Is BBSing an interest for you ? How do you do it

brianmartin_2001 · Post by **brianmartin_2001** » Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:26 pm

1. Wifi Modem of some kind (with retro hardware)
2. Dialup modem (with retro hardware)
3. Newer hardware (PC or laptop or other) via Terminal emulator programs.
4. Web browser.

atsampson · Post by **atsampson** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:56 am

Serial cable to a Linux machine, then telnet/ssh out from there. (Also means I can use rz/sz to transfer files locally.)

markusher · Post by **markusher** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:27 am

Via econet bridge to internet

chrisn · Post by **chrisn** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:22 am

I chose option 3 - running BeebEm with CommStar ROM on my PC. The current BeebEm release drops characters, but I'm working on fixing that.

brianmartin_2001 · Post by **brianmartin_2001** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:32 am

So both Mark and AT I'd categorize as Option 1 as you're using the Wifi function of another device to enable
retro machine. Would you agree?

markusher · Post by **markusher** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:33 am

Not really, the pibridge is hard wired to the ethernet. WiFi isn't involved at all. Perhaps Option 1 should be Ethernet connection. It depends really what you are trying to assess.

jubber · Post by **jubber** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:02 am

I've got lots of Acorn machines connected to a pibridge, and that works pretty well - but I didn't know the pibridge could then be a gateway to the internet. What is needed to make that work?

brianmartin_2001 · Post by **brianmartin_2001** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:38 am

markusher wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:33 am Not really, the pibridge is hard wired to the ethernet. WiFi isn't involved at all. Perhaps Option 1 should be Ethernet connection. It depends really what you are trying to assess.

Yeah , you are right Mark. Wifi as a term narrows things down a bit. What I mean is any device
that provides Internet access ( i.e. ESP, emulated modem) with Wifi or otherwise and is interfaced to a retro machine for option 1.
Unfortunately I don't see a way to edit and update the options. Maybe mods can help me?

thanks

brianmartin_2001 · Post by **brianmartin_2001** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:45 am

jubber wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:02 am I've got lots of Acorn machines connected to a pibridge, and that works pretty well - but I didn't know the pibridge could then be a gateway to the internet. What is needed to make that work?

Yes I'm curious on that also. I assume you are calling a Terminal program somehow in the Pi OS
but it's talking to the Beeb interfaced via an Econet cable but somehow through the PiBridge software ?
I am about to install a bridge myself this weekend so keen to know.

vela025 · Post by **vela025** » Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:52 pm

When it's not hosting the BBS, if I use my beeb to connect it's via serial to a rpi running tcpser. Depending on what I'm doing I'll either use Commstar, Commstar II, Termulator or Aterm. If I'm connecting to an ANSI BBS I use modern hardware and qodem apart from if I'm dialing in to BeeBS to upload files, in which case I use Syncterm as it supports 128byte (block size) x-modem, which qodem does not...(or if it does I've not figured out how to make it the default setting). If I'm dialing in to BeeBS to just check/respond messages I use the Matrix Brandy Mode 7 terminal client.

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