[HN Gopher] Using BBS with my Amiga 3000 in 2021
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       Using BBS with my Amiga 3000 in 2021
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2021-12-12 17:35 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | makach wrote:
       | The machine that never dies.
        
         | johnklos wrote:
         | Literally. The Amiga 3000, at least, is incredibly easy to
         | recap. Even without all the possible upgrade options, the base
         | machine with 16 megs of fast RAM, two megs of chip RAM and a
         | decent drive on the SCSI bus is wonderfully usable.
        
       | aidos wrote:
       | I just feel like nothing is going to convey the excitement we got
       | from BBSs in the early 90s. We used to cycle over to this guys
       | house (he had TWO phone lines!) on our BMXs and hand over $10 for
       | some connectivity.
        
       | owlbynight wrote:
       | I get some nostalgic value out of using SyncTERM to connect to a
       | BBS and poke around, but the only things I really miss are the
       | ANSI art and the hyper-local feel of the chat.
       | 
       | BBS's were my introduction to networking and I love them, but I
       | think I'm too spoiled by advances in user experience. I'd love
       | some kind of a modern hybrid.
        
         | sekao wrote:
         | > I'd love some kind of a modern hybrid.
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         | I'm working on it. A BBS with a built-in ANSI art + MIDI music
         | editor, accessible from terminals and web browsers, all
         | unicode, no telnet. Ready later this month most likely.
         | 
         | It's hard to replicate the local feel of BBSes though. You
         | can't really enforce local usage on the modern internet, and it
         | wouldn't be great for privacy if you could. But the rest we can
         | do.
        
       | snvzz wrote:
       | NComm works fine and does a decent job on my A500.
       | 
       | On the A1200, I prefer Term.
        
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