Re: Age of Reason BBS

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

If you don't care about running the original hardware, I'll have Hayes Micromodem support to get DiversiDial working in Jace in the near future.  Novation Cat might be another possibility, but it won't be a full Cat emulation given how much those boards could do!

-B

On Saturday, August 4, 2012 2:13:11 AM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
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> > > If anyone else is interested in BBS's (and there's quite a few here ;), and is thinking of setting up a BBS, Synchronet is great and free web BBS software that is telnet-able: 
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> > I have an extra Apple IIe and an older CFFA sitting around. I am totally up for setting up an Apple II telnet accessible BBS. I've been having a really tough time getting the serial interface working though.  I have a USB serial adapter for a PC that is just not talking with the IIe's serial interface properly.
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> > Anyone have any pointers or hardware I can look at to get this thing up and running?
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> USB serial devices are seriously hit and miss with real RS232 equipped devices, might be better off getting a ~20 buck PCI card with 2 serial ports and a printer port ... though those can be sketchy as well
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> What I have encountered in most usb serial products that dont work is the thing is running off of 3.3 volts to avoid having to shift the voltages from a 5 volt part (USB signals are ~3v with a 5v power). 
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> Heck I even got a USB to TTL serial device based on a microchip MCP2000 that claimed total 5 volt compatibility out of the box, set to 3v and would not work with any of my 5 volt embedded systems. Remove a regulator, patch a couple wires and it works fine for those, but what a pain in the butt, boiled down to misunderstanding ... now elevate that to +- 12v inverted signals and ...