From what I remember it worked pretty good. One thing I did wrong
was every message and every user was a seperate .seq file so it took
a while to find your username and password. ;)

haha. That wouldn't be possible on the BBCs. The disks have a limit of
30ish files I think.

And of all the things I'm really enjoying about the original BBC BASIC,
I'm finding the inability to have multi-line IF statements a real
frustration. It was added later, but as far as I can see, it wasn't on
the original 8bit micros.

Procedures and functions are amazing for their time, but damn an
IF...ENDIF would have made it practically perfect! hahaha


That said, the links on here have taken me down some interesting rabbit
holes, including the Commander X16 which I have as an emulator. I'd love
the hardware, especially as 8bitguy wants to have them available in the US$50-100 region.

The Mega65 looks awesome, but the price tag will mean that with shipping
and import taxes, it'll probably be around NZ$2000 or more. And that's
just not good value for money IMO.


--- Talisman v0.35-dev (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Lost Underground BBS (21:1/230)

Am 16.12.21 schrieb JoE DooM@21:1/230 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo JoE,

Btw, if someone wants to log into a RBBS BBS, the RC-BOX is using it.
It is running on a RC2014 Z80 kit computer on CP/M.

haha wow, thanks. I hadn't heard of the RC2014 z80 kit, so that's given
me something else to look into. I'll check out the bbs too.

It's a very nice system with its own ecosystem of additional modules
and software.

I've built a RC2014 Pro and added some modules to it (eg. the VT132
Terminal Module) so it is a self-contained computer system and created
a case for it.

As the modules mostly consist of through-hole components, it is
possible to solder them even if you are no soldering professional :)
(the RC2014 was my first 'bigger' soldering job - and it worked at
first start *g*)

Regards,
Anna

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)

Am 16.12.21 schrieb deon@21:2/116 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo deon,

I jumped on because I was curious :)
It was dropping some chars, but otherwise looks great...

Btw, the sysop of the RC-BOX is also the sysop of the Wintermute BBS.
Here's his Twitter account, where he sometimes also is posting updates
on the RC-BOX:
https://twitter.com/Wintermute_BBS

Regards,
Anna

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)

Am 17.12.21 schrieb JoE DooM@21:1/230 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo JoE,

Btw, if someone wants to log into a RBBS BBS, the RC-BOX is using it.
It is running on a RC2014 Z80 kit computer on CP/M.
It can be reached via Telnet: rc2014.ddns.net:2014

I logged on and it looks really good. I liked the news feeds.
Is this your system or one you help with?

It's not my system, but I know the sysop :)
Here's his Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/Wintermute_BBS

It also got me looking into the RC2014 and z80s and CP/M.. I now
have a CP/M emulator on my machine to play with and am considering
one of the RC2014 kits, but my soldering skills were below average
last time I tried decades ago, so I might need to work up to
those. :)

I also only had below-average soldering skills before starting
building a RC2014 kit, but I watched some YouTube videos about
soldering, got a "good enough for me" soldering station and just
started building. And the RC2014 started on first try :)
Just take your time to check the boards after soldering :)

Regards,
Anna

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)

As the modules mostly consist of through-hole components, it is
possible to solder them even if you are no soldering professional :)

Don't all components have to have a hole through the board? I don't
understand that term. :)

My skill is the ability to melt everything around the pin I'm trying to
solder. :) haha

(the RC2014 was my first 'bigger' soldering job - and it worked at
first start *g*)

Nice. :)


--- Talisman v0.35-dev (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Lost Underground BBS (21:1/230)

I also only had below-average soldering skills before starting
building a RC2014 kit, but I watched some YouTube videos about
soldering, got a "good enough for me" soldering station and just
started building. And the RC2014 started on first try :)
Just take your time to check the boards after soldering :)

Good ideas, thanks. :) I think this is something I'm going to have to do because I've also thought about some of the other modern retro kits out
there, plus I'll be able to save money buying eurorack synthesizer
module kits instead of prebuilt versions. And that should get *that* hobby
off the ground. haha

Sounds like a good investment.


--- Talisman v0.35-dev (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Lost Underground BBS (21:1/230)

Btw, the sysop of the RC-BOX is also the sysop of the Wintermute BBS. Here's his Twitter account, where he sometimes also is posting updates on the RC-BOX:
https://twitter.com/Wintermute_BBS

Ahhhh - thanks for those deets, acn. I love RC-BOX... appreciate you sharing - I can totally get behind the slow baud and 2 msg bases. LOVE it.



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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/10/25 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbS>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

Am 18.12.21 schrieb JoE DooM@21:1/230 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo JoE,

As the modules mostly consist of through-hole components, it is
possible to solder them even if you are no soldering professional :)

Don't all components have to have a hole through the board? I don't understand that term. :)

Not neccessarily, there are also SMD components (surface mounted
device), where there is no hole. The component is hold in place and
soldered to soldering pads on the surface of the PCB.

My skill is the ability to melt everything around the pin I'm trying to solder. :) haha

;-)

Regards,
Anna

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)