All the discussion of various DOS flavors posed the question to me - is anyone able to run an OPUS system anymore?

Would be a cool thing to do it possible!

73

Steve
K9ZW

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On 14 Feb 24 15:51:33 k9zw wrote...

All the discussion of various DOS flavors posed the question to me -
is anyone able to run an OPUS system anymore?

Would be a cool thing to do it possible!

73

Steve K9ZW

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To which Bf2K+ replies...

Opus was the first BBS I ran in FidoNet back in 1987 or 88 (I forget
which). I ran it with a SEAdog front-end mailer. Over my 10 years in
FidoNet, I ran 4 or five mailers and 3 or 4 BBS programs... some were FrontDoor, Binkleyterm, Intermail, QuickBBS, RemoteAccess BBS etc... I
wish I had saved backups of some of these systems, if for no other reason
than to have access to all of my old DOS batch files... some of those
were doozies! I ahve forgotten most of that stuff these days... the RAM
chips are starting to deteriorate...

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k9zw wrote to All <=-

All the discussion of various DOS flavors posed the question to me - is anyone able to run an OPUS system anymore?

Would be a cool thing to do it possible!

I set up a FIDO system a while back and made it accessible via telnet.
For the life of me, I can't recall how I got the port redirection
working, I wonder if I used DOSBOX?

My first incarnation of realitycheckBBS was on Opus CBCS, I switched to Telegard because my poor AT couldn't keep up with tossing individual
*.msg files very well.

For most of the '90s, I ran on Maximus - because I liked the sparse
menus in Opus.

I kept thinking back to Opus - being able to combine a BBS, full screen
editor and a mailer into a DOS BBS was quite a task.



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