Subj : Re: BBSing on early WinXP era systems
To   : Bob Worm
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri Aug 08 2025 16:55:48

On 08 Aug 2025, Bob Worm said the following...

 BW> I've been given a couple of XP era computers which very much fall into
 BW> the "too old to be useful, too new to be interesting" category. Can
 BW> anyone recommend some decent software for BBSing on XP? Even via serial
 BW> would be fine, I'm a touch apprehensive about connecting those things to
 BW> the Internet via IP.

I run my Telegard system on a Windows XP VM.  I was running it on a Windows 10 32bit VM and it worked... mostly.  Every now & then on Windows 10 something weird would happen, mostly when running a door.  Whether it was LORD or IceEdit things would crash or hang.  That's all gone away since putting the same setup on a Windows XP VM.

I have Netfossil & net2bbs running to accept telnet connections and it seems to be fine.

You can open up IE and browse to http://legacyupdate.net on those machines to make sure it has all of the latest updates that were available to XP.  Not that it would make it more secure in 2025, but might as well for any bug fixes.


Jay

.... Whoever invented the knock-knock joke should get a no bell prize

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