Re: WaZaBoo! BBS 216-382-7040

[gpnz@yahoo.com.au (Gavin Picknell)]

Sounds cool! I've recently rescued my apple IIgs from storage
(although its now stored in my roof instead, gee I wonder if it still
even works...) and was thinking about doing something similar for a
laugh. Years ago I used to run a local apple II BBS on my //e using
Warp6 v2.5, although my //e was spec'd quite well at the time (HD/more
RAM/Accelerator - which I seem to have lost somewhere along the line
doh!).

I came across the following website (I think from a post here
actually) http://www.petscii.com/ that is in to the same kind of
thing, but from a C64 perspective, but does have some software that
runs on a PC that does a similar thing to your VB app by the sounds of
it, and I'm hoping it doesnt mind that its not a C64 on the other end
of the serial port (havent tried it with my II yet).

Speaking of your VB app, is it anything you'd be willing to share, or
is it one of those little customised jobbies that would probably be
too hard for anyone else to figure out how to use...(I wont be
offended if dont wont to release it, but figured I should ask anyway
:) ).

Anyway, thanks for the info.

Cheers,

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<brm52j$4uko3$1@ID-198131.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> "Gavin Picknell" <gpnz@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Hi Terry,
> >
> > I was just wondering about how you went about enabling your apple II
> > BBS for telnet access, I'm guessing a PC in the middle with net
> > access, and Apple II connected to PC via a serial port with some
> > software on the PC to listen for telnet connections and convert into
> > serial for the Apple II BBS access (along with the appropriate modem
> > commands?). Anyway, I'm interested in that kind of stuff and was just
> > wondering how you did it if you dont mind me asking :)
> 
> 
> Correct. I had the BBS connected to a PC via null-modem cable.  I wrote a
> program in Visual Basic that listened to a telnet port and pretended to be a
> modem for the BBS.  Worked pretty good...  Then they kept raising the price
> of Cable Internet and I had to shut it off...