Re: The BoycoT BBS Officially Online

[chris@CosmicWolf.com (Chris Morse)]

On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 04:29:51 GMT, "Terry & Utahna Olsen"
<tolsen64@nospam.boycot.dns2go.com> wrote:

>Finally got a copy of METAL / FutureVision that was complete.  The BoycoT
>BBS is now online and waiting for your call.  If you logged in to the GBBS
>board I had running, you'll have to log in as NEW again...sorry for the
>inconvenience.
>
>Now that I've got it running METAL, won't take me long to put tons of games
>& such fun time wasters back on.  So log on tonite to get your account, then
>check back often to see what else has been added.
>
>If you have any comments or suggestions, please leave feedback on the BBS or
>reply to this post to send me email.
>
>LOG ON NOW!  telnet:boycot.dns2go.com
>
>Terry
>Tall Runner

What about this "gateway" project?  You mentioned something about it
on your website.

I have an Apple //c at the moment, along with two Windows PC's.
Unfortunately, I am currently living in a tiny apartment that has
forced me to keep my //c in a box located at the local storage palace.
I hope to buy a house next year, but whenever that does happen I will
*definitely* be heading to eBay to get a few more Apple //e, //c's and
probably a couple //GS's.

What do you have in mind for this Gateway project?  Actually, it
doesn't sound so hard- I do a lot of programming professionally, and I
was planning to do something similar.  Maybe we can get something
working.  One project I've written for the PC (Windows NT/2000) is a
multi-user BBS system.. I had a project that required any number of
phone lines to be set up for a special dial-up interface (which was
essentially like a BBS).  I wrote a multi-threaded server app that
just launched a copy of the dial-up handling thread for each modem
attached.  I could rip out all the dedicated BBS code and rewrite it
to become a sort of "Apple // Shell" for communicating with the world.

Come to think of it, if you really wanted to, you could do some crazy
stuff.. Making a TELNET gateway could be just one function; you could
write an FTP gateway as well that could translate the file transfer
from the target FTP site to the Windows PC host into an X/Y/Z-Modem
transfer to the Apple // - in a transparent manner.  That would be
quite cool, actually.. then you could log into Asimov's FTP site and
transfer files directly to your Apple // machine without any other
middleware.

A Web gateway could be written too- though it would be without
graphics, I'm sure.  An IRC gateway would be great, too.

I've done a lot of this sort of programming already; I just haven't
done any real programming on an Apple //e in like 15 years.  I used to
know 6502 assembler inside out, even wrote a couple games in assembler
and got them published in some Apple magazines.  I just can't bear to
think that the Apple //, the machine that launched my interest and
career, is forever gone in my life.. hence: Apple ][ forever!

Anything I write that's Apple // related will, of course, be freeware.
Currently, for fun, I've been working on freeware usenet programs.
I've written a program for uploading and a program for downloading
binaries to/from usenet, called "Power Post 2000" and "Power Grab
2002".  You can check 'em out at www.CosmicWolf.com if you're
interested in getting an idea of what I can do.


Hope something interesting comes of this!  Would be nice...

// CHRIS