Subj : My BBS
To   : apam
From : deon
Date : Wed Nov 20 2024 06:56 pm

  Re: My BBS
  By: apam to All on Wed Nov 20 2024 03:31 pm

Howdy,

 > This time, it's inspired by synchronet, by inspired I don't mean I plan on
 > making a synchronet clone, but mostly using javascript for a lot of the
 > features like synchronet does.
 >
 > I'm using duktape for the JS engine, and the BBS is written in C++ (I just
 > couldn't make rust or swift do what I wanted, I'm probably too old or dumb
 > or something, but those languages feel like trying to program while wrapped
 > in bubble wrap and everything you want to do is too dangerous)

I'm keen to see how you go with this.

Not sure if you recall, but I've had an interest in the 80's/90's information service "Viatel" (based on viewdata/videotex), and I wrote a Synchronet shell to emulate that environment - both with Mode 7 graphics and ANSI.

I'm no javascript programmer, know enough to be dangerous, but kinda stalled on it for other things that I wanted to work on.

If/when you make this available, I'll certainly have a play and see how I might port my shell to it (if that is something that can be done), and to see if I can do more than what I've already done so far...



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