StarDoc 134, Up and running WWIV Development under Linux reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WWIVPENGUIN · 2020-09-11 14:26 StarDoc 134 has been updated and online. WWIV On Linux running latests development for testing 10 Nodes, telnet, and Web Interface WWIVnet, Doors, and fun Running Lord Native under Linux [http://bbs.stardoc134.com](http://bbs.stardoc134.com) telnet [bbs.stardoc134.com](https://bbs.stardoc134.com) 2323 https://preview.redd.it/ln6k23td3jm51.png?width=745&format=png&auto=we bp&s=6a6fa6b487b95dfc4a6c21d74ec75470a61f32ab ---------------------------------------------------------------------- swolf154 · 2020-09-11 18:31 Couldn't get into WWIV. Still can't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheZenHippies · 2020-09-11 21:18 I logged in and looked around. It looks nice and gave me a nice hit of nostalgia. The second BBS software I ever used was WWIV. A guy at the computer shop where I bought a PC ran it and had a message network and he talked me into switching from Telegard to WWIV so I could join up. No matter what though, I really couldn't get into the way WWIV worked and so I dropped it after a few months for VBBS, then finally MajorBBS for the remaining few years of my BBS' life. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phareous · 2020-09-13 02:42 How did you build the web interface? It looks interesting but not mobile friendly so I can't see the full width ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WWIVPENGUIN · 2020-09-14 12:34 I need to make a Mobile version, at least a simplified version for that. The window elements are taken from [https://html5- templates.com/preview/windows.html](https://html5- templates.com/preview/windows.html) This is a HTML5 windows like template I found. I modified the CSS and created custom textures to achieve the older phosphor effect I was looking for. The Terminal is handled by Rick Parrish's ftelnet, which is an HTML5 telnet client and proxy [https://github.com/rickparrish/fTelnet](https://github.com/rick parrish/fTelnet) I have also modified the CSS and graphics for this as well. I believe I also ended up tweaking the source as well to get some elements to work right cosmetically. The other aspects are all back end PHP and Python that build the status data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WWIVPENGUIN · 2020-09-14 12:41 I probably will need to make the mobile version detect small screen devices, and notify the user they need a wider screen. One limitation of the original DOS BBS's are screens are LOCKED at 80x24 characters. Scaling the screen size destroys the retro experience and breaks the majority of doors/games that run on it. Perhaps this can run in landscape mode on a phone. I am not a web designer, My skills are mostly in the background "under the hood" stuff. But I think I can figure out how to detect the device and send a simplified version with message to use a full display to get the full experience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- phareous · 2020-09-14 13:24 Well you don't need to scale the bbs side..keep it 80x25 but have the term scale down with smaller font, etc. Not sure if that js library has that capability though