Subj : My BBS
To   : Bob Worm
From : deon
Date : Wed Nov 20 2024 10:24 pm

  Re: My BBS
  By: Bob Worm to deon on Wed Nov 20 2024 08:43 am

Howdy,

 > 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.

Yeah, I think I've noticed Vela025 with what he's doing.

Our approaches have been different - Sync can operate in ANSI and Petsci modes, translating on the fly what is presented to the user - but mostly a Syncronet BBS.

What I've done is (I think anyway) a little different, in that I'm using Sync as the engine to a Viewdata experience - so Im not translating any sync output to viewdata/mode 7 (and thus everything available via an ANSI experience is also available via a petsci experience - and with Vela025's work a mode 7 experience), I've recreated a prestel like experience.

So content is provided by page numbers - and page numbers are accessed with an "*" and executed with a "#". Some pages are text, and some are rendered by internal methods - like fetch and read mail, etc.

I've got many parts yet to build out, so yes, Vela025 if any of this sounds interesting I'd love to get another interested party to help out.


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