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- From: slimy@junkmailer.go.away! (Mike Neus)
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- Subject: Re: Commodore BBS
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 18:23:44 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments
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- bloodbane@rlion.com (Jeffrey S Cotterman) wrote:
- >Lo...
- >
- >I am currently trying to set up a BBS in my town, as the last
- >commodore one shut down a month ago. My question is that I want to be
- >able to serve both, the Commodore community and the IBM community (So
- >I can include emulators and .d64/.t64 files. Does anyone out there
- >have any suggestions as a proposed setup? The computers I have that I
- >could use are:
- > 486 dx2 66
- > 386 sx 16
- > Amiga 1000
- > Commodore 128
- > Commodore 64
- >
- >I would prefer to stay away ffrom the CBM's as I do not have a fast
- >port to allow above 24/96 baud. If I use the Beamers, I could use
- >Linix, WIn95, Dos or OS/2. I would like to be able to support the
- >long file names of the original commodore files.
-
- I would use the 486 but with OS/2, not DOS. OS/2 is very easy to use, and
- allows file names up to 255 characters, and has a number of BBS packages
- available. If nothing else, you can run a DOS BBS program in the background.
-
- OS/2 also multitasks extremely well if you have the memory, you could
- probably run the BBS program and still use your machine with little to no
- speed degridation.
-
- Clones also have the advantage of upgradeability at far cheaper cost. If I
- were you, I wouldn't worry about C= graphics. Go ANSI and offer packages in
- your download section that support it (Desterm/Dialog for 128, NovaTerm for
- 64). Chances are if they are not using a package capable of ANSI already the
- calling person is using a very old program. Also, use Y-Modem instead of
- Punter. There is no real advantage to Punter that I have ever been able to
- figure out.
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