piBBS now online

The piBBS setup

Introduction.

During the 1990's I ran a popular Bulletin-board System on MS-DOS using RemoteAcces, FrontDoor and Fmail.

This was before Internet was accessible to the general public. These BBS provided file areas, where you could down- and upload software, echomail (predecessor of usenet news), netmail (predecessor of email) and eventually chatrooms.

A MODEM was required, to connect your computer to a BBS over the telephone line.

Now our days in the broadband Internet age, BBS became a niche and the technology changed to interconnect over Internet (TCP/IP) in stead of the outdated telephone net.

piBBS logon screen

MysticBBS.

MysticBBS is a BBS-system for modern Operating Systems (Linux, MacOS, Windows) that uses TCP/IP technology. Several protocols are supported, but I will reduce myself to Telnet.

To access piBBS, you  need a suitable Telnet ANSI-BBS terminal emulator like Netrunner or SyncTerm.

Setting up Netrunner for piBBS.

Below is a screenshot of the settings for the piBBS entry.

Final words.

piBBS is a early work in progress. There are only few file-area's (mostly Abandonware for Amiga, DOS, MSX and Windows), local message areas. No support for echomail nor netmail yet.

I hope to expand it (including FIDO support) over time.

There are no limits and ratios an you don't have to enter your real name. A handle is sufficient.

 

Update.

I just added a Demo video on how to access piBBS using Netrunner.

https://youtu.be/h-ThdCvzL5c

Have fun on piBBS.

pibbs.freeddns.org