Subj : Re: Irata.Online
To   : paulie420
From : Otto Reverse
Date : Mon Nov 29 2021 07:15:40

 pa> Have ya'll ever heard of irata.online? (www) Its a BBS-like system that
 pa> many  different retro systems can connect to - Atari, C=, DOS, etc.

I hadn't heard of it (saw your post, was catching up in this echo) but tried it out in Windows 10, DOS, Win98 of the weekend. Seems to be a dead project unfortunately. The vintage computer clients haven't been updated since 2019 and are all in the alpha stages.  The Windows version works but has some bugs. No response from the "accounts department". Copyright on the website is 2018.

A real shame because it reminds me of early CompuServer, Prodigy, GenIE etc. And support for old 8-bit machines, what more could one ask for!

In a similar vein there is sdf.org which is a free Unix shell service (SSH, telnet, Gopher etc). It'll give you console-based email, it has message boards (not networked, but native to sdf itself), unix software and what not. If anyone had dial-up Internet BEFORE web browsers this is like that.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/10/25 (Raspberry Pi/32)
 * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (80:505/12)

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