What the hell I'll plug my own BBS reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 06:59 Its synchronet 2.30 under OS/2.. running on a Qemu process on a Linux VM! I've found that OS/2 runs MS-DOS based doors better than NTVDM on Windows NT.. Especially post P4 machines, for some reason NTVDM really screws stuff up. Oh yeah, I've got: * Synchronet Blackjack * TradeWars 2002 * Global Backgammon * Legend of the Red Dragon * Domain Poker I guess the only thing of interest is old SDK & Compilers... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- deezmonies · 2013-02-21 07:15 I dialed, but first I set aside a slice of my brain that would type all my responses left-handed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 07:19 One day I hope to get an Amiga 'in the cloud' and setup an Amiga BBS ... one day! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 13:54 no need to wait for "verification" like the old days you should have full access off the bat.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- funderbolt · 2013-02-21 14:13 You've taken all the anticipation out of the process. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 14:34 lol probably... :) which reminds me I need to find a keyboard with an insert key (thanks apple!) so I can add new file areas... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FozzTexx · 2013-02-21 15:35 I find it amazing that we used to do stuff like that. Imagine if it was normal for web sites (the modern version of the BBS) to require you to not only create an account but also wait for verification just to browse around. I was messing with an old BBS of mine and I was also shocked at all the crazy personal questions it asked during signup! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 15:52 It is incredible to think of just how slow information flowed back then, and it would be ok to post a comment, then wait another day and hope there was a reply if the message was local.. it could take a week to get a reply if it had to bounce out fido.. And now we just mash F5 going crazy for a reply... Just as the immediacy of the telephone is obsolete, I see people SMSing and emailing all the time, but hardly talking on a phone. Oh yeah the personal questions are insane, I cut all the ones out I could but otherwise Id have to rebuild from source to pull them all out, considering how paranoid most BBS people were/are it is funny the signup needs so much information...!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- funderbolt · 2013-02-21 16:50 I would bet there is some way to emulate the Insert key or remap another key to generate the Insert key. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 19:44 One would think so but I haven't had any luck on this macbook air.. My friend bought a BT keyboard for his apple tv and... yeah, no insert there either. sigh. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FozzTexx · 2013-02-21 20:11 Have you tried [any of these](http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/29463/where-is-the- insert-key-on-a-macbook-air)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 20:27 no go. :( I know that the delete key works, as I can happily delete file areas but no luck creating.. I may have to recompile scfg to make the hot key a F key or something.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- funderbolt · 2013-02-21 22:04 I haven't used qemu too many times, so I'm pretty useless. qemu [Monitor command](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Monitor) "sendkey insert" -- That is not pretty, but... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-21 22:23 *slaps forehead* I don't know why I didn't even think of that. I guess I've been living too long with my crutch of changing some keystrokes in qemu so I didn't have to do that to do a CAD.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2013-02-22 05:34 > Its synchronet 2.30 under OS/2.. running on a Qemu process on a Linux VM! You, sir, are an ANIMAL. An emulating, BBSing ANIMAL. SOMEONE BEER THIS MAN IMMEDIATELY. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2013-02-22 12:42 And of course if you run a door, then it's OS/2 emulating MS-DOS running in Qemu on some Linux hypervisor.. Running something like SIMH for MS-DOS under all this works, but is a tad bit slow... ;) DOOM runs but.. it is too choppy to play for real. Then again that is VNC more so to blame, it works fine locally!