BBS Server 1.4a (finally)

[Andrew Wiskow]

I missed Leif Bloomquist's announcement of his latest release of BBS Server on August 5th on the PETSCII Forums.  Here's a quote of his post there:

Clocky's post on comp.sys.cbm finally gave me the push I needed to finish this ;-)

Changelog:

' Version 1.3    (Fixes by Eric Pearson)
'                Raise RTS on outbound connection
'                Raise DTR on outbound connection
'                Lower RTS when Call disconnects and Lower DTR when caller disconnects are preserved in INI
'
' Version 1.4    Option to force RTS always on by adding -rts to the command line.
'                Fixed bug where A/ only remembered the port a single time.
'                Option to disable +++ detection.
'                ATS0 will put BBS back on-hook.
'
' Version 1.4a   Bugfix!  Disconnect on RS232 Break only worked in Diag mode before.
'                Bugfix!  Port for Outgoing calls is now a Long (was Integer)

http://www.jammingsignal.com/files/

To further explain what "Port for Outgoing calls is now a Long (was Integer)" means...  Previously, BBS Server would only allow outgoing calls to ports up to 32767.  This wasn't a problem until Inner Circle II was set up running C-Net 128 on port 64000.  With this new version, you can now make calls to his BBS from a real Commodore computer using BBS Server 1.4a on a PC. 

[RobertB]

This wasn't a problem until Inner Circle II was set up running C-Net 128 on port 64000.  With this new version, you can now make calls to his BBS from a real Commodore computer using BBS Server 1.4a on a PC.

Last week I tried to telnet to Eddie's BBS on my C128DCR (without BBS Server on a PC), but all I got was garbage characters.  I'll try again tonight.

               Truly,
               Robert Bernardo
               Fresno Commodore User Group
               http://videocam.net.au/fcug
               The Other Group of Amigoids
               http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[Andrew Wiskow]

Last week I tried to telnet to Eddie's BBS on my C128DCR (without BBS Server on a PC), but all I got was garbage characters.  I'll try again tonight.

I'm not sure about last week, but I called in last night and connected just fine.  He's been working with Eric Pearson, who owns C-Net 128, to fix bugs and make it more "Telnet compatible".  They're up to revision 5 so far.  It's really looking good! 

[xlar54]

Dear God I hope so.. if they can get C-Net more "telnet-able", then we are inches from getting it to work under VICE.  C-Net 128 is my absolute favorite system.   Right now Im running Image, and its ok, but slow.