On Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 1:48:38 PM UTC-4, Martin Burmester wrote:
Hi,
is there still anybody out there using the original Waffle? Can it stil
be used, or are there Y2K or other issues that make it impractical?
Cheers,Wow, here I am in December of 2020, looking to get an instance of Waffle BBS running again! I'm using VirtualBox 6.1.16-140961 and FreeDOS 1.2 on Windows 10 in this effort, which has just started this morning.
Martin
If that turns out, I hope to use NetFoss RC 1.24 to get UUCP-over-TCP/IP working.
I don't know what it is about Waffle but it just felt so comfortable, with just the right amount of quirkiness to make operating a site feel like being part of a secret club. Good times!
I wish the source code could still be bought...
— Peter.
To get started ASAP, I found that WAFFLE will run on vDOS from https://www.vdos.info/mystery... How can the source code be unavailable? People bought copies so it has to be somewhere.
I expect it will eventually need to run on something that's an actual DOS but it's pretty exciting to see the old "Dark Side of the Moon ... darkside.com ........ 408/245-SPAM" show up!
Good times...
I've been watching "BBS the Documentary" at https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI and WAFFLE was *very* briefly mentioned in that at https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI?t=5843 I didn't know Tom Dell had gone by the name "Soylent"? Or was that him at all? Such a
— Peter.
Hopefully someone will show up with source, but a lot of old software
just sort of disappears as people pass away, disks stop working, etc.
Peter Hoffman wrote:mystery... How can the source code be unavailable? People bought copies so it has to be somewhere.
To get started ASAP, I found that WAFFLE will run on vDOS from https://www.vdos.info/
I expect it will eventually need to run on something that's an actual DOS but it's pretty exciting to see the old "Dark Side of the Moon ... darkside.com ........ 408/245-SPAM" show up!
Good times...
I've been watching "BBS the Documentary" at https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI and WAFFLE was *very* briefly mentioned in that at https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI?t=5843 I didn't know Tom Dell had gone by the name "Soylent"? Or was that him at all? Such a
— Peter.
Hopefully someone will show up with source, but a lot of old software
just sort of disappears as people pass away, disks stop working, etc. A
few weeks ago I was reading an article about trying to reconstruct the source for a 70s UNIX utility
(https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20210102/#tu), widely distributed in its
day but the only source code anyone could find was in an erased block on
a disk.
More on topic though, starting your own BBS is great fun, hopefully in a
few years I'll have the time to tackle the project myself!
--
David Solimano
da...@solimano.org
David L. P. Solimano <da...@solimano.org> wrote:
Hopefully someone will show up with source, but a lot of old softwareDoes anyone remember how it was distributed?
just sort of disappears as people pass away, disks stop working, etc.
I know we (ripco.com) purchased it back in the day but don't remember if it was source code or a bunch of shell scripts. I know we were running a sys5r4 like the Dell one back then and I think the only others around in the day was bsd and sco, to a lesser degree, the apple a/ux. None of those were for the "shell" box, so it was likely sys5r4 compatable.
Not even sure if it was received on 5.25 or 3.5 floppies.
I'll dig around if I can figure out what to look for.
-bruce
b...@ripco.com
Anyway, I hope you'll set up a BBS! I feel that there's a movement
growing to get away from a corporate Internet experience. Facebook et
alia are OK but it's like eating at a chain restaurant. There's room in
the world for that diner with the amazing blue plate specials too.
Peter.
On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 9:52:19 AM UTC-5, b...@ripco.com wrote:
David L. P. Solimano <da...@solimano.org> wrote:
Hopefully someone will show up with source, but a lot of old software just sort of disappears as people pass away, disks stop working, etc.Does anyone remember how it was distributed?
I know we (ripco.com) purchased it back in the day but don't remember if it
was source code or a bunch of shell scripts. I know we were running a sys5r4
like the Dell one back then and I think the only others around in the day was bsd and sco, to a lesser degree, the apple a/ux. None of those were for
the "shell" box, so it was likely sys5r4 compatable.
Not even sure if it was received on 5.25 or 3.5 floppies.
I'll dig around if I can figure out what to look for.
-bruceIt seems the first public release of WAFFLE was December 1989 so I'd guess it was 3.5" diskettes but I was still using 5.25" diskettes in the late 1990s, for some things.
b...@ripco.com
If you can find a copy, that would be absolutely fantastic! I'm running on DOS but that implies a TCP/IP to COM port issue and it would be so much cleaner not to have to have that.
I really don't know what it is about WAFFLE that makes it feel like an old pair of shoes that fit just right but there's something.
Thank you,
— Peter.
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