Subj : Re: bbS Servers in Docker
To   : deon
From : paulie420
Date : Sat May 27 2023 15:38:44

[Docker]
 de>  > It seems like a decent platform to run [several] bbSes on one server...
 de>  > the simple ones [bbsio/synchronet] and even DOS BBS softwares w/ the us
 de>  > DOSEMU. [jgoerzen/bbs-renegade and others by him]
 de> 
 de> I like your thinking. Yup, it is a good platform to run anything, and
 de> I've taken jgoerzen method and extended it to run DOS BBSes. I started
 de> on it a while ago, to get my Ezycom back online - and I did, but parked
 de> it as I got distracted with other things. (I built images using dosemu
 de> and qemu - serial transfers was tricky, but doable...)

Thats exactly what I was thinking... as stated there were a few different 
Mystic projects that I found that show how to link external files to the Docker 

















































































Container - and I'm slowly trying to get a native [first] install of Mystic A48 

















































































going, and will later try to do the same w/ DOS based packages... once you get 
one going really nicely it'll be simpler to port other BBS softwares.

I don't LOVE jgoerzen's way of using 'supervisor' and VNC to get into the DOS 
dockers - but he's done a lot of work...

 de> The challenge I had, (which may be due to the way I was implementing
 de> it), is DOS doesnt give up the CPU, so my poor little APU1D was working
 de> hard for very little use. It was also challenging to get a reliable
 de> mailer working (so that it had mail) - since zmodem is very fussy if one
 de> side is slower than the other. (Which resulted in me starting on
 de> clearghouz with EMSI/Zmodem support - where I could control the Zmodem
 de> timeouts.)

Yer above my head already, but for mail I've gained a lot of knowledge from the 

















































































Renegade guys... they have their [Legacy hardware/VMs] tossing right along.

Thanks for the chat - I'll post any neatness if I get things going. I had an 
idea for a matrix login w/ dozens of STOCK [with fsxNet...] softwares for folks 

















































































to experience. The 'bbs' would BE the different softwares.



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