• Amiga BBSing

    From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to All on Sun Mar 18 18:16:26 2018
    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based bbses?

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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to Frank Linhares on Mon Mar 19 07:01:25 2018
    Here's one.


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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Frank Linhares on Mon Mar 19 20:33:44 2018
    On 03/18/18, Frank Linhares pondered and said...

    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based bbses?

    Not I

    Best, Paul

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  • From Alexey Lisovsky@2:5090/138.10 to Frank Linhares on Mon Mar 19 14:20:04 2018
    Привет, Frank!

    Ответ на сообщение Frank Linhares (1:229/100) к All, написанное 18 мар 18 в
    18:16:

    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based
    bbses?

    In Russia, Amiga is very rare and very expensive toy. I apologise in CIS maybe 1 or 2 geeks :)

    С уважением - Alexey
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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Frank Linhares on Mon Mar 19 08:40:35 2018
    Hi Frank,

    The long lost soul! ;) How have you been?


    On 2018-03-18 18:16:26, you wrote to All:

    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based
    bbses?

    Not me...

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Carlos Roldan@1:322/756 to Frank Linhares on Mon Mar 19 14:49:32 2018
    On 03/18/18, Frank Linhares said the following...

    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based bbses?

    I do under emulation though. necrobbs.strangled.net:40

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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to Carlos Roldan on Mon Mar 19 22:10:29 2018
    I run mine on a A1200. :D


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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Joacim Melin on Mon Mar 19 21:29:29 2018

    On Monday March 19, 2018, Joacim Melin said to Carlos Roldan...

    I run mine on a A1200. :D

    Glad to see a few of us still around.

    -f

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  • From Ingo Juergensmann@2:2452/413 to Carlos Roldan on Tue Mar 20 20:31:56 2018
    Hello Carlos!

    19 Mar 18 14:49, you wrote to Frank Linhares:

    On 03/18/18, Frank Linhares said the following...
    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based
    bbses?
    I do under emulation though. necrobbs.strangled.net:40

    Currently I'm not, but in the long run I want to run it if possible under UAE on one of my Raspberry PIs.
    This is not because of the lack of real hardware, but more to protect it.
    My hope is stil that Mirko Viviani will release this year a new y2k fixed version of GMS Mailer. Otherwise I would need to rely on Trapdoor.

    Ingo


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  • From Carlos Roldan@1:322/756 to Ingo Juergensmann on Wed Mar 21 07:15:42 2018

    Currently I'm not, but in the long run I want to run it if possible
    under UAE on one of my Raspberry PIs.
    This is not because of the lack of real hardware, but more to protect it. My hope is stil that Mirko Viviani will release this year a new y2k fixed version of GMS Mailer. Otherwise I would need to rely on Trapdoor.

    I am also going to try to run it under emulation on y Rpi3. Is trapdoor available anywhere?

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  • From Ingo Juergensmann@2:2452/413 to Carlos Roldan on Wed Mar 21 21:15:44 2018
    Hello Carlos!

    21 Mar 18 07:15, you wrote to me:

    I am also going to try to run it under emulation on y Rpi3. Is
    trapdoor available anywhere?

    Trapdoor is available on Aminet, but it requires a license file. I'm not sure if there has been a generic license file released, though. Whereas I do not have contact to Max, I do have contact to Mirko, author of GMS Mailer. So, chances are better to have a license key free version of GMS than of Trapdoor.

    Ingo


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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to Ingo Juergensmann on Wed Mar 21 22:33:20 2018
    Hello Carlos!

    21 Mar 18 07:15, you wrote to me:

    I am also going to try to run it under emulation on y Rpi3. Is
    trapdoor available anywhere?

    Trapdoor is available on Aminet, but it requires a license file. I'm
    not sure if there has been a generic license file released, though. Whereas I do not have contact to Max, I do have contact to Mirko,
    author of GMS Mailer. So, chances are better to have a license key
    free version of GMS than of Trapdoor.

    Ingo

    Well if you can arrange for some of us to have keyfiles arranged, I'd sure appreciate one. Haven't checked out GMS yet but it looks very interesting indeed.


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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Carlos Roldan on Wed Mar 21 13:42:03 2018

    On Wednesday March 21, 2018, Carlos Roldan said to Ingo Juergensmann...

    I am also going to try to run it under emulation on y Rpi3. Is
    trapdoor available anywhere?

    You should be able to grab it from Aminet, if not, I'm sure I have a copy of
    it here somewhere. Let me know if you want me to dig for it.

    -f

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  • From Niklas Lindholm@2:201/120 to Carlos Roldan on Thu Mar 22 04:25:45 2018
    I am also going to try to run it under emulation on y Rpi3. Is
    trapdoor available anywhere?

    If you are running in emulator and have a shared filesystem between the Amiga and the host you also have the possibility to run mailer and tosser on the host
    system. I'm running Binkp and Crashmail in Linux and NiKom can read the message
    base through the shared file system.

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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Niklas Lindholm on Thu Mar 22 00:19:38 2018

    On Thursday March 22, 2018, Niklas Lindholm said to Carlos Roldan...

    If you are running in emulator and have a shared filesystem between the Amiga and the host you also have the possibility to run mailer and
    tosser on the host system. I'm running Binkp and Crashmail in Linux and NiKom can read the message base through the shared file system.

    The rPi is such a great device. I was never able to get the Amiga port of
    binkd running properly so I compiled binkd with amiga style outbound support
    on a pi and connected the pi to my Amiga via a null modem cable and using
    some scripting mail in now flowing without issue.

    I really should see if I can compile the latest binkd source so that I can figure out why binkd never ran properly on my amiga :(

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  • From Carlos Roldan@1:322/756 to Joacim Melin on Thu Mar 22 10:55:02 2018
    Trapdoor is available on Aminet, but it requires a license file. I'm not sure if there has been a generic license file released, though. Whereas I do not have contact to Max, I do have contact to Mirko, author of GMS Mailer. So, chances are better to have a license key free version of GMS than of Trapdoor.

    Is there as license free version of GMS? Thanks

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  • From Carlos Roldan@1:322/756 to Frank Linhares on Thu Mar 22 10:56:30 2018
    You should be able to grab it from Aminet, if not, I'm sure I have a
    copy of it here somewhere. Let me know if you want me to dig for it.

    It it on Aminet but requires a license. Not sure if they still produce
    license for that. BTW, my CNet BBS is at necrobbs.strangled.net:40 Thanks

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  • From Carlos Roldan@1:322/756 to Niklas Lindholm on Thu Mar 22 10:57:31 2018
    If you are running in emulator and have a shared filesystem between the Amiga and the host you also have the possibility to run mailer and
    tosser on the host system. I'm running Binkp and Crashmail in Linux and NiKom can read the message base through the shared file system.

    Will have to try that, thanks.

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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Carlos Roldan on Thu Mar 22 15:22:40 2018
    On Thursday March 22, 2018, Carlos Roldan said to Frank Linhares...

    It it on Aminet but requires a license. Not sure if they still produce license for that. BTW, my CNet BBS is at necrobbs.strangled.net:40
    Thanks

    Have you tried the amiexpress.co.uk files area? Those guys have a crazy
    amount of amiga related bbs files and might have a key for it somewhere.

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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Carlos Roldan on Thu Mar 22 15:23:37 2018

    On Thursday March 22, 2018, Carlos Roldan said to Niklas Lindholm...

    If you are running in emulator and have a shared filesystem between
    the Amiga and the host you also have the possibility to run mailer and
    tosser on the host system. I'm running Binkp and Crashmail in Linux
    and NiKom can read the message base through the shared file system.

    Will have to try that, thanks.

    And if your running you system on a real amiga, I can up with a way of using binkd on a pi and having it pass files, both inbound and outbound stuff via
    a null modem cable and some scripting. I could never get the Amiga build of binkd to work.


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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to Frank Linhares on Fri Mar 23 08:48:37 2018
    On Thursday March 22, 2018, Carlos Roldan said to Niklas Lindholm...

    If you are running in emulator and have a shared filesystem between
    the Amiga and the host you also have the possibility to run mailer and
    tosser on the host system. I'm running Binkp and Crashmail in Linux
    and NiKom can read the message base through the shared file system.

    Will have to try that, thanks.

    And if your running you system on a real amiga, I can up with a way
    of using
    binkd on a pi and having it pass files, both inbound and outbound
    stuff via
    a null modem cable and some scripting. I could never get the Amiga
    build of
    binkd to work.


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    Frank Linhares - hysteriabbs.com - zeus 1.7 - amiga 4ooo

    There was several versions of Binkd available under the name AmiBinkd but they were all terrible in terms of memory leakage which eventually brought the entire system down. I tried them all and the last one, v9.04 I believe, did not
    perform any better. The source for this version was never published and I believe the person behind it tried to charge money for it for a while, hence it
    was removed from Aminet.


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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Joacim Melin on Fri Mar 23 08:24:50 2018

    On Friday March 23, 2018, Joacim Melin said to Frank Linhares...

    There was several versions of Binkd available under the name AmiBinkd
    but they were all terrible in terms of memory leakage which eventually brought the entire system down. I tried them all and the last one,
    v9.04 I believe, did not perform any better. The source for this
    version was never published and I believe the person behind it tried to charge money for it for a while, hence it was removed from Aminet.

    Too bad. Maybe it's time to dust off some old amiga programming and give
    this a crack.

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    Frank Linhares - hysteriabbs.com - zeus 1.7 - amiga 4ooo

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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to Frank Linhares on Fri Mar 23 15:41:35 2018
    On Friday March 23, 2018, Joacim Melin said to Frank Linhares...

    There was several versions of Binkd available under the name AmiBinkd
    but they were all terrible in terms of memory leakage which eventually
    brought the entire system down. I tried them all and the last one,
    v9.04 I believe, did not perform any better. The source for this
    version was never published and I believe the person behind it tried to
    charge money for it for a while, hence it was removed from Aminet.

    Too bad. Maybe it's time to dust off some old amiga programming and
    give
    this a crack.
    You can find a few versions of Amibinkd that I collected here:

    ftp.retrodatorer.se/BBS and Fidonet Software/Fidonet Software/Amiga/AmiBinkD



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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Joacim Melin on Fri Mar 23 13:54:53 2018

    On Friday March 23, 2018, Joacim Melin said to Frank Linhares...

    You can find a few versions of Amibinkd that I collected here:

    ftp.retrodatorer.se/BBS and Fidonet Software/Fidonet Software/Amiga/AmiBinkD

    Thanks, I'll give it a look.

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    Frank Linhares - hysteriabbs.com - zeus 1.7 - amiga 4ooo

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  • From Dave Drum@1:261/38 to Frank Linhares on Sat Mar 24 07:35:28 2018
    Frank Linhares wrote to Joacim Melin <=-

    On Friday March 23, 2018, Joacim Melin said to Frank Linhares...

    There was several versions of Binkd available under the name AmiBinkd
    but they were all terrible in terms of memory leakage which eventually brought the entire system down. I tried them all and the last one,
    v9.04 I believe, did not perform any better. The source for this
    version was never published and I believe the person behind it tried to charge money for it for a while, hence it was removed from Aminet.

    Too bad. Maybe it's time to dust off some old amiga programming and
    give this a crack.

    No puns intended, of course. Bv)=

    ... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.

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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Dave Drum on Sat Mar 24 12:19:58 2018

    On Saturday March 24, 2018, Dave Drum said to Frank Linhares...

    Too bad. Maybe it's time to dust off some old amiga programming and
    give this a crack.

    No puns intended, of course. Bv)=

    Your right, no pun at all. I pulled out my old Amiga Programmers Handbook
    from a box that had a huge layer of dust on it.

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  • From Dave Drum@1:3634/12 to Frank Linhares on Sun Mar 25 06:26:00 2018
    Actually I was referring to "crack" - as in, sometimes, with abandonware one has to crack the registration codes in order to use the program as there is no legitimate way to register it.

    Software pirates use cracks all the time on live software - which is NOT what I
    was implying. Much/most Amiga warez are abandonware - in many cases the developers are taking the dirt nap. BV(=


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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to Dave Drum on Mon Mar 26 02:28:54 2018

    On Sunday March 25, 2018, Dave Drum said to Frank Linhares...

    Actually I was referring to "crack" - as in, sometimes, with
    abandonware one has to crack the registration codes in order to use the program as there is no legitimate way to register it.

    Software pirates use cracks all the time on live software - which is
    NOT what I
    was implying. Much/most Amiga warez are abandonware - in many cases
    the developers are taking the dirt nap. BV(=

    I here ya. Almost all of the amiga adf's out in the wild are the pirated versions of the software since making copies of said software is just
    easier.

    I'm completely down with cracking something that has been abandoned just to
    get the functionality out of it.
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  • From K5TLG@1:19/33 to Frank Linhares on Wed Apr 11 21:39:08 2018
    Re: Amiga BBSing
    By: Frank Linhares to All on Sun Mar 18 2018 06:16 pm

    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based bbses?

    I do also, on an Amiga 1200 with Excelsior! Just getting it back online after a 22 year hiatus. ciaamigabbs.dynu.net:6400
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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/100 to K5TLG on Fri Apr 13 23:11:36 2018

    On Wednesday April 11, 2018, K5tlg said to Frank Linhares...

    Just curious, how many people who read this echo run Amiga based bbses?

    I do also, on an Amiga 1200 with Excelsior! Just getting it back online after a 22 year hiatus. ciaamigabbs.dynu.net:6400

    It's always a great feeling coming back.

    frank!netsurge ! hysteriabbs.com ! zeus 1.7 ! amiga 4ooo


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