to jiggle the power switch to get it to come on.

    I only knew one Amiga user, come to think of it didn't even know they
    had a simple compiler for sudent use!
    yooooooo sick pc compatibles!! <3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to hyjinx on Sun Jun 22 09:06:53 2025
    Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 v I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

    Lucky lucky.

    you know whats insane?

    I GOT ADRIAN TO SEE THAT POST!!! <3
    wow Paulie that's really cool! Link to video please?! I haven't seen
    that video and I watch a lot of his vids.
    I WANA SEE TOO!!!@!

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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to RetroSwim on Sun Jun 22 11:14:10 2025

    Amiga is the darling of retro computing, so many good content and resources out there!

    Yet continually disappoints for the same old fashioned reasons..

    -h1

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to hyjinx on Sun Jun 22 22:00:53 2025
    Adrian recently did a really nice callout to 2oFB in one of his 286 v I was st0ked and still get callers/users from it.

    wow Paulie that's really cool! Link to video please?! I haven't seen
    that video and I watch a lot of his vids.

    I just uploaded it - https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s - might take 20 mins or so, but I bet its up by the time you see this...

    :P



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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to paulie420 on Mon Jun 23 12:47:20 2025
    I just uploaded it -
    https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s -
    might take 20 mins or so, but I bet
    its up by the time you see this...

    Awesome! Congrats on the shout out! That's really cool.


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to paulie420 on Tue Jun 24 20:08:27 2025
    I just uploaded it - https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s - might take 20 mins or but I bet its up by the time you see this...

    :P

    nice1 Paulie!

    Having watched him 'complain' about the fact that it 204beers doesn't look quite right on his XT / procomm terminal is yet another reason why I keep my bbs fairly compatible. I always try to make sure that my board doesn't look crappy, but it does at least work 100% on a retro PC. I can't say I've tried it using a real terminal like Procomm but I dare say it should work there too. It definetly works on Michael Brutman's mTelnet.

    If you can, I'd recommend you have a 'compatible' version of 204beers, and I appreciate you for enabling UTF8 so that mTelnet works, there are a few other enhancements you can make to your board to make it have a compatible mode. BBSes are retro things, therefore I always think that they should stay retro, for example, big screen 120xwhatever doesn't work with a DOS computer, therefore I don't consider those a true BBS. 20forbeers does rock, and I'm glad that Adrian showed off a really good example of a BBS. Shame it couldn't work 100% for him, but still, it is a great BBS!


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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to hyjinx on Tue Jun 24 16:11:43 2025
    204beers, and I appreciate you for
    enabling UTF8 so that mTelnet
    works, there are a few other

    I always referred to mTelnet as the one that comes with mTCP:

    https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_Telnet.html

    That one always worked fine for me on my DOS computer with regular old CP437..

    I'm now thinking maybe I've been referring to it by the wrong name this whole time as I don't believe the Brutman one does UTF8 at all... oops! :)


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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to hyjinx on Tue Jun 24 18:47:52 2025
    I just uploaded it - https://youtu.be/Y4Y0K6b695s - might take 20 min but I bet its up by the time you see this...

    Having watched him 'complain' about the fact that it 204beers doesn't
    look quite right on his XT / procomm terminal is yet another reason why
    I keep my bbs fairly compatible. I always try to make sure that my board doesn't look crappy, but it does at least work 100% on a retro PC. I
    can't say I've tried it using a real terminal like Procomm but I dare
    say it should work there too. It definetly works on Michael Brutman's mTelnet.

    If I had 2oFB to do all over again, I'd still lean on the cool 'modern' font-switching, animation and SIXEL stuff - but I'd of added in a lot more legacy compatibility...

    If you can, I'd recommend you have a 'compatible' version of 204beers,
    and I appreciate you for enabling UTF8 so that mTelnet works, there are
    a few other enhancements you can make to your board to make it have a compatible mode. BBSes are retro things, therefore I always think that they should stay retro, for example, big screen 120xwhatever doesn't
    work with a DOS computer, therefore I don't consider those a true BBS. 20forbeers does rock, and I'm glad that Adrian showed off a really good example of a BBS. Shame it couldn't work 100% for him, but still, it is
    a great BBS!

    Its just simply not an option at this point - I've spent days, months and years modifying 2o... I always laugh b/c 2oFB isn't the best designed bbS at ALL - but it is what it is; and I'm lucky that the ppl love it. :P

    I've thought about two options for legacy hardware; one is just having an ASCII/light ANSi version of 2oFB - but it wouldn't be all of what the main board is. Another idea was to have STOCK BBS softwares all under one 2oFB legacy-friendly matrix login; Telegard, Searchlight, CBBS, Obv/2, etc etc etc - with a local FTN so all the message areas were all 'networked' (locally).

    I kinda wanna work on that latter idea sometime soon... of course, they'd be accessible on the main 2oFB - but I could have some other TELNET addy for legacy hardware... 2oFB is already cooked for what it is. :P



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to paulie420 on Wed Jun 25 08:11:39 2025
    paulie420 wrote to hyjinx <=-

    I've thought about two options for legacy hardware; one is just having
    an ASCII/light ANSi version of 2oFB - but it wouldn't be all of what
    the main board is. Another idea was to have STOCK BBS softwares all
    under one 2oFB legacy-friendly matrix login; Telegard, Searchlight,
    CBBS, Obv/2, etc etc etc - with a local FTN so all the message areas
    were all 'networked' (locally).

    I like the ASCII mode idea - I had a caller call with a dumb terminal
    and started playing with it in Synchronet. Memory fades, but I think
    there's a tool to convert ANSI to ASCII, so I made ASCII version of my
    menus. If you call with an ASCII terminal, it automatically displays an
    .ASC menu file.

    You miss out on the ANSI art, but it's relatively easy to set up.


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  • From Retroswim@21:2/121 to hollowone on Thu Jun 26 21:49:36 2025
    Yet continually disappoints for the same old fashioned reasons..

    The only truly disappointing thing about Amiga is how CBM ran the platform into the ground!

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  • From Retroswim@21:2/121 to paulie420 on Thu Jun 26 21:57:00 2025
    I've thought about two options for legacy hardware; one is just having an ASCII/light ANSi version of 2oFB - but it wouldn't be all of what the main board is. Another idea was to have STOCK BBS softwares all under one 2oFB legacy-friendly matrix login; Telegard, Searchlight, CBBS, Obv/2, etc etc etc - with a local FTN so all the message areas were all 'networked' (locally).

    I love this idea.

    I'm kind of doing the inside-out flippidy-doo version of this, my board is Ezycom, very legacy-friendly, but I hook on to Mystic to add modern functionality like MRC.

    What can we do with BBSes? Sonny Jim, what CAN'T we do?? :D

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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to Retroswim on Fri Jun 27 04:03:19 2025
    Yet continually disappoints for the same old fashioned reasons..

    The only truly disappointing thing about Amiga is how CBM ran the
    platform into the ground!

    CBM tried its best but lost like many with their ideas that never reasonated with the mainstream and whatever Amiga was proposing.. never was a mainstream and that's the first old fashione reason to think Amiga/CBM disappointed all together... creating a myth of the best platform in the world while it maybe was but only in about 1986 for a moment and then (and definitively in the 90s) world moved on and they missed to catch up... so it was nice and cheap (and dying) platform for the kids up until 1994 when basically a proper PC rig and Platystaion being like Eons ahead of it already, shown the market a competitive price for something that out powered the damn retarded custom chip driven platform CBM tried to continually develop. For the same reason APple almost died too, but were luckier.

    The rest is sentiment but still if I compare software proposition, SNES being so much worse technically was superior platform to Amiga and its legendary coders...

    -h1

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to hollowone on Mon Jun 30 09:44:44 2025
    driven platform CBM tried to continually develop. For the same reason APple almost died too, but were luckier.


    Luckier? They got a bailout from Micro$loth..Not sure if that was about the same time they had Pepsi man in charge... but they had to many niche weird models in the lineup at that stage, they were crippling themselves with inventory.

    ST

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to phigan on Fri Jul 4 15:15:55 2025
    Guess this is something that could
    be revisited now, too, as the

    Plus one for that idea ;)... As I type this from an Atari 800XL in 40 columns.

    Beautiful - I have both an Atari 400 and a 600 that I need to dive into soon enough. Not sure that either is working well just yet - as I don't get any prompt, or BASIC prompt (alth I think that requires a cart...) but I [think I] should at least see some prompt/READY/OK output.

    Time will tell - I need some carts for those two machines... guess eBay will have to be my friend. :P



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  • From phigan@21:3/195 to paulie420 on Fri Jul 4 22:21:38 2025
    get any prompt, or BASIC prompt (alth I think that requires a cart...)
    but I [think I] should at least see some prompt/READY/OK output.

    The 400 does not have built in basic so you would just get a cursor that you can type random stuff on the screen with. The 600XL has BASIC and you should get a READY prompt.

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  • From BitByter@21:4/105 to paulie420 on Mon Jul 7 00:38:31 2025
    Hello paulie420!

    04 Jul 25 09:24, you wrote to hyjinx:

    I used to have an ASCII only template/theme for 2oFB - some of my
    users from far away countries actually had concerns about data usage, actually... but the issue was that I was changing 2oFB so often that
    they didn't get all the functionality.

    Guess this is something that could be revisited now, too, as the board doesn't change as much these days.... hmmmmm - maybe. :P

    I recently created an ASCII only set of menus & textfiles for my MBSE BBS as a means of testing my re-implementation of ASCII mode. It was actually kind of fun seeing the old school boxes drawn with dashes & pipe symbols with plus signs for corners.

    Just another thing to maintain whenever you add something new to your BBS...

    BitByter

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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to phigan on Mon Jul 7 12:28:37 2025
    Plus one for that idea ;)... As I
    type this from an Atari 800XL in 4
    0 columns.

    Another +1 from another 800XL user :)

    There are ANSI terms for Atari 8bit. I can't remember if I tried Flickterm on 2oFB but I know ICET wasn't able to handle the ANSI.

    It would be cool to see in ASCII.. but only if you have the time. I usually switch to another comp for logging in there.


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  • From phigan@21:3/195 to slacker on Mon Jul 7 22:57:22 2025
    There are ANSI terms for Atari 8bit. I can't remember if I tried
    Flickterm on 2oFB but I know ICET wasn't able to handle the ANSI.

    I've tried both, and while Flickerterm doesn't crash out on the ANSIs as much as Ice-T does, both of them still have a problem with Mystic detecting them as 40 columns. On 2oFB you can't change that in the Account Settings menu, so it's sort of unusable from those two terminal programs. Something I haven't tried yet is either BobTerm or VT100 with XEP-80 hooked up for 80 columns. I'm thinking they won't work so well with the ANSI either, though :).

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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to phigan on Tue Jul 8 20:35:33 2025
    Re: Re: can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?
    By: phigan to slacker on Mon Jul 07 2025 22:57:22

    Hi, Phigan.

    haven't tried yet is either BobTerm

    I had never heard of BobTerm until today - it's very lucky I didn't accidentally use that name for my terminal.

    Luckily instead of s/Worm/Term/ I did s/Term/Worm/ and ended up with Worminal.

    BobW
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  • From slacker@21:2/150 to phigan on Tue Jul 8 20:45:40 2025
    On 07 Jul 2025, phigan said the following...
    programs. Something I haven't tried yet is either BobTerm or VT100 with XEP-80 hooked up for 80 columns. I'm thinking they won't work so well
    with the ANSI either, though :).

    Yeah, I'm assuming BobTerm will puke pretty good with all the ANSI escape chars. :D

    For ASCII though, how do you go about setting it up for 80 col? I've only ever used it in 40 col.

    ... "Pass me the rap rod plate captain" - Hitchikers.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to phigan on Sun Jul 13 19:36:24 2025


    I've tried both, and while Flickerterm doesn't crash out on the ANSIs as much as Ice-T does, both of them still have a problem with Mystic detecting them as 40 columns. On 2oFB you can't change that in the Account Settings menu, so it's sort of unusable from those two terminal programs. Something I haven't tried yet is either BobTerm or VT100 with XEP-80 hooked up for 80 columns. I'm thinking they won't work so well with the ANSI either, though :).

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    Reading and seeing "Bob Term" made me think about a C=64 program I used called Bobs Term Pro.

    It had a BBS like option in it.
    I got a floppy disc from someone that had a IBM PC text file I could read on the XT we had at work, and I wanted toread it on my home C=64.

    One night before I left home to go to work I Ran Bob's Term Pro and had it set to answer a phone call also asked the wife to not answer the phone since I wanted to get that PC .TXT file sent to my computer as a SEQ file.

    I reckon the Atari Bob Term had the same feature(s) as the program I used.
    Ed
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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to hyjinx on Wed Jul 16 16:13:37 2025
    Re: Re: can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?
    By: hyjinx to slacker on Fri Jul 04 2025 04:56 pm

    When I say mTelnet, I'm referring to mTCP Telnet. I don't know of any other mTelnet.

    When I hear mTelnet, I think of this program: https://mt32.bbses.info/ :-)
    --
    digital man (rob)

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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to slacker on Tue Jul 22 10:01:26 2025
    Plus one for that idea ;)... As I
    type this from an Atari 800XL in 4
    0 columns.

    Another +1 from another 800XL user :)

    I have two 65XE, one with 320kB RAM and custom ROMs and one vanilla.
    SIDE3 cart and some other goodies, but still offline.

    I still wonder if I find time to buy and test Fujinet one day.

    -h1

    ... -=Lordz of BooM are back=-

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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to hollowone on Wed Jul 23 05:29:17 2025
    I still wonder if I find time to
    buy and test Fujinet one day.

    Hopefully you'll get a chance to try it out. The Fujinet is awesome. I can't recommend it enough!

    If you do, be sure to check out my BBS and the other 8bit boards for some ATASCII BBS goodness! :D


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to phigan on Wed Jul 23 20:46:49 2025
    Seems like it'd be nice if that was a command line argument. Like mtelnet something to switch to CP437, keeping UTF-8 default.

    That guy is on IRC sometimes, I believe. Maybe he'd be open to hearing the

    100% agree phigan. It would be best if it was an argument e.g. telnet /utf, or at least configurable as default in the MTCP.CFG file with optional switch.

    Little stuff like that does bug me (like why the only action of the pgup key is to scroll up the buffer, rather than send pgup to the console).

    So, if you see him some day, let him know us bbs'ers want it!

    Cheers,
    Al


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to hollowone on Wed Jul 23 21:12:37 2025
    Heya hollowone,
    https://github.com/jhpyle/mTCP/?tab=readme-ov-file

    that's my default telnet client for a while. and it also fixed PGUP/DOWN
    among many other that Brutman never cared about.
    It certainly did resolve a lot of 'issues' which Michael B didn't care about. I have used it myself. Not sure if you have noticed though, it certainly runs slower than Brutman's. Michael himself muttered something a while ago about it being sloppy code/bad loop routine or something of that ilk, I'd have to read my email to find out.
    Funny I onced emailed him if he intents to bring ssh client to his bundle he mentioned that PCs he's targeting are not capable of it..

    Whilst I can understand that what he does is a hobby and he's really just in it to satisfy his own PC Jr sized hobby, it really is a shame I think that he doesn't want to connect with his users and grant them some simple feature requests like toggling utf or allowing the use of a pgup key. All very easy to provide in the code I dare say, and sad that a fork had to be made to compensate for that.

    jhypyle's fork is a few versions behind now, so it looks close to being abandoned. I actually believe that Michael's current UTF version is actually fine - the CP437 to UTF translation TXT file which he supplies in the docs means that as long as you use the BBS's UTF8 mode, then all the ANSI displays just fine. It's when a BBS doesn't have a UTF8 mode. By default Mystic does, and I'm sure many other do, but some I guess don't. The upside of having UTF8 is that when you're telnetting to a Linux box (which I also do a lot of from my IBM PC), I get pretty darned good compatability from a terminal perspective. If the char can't be displayed by the IBM BIOS, it defaults to a single char that doesn't look broken, unlike how it used to behave, with text spewing out all over the place. So, for me, most BBSes (provided they allow UTF8) operate just fine, and Linux performs good too, as does standard ASCII. So, it is *mainly* the best of both worlds. Just wish he allowed it to be toggled off by a switch or something.

    Damn AMIGA has this capability and he's pushing unicode to what... connect modern machines from legacy 286? for what reason...

    Per my earlier comment - I think he and others like me are using it to get content from Linux boxes or similar.


    so long story short. I respect some sort of networking stnadard he introdu to my MSDOS box initially but I don't believe many of his decisions are tr something that this community really needs anymore.

    A fork is what I like more for years.

    Yes, I understand some of his decisions, but I wish he read and agreed with his fan mail a bit more!

    Cheers,
    Al


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  • From phigan@21:3/195 to slacker on Wed Jul 23 14:35:59 2025
    For ASCII though, how do you go about setting it up for 80 col? I've
    only ever used it in 40 col.

    With an XEP-80 (or clone made from a Pi Pico).

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  • From phigan@21:3/195 to Ed Vance on Wed Jul 23 14:43:51 2025
    I reckon the Atari Bob Term had the same feature(s) as the program I
    used. Ed

    It does not. BobsTerm for C= and BobTerm for Atari are totally different programs by different people. I tried BobsTerm and didn't like it much, but I had no idea it had a host mode! I will have to go back to it and see if I can get it to work with a wifi modem.

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  • From phigan@21:3/195 to hollowone on Wed Jul 23 14:55:58 2025
    I still wonder if I find time to buy and test Fujinet one day.

    You could connect your Atari to the PC and run Fujinet firmware on that (aka Fujinet-PC). The FTDI usb to ttl modules are like $3-4 on eBay, if that. Here's how I connected mine up, with female to female Dupont jumpers:
    https://i.imgur.com/Qz20mcE.jpg

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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to phigan on Thu Jul 24 06:23:56 2025
    You could connect your Atari to the PC and run Fujinet firmware on that (aka Fujinet-PC). The FTDI usb to ttl modules are like $3-4 on eBay, if that. Here's how I connected mine up, with female to female Dupont jumpers: https://i.imgur.com/Qz20mcE.jpg

    That is interesting. I'm on MacOS tho. I need to check if this is Windows only feature first.

    -h1

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to phigan on Thu Jul 24 18:24:03 2025
    With an XEP-80 (or clone made from
    a Pi Pico).

    Cool thanks! Going to check that out now.


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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to phigan on Fri Jul 25 09:15:50 2025


    It does not. BobsTerm for C= and BobTerm for Atari are totally different programs by different people. I tried BobsTerm and didn't like it much, but I had no idea it had a host mode! I will have to go back to it and see if I can get it to work with a wifi modem.

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    Thanks fer straightening Me out .
    I hadn't thought that there were two programmers using a similar BOB name.

    Hope the Atari program has Host Mode in it.
    Ed
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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to slacker on Sun Jul 27 12:40:20 2025
    mtcp is amazing!~!
    :D

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to paulie420 on Sun Jul 27 12:41:18 2025
    I LOVE 20 FOR BEERS!!! <3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to Retroswim on Sun Jul 27 12:42:30 2025
    The only truly disappointing thing about Amiga is how CBM ran the
    platform into the ground!
    </3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to Retroswim on Sun Jul 27 12:43:09 2025
    I'm kind of doing the inside-out flippidy-doo version of this, my board
    is Ezycom, very legacy-friendly, but I hook on to Mystic to add modern functionality like MRC.

    What can we do with BBSes? Sonny Jim, what CAN'T we do?? :D
    bbs gang!

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to hyjinx on Sun Jul 27 13:13:55 2025
    So, yes, Brutman is going all-in on UTF8 from Jan 2025.


    i did not know this ill update soon xD

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to hyjinx on Sun Jul 27 13:15:20 2025
    hey al! :D bbses are so COOL!!!! <3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to phigan on Sun Jul 27 13:20:52 2025
    Seems like it'd be nice if that was a command line argument. Like
    mtelnet /c or something to switch to CP437, keeping UTF-8 default.

    true true
    That guy is on IRC sometimes, I believe. Maybe he'd be open to hearing
    the idea.
    i can contact him for us he is active in freedos community

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to phigan on Sun Jul 27 13:21:42 2025
    Plus one for that idea ;)... As I type this from an Atari 800XL in 40 columns.

    ATARI 800XL yooooo SO COOOL!!!!! <3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to hollowone on Sun Jul 27 13:23:10 2025
    Damn AMIGA has this capability and he's pushing unicode to what...
    connect modern machines from legacy 286? for what reason...
    shhhh i have both!
    i am doing this from my 286! <3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to paulie420 on Sun Jul 27 13:26:13 2025
    Beautiful - I have both an Atari 400 and a 600 that I need to dive into soon enough. Not sure that either is working well just yet - as I don't get any prompt, or BASIC prompt (alth I think that requires a cart...)
    but I [think I] should at least see some prompt/READY/OK output.

    Time will tell - I need some carts for those two machines... guess eBay will have to be my friend. :P
    :DDDDDD
    I WANT AN ATARI STe!!! <3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to slacker on Sun Jul 27 13:36:25 2025
    fujinet is based!

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  • From phigan@21:3/193 to hollowone on Sun Jul 27 23:52:51 2025
    That is interesting. I'm on MacOS tho. I need to check if this is Windows
    only feature first.

    You can compile the Fujinet firmware on anything. I personally use it on a Pi Zero W. Have not tried to build it on MacOS, but with Homebrew installed it's probably doable.


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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to mary4 on Sun Jul 27 16:26:33 2025
    I LOVE 20 FOR BEERS!!! <3

    Awwwww, thank you! We love hosting it, too!!!



    |07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
    |08.........

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to mary4 on Tue Jul 29 21:25:37 2025
    So, yes, Brutman is going all-in on UTF8 from Jan 2025.



    i did not know this ill update soon xD

    yeah, make sure to set the environment variable for the crossover CP437 compatability, or you will be sad! All the details are in Brutman's manual. Once you do that, everything works great.

    -Al


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to mary4 on Tue Jul 29 21:26:47 2025
    hey al! :D bbses are so COOL!!!! <3

    haha yes they are! I love me my bbs fun.

    It's a great place, with lots of lovely people and I can talk to everyone from my ancient hardware in a way that just works great. It truly connects the new and the old in a way that nothing else seems to do. What's not to love for an old luddite like me ? :)


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to mary4 on Tue Jul 29 21:28:58 2025
    Seems like it'd be nice if that was a command line argument. Like mtelnet /c or something to switch to CP437, keeping UTF-8 default.

    true true
    That guy is on IRC sometimes, I believe. Maybe he'd be open to hearin the idea.
    i can contact him for us he is active in freedos community

    yeah, if you can , the more people telling him it would be a good idea, the better I'm sure!


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to mary4 on Tue Jul 29 21:31:19 2025

    Plus one for that idea ;)... As I type this from an Atari 800XL in 40 columns.

    ATARI 800XL yooooo SO COOOL!!!!! <3

    I love the aesthetic of the original 800 myself, the XL was just great an all, but the 800 was this massive heavy thing which had a really nice keyboard and those big rom carts (x2), so from a design perspective, 800 wins all day.

    What still amazes me is that the 800 and 400 were released in 1979. Some of the stuff they did was way ahead of the computers that were released for many years. Consider the C64, ZX Spectrum, etc etc. Each of those platforms were good in their own way, but they didn't come out until 1982. The Atari had it going on well befoer then!


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to mary4 on Tue Jul 29 21:34:56 2025
    fujinet is based!

    based on what?
    or on base? - like ...they do drugs?
    :)

    Eitherway FUJInet is wicked cool.


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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to paulie420 on Tue Jul 29 21:36:10 2025
    I LOVE 20 FOR BEERS!!! <3

    who doesn't love 20forbeers?!


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  • From Errol Casey@21:1/182 to hyjinx on Tue Jul 29 12:45:26 2025
    Re: Re: can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?
    By: hyjinx to paulie420 on Tue Jul 29 2025 09:36 pm

    I LOVE 20 FOR BEERS!!! <3

    who doesn't love 20forbeers?!

    Nobody! I don't even like BEER! LOL

    Thank you Paulie for a great BBS, YTshorts, and YT videos.

    I've learned so much from you and look forward to learning more.
    ===
    Amessyroom
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to hyjinx on Tue Jul 29 12:45:20 2025


    I love the aesthetic of the original 800 myself, the XL was just great an all, but the 800 was this massive heavy thing which had a really nice keyboard and those big rom carts (x2), so from a design perspective, 800 wins all day.

    What still amazes me is that the 800 and 400 were released in 1979. Some of the stuff they did was way ahead of the computers that were released for many years. Consider the C64, ZX Spectrum, etc etc. Each of those platforms were good in their own way, but they didn't come out until 1982. The Atari had it going on well befoer then!

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    As a reader of Computer magazines and Electronic articles I tried typing stuff like 10 Print "Hi"
    on all of the different home pc's in the stores.

    It was years later I learned why when I pressed the Enter Key that nothing happened on the Atari 400 or 800 I typed it on.
    I got the impression that those systems were Terminals.
    Much later I learned the failure I saw was because the Cartridge slot was empty on the Atarie's I typed on.
    Without a Basic cartridge inserted in the slot those computers couldn't do Basic

    So I started out with a C=64.
    In later years a fellow at work bought an Atari 800XL, I looked at his manual and learned it was a GREAT COMPUTER .
    Ed
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  • From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to mary4 on Thu Jul 31 14:11:35 2025
    Re: Re: can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?
    By: mary4 to phigan on Sun Jul 27 2025 13:21:42

    ATARI 800XL yooooo SO COOOL!!!!! <3

    I prefer the original 800, myself. It had a better keyboard and the case had more style.
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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to hyjinx on Mon Aug 4 13:10:57 2025
    haha yes they are! I love me my bbs fun.

    It's a great place, with lots of lovely people and I can talk to
    everyone from my ancient hardware in a way that just works great. It
    truly connects the new and the old in a way that nothing else seems to
    do. What's not to love for an old luddite like me ? :)


    yoooo whats up!! <3

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to hyjinx on Mon Aug 4 13:12:06 2025
    Eitherway FUJInet is wicked cool.
    THATS WHAT BASED MEANS!!! <3

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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to mary4 on Tue Aug 5 20:32:47 2025
    Eitherway FUJInet is wicked
    cool.
    THATS WHAT BASED MEANS!!! <3

    I'm so not up with the modern lingo. I've read comments online before with 'based' and had no idea what they meant either. I guess 'rizz' is another one?


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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to slacker on Wed Aug 6 16:35:54 2025
    I'm so not up with the modern lingo. I've read comments online before
    with 'based' and had no idea what they meant either. I guess 'rizz' is another one?


    thats ok me neither xD

    rizz is a slang word for charisma

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  • From phigan@21:1/141 to Mortar M. on Mon Aug 11 21:29:54 2025
    It had a better keyboard and the case had more style.

    The 800XL came with five or so different keyboards. Most of them were definitely not as good as the 800's, but one of them - the ALPS one - is one of the best keyboards in the world (imo, of course) when nice and new. Also I'd argue the sleek 80s/futuristic design of the XL was cooler ;).

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to phigan on Mon Aug 11 08:51:49 2025
    phigan wrote to Mortar M. <=-

    It had a better keyboard and the case had more style.

    The 800XL came with five or so different keyboards. Most of them were definitely not as good as the 800's, but one of them - the ALPS one -
    is one of the best keyboards in the world (imo, of course) when nice
    and new. Also I'd argue the sleek 80s/futuristic design of the XL was cooler ;).

    I'm old-school at the core. I'd still like a pizza box desktop sytem in beige/platinum. I don't miss my 21" Sony CRT, though - that thing made
    my desk bow in at the middle!



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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Aug 14 19:42:59 2025
    I'm old-school at the core. I'd still like a pizza box desktop sytem in
    u 2 huh? <3

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