WWIV on Raspberry Pi? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dino213aa · 2015-01-07 05:11 Was a WWIV sysop decades ago and recently started sniffing around the possibility of running one again. Seems that something like a Raspberry Pi would be great for something like this. I've poked around on Google searches and it seems the hardest part of running this on a RP would be the telnet issue. Is this feasible? Are there other ways of running a WWIV board? Would prefer not to use my main PC, but also don't have an old box around that would be handy for something like this. Any thoughts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grassmunk · 2015-01-07 15:37 What's the telnet issue? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- samalex01 · 2015-01-07 17:25 Linux runs quite well on a RP, so you could also check out Synchronet. Someone has already done this to some degree and documented it here - http://ernie-world.net/Animus/?p=131 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- derfherdez · 2015-01-10 05:13 For me it's all about the doors. But I'm a Qemu+running on a vps.. I find that Datacenter stuff is faster and has better availability. But that's me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dino213aa · 2015-01-10 16:18 Thanks for this. I guess my whole thing is about wanting to specifically run WWIV much more than the RP. To that extent, is their a better box to run it on? Not really wanting to use my main PC since it's a gaming rig and not suited to being left on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2015-01-11 07:46 you can get a 40-80usd dual core optiplex on ebay. i suggest doing that ---------------------------------------------------------------------- samalex01 · 2015-01-12 14:53 I haven't ran WWIV in YEARS, and admittedly I never used it as my main board, just installed to check it out in the 90's. Has WWIV been ported to Linux, or does it still require MS-DOS? If the latter you can possibly still install Linux and run it in Dosbox or Dosemu. This would allow you to port the Serial ports in the emulated DOS to TTY ports in Linux for Telnet. I believe it takes some time to get this working, but I've seen articles over the years where people did get it working quite well. This goes for any classic MS-DOS BBS. I personally ran Telegard then Renegade BBS in the late 90's, and I've thought about trying to resurrect it in just such a configuration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dino213aa · 2015-01-12 16:00 The more I think about this the easier it would be to just get somebody's old workstation and put it on there. By today's standards, the system requirements are so negligible. Some old box I could leave running and not care if it burns up.