What are some telnet bbs recommendations?

I've tested out dctelnet, is there any others, perhaps better?

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On 01 Jan 2024, niter3 said the following...

What are some telnet bbs recommendations?

BBS programs or Term programs? If you are talking Term programs, Term, JR-Comm, Terminus are 3 really good term programs to use, unfortunately none of them have been updated since the mid 90's...

If talking BBS Programs, currently the 2 that I know of that are being updated are C-Net, Zeus is supposedly being worked on. There is another one amongst the crack community which I can't remember the name of (Damn Covid Brain) that is being updated. I am sure others will reply with softwares that are being updated.. I currently run a C-Net and it is very stable and does the job quite well in Emulation...

Al

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What are some telnet bbs recommendations?

Clients or servers?

I've tested out dctelnet, is there any others, perhaps better?

You've reached the pinnacle with dctelnet, sorry to inform you ;)

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If talking BBS Programs, currently the 2 that I know of that are being updated are C-Net, Zeus is supposedly being worked on. There is another one amongst the crack community which I can't remember the name of (Damn Covid Brain) that is being updated. I am sure others will reply with softwares that are being updated.. I currently run a C-Net and it is
very stable and does the job quite well in Emulation...

Amiga Express has been completely rewritten in E and is opensource. It's a fantastic BBS software.

Daydream also exists, and the 1.30b4 edition is freeware. Daydream was written completely in ASM and is blazing fast. It also has a ton of mods available. However it's not being updated.

<daydream saga incoming>

Years ago Rudi Timmermans bought the Daydream source and he started releasing versions with a very strange versioning schema. He would do a small update and change the major version. Eventually he ended up with Daydream 8.55. I have been able to install this and make it work, and it's pretty slick, but it's crippled and now there is no way to get a key for it. I also cannot get in touch with Rudi any more.

A couple years ago Rudi sold the source to someone else. I've chatted with that guy a couple of times but he says the source is on some CF card somewhere and he can't be bothered to go find it. So I guess it's dead at this point. This bums me out because I was willing to pay the guy for the source and try to make a new release that would be freeware and have a couple of bugs fixed, as well as a reasonable installer.

Alas.

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On 01 Jan 2024, Bucko said the following...

On 01 Jan 2024, niter3 said the following...

What are some telnet bbs recommendations?

BBS programs or Term programs? If you are talking Term programs, Term, JR-Comm, Terminus are 3 really good term programs to use, unfortunately none of them have been updated since the mid 90's...

If talking BBS Programs, currently the 2 that I know of that are being updated are C-Net, Zeus is supposedly being worked on. There is another one amongst the crack community which I can't remember the name of (Damn Covid Brain) that is being updated. I am sure others will reply with softwares that are being updated.. I currently run a C-Net and it is
very stable and does the job quite well in Emulation...

I am referring to the client applications.

As for bbs packages, I am trying to gain access to the owners BBS to download it.

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Hi niter3,

What are some telnet bbs recommendations?

I've tested out dctelnet, is there any others, perhaps better?

dctelnet is pretty much it for a native telnet program. You can use
jrcomm etc, but the use of telser is then required.

With dctelnet you just have the network stack running, or bsd socket
emulation if using a emulator.


\/orlon
aka
Stephen

Rocking Amiga 3000 powerd, Linux M68K.



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If talking BBS Programs, currently the 2 that I know of that are being
updated are C-Net, Zeus is supposedly being worked on. There is another
one amongst the crack community which I can't remember the name of (Damn
Covid Brain) that is being updated. I am sure others will reply with
softwares that are being updated.. I currently run a C-Net and it is
very stable and does the job quite well in Emulation...

Amiga Express has been completely rewritten in E and is opensource.
It's a fantastic BBS software.

Daydream also exists, and the 1.30b4 edition is freeware. Daydream was written completely in ASM and is blazing fast. It also has a ton of
mods available. However it's not being updated.

<daydream saga incoming>

Years ago Rudi Timmermans bought the Daydream source and he started releasing versions with a very strange versioning schema. He would do
a small update and change the major version. Eventually he ended up
with Daydream 8.55. I have been able to install this and make it work,
and it's pretty slick, but it's crippled and now there is no way to
get a key for it. I also cannot get in touch with Rudi any more.

A couple years ago Rudi sold the source to someone else. I've chatted
with that guy a couple of times but he says the source is on some CF
card somewhere and he can't be bothered to go find it. So I guess it's
dead at this point. This bums me out because I was willing to pay the
guy for the source and try to make a new release that would be
freeware and have a couple of bugs fixed, as well as a reasonable installer.

Alas.

Is that the same Rudi Timmermans who took the source for Binkd and turned it into AmiBinkd and tried to charge money for it? He never got it working properly since it would crash the Amiga after a couple of hours or a few days, depending on the phase of the moon or something.


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dctelnet is pretty much it for a native telnet program. You can use
jrcomm etc, but the use of telser is then required.

I'll take a look at this. Thank you.

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
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Years ago Rudi Timmermans bought the Daydream source and he started releasing versions with a very strange versioning schema. He would do a small update and change the major version. Eventually he ended up with Daydream 8.55. I have been able to install this and make it work, and
it's pretty slick, but it's crippled and now there is no way to get a
key for it. I also cannot get in touch with Rudi any more.

Hi,

He seems to be active on Github, maybe give it a try over there.

Gtx!
sPI

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Is that the same Rudi Timmermans who took the source for Binkd and
turned it into AmiBinkd and tried to charge money for it? He never got it working properly since it would crash the Amiga after a couple of
hours or a few days, depending on the phase of the moon or something.

The very same :)

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He seems to be active on Github, maybe give it a try over there.

Yeah, I'm in touch with Rudi, but he doesn't have the source or anything any more :/

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
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Is that the same Rudi Timmermans who took the source for Binkd and
turned it into AmiBinkd and tried to charge money for it? He never got
it working properly since it would crash the Amiga after a couple of
hours or a few days, depending on the phase of the moon or something.

The very same :)

If memory serves he never released the source code either, so the last version (9.04 or something) was indeed the last and it's of course buggy as hell.


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Is that the same Rudi Timmermans who took the source for Binkd and
turned it into AmiBinkd and tried to charge money for it? He never got
it working properly since it would crash the Amiga after a couple of
hours or a few days, depending on the phase of the moon or something.

The very same :)

I have, incidentally, been saving all versions of Amibinkd that I have been able to lay my filthy hands on:

https://ftp.melin.org/bbs/amiga/fidonet/amibinkd/

If you have any other versions please let me know as I'd love to add them to the collection... (for no good reason, really).

//Joakim


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If memory serves he never released the source code either, so the last version (9.04 or something) was indeed the last and it's of course buggy as hell.

Wonderful. Lol. What other options are there for Amiga?

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If memory serves he never released the source code either, so the last
version (9.04 or something) was indeed the last and it's of course buggy
as hell.

Wonderful. Lol. What other options are there for Amiga?

There's always Trapdoor but I've never used it with an IP-based connection. There's also a very old port of Binkd that works but just barely. It doesn't support encrypted connections (if memory serves).


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