Subj : New Edition of the FidoGazette To : All From : Sean Dennis Date : Sun Jul 03 2022 16:37:34 The FidoGazette Volume 18 Number 12 4 July 2022 +----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | The alternative newsletter | THE FIDOGAZETTE | | for the Fidonet community! | | | _ | Compiled, edited, and published by | | / \ | Sean Dennis @ 1:18/200 | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | Published weekly on Mondays | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ )) | "Advertisements contain the only | | |__U__| / \// | truths be relied on in a newspaper." | | _//|| _\ / | -- Thomas Jefferson | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | | | | | +----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of the FidoGazette, please refer to the | | FidoGazette mast at the end of this newsletter. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 Better Late Then Never ................................... 1 2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2 Running DOS on 64-bit Windows and Linux .................. 2 3. THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ...................................... 4 A Thought For July 4 ..................................... 4 4. ASCII ART ................................................ 5 Happy Birthday, America! ................................. 5 5. FIDOGAZETTE BBS LIST ..................................... 6 6. FIDONET SOFTWARE LIST .................................... 9 7. FIDOGAZETTE INFORMATION .................................. 16 FGAZ 18-12 Page 1 4 Jul 2022 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Better Late Than Never I apologize for the long delay between issues of the Fidogazette. I am busy these days with health issues but I am doing much better than I have been in quite some time. I've let the BBS run on auto for the most part these past few months but I am working on things again! I moved my main BBS back to Maximus/2 v3.01 running under ArcaOS PE 5.0.3 in a Virtualbox virtual machine on my personal computer running Devuan Linux. So far, so good! Thank you for your patience with me and I hope to be able to keep publishing the 'Gazette. As always, I would love more of your content for the 'Gazette. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-12 Page 2 4 Jul 2022 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= From: https://tinyurl.com/24t87ekd (theregister.com) === Running DOS on 64-bit Windows and Linux: Just because you can DOS isn't dead. You can still run it and its apps, even now Liam Proven in Prague Tue 28 Jun 2022 // 08:52 UTC --------------------------------------------------------------------- FOSS Fest There are still ways to run DOS apps under 64-bit Windows and Linux, and a lot of free apps to choose from. One of the differences between the Microsoft and Apple approaches to maintaining widely used OSes is that Apple is quite aggressive about removing backwards compatibility, while Microsoft tries hard to keep it. One of the few times Microsoft removed a whole compatibility layer from Windows was with the launch of 64-bit Windows, which went mainstream with Vista in 2007. 64-bit editions of Windows can't run 16-bit apps, whether yhey're for DOS or Windows. Enterprising developers, of course, take this kind of thing as a challenge. There are obvious ways round this, of course. You can run DOS in a virtual machine. It works fine - the problem is that it's very difficult to get anything in or out of it. Modern PCs are also so vastly more powerful than they were in DOS' heyday of the 1980s that you just run a PC emulator, such as DOSBox or the enhanced DOSBox-X. These programs emulate an entire PC, so you can run games that require long-obsolete hardware such as SoundBlaster cards. DOSBox-X even supports Windows 3.x and Win9x. But a whole-system emulator is overkill if you just want to run some DOS productivity apps. A long-standing way to just open a simple DOS prompt on a Windows 64 machine is Jos Schaars's vDos, and it too has an enhanced cousin, vDosPlus. A popular use for vDosPlus is to run the original DOS WordPerfect, as documented on Edward Mendelson's very helpful WordPerfect for DOS page. Most Linux distros used to include DOSEMU, which is one of the oldest Linux apps around, dating back to 1992. Despite its name, it's not an emulator: it's a sort of dedicated VM FGAZ 18-12 Page 3 4 Jul 2022 for running actual DOS under Linux. This has two benefits: one is that DOS apps can access real hardware, such as devices attached to a physical parallel port. The other is that whatever you run executes at full native speed, which on any 21st century PC is blazingly fast by DOS standards. Conveniently, DOSemu can map DOS drive letters to Linux directories, including on the fly with the LDREDIR command, so it's much easier to get things in and out of the DOS app than it is a full virtual machine. You can even run WordPerfect's WYSIWYG graphics mode, which was almost unusably slow when the app was new Unfortunately, the V86 mode of the x86-3 architecture has been removed from x86-64, so now it must be emulated, and possibly as a result, many distros have now dropped the trusty DOSemu along with x86-32 support. But don't panic, because a new team has taken over maintenance of the venerable program, and although unfinished, DOSemu2 is getting very usable, and the project offers ready-made packages for Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE. Multiple sets of instructions are available for dosemu2, including a set from the industrious Professor Mendelson and another from uberhacker Tavis Ormandy. An excellent source of DOS freeware is the FreeDOS Repo. For instance, it has MS Word 5.5, WordPerfect Editor (the freeware plain-text editor version of the famous app), Protext, and more. (R) === ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-12 Page 4 4 Jul 2022 ================================================================= THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ================================================================= A Thought For July 4 "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-12 Page 5 4 Jul 2022 ================================================================= ASCII ART ================================================================= ASCII Art: Happy Birthday, America! .''. .''. *''* :_\/_: . :_\/_: . .:.*_\/_* : /\ : .'.:.'. .''.: /\ : _\(/_ ':'* /\ * : '..'. -=:o:=- :_\/_:'.:::. /)\*''* .|.* '.\'/.'_\(/_'.':'.' : /\ : ::::: '*_\/_* | | -= o =- /)\ ' * '..' ':::' * /\ * |'| .'/.\'. '._____ * __*..* | | : |. |' .---"| _* .-' '-. | | .--'| || | _| | .-'| _.| | || '-__ | | | || | |' | |. | || | | | | || | ___| '-' ' "" '-' '-.' '` |____ jgs~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HAPPY 246TH BIRTHDAY, AMERICA! ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-12 Page 6 4 Jul 2022 ================================================================= FIDOGAZETTE BBS LIST ================================================================= The FidoGazette BBS List Maintained by Sean Dennis (1:18/200) Updated 3 July 2022 Total systems listed: 12 BBSes are listed in alphabetical order. ----------------------------------------------------------------- BBS Name: Central Ontario Remote Sysop name: Mick Manning Fidonet AKA: 1:229/307 BBS Software: Mystic Telnet address/Phone #: centralontarioremote.com:2323 Website: http://centralontarioremote.com:8080 Desc: Home of the musician's network, BluesNET. BBS Name: Imzadi Box Sysop name: Anna Christina Nass Fidonet AKA: 2:240/5824 BBS Software: Synchronet Telnet address/Phone #: box.imzadi.de Website: http://box.imzadi.de/ Desc: Small BBS with several games and message networks. FTN hub of WeedNet (Zone 420) BBS Name: Outpost BBS Sysop name: Sean Dennis (digimaus/KS4TD) Fidonet AKA: 1:18/200 BBS Software: Maximus/2 v3.01 Telnet: bbs.outpostbbs.net:10123 -or- http(s)://outpostbbs.net/connect.html Website: http(s)://outpostbbs.net Desc: The home of Cheepware, The Micronet Information Network (zone 618), the FidoGazette, and the Ham Distribution Network SDS. BBS Name: Palantir BBS Sysop name: Dan Clough (AKA Gamgee) Fidonet AKA: 1:123/115 BBS Software: Synchronet Telnet address: palantirbbs.ddns.net Desc: Multiple echomail networks, old-school filebase and several CDROMs online. Lots of Doom/Quake/Duke stuff. Many local and BBSLink doors. New callers welcome! BBS Name: PiBBS Sysop name: Shaun Buzza Fidonet AKA: McDoob BBS Software: Mystic Telnet address/Phone #: pibbs.sytes.net:23 Website: pibbs.sytes.net (not enabled) FGAZ 18-12 Page 7 4 Jul 2022 Desc: When you build a BBS on a Pi, you have a PiBBS! BBS Name: Phoenix BBS Sysop name: Andrew Leary Fidonet AKA: 1:320/219 BBS Software: MBSE BBS 1.0.8 Telnet address/Phone #: phoenix.bnbbbs.net:2323 FTP: phoenix.bnbbbs.net Website: http://phoenix.bnbbbs.net/index.html Desc: Home of MBSE BBS and FidoNet New England Region 16. BBS Name: < FRONT-END/INTERNET MAILERS Argus |MI*? |http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products | | /argus/ | | v3.210 on 2001-03-29 BinkleyTerm XE |MO* |http://btxe.sourceforge.net | | 2.60XE Beta-XH7 on 2000-10-22 BinkD |MI? |http://binkd.grumbler.org | | gul@gul.kiev.ua 2:463/68 | | v.1.0.4 | | v.1.1a-113 (alpha) | | ftp://cvs.happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft | | /mailer/binkd/ | |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/ FGAZ 18-12 Page 10 4 Jul 2022 D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.dbridgemailer.com |I | support@dbridgemailer.com 1:1/130 Nick Andre | | v4.00 on 2022-02-12 FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.datenbahn.dd-dns.de/ | | cdp/fp_deluxe/ | | v2.4 on 2003-09-26 FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MITPC|http://www.defsol.se Definite Solutions |E | sales@defsol.se | | FD v2.33ml, FD/APX v1.15 InterMail |MCPE |http://www.Intermail.net 1:106/201 Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net | | IM v2.60 on 2017-08-28 Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/ |EO? | v1.9 RC2 on 2010-04-20 Taurus |MI |http://www.fidotel.com/public/forums/ (based on Radius) |? | taurus/index.htm | | v5.0 on 2006-06-12 | | T-Mail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru (Russian only) |? | v2608 on 2001-12-12 AfterShock |MTEI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/ Asvcorp | | details?id=com.asvcorp.aftershock Anatoly Vdovichev | | rudi.timmer@gmx.com 2:292/140 Rudi Timmermans | | v1.6.7 on 2017-11-19 HotDogEd |E |https://play.google.com/store/apps/ Sergey Pushkin | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged | | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141 HotDogEd FidoNet |MTI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/ Provider | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged.fido Sergey Pushkin | | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> MAIL TOSSERS Crashmail II |TO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | crashmail.html FastEcho |T |http://www.softeq.de/old/Products | | /FastEcho/fastecho.html | | v1.46.1 on 2007-11-13 | | Registration keys are free & available | | by request from the author Fidogate |TUI? |http://www.fidogate.org | | v4.4.10 on 2004-08-27 | | FGAZ 18-12 Page 11 4 Jul 2022 FMail |TO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/ | | v2.0.1.4 on 2017-04-21 InterEcho |T |http://www.Intermail.net 1:220/60 Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net | | IE 1.20 on 2017-08-28 JetMail: JetSys |TU | (ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on 2000-01-01 Squish |T* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/ | | v1.11R2 on 2009-01-01 | | Source code available in Maximus BBS | | archive: http://maximus.sourceforge.net WWIVToss |T |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/ | | v1.51 on 2015-05-23 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> BBS SOFTWARE BBBS |BICTM|http://www.bbbs.net 2:222/2 | | b@bbbs.net | | v4.01 on 2007-01-28 EleBBS |BO*? |http://www.elebbs.com | | v0.10.RC1 on 2002-06-09 Enthral BBS |B |http://enthralbbs.com Linux/BSD/OSX | | v0.429/Alpha on 2010-10-14 | | Fidonet filebone SCENEENT Ezycom BBS |BT* |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682 | | v2.15g2 on 2009-11-16 GT Power |B |http://www.gtpowerbbs.com/ | | v19.00 Hermes II Project |BT |http://www.hermesbbs.com/ Macintosh-based | | malyn@strangegizmo.com | | v3.5.10b3 Maximus BBS |BO* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/ | | v3.03 | | Source code available at: | | http://maximus.sourceforge.net/ MBSE BBS |BMTFI|https://sourceforge.net 1:1/119 |PO | /projects/mbsebbs | | ajleary@sourceforge.net | | v1.0.8 on 2022-04-07 Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.0b on 2004-04-26 FGAZ 18-12 Page 12 4 Jul 2022 Mystic BBS |BMTCE|http://www.mysticbbs.com |I | v1.12 A46 on 2020-08-26 NiKom BBS (Amiga) |BO |http://www.nikom.org | | v2.3.1 on 2017-07-01 RemoteAccess BBS |B? |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW on 2000-10-25 Renegade BBS |B |http://renegadebbs.info 1:129/305 | | v1.25/DOS on 2021-05-16 Spitfire BBS |B? |http://www.buffalocrk.com/ | | mdwoltz@buffalocrk.com | | v3.7 on 2010-01-01 Synchronet BBS |BMTIO|http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705 | | v3.19b on 2022-01-02 Telegard BBS |B* | | | v3.09g2-sp4/mL on 1999-12-19 WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Software, Inc. | | v8.0 AUP 454.12 on 2021-05-14 WWIV BBS |B |http://www.wwivbbs.org | | v5.6.1 on 2021-04-23 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> TIC PROCESSORS/FILEFIX/SRIF Allfix |FIUT |http://www.allfix.com/ 1:218/720 Ken Johnson | | v6.1.0 on 2019-02-02 NEF/pk |F |http://nefpk.8m.com/ | | v2.45b2 on 2000-03-05 TinyTIC |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net | | /tinytic.html VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net | | /vireq.html +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> BBS DOORS/UTILITIES Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net/cheepware.html Sean Dennis | | sysop@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200 | | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE DDS (Doorware |D@ |http://www.doorgames.org FGAZ 18-12 Page 13 4 Jul 2022 Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org Ruth Argust | | Jibben Software |D* |http://www.jibbensoftware.com/ | | bbs-door-games.cfm | | scott@jibben.com | | 1995-99 Release dates John Dailey Software |DU |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com Shining Star |D* |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ | | nannette@shiningstar.net | | Doors are registerable via website Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com | | Tel: (404) 256-9518 T1ny's Software |DU |http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/tsoft/ Shawn Highfield | | shighfield@gmail.com 1:229/452 | | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE The Brainex System |D |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/ | | stanley@brainex.com | | 1994-99 Releases Trade Wars |D* |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/ | | jpritch@eisonline.com | | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002 Vagabond Software |DU* |http://vbsoft.dhakota.org | | d@dhakota.org | | Last update: 2008-04-11 WWIVEdit |DE |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/ | | v3.0 on 2011-06-27 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ +- - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> POINT SOFTWARE APoint |PI |https://stargate.org.uk/apoint/ | | v1.25 on 2001-12-12 (Win32) | | Needs the binkD Toolkit for Fido-over-IP | | which is available from the above URL. CrossPoint |P |http://www.crosspoint.de | | pm@crosspoint.de | | v3.12d on 1999-12-22 (DOS, Shareware) FreeXP |PO |http://www.freexp.de | | support@freexp.de | | v3.42 on 2020-09-25 (DOS) FGAZ 18-12 Page 14 4 Jul 2022 OpenXP |PIO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/ | |https://openxp.uk/ | | dev@openxp.uk | | v5.0.51 on 2021-12-26 | | (Win32, Linux(64-Bit}) WinPoint |PI |http://www.winpoint.org/ | | Tim Schattkowsky 2:240/1120.29 | | v407.0 on 2022-03-14 (Win32) +- - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS GoldEd+ |EO |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on 2015-11-30 | | NOTE: Unstable versions released often SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de 2:2476/493 | | v1.15 on 1999-12-15 | | Website is in German and English +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> INTERNET UTILITIES Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net | | crosser@average.org Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/ | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806 | | v2.29 on 2001-10-21 JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net | | /jamnntpd.html | | 1:120/544 Luckygate |UO | ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/gate | | /lgate | | gul@gul.kiev.ua MakeNL |UO |http://makenl.sourceforge.net | | v3.5.0 on 2019-05-06 RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects | | /ftrack-as 2:5080/102 | |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net | | v1.32 on 2011-04-29 TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/ | | transnet/index.html | | transnet@ressl.com.ar | | v2.11 on 2007-09-13 FGAZ 18-12 Page 15 4 Jul 2022 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES/BBS LISTS Telnet/Dialup BBS |# |http://www.telnetbbsguide.com 1:275/89 Guide | | Maintained by Dave Perrussel | | This is probably the most updated BBS | | list on the Internet for a general | | BBS list. Synchronet BBS List |# |http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html | | Maintained automatically | | This list is specifically for | | Synchronet-based BBS systems and is | | automatically updated nightly. The BBS Corner |# |http://www.bbscorner.com | | This website is more than just files, | | it's an encyclopedia of knowledge for | | BBS sysops and people who want to | | become sysops. This site is run by | | the same person who does the Telnet | | BBS Guide. BBS Nexus |# |https://bbsnexus.com | | This website offers a searchable list | | of Telnet BBS's. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ File Archives: http://archives.thebbs.org http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org (site is no longer maintained) http://www.simtel.net http://www.bbsfiles.com http://hobbes.nmsu.edu (OS/2 specific) http://www.filegate.net/ (FTP access via port 60721) http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/ Note: Most also provide FTP access (use ftp instead of http above) The BBS Software List is published weekly in the FidoGazette. If you have corrections, suggestions or additions to the information above, please contact Andrew Leary with your information via the FIDOGAZETTE echo or netmail at 1:320/219. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-12 Page 16 4 Jul 2022 ================================================================= FIDOGAZETTE INFORMATION ================================================================= The FidoGazette is a weekly publication for the sysops and users of Fidonet. It is a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors. The opinions expressed in these articles belong to those authors and are not necessarily those of the FidoGazette or its editorial staff. This newsletter has no offical association with the Fidonet administration or the Fidonews and is edited and published by an independent editorial staff. 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