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Best IIgs/IIc BBS software and other questions



I have a couple Apple IIgs and an Apple IIc lying around 
and want to put one of them to work as a BBS in the 
near future (after I move and have room to set it up). 
What is the best BBS software to use and where can I 
get it? I've seen a lot of talk about GBBS recently but 
since it is currently "unavailable" what other choices 
are there? I'm looking for something relatively easy to 
use (duh) and that has add-ons (like games etc.) 
available for it. Being freely available would be nice 
too (I know, I want it all :))

My plan is to put this BBS on the internet accessible via 
telnet. My options seem to be to us Synchronet BBS for the 
PC (which I have heard has a door program that will allow 
access to another BBS through the serial port) or there is 
another program that someone wrote called BBSlink that 
acts as a telnet server on the PC side and passes incoming 
connections through a null-modem cable to whatever BBS 
you have connected. Anybody have experience doing this? Are
there any other methods?

To be honest, I'm not to familiar with the Apple IIgs or 
Apple IIs in general. I was originally going to do this 
with a Commodore 64 but there really aren't any 
affordable hard drive solutions for the Commodore. (The 
SCSI interface is too dang expensive!)

Which brings me to another question... 
I have several external Macintosh SCSI hard drives 
ranging in size from 20MB to 300MB. I would like to use 
one (or more) of them with the IIgs. What is the best 
way to go about doing this?

Is any of this possible on the IIc (hooking up SCSI 
hard drives and running a BBS). I guess I'm probably 
better off using the IIgs but I figured I would ask.

Thanks!


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