On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Tony Firshman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 4, at 18:08 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tony Firshman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Why not run it on the Internet, sans phone-line? > > _______________________________________________ > How? > > The system s Pbox (Phil Borman) based and he won't have a conversion > program. > > I will not have the time (or inclination) to convert to a message board. > .... and there is a files area. > > Tony > > So Commodore hackers and many others do this all the time. It requires a second computer (although a terminal server or equivalent would work, too). E.g.: http://www.jammingsignal.com/leif/bbs/ That's for Windows as the telnet<->serial converter. If you wanted to use a linux box: http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/News/tcpser I have plans to do something similar with a number of my classics: a C128D, an Apple II, and my Sinclair QL running pbox. I'm also considering running emulations of some of these on a little pogoplug and hosting the tcp/ip<->serial on the same box. I also have a 24 port serial router that I could use if I wanted to do it on real hardware. I'd love to be able to visit a QL BBS accessible via telnet, though, in the meantime. There are no Internet based BBS's running on Sinclair (or T/S) hardware that I know -- yours would be the first. I don't know what you were paying for the phone line, but for about $25/month, I could get a Vonage line with a U.K. phone number (I'm in the states). _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
