adv omninet/ apple // bbs on net w/synchronet & www based doors/apple 2's? ramble

["mrbrad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Weelborg" <mrbrad@ll.net>
To: "Frank Townsend
Cc: "Brad Weelborg"
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 6:12 AM
Subject: corvus omni & apple //s on the net ..synchronet bbs


> well..if you ever get the software...let me know i could use a copy..i
also
> have plans on getting such a beast up
>
> if you want something to run on it..i have an old version of dos 3.3
> applenet from 1983 (my orig bbs setup) I plan on putting it up on my www
> site setup i have (i currently have 2 apple // gs doors
> assessable via the net ..i think you know that
> apple // and fv/metal) but if i figure out how to
> get the corvus running may put it up on that ...the old applenet dos 3.3
that is
>
> projects projects
>
> if you've seen my system here..
> www.lost-gonzo.com
> and like the idea of a www site and bbs on the side (multinode ms dos
beast)
> and the dialout
> serial option of adding the 2 gs's like i have
> (or the corvus with a bbs on it at your end)
>
> i found a msdos FREEWARE pkg which you
> can essentially do and even look like my setup
> on a pentium machine..with the added advanage
> of running 250 telnet nodes and/or as many
> MULTI-NODE bbs door games as you can
> (my setup here requires a sep machine for
> each set of games and only one machine
> can handle 1 serially connected user at a time
> much like the apple //s..my holly grail was to find such a bbs pkg as
this...
>
> not only that you can get usenet feeds, fido
> net,  rimenet , multinet legend of red dragon (l.o.r.d)
> muds, etc etc and it also has a dialout
> option (or use the dialout door programs i found) if you want to run sep
bbs
> doors via inet like me or that corvus with a apple bbs pkg on it or
whatever
>
> anyway..its kinda a hoot when you check the
> various systems it lists out on its main bbs page
> and you get on and realize the guy is running
> 100 door games 4 to 8 players can get in each game on a time and inter bbs
> game wars and
> the works on one p300 machine...all as xtern dos windows/programs on 1
box...jeez
>
> so anyway..thats what i mean by projects projects
> but it is gonna sure save my door games thingy
> using my mbbs/wg front end
>
> oh last point as long as i'm typing fast here and
> rambling
>
> new 32bit games are coming out and it also on or for systems/doors like
this setup
> his main page he has a freeware telnet client
> that is transparent to the user using java
> it is also freeware and he has a link to it
>
> which would be my ultimate dream finally of having
> one system with all my stuff on it..all my old apple
> bbs pkgs on 3 slaves i ever ran (2 gs's and an apple // with the applenet
> dos 3.3)
>
> all transparently, without large telnet client downloads, accessable as a
> click in whatever
> door game or apple you wanted to hit in..the old web page front end
> old telnet windo comes up and viola you are in
> the apple // doors. ms dos door, tw2002 gold server, mud, inter bbs game
or
> whatever.then again transparently to the user ..requiring no awareness
even
> that they are in a telnet client or what terminal mode even is...get out
of the game and
> viola..you log out of the game your back in the
> www page
>
> of course like most projects i prob wont get that done either
>
> the software  bbs in guestion is
>
> synchronet bbs pkg..it again is freeware, huge, and currently being worked
> on with actual new releases coming every month or
> so by the orig author
>
> www.synchro.net
> telnet
> vert.synchro.net
>
> hope this helps
>
> i'm also gonna try to post this on the newsgroup
>
> brad
> sysop@lost-gonzo.com
> www.lost-gonzo.com
> mrbrad@ll.net
> ftp.lost-gonzo.com\
>
> p.s. my door machines and apple //s are currently
> down ..just bought a house and moved and have
> to wire up the room to take more equip...should
> be back up soon
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:35 AM
> Subject: Adventures with my Corvus Omninet network
>
>
> > Well, I now have my Apple II+ and Apple ][e both as clients on my
Omninet
> > network.  Nothing needed to make connections but an insulation stripper
> and
> > a soldering iron.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have the Corvus Constellation network software,
so
> > both machines simply boot to s6,d1,v1 of the Corvus 20MB drive.
> >
> > The drive is divided into two 10MB logical drives, each of which
contains
> 63
> > DOS volumes.
> >
> > The supplied utilities allow only text files to be copied between Corvus
> > volumes.  Fortunately, my Wildcard2 and its utility disk allows copies
> > between volumes on the hard drive.
> >
> > At 1 Mbps network rates, the computers seem to boot to the Corvus drive
> only
> > a little faster than a floppy.  It *is*, however, very strange and
> > gratifying (to me, anyway) to watch the Apple II+ boot to a catalog
> listing
> > in a rather ghastly silence.
> >
> >
>