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    From deon@21:2/116 to All on Wed Sep 15 11:08:49 2021
    Howdy,

    I remember in the 1990's that there used to be Videotex based BBSes (that ran at 1200/75).

    I used to work at a company where we had pages on Australia's Videotex environment (called Viatel then), so I've always had a interest in Videotex.

    While I'm half way through making a Videotex shell for Synchronet, I started writing one because I havent been able to find the BBS software that was used in the 1990's (no idea what it was called).

    Anybody aware of Videotex BBS software, and where I can get a copy?

    I did find VHOST for RISC-OS, which I've run on a Pi, but unfortuantely the telnet to serial interface keeps stopping after a day or so, so its not reliable :( (And I dont know anything about RISC-OS).



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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to deon on Wed Sep 15 07:54:02 2021
    deon wrote (2021-09-15):

    I did find VHOST for RISC-OS, which I've run on a Pi, but unfortuantely
    the telnet to serial interface keeps stopping after a day or so, so its
    not reliable :( (And I dont know anything about RISC-OS).

    you could ask in the RISC OS forum: https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/

    a search for 'vhost' or 'videotex' didn't return any topic related result though.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to deon on Thu Sep 23 17:08:00 2021
    I remember in the 1990's that there used to be Videotex based BBSes (that ran at 1200/75).

    Wheee... I recall a few ASCII/ANSI bbs that still ran at 1200/75 very early
    on, more late 80s than 90s... but no anything that directly supported videotex...

    Spec


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