Thoughts on the MajorBBS emu project? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThomasACthulhu · 2020-10-29 01:02 Haven't played with it much, wanted to get opinions of it. https://www.mbbsemu.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-10-29 01:17 Hey! I’m the maintainer of MBBSEmu and available to answer any questions folks might have :) Also thanks for the post! You can visit the projects GitHub here: https://github.com/enusbaum/MBBSEmu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- paladine01 · 2020-10-29 01:23 I love it! MMUD plays great 😁 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- deffjay · 2020-10-29 01:29 Super cool! I will have to check this out. Use to run a BBS using MajorBBS back in the day ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuday · 2020-10-29 01:29 Currently playing Mutants! -- great to re live the past ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThomasACthulhu · 2020-10-29 01:45 Glad you're around to answer questions! I used to run a MBBS/Worldgroup server with some friends back in the late 90's - was the best time of my young adulthood. Looking forward to playing some lords of cyberspace again! Just have to figure out how to connect to the emulated bbs and find a telnet client again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-10-29 01:47 You can play locally without having to telnet using the -console command line flag. It’s still experimental — but that’s totally our goal, allowing people to quickly and easily play the games they miss on whatever platform they happen to be running :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThomasACthulhu · 2020-10-29 01:50 hey that's great. Looks like crap in the cmd.exe interface but it works! huzzah. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-10-29 01:54 Yeah — were translating the ANSI to Unicode to display the “ANSI” in the console. If it looks wonky, submit an issue on GitHub and the team can look into it :) Screen shots would help as we had to manually map the ANSI codes to their closest Unicode counterparts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- djwyldeone · 2020-10-29 02:01 What a awesome project! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-10-29 02:07 Thank you! All of us working on it are really excited as things are starting to come together :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThomasACthulhu · 2020-10-29 02:10 Thanks! Issue #230 is my contribution! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-10-29 02:15 Thanks!! Appreciate it — we’ll take a look :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- psiglin1556 · 2020-10-29 03:46 I wouldn’t mind running some of the major bbs games on my synchronet setup. I think you had a way to make this work? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- paladine01 · 2020-10-29 03:49 Correct. You can run mbbsemu in Rlogin mode so you can setup a door from your main BBS to mbbsemu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NostalgiaHunter09 · 2020-10-29 09:04 You mean apart from when it crashes or it doesn't display properly? I am not against the project, just keep the shilling down and keep it realistic 😉 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- paladine01 · 2020-10-29 12:20 If you're using the first MMUD compatible build that is true. There's been a ton of quality of life improvements since then that have been commited, but no updated formal release has been pushed yet. If possible try running at HEAD and please post any issues you find on the Github page. Expect a new formal release very soon that fixes many of the issues you might be experiencing! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-10-29 13:17 Thanks, appreciate it! :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cecil4029 · 2020-10-29 13:58 Worldgroup was my very first experience of the internet! Do you have any clue if there are any servers alive today so I can re-experience it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- psiglin1556 · 2020-10-29 23:07 Ok may look into that later. Rlogin should be easy enough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2020-10-30 09:51 The Telnet BBS Guide has a pretty great list of currently online BBSs and you can filter for Worldgroup/MajorBBS: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iron_Slug · 2020-10-30 20:12 More boards and a better web telnet client here: [https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/](https://www.ipingthereforeiam .com/bbs/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jobobo12 · 2020-11-07 03:24 You having some problems with the Mutants game? I am having to hit enter multiple times for it to finally do what I ask it to was wondering if anyone else had that problem? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuday · 2020-11-07 13:52 What build of MBBSEmu are you on ? It shows in the console after it loads. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jobobo12 · 2020-11-08 08:03 Hmmm when it loads it doesn't show a build or anything so I'm not sure where else I could find it. I just downloaded it the other day and I'm pretty sure it was the latest stable build. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuday · 2020-11-09 13:02 Strange. The nightly builds link is below -- I'm using the one from last night and its playing great. The conversion to SQLite has really sped it up, also some CPU optimizations were recently done. I would definitely grab the latest and give it a go. I'm typically in the Discord if you have any other questions -- i'm a huge Mutants! fan. [https://www.mbbsemu.com/Downloads/master/](https://www.mbbsemu.com/Do wnloads/master/)