New-style old-fashioned BBS
reddit / bbs

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Cad_Aeibfed · 2017-12-13 07:42

I've been toying with this idea for a while and I've even got a very
very basic prototype written but I would like your thoughts.

telnet or ssh into the url and instead of getting blocky ANSI
graphics, you are presented with an ncurses menu where you can play
games, read ebooks, use a message board, and finally enter a DOS BBS
mode with all of the old doors games, etc.

The BBS would be built in Linux and the menus written in Python.  Each
menu option would call a separate container including the DOS BBS
mode.

The games that would be available would be the old text-adventures
games and maybe one of the quirky text-based tetris games and others.

Also, everything would be FOSS and available on Github and the
containers would also be in hub.docker.com. I would also allow it to
be accessed via TOR because I care about the privacy of my users. I
would like to eventually mirror Project Gutenberg through this method
and a lot of books there are illegal in a lot of places.

What do you think?

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davidp-c · 2017-12-13 12:36

Sounds similar to a public access Unix system like SDF
(http://sdf.lonestar.org), but it would be interesting to see the
addition of BBS door games (SDF already has text-based tetris and
other similar Unix games).

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nolageek · 2017-12-13 16:07

I may be wrong, but x/84 seems similar to what you're describing.
There should be a link to their GitHub in the Wiki,/FAQ (I'm on mobile
at work and can't switch other to grab a link for you at the moment.)

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Cad_Aeibfed · 2017-12-14 11:55

Thanks! This is something similar to what I want to do, but I would
like a cleaner interface.

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istarian · 2017-12-15 05:17

I think as presented the concept is too vague. It's not really clear
why anyone would even want such a system.

Also, containers.... ew. BBS systems isolated users, but only by
accident since they had limited connections and resources  I really
don't see the value of isolation here unless you were solely building
an online library you could anonymously browse.

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Silverfish000 · 2017-12-27 09:58

I think that would be awesome. I've been toying with developing
console apps using ncurses like TUIs in the past few weeks and have
some stuff I'm going to develop myself.

If you get this up and running let me know and I'd be happy to write
some programs or games that could run on your BBS.

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