Blogposts tagged amigaf.zz.dehttps://f.zz.de/tags/amiga/f.zz.deikiwiki2018-01-02T20:26:58ZBBS and Historyhttps://f.zz.de/posts/201801022102.bbs_and_history/Florian Lohoff2018-01-02T20:26:58Z2018-01-02T20:02:27Z
<p>I used to be running a Bulletin Board System back in the good old days. It was
running on an Amiga 3000T040 with the famous C-Net BBS System.</p>
<p>After Harald Welte opened the <a href="https://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/bbs-revival">bbs-revival mailing list</a> i did some
research what happened to the software i used to run more than 20 years ago.</p>
<p>C-Net seems to be sold to some Texas Company called Storm's Edge Technologies
and is mostly dead since long before. I'd be grateful if the source would
be released - somewhere on github. Its some remarkable piece
of history.</p>
<p>There is a website called <a href="http://www.cnetbbs.net/">www.cnetbbs.net</a> which is about C-Net.</p>
<p>In the peak times i was running C-Net with 6 lines with US Robotics
Courier V.Everything modems on a single Amiga with BSC MFCIII (Multiface 3)
serial cards. The MFCIII added another 2 serial ports in a Zorro II slot.</p>
<p>As the Amiga had preemtive multitasking it was no problem to run multiple
lines on the same machine. The lack of memory protection made it a little
instable but C-Net was a well written piece of software. Together with
TrapDoor a FIDO Frontend and AmiTCP + AmiUUCP we had connectivity via
"real email".</p>
<p>My Linux "career" began when Linux got its IP stack which was a lot more
stable than AmiTCP. I started polling mails from the Linux machine with
UUCP and transported it via an Arcnet and AmiTCP + UUCP over IP to the
Amiga and my BBS users.</p>
<p>Later i offered <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961222110742/http://mini.gt.owl.de:80/">IP and ISDN dialup</a> which was served by the Linux system
and users of the BBS faded. Around 1994-1996 the Amiga system and the BBS
were decommissioned.</p>
Hackmeeting #7https://f.zz.de/posts/201305301039.hackmeeting_7/2013-05-30T09:18:08Z2013-05-30T08:39:53Z
<p>Erkenntnisse:</p>
<ul>
<li>cd .. ist auf dem Amiga cd /</li>
<li>das ariadne.device muss nicht nach devs: sondern devs:networks</li>
<li>assign war das bind mount des amigas</li>
<li>Der startup ist in s:startup-sequence</li>
<li>edit ist gruselig</li>
<li>ed ist ein wenig vi like</li>
<li>Das letzte Debian release war sarge</li>
<li>AmiTCP ist ein nach heutigen massstäben sehr empfindlicher IP Stack</li>
<li>Viel von der damals schönen Software ist nicht mehr zu finden
JRComm, GoldED, Directory Opus 4</li>
</ul>