Legacy BBS - bbs.aoh.fi - In the testing phase reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hatanart 路 2016-04-20 19:26 Hello, Introducing the Legacy BBS from Finland - a BBS system that should be compatible with very old hardware! 300 baud friendly - 40 characters and ASCII only. Running on a Raspberry Pi with some homebrew BBS software. It is still being in beta test phase, but please give it a "call" and send me (user SYSOP) feedback if there is something to fix or to add :) NODE 1 - V.22BIS for regular modems +883 510 012 890 870 (iNum) +1 929 223 5573 (New York number) sip:00883510012890870@localphone.com NODE 2 - BELL 103 for your acoustic coupler experiments +883 510 012 890 872 (iNum) +1 929 223 5598 (New York number) sip:00883510012890872@localphone.com TELNET: bbs.aoh.fi port 2400 RAW: bbs.aoh.fi port 2401 IRC: bbs.aoh.fi port 6667 channel #bbs BROWSER: bbs.aoh.fi port 2000 The modems are plugged into a VoIP box.. Modems over VoIP are a bad idea and this is why I think it could be so much fun! If you are using a Cisco ATA such as PAP2T or SPA2102, try calling *99,, before the actual phone number - this should enable the "modem passtrough" mode in those ATAs. Beware, that calling the +883 510 iNum numbers from a local telephone network could be very expensive if the call even goes through. For example the finnish service provider "Sonera" charges the Inmarsat price for these calls (Something like 7 EUR / minute). Most likely if you ask your local phone company how much a call to these numbers cost, they can't answer you. Calling +883 510 numbers and getting your own is usually free with VoIP providers such as localphone.com and callcentric.com. You could also try a iNum "Dial in number" from this list: http://www.inum.net/what-is-inum-2/local-access-numbers/ With these numbers that are located all over the world, you can access the iNum numbers with a price of a local call. (However I haven't tried these with a modem - they might be unfriendly to a modem) Telnet is also fine too! The raw connection is meant for things like DOSBOX and Serial to ethernet adapters that some people might have. For more information and web browser access you can go to: http://bbs.aoh.fi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FozzTexx 路 2016-04-20 21:10 Interesting how you throttled the telnet. Needs more blank lines between menus and messages. Everything is kind of run together. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Paco_Smithereens 路 2016-04-21 02:03 Just the opportunity I have been looking for: Modeming over VOIP. I know it is possible but have no need for VOIP except for this purpose. Want to get it. Can someone recommend the following: * A VOIP adapter or box (whatever it's called) that works on whatever the industry standard is. * A VOIP provider who is cheap and doesn't pay attention much to how the service is used. * A modem model which is known to work well with VOIP. Mostly, this question is inspired not by BBSes (although that's part of it), but by X.25 networks still in existence abroad. A HOPE talk suggests the old USR Courier is a good bet, though these are not easy to find. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FozzTexx 路 2016-04-21 15:08 [I had to connect with my MC-10](http://imgur.com/gallery/HB29f). 40 columns is too wide! 馃槢 It also can't actually display lower case, it displays capital letters as inverse upper case. But I can type lower case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hatanart 路 2016-04-21 15:26 Thank you for testing! That is a very beautiful sight. I added some blank lines to the menus like you requested, I think it is a lot better that way. If one answers "NO" to the first prompt in the BBS, the whole communications will be in upper case, but in this case it would all be inverted characters... I might have to rethink that too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hatanart 路 2016-04-21 15:38 It is hard to find information about this, but older Cisco adapters (ATA) seem to work quite fine for me (such as PAP2T and SPA2102) and you might even find one for $5. Beware of the fake PAP2T's on eBay. These fake ones are still made in Hong Kong and they run very hot, mine stopped working after a week (it was an easy fix, though). I read from some forum that 2400 baud seems to be a "sweet spot" for VOIP modem experimentation - not any slower and not any faster. Also having error correction on helps a lot. It also helps if the adapter has some kind of a "modem passthrough" mode. If it doesn't have any mode like this, it is still possible to use those adapters for modems with settings like: Forced G.711 codec, Packetization 10-20ms, Echo cancelling disable, Voice activity detection off, Fixed 200ms jitter buffers. I haven't tried many modems but a $8 chinese USB modem works well and also an old PCMCIA card for my HP200LX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FozzTexx 路 2016-04-21 16:36 The MC-10 program gave me a choice of using lowercase or not. If I said no, then I didn't get inverted upper case, but then I couldn't type lower case, which made it harder to navigate around my shell. So I went for fake lower case so that I could at least transmit both lower & upper case letters.