Hello new friends. I ran a BBS back in 1991 and it's fun to get on one again all the way up to 2018. I'm impressed! I was one here last year too but didn't post a public message.

I have a couple of raspberry pis sitting around and I think a BBS would be
a good use of it. I'm impressed by how much power it has for such a little/cheap device. I spend a few hours setting up the desktop the way I
want so I suppose I need another project for it. MYSTIC BBS!

Just today form the message boards I saw there is Magicka BBS software so my might as well enjoy myself and check that out too.

87F and sunny today here in Minneapolis, MN.

-Matt

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On 05/17/18, mattjhsn pondered and said...

Hello new friends. I ran a BBS back in 1991 and it's fun to get on one again all the way up to 2018. I'm impressed! I was one here last year too but didn't post a public message.

HI and welcome :)

I have a couple of raspberry pis sitting around and I think a BBS would
be a good use of it. I'm impressed by how much power it has for such a little/cheap device. I spend a few hours setting up the desktop the way
I want so I suppose I need another project for it. MYSTIC BBS!

Just today form the message boards I saw there is Magicka BBS software
so my might as well enjoy myself and check that out too.

Yep both are well worth a look at and a play with. You will find there are folks here that would be happy to support you with either.

There's a FSX_MYS (mystic bbs support/dev) echoarea and this one also
covering a lot of BBS software etc. :)

Best, Paul

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* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

2 of them are on a Windows XP system, the other on a PI 3.
All 3 are Mystic.

Mystic is a good system. I've not tried Andrews software, I probably should just to see if I can get something compiled on a linux system... (I'm an old time DOS guy myself).

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Hello Matt,

Hello new friends. I ran a BBS back in 1991 and it's fun to get on one again all the way up to 2018. I'm impressed! I was one here last year too but didn't post a public message.

I'm really glad the community is growing. Welcome home. You're safe now.

Best regards

Shinobi

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* Origin: INFOLINKA BBS (21:1/153)

Re: Raspberry Pi
By: mattjhsn to All on Thu May 17 2018 10:18 am

Hello new friends. I ran a BBS back in 1991 and it's fun to get on one again all the way up to 2018. I'm impressed! I was one here last year too but didn't post a public message.

Yeah, we are still lovin' every minute of it.. :)

87F and sunny today here in Minneapolis, MN.

31C here in Penticton. I wouldn't mind if it would cool off a bit, some areas not far from me are experiencing nasty floods. Neibourhoods underwater.

Ttyl :-),
Al


... All real programs contain errors.
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Re: Re: Raspberry Pi
By: garycrunk to mattjhsn on Wed May 16 2018 07:48 pm

I've not tried Andrews software, I probably should just to see if I can

get something compiled on a linux system... (I'm an old time DOS guy myself).

Magicka will compile nicely under linux. You might need a couple dependencies like libmicrohttpd depending on your OS and what you have installed already, but it's completely doable.

Ttyl :-),
Al


... Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
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Hello new friends. I ran a BBS back in 1991 and it's fun to get on one again all the way up to 2018. I'm impressed! I was one here last year too but didn't post a public message.

Welcome! Back in '93 I ran a BBS in Sioux Falls, SD for about a year. I
lived in an apartment and could only have two lines for the BBS so it was not very well known but it was still fun. At that time, I ran Wildcat. Now I am running Mystic on a Raspberry Pi 2B.

Enjoy and Have fun!

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* Origin: The Search BBS (21:1/161)

On 05/17/18, mattjhsn said the following...

Hello new friends. I ran a BBS back in 1991 and it's fun to get on one again all the way up to 2018. I'm impressed! I was one here last year too but didn't post a public message.

It's greating there is BBSing enthuastics still around to this date, way up here in 2018 and still growing. Some of it has diminished, yet it has grown
in other ways as well.

I have a couple of raspberry pis sitting around and I think a BBS would
be a good use of it. I'm impressed by how much power it has for such a little/cheap device. I spend a few hours setting up the desktop the way
I want so I suppose I need another project for it. MYSTIC BBS!

I have on RPi and it's a great handheld device I just leave sitting on my router, doesn't take up any space at all and I run Mystic on it as well as dev-ported my door game Legion RPG for it. Everything seems to work great on it. Even if it NOOBS OS, Rasperian OS (sister of Debian).

Sincerely,
Jon Justvig

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Raiders Inc BBS -- vintagebbsing.com (21:1/154)

On 05/17/18, shinobi said the following...

I'm really glad the community is growing. Welcome home. You're safe now.

It's great to have a great community here will to help each other and provide fun and experimental ideas for their BBS whether your a SysOp or a user on a BBS.

Sincerely,
Jon Justvig

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Raiders Inc BBS -- vintagebbsing.com (21:1/154)