thafaker.crabdance.com

BBS

Date: [23rd Oct 2024]

Because I like it alot to go online with vintage computers of all sort, I also like BBS, the bulletin board systems from the 70s and 80s. On that BBS you could chat, mail, play and upload/download files, so it were the place to be at that time to hang around. Later there were IRC. You dialed in via a modem on your Macintosh, C=64, Amiga or also the MS-Dos PC.

This is my C=64 connecting to a BBS

After they all lost the fight against the raise of the World Wide Web, in recent years they have experienced a new popularity. Because there is a lot of new hardware being produced: all afront the rs232 wifi modems but also network interfaces and so on.

And the BBS have also developed and now support telnet, so they are connected directly to the internet. No longer need a landline and a real modem to connect, both of the sides.

The Wifi RS232 Modems act like a hayes compatible modem, over the internet. The AT-Dial command atdtthafaker.crabdance.com:8088 will connect to that bbs via rs232-wifi modem in a Terminal Software through the internet, but emulating a real modem so you can use a terminal software from 1987 to do that. Like I talked about here, CCGMS. That link leads you to download the newest CCGMS Terminal Version from 2022 to download as PRG for C=64.

On this server I run two different softwares who serve a BBS to log in, one really actual, from 2024 for modern devices, linux terminals etc. pp. and since 5 days I run a PETSCII compatible BBS where you can login with your C=64. The first one is here, the other one is here. And finally here you can find an actual C=64 PETSCII compatible BBS List, running. I tested them by myself.

I list some BBS I am active:

My list of BBSes ~11.03.2024

So here is my personal list of BBS I regulary visit, you can find me as "thafaker", mostly.

thafakerBBS C=64

I just installed another BBS server on my LINUX Vintage Server who acts for C=64 compatible PETSCII Devices. I actually am connected to it, waiting in the chatroom. :) It is really awesome to do so with my home computer from 1984. Port for C=64 is 8081.

For Terminal:

• telnet thafaker.crabdance.com 8081

For wifi modem:

• atdtthafaker.crabdance.com:8081

thafakerBBS Telnet

ACHTUNG: Still in development.

I so frequently visit BBSs Systems around the globe, starting with the famous fozztexx BBS, I thought about to built up my own small little BBS, just for fun and to learn how it goes. But as I want to use my vintage Hardware for vintage computing things, I don't wanted to use one of them as a real BBS Machine. So I decided to use a newly created BBS-Software and let that running on my small Linux Home Server. Just for the lulz. I hope I can tell something more in the next time.

And here it is: telnet://thafaker.crabdance.com:8088

My iMacG3 is connected to a BBS