was questioning the windows 10 on mac mini for a bit but then realized oh yeah most bbses are very dos centric so it makes sense

synchronet isnt my favorite bbs package and dos/ansi bbses arent generally my preference anyways (i typically go for more ascii or cp/m types)
i have messed around with syncrhonet in the past though so this is reasonably familiar the main issue is the ctrl+c bind doesnt work while in games or The Guru (i got stuck in the guru for a bit i didnt know how to leave and had to reconnect lol)
anyways yeah idk hi

-MMMXXI/CLIII

Re: neat bbs
By: Mmmxxi to All on Sat Feb 21 2026 03:38 pm

was questioning the windows 10 on mac mini for a bit but then realized oh yeah most bbses are very dos centric so it makes sense

synchronet isnt my favorite bbs package and dos/ansi bbses arent generally my preference anyways (i typically go for more ascii or cp/m types)
i have messed around with syncrhonet in the past though so this is reasonably familiar the main issue is the ctrl+c bind doesnt work while in games or The Guru (i got stuck in the guru for a bit i didnt know how to leave and had to
reconnect lol)
anyways yeah idk hi

-MMMXXI/CLIII

If the Guru was so smart he would tell you how to properly exit his chat.

Re: neat bbs
By: Stoph to Mmmxxi on Sat Feb 21 2026 03:44 pm

he did actually he said "For that answer send a self-addressed post card to Bill Clinton,c/o White House!"

-MMMXXI/CLIII

was questioning the windows 10 on mac mini for a bit but then realized oh yeah most bbses are very dos centric so it makes sense

synchronet isnt my favorite bbs package and dos/ansi bbses arent generally my preference anyways (i typically go for more ascii or cp/m types)
i have messed around with syncrhonet in the past though so this is reasonably familiar the main issue is the ctrl+c bind doesnt work while in games or The Guru (i got stuck in the guru for a bit i didnt know how to leave and had to reconnect lol)
anyways yeah idk hi

-MMMXXI/CLIII

Hey M,

Yea, that "GURU" hung me up a few times as well. I think simply saying "Bye" (no quotes) works. It did for me last time I checked it out.

I use to run Widcat! 5 BBS just before the Internet went "public" back in the late 80's to about '95 with muti-node POTS dial-up. Once the Internet arrived people stopped dialing up BBS and they faded away a bit and I eventually shut the system down. I was actually working for the ISP at this point and dived head first into the Internet and getting people hooked up around the state (we had dial-ups everywhere). Anyway...

Recently BBS's are making a big comeback so I wanted to give it ago again. I spent 3 months trying every BBS out there and I picked Synchronet because = it's still being worked by its original creator, from the 80's and is still being developed, and its has everything you need built in. Even connects to other BBS to pickup and dump global messages. Currently I'm connected to DOVE-NET and will be working FIDO-NET and a few others. Look in the messages area and pick DOVE-NET. You can post to them and respond and you will get replies. My system exchanges messages 4 times a day.

As for getting out of things. "Q" usually works everywhere even on the door games.

I'm also running a Commodore BBS on the same computer on port 6400 called "CyberDyne". Gotta set your term for PETSCII and 40 column. MuffinTerm can do that easily. It's the same address as here. I have a lot more work to do on that and it is slow at 38400 baud max speed - but hey, it's a Commodore 64 (actually Vice 64) and 40 year old technology. LOL

should dial in
ive ran some bbs packages before but i think now if i wanted a proper public one personally id want to run either an old cp/m version of citadel or hotline on my g3 imac (or i guess i could finally actually fix up my amiga 1200 and run something on that too but im generally clocked out of amiga stuff these days) honestly i think though right now if i was going to do old computer stuff itd probably be mostly figuring out how to make my own little arpanet using a bunch of simh pdp-10s or something
/// MMMXXI/CLIII \\\
3 0 2 1 o v e r 1 5 3
\\ everything
// nothing
\\ totality

or honestly one day i might just try to hack together my own plan9 grid thats been a project on my mind for so long
/// MMMXXI/CLIII \\\
3 0 2 1 o v e r 1 5 3
\\ everything
// nothing
\\ totality

Synchronet also runs on Linux and spent over a week trying to get everything needed to run it and was just a serious pain in the ass. So much work and issues. I'd rather run it on Linux but it doesn't look like it will run that well on this MacMini. Just need another system I can try it on. Win32 version was a breeze... just wish they had it in 64bit but Windows pulled the support for 32bit apps on 64bit machine recently in Win 11. At lest the 32bit support the BBS and door programs I need. That's what I'm running it in Win 10 LTSC to support 32 bit doors etc.

I am pretty sure 11 still has WoW64 so you can run 32-bit applications. I think they dropped 32-bit support for ARM CPUs though.

Actually I think it was the NVTDMx64 system that had issues with the newest version of Win 11 24H2 and most BBS software/doors.