So I got my Telegard BBS running in DOSBox in local mode, and curious if there is a way to put this up for others to login to, but not host on my own PC? Maybe connect through a Browser or something? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BizzyHaze · 2023-05-29 23:18 Telegard. Shit, that brings back memories. As a kid I ran a crappy telegard bbs, one line, 9600 baud, and my parents disconnected a lot of people when picking up the phone at random times lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-29 23:32 Lol ya… pickup phone and immediately go oops 😬 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- slewp · 2023-05-29 23:34 Did you have all of those games included in your backup ? Looks like a fun project ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-29 23:38 Well I had some but not all, I kinda went by an old screen shot when I rebuilt the menus. The ones in yellow are working , love OOII best door game around :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- orion3311 · 2023-05-29 23:41 Dosbox supports serial ports, but I think theres also a telnet based fossil driver as well, not sure if that works via dosbox or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-29 23:55 Ya I think I heard about that but I don’t think I was prepared to experiment as I’m not too familiar with network stuff and had thought of maybe setting up a virtual machine to test but didn’t have the time to learn that too lol I’m old haha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- orion3311 · 2023-05-29 23:59 If you want a hybrid solution, map serial ports in dosbox (or just build an actual dos machine), and use a "wifi modem" or two on actual serial ports. Youd have to forward a port number from your router to each modem. Again they use Telnet (most BBSes use Telnet as the modem/phone replacement) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- arcadeshopper · 2023-05-30 02:50 Dosbox has a virtual modem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PraiseBobSlackOff · 2023-05-30 07:29 This *might* be helpful, though they used Renegade BBS as their software. As far as not hosting it at home, you can use a VPS service, like Digital Ocean, and spin up a server there to do this. I’ve tried this out in the past, and it works, but never bothered to put it online. If anything, it taught me a lot about tweaking DosBox. Good luck! https://www.instructables.com/Renegade-BBS-in-Ubuntu-Linux-Telnet- Multi-Node/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ancient2 · 2023-05-30 09:02 I ran Telegard then shortly after Renegade, which might have been just a hexedit of the name, but I think it did have a lot more features. I forget now… Lots of known vulnerabilities with these, putting it online then advertising it might get it hacked pretty fast. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zelionthunder · 2023-05-30 15:40 I've messed around a lot with different BBS' lately trying to get one to run on windows and run doors without too many issues, all over telnet. I ended up using MysticBBS and things have been working pretty good. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-30 15:45 That’s cool. I’ve heard of that software. Would be cool to host it in a website so you anyone can access via a web browser client. Or maybe a discord bot haha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-30 15:47 Wow that’s cool! I’ll check out Digital Ocean. Thank you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zelionthunder · 2023-05-30 15:48 I have it accessible through a website, it uses fTelnet to connect to the BBS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-30 16:59 Ya it runs really well, nice setup. Thats kinda What I would want to do too, with that web telnet option. Looking the time involved I might have to wait a bit. As /u/PraiseBobSlackOff mentioned setting it up on maybe Digital Ocean would be cool and then use the fTelnet. Oh my Im getting overwhelmed just thinking about it haha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-05-30 17:50 I didn't see Murder Motel... Which is fine. It's a notoriously difficult door to force to work, with very poor documentation to boot. Nice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PraiseBobSlackOff · 2023-05-30 18:00 If you’re going to spin up a vps instance, consider using a modern bbs software. Mystic or Enigma would be up and running much faster than this solution I posted along with Telegard. But you do your thing! I’d be interested in seeing the fruits of your labor, whatever direction you take it. Tschüss! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-30 18:23 I think I might have tried that back in the day but can’t remember for sure ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebojager · 2023-05-30 18:38 Not sure if Im ready for all those fruits lol. Had a tough weekend with a new PC so feeling a bit overwhelmed. I assume Mystic and Enigma dont need to run in DOSBox? If I could customize the menus the same that might work. Telegard had a real nice was of customizing menus and stuff. Of course I've forgotten most of it. but did backup my menu files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PraiseBobSlackOff · 2023-05-30 20:59 Both really easy to customize. Have used Mystic much more and you can customize just about everything you see, plus the MPL and python stuff let’s you go beyond typical customization. It’s a pretty fun package and you won’t need DosBox to get it live, though you’ll need it for doors and you can probably save that for a whole different thread!