Re: Telnet BBS cable?

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Xerxes409 wrote:
> On Nov 23, 3:37�am, <address...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> dboomsma <dboom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I suppose you put one side of the cable into the Apple IIe, but where
>> > does the other end go into?
>>
>> > I've been playing with the same thought for a long time, only
>> > different:
>> > I'd love to see Sweet16 to be able to accept a telnet connection and
>> > forward it to a virtual modemport that the ProDOS 8 system (METAL/
>> > FutureVision) will accept.
>>
>> > Mr Brad, seen recently here in csa2, has a setup as follows: Windows PC
>> > with cable to Apple IIgs with (Null?) modem to BBS software. On the
>> > Windows side he's got software running that will intercept the Telnet
>> > calls and forward to the serial port.
>>
>> That's what I plan to do -- I have a null modem cable running to a
>> virtual
>> machine through a serial to USB adapter. �The problem is that the
>> communication is only one way at the moment. �Commands can be sent to
the
>> Apple II but nothing comes back through the cable out to telnet.
>>
>> I was able to get a telnet connection as you describes above using KEGS
>> or
>> maybe it was XGS. �It wasn't completely reliable but it did let me log
>> into
>> my AppleNet BBS for the first time in 20 years :). �I'd really like to
>> run
>> this "new" one on actual hardware.
> 
> Let us know if you get it up and running! There used to be a retro
> Apple BBS, but afaik it's down.
>

Age of Reason is still up. I "dialed in" a week or two ago.

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