Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: Re: x/84 revived
From:    Randers(21:3/256)
Date:    Tue Oct 20, 2026 07:33

Hey DM,

Ahh Telix... how I loved that program.

My first few attempts on a BBS were running Forum hacks, only online from 10pm to 6am or whatever on weekend nights. That didn't last long though. I had to covertly unplug the rest of the phones in the house so that my 'BBS' went undetected. People soon realised it was also my landline, and that went wrong, too. Damn kids! :D

When that ended, my brother and I started coding our own thing (also called Krystal, hence why I've chosen that again) in Turbo Pascal. We did a huge amount of work on it, and it was functional albeit pretty crap. Coded from scratch.

But... IRC came along, I turned 18 and lost interest, and the code was lost. I would pay megabucks to see that code again. I remember that the thing we struggled with most with that software for some reason was reliably detecting when the phone rang and the modem connected. We never quite got it right, but I can't remember exactly why. It was hard to troubleshoot too, without another line to do tests on/from.


Randers

On 19/10/2026 11:42 Digital Man said...
DM> The first (very short-lived) "BBS" I ran was a self-modified Telix
DM> host script. It was fun to play with, but was very limiting and of
DM> course there were never any upstream improvements to
DM> integrated/benefit from, so with such a system, you're kind of on
DM> your own (unless it was designed to be extensible via
DM> plug-ins/mods).
DM> --
DM>                                             digital man (rob)

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