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  • *tap* *tap*

    From Belly@1:103/705 to All on Wed May 11 17:54:08 2022
    ... Is this thing on?

    Spun up a VM, unzipped my BBS from its 15-year-old ZipFile-o-stasis, applied years of patches, and here we are.

    Could I bother one of you to let me know if this is getting out, please?

    Thanks!

    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Belly on Wed May 11 18:50:42 2022
    Re: *tap* *tap*
    By: Belly to All on Wed May 11 2022 05:54 pm

    ... Is this thing on?

    Spun up a VM, unzipped my BBS from its 15-year-old ZipFile-o-stasis, applied years of patches, and here we are.

    Could I bother one of you to let me know if this is getting out, please?

    I got it here.

    Nightfox

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  • From Gamgee@1:103/705 to Belly on Wed May 11 21:01:00 2022
    Belly wrote to All <=-

    ... Is this thing on?

    Spun up a VM, unzipped my BBS from its 15-year-old
    ZipFile-o-stasis, applied years of patches, and here we are.

    Could I bother one of you to let me know if this is getting out,
    please?

    Thanks!

    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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    Nice! Got you here!



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  • From Belly@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Wed May 11 21:42:58 2022
    Re: *tap* *tap*
    By: Nightfox to Belly on Wed May 11 2022 06:50 pm

    Awesome! Thanks.

    I had posted a few messages the other day, and they didn't go until now, so I'm happy my config is straightened out now.


    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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  • From Ennev@1:103/705 to Belly on Thu May 12 08:48:13 2022
    Spun up a VM, unzipped my BBS from its 15-year-old ZipFile-o-stasis, applied years of patches, and here we are.


    Cool, some would only bother starting fresh.

    Kudos.

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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to Belly on Thu May 12 19:50:58 2022
    On Wed, 11 May 2022 17:54:08 -0500
    "Belly" <belly@VERT/BRAZINET> wrote:
    ... Is this thing on?

    Spun up a VM, unzipped my BBS from its 15-year-old ZipFile-o-stasis,
    applied years of patches, and here we are.

    Could I bother one of you to let me know if this is getting out,
    please?

    Thanks!

    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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  • From Belly@1:103/705 to Ennev on Thu May 12 19:37:08 2022
    Re: Re: *tap* *tap*
    By: Ennev to Belly on Thu May 12 2022 08:48 am

    Cool, some would only bother starting fresh.

    It was certainly a journey, and that did cross my mind.


    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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  • From Ennev@1:103/705 to Belly on Fri May 13 18:43:00 2022
    It was certainly a journey, and that did cross my mind.

    You were better than me, I kept the backup when my BBS crashed in 2009, but when I restarted one I just started fresh, was on windows anyway and I switched to linux. But I guess the message base would have been the same.

    Now I wonder.... Would there be a way to merge them? ( forums files )

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Ennev on Fri May 13 16:15:46 2022
    Re: Re: *tap* *tap*
    By: Ennev to Belly on Fri May 13 2022 06:43 pm

    It was certainly a journey, and that did cross my mind.

    You were better than me, I kept the backup when my BBS crashed in 2009, but when I restarted one I just started fresh, was on windows anyway and I switched to linux. But I guess the message base would have been the same.

    Now I wonder.... Would there be a way to merge them? ( forums files )

    All data (message bases, file bases, user accounts) are migratable between versions and OSes.
    https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:misc#migration
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  • From Belly@1:103/705 to Ennev on Fri May 13 21:08:27 2022
    Re: Re: *tap* *tap*
    By: Ennev to Belly on Fri May 13 2022 06:43 pm

    You were better than me, I kept the backup when my BBS crashed in 2009, but when I restarted one I just started fresh, was on windows anyway and I switc to linux. But I guess the message base would have been the same.

    I promise you that spinning up a new Windows VM was the last thing I wanted to do, but it seemed the most straightforward way to get things up and running again, as my original board ran on Win2k IIRC. I also had read the docs mentioning needing an old, unmaintained version of DOSEMU for 16-bit DOS support on Debian, so I decided to go this route.

    I might see about moving it to Linux in the future, but for the time being, I'm not a fan of fixing things that ain't broke :P

    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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  • From Belly@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Fri May 13 21:09:41 2022
    Re: Re: *tap* *tap*
    By: Digital Man to Ennev on Fri May 13 2022 04:15 pm

    All data (message bases, file bases, user accounts) are migratable between v

    This is great to know! I must have missed the migration section when poking around the docs.

    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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