Subj : My BBS
To   : deon
From : Bob Worm
Date : Wed Nov 20 2024 08:43 am

  Re: My BBS
  By: deon to apam on Wed Nov 20 2024 18:56:28

Hi, Deon.

 > 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 feel like you and Vela025 might have a lot to talk about. He was running a BBS on a BBC Master which used Mode 7 out of the box (though he added 40 and 80 col modes to it) - for various reasons mostly to do with not wanting to leave an unsupervised 40 year old computer on 24/7 he has just moved the BBS to Synchronet and is busily adapting various parts of it to do Mode 7.

It seems like there's a bit of work involved to make the various parts of the BBS work cleanly across the modes, i.e. not just different screen sizes but using different methods to signal colours and a different character set to draw with.

beebs.ddns.net:6502 if you're interested :)

BobW
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