Subj : Re: U64 + BBS SUCCESS
To   : j0hnny a1pha
From : Bucko
Date : Thu Sep 26 2024 18:18:31

On 25 Sep 2024, j0hnny a1pha said the following...
 
 ja> I've been dabbling for a while with a C64 BBS setup. I've experimented
 ja> with Image3, C*BASE, C-NET and Color64. Even the recently updated ones
 ja> are super fickle on old hardware -- if you are fortunate to have a CMD
 ja> FD-4000, so much easier -- but support varies across BBS software for
 ja> modems, and SD2IEC devices have limited REL file support, etc.  

Good to hear you got it running well.. I ran both Image 1.2 and 3.0 on a U64 
for a while, I had no issues with REL file support or the Turbo 232 running, I 
had the T232 hooked up to a PC using BBS Server (at first the built in modem 
was not available, but when it became available their were issues until 
recently). As much as I would love to make Image fully U64 compatible, there is 













































































just to many issues still with the swiftlink emulation of the U64. REL support 
has no issues with a uIEC/SD by Jim Brain, it works out of the box, I only ran 
a command to turn off the p00 and s00 extentions and used the proper PRG and 
SEQ etc. The only issues you will have with SDIEC's is they are basically huge 
1541's and when the directories start getting long, the drive access times drop 













































































tremendously as the file is searched from top to bottom in the directory...

I am sure you won't have this issue with C*Base but keep an eye on the files 
being written, the 1541 and 1581 can not keep up with the Turbo speeds, you can 













































































get around this if it hasn't already been written into the software by turning 
off turbo speed when writing to disk. Sort of the way to do file transfers turn 













































































off turbo and they work flawlessly.  Anyways, I am babbling.. LOL 


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