TVU BBS reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2022-12-26 00:25 I started working on some BBS Software about a week or two ago. I've made some progress, its written in Golang. I am hoping to get the interest of someone who is either experienced in or would like to be Go with Curses - I need an admin console - pref in go+curses. [https://github.com/rickcollette/tvubbs/](https://github.com/rickcolle tte/tvubbs/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaulLee420 · 2022-12-26 00:47 Nice - I'll take a bite, I like to support any projects trying to help the bbSphere.e There are a couple other 'newer' softwares right now; Talisman CyberBBS I hope you keep going with it, and I'll make sure I go take a l00k. Cheers. pAULIE42o 2o fOr beeRS bbS [20ForBeers.com:1337](https://20ForBeers.com:1337) /s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2022-12-26 01:06 Thanks! I just wanna get past the initial hurdle that takes it from “wanna” to working. If I can get it working, then if I never touch it again, at least others can fork it :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2022-12-26 02:14 dang it.. im getting "BLOCKED" from syncterm when trying to connect to your bbs :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bd1308 · 2022-12-26 14:16 I love this! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alfalfa-as-fuck · 2022-12-26 17:22 Haha I remember you from about 1990 wanting to set up a ddial in northern New Jersey! You were gonna give us a couple of modems but it fell apart ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dialsoft · 2022-12-26 19:59 I ran a ddial in North Jersey in 1990. covnerted to STS in 91. Its up now.junglebbs.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alfalfa-as-fuck · 2022-12-26 22:52 Is that affiliated with the jungle bbs from the early 90s? A lot of people’s first internet access came from there I thought the sysop was Sean or something.. can’t remember ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alfalfa-as-fuck · 2022-12-26 23:21 Just remembered it was through JACG - the Atari users group! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dialsoft · 2022-12-27 00:06 I am the only jungle bbs in nj. peaked at 111 phone lines <-marc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alfalfa-as-fuck · 2022-12-27 00:14 Think you banned me back in the day 😂 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2022-12-27 02:10 Marc! We swapped access to the jungle for a 16 port digibox. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2022-12-27 02:10 yeah - I had a slightly more chaotic life at that time :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2022-12-27 02:11 There we two dudes who wrote a simple bbs for that group - I think we used to meet at a masons hall - a guy I worked with at Games n Gadgets got me into that group.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dialsoft · 2022-12-27 02:20 We did? I just bought one again.... telnet to [junglebbs.com](https://junglebbs.com) or our web version [www.magviz.ca](https://www.magviz.ca) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alfalfa-as-fuck · 2022-12-27 05:04 Not sure if it was the same software but I didn’t like it — the messages were threaded and it made things hard to follow.. I seem to recall it was a commercial package that maybe replaced what they had previously. Gary Gorski ran it at the time. That was a very good group. Met at bell labs in Murray hill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2022-12-27 17:59 Ah - I was a member of the northern jersey one - and honestly, i cannot remember if it was called NJACE or something else - cant find any info.. and met in Bloomfield (I think) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PaulLee420 · 2022-12-27 22:06 well that stinks - i bet you got blacklisted for multiple connect attempts, or Mystic misguidedly doing so; if you send me yer IP i'll make sure it gets unblocked and whitelisted forever. if you use VPNs, just switch IPs and i bet it'll work. :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine_Crazy3177 · 2023-01-13 18:44 ## Updates: * Moved the source home to [https://github.com/iammegalith/televisionb bs](https://github.com/iammegalith/televisionbbs) * Changed the name to TeleVision BBS * SQLite3 for the User and Message Database ( who knew it is good enough for bbs backending without getting all locked up? not me.. ) * INI files for configurations - should make it easy to configure each bit of the system. Learned a LOT about golang. In a lot of ways, its more forgiving than C.. but in others.. not so much. So far I am having fun writing things, breaking things, making mistakes, and finding out about really cool go libraries(modules..packages..whatever they are called) Works: * Basic Login * Basic Registration (Hashed passwords in the database) * Runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac so far. Sort of works: * I have a basic "door" system that kind of works. I am not happy enough to call it "ok for now" I am still fiddling with how to display ANSI properly. Either I get total trash or I get a display with some weird half-height character space between lines. Also - still super happy to have anyone who wants to throw some code at functions do the thing ;) If I don't have a working admin console from a volunteer by the time I finish the core functionality, I'll ask ChatGPT to make one for me ;)