December 1st, 2014: For the Hell of it, I decided to try my hand at BBSing on my old Commodore CDTV. Well, that's not *entirely* true - I'm emulating it in WinUAE with the same specs as my CDTV (Kickstart 1.3, 120Mb HD, 8 meg RAM), using the same software. While I haven't used the emulated CDTV to dial out (yet), I *did* transfer over my QWK packet from Digital Distortion BBS. I've only found one QWK program for Workbench 1.3 (AmiQWK), and while it *does* work, I need to figure out the parameters for UNZIP to unzip the files to the proper location. As it is, it unzips them to the root directory of my boot partition while it *should* be unzipping them to the RAM:TEMP directory. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out (RTFM). Of course, this is just a proof-of-concept at this point. I don't have a land-line or internet connection at home, so using my *real* CDTV for BBSing is out of the question until we're in a new house. However, it's pretty educational - I'm remembering things I'd long forgotten! In other news, I've been on a "diskless boot" kick lately. Somehow, my Tandy 1500HD escaped the garbage pile and was found on my garage floor. Without a hard drive or floppy drive, it's pretty useless as a computer, so I was looking for ways to boot the thing via the serial port and an external boot server. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any (easy) way to do that on the 1500HD, but I *did* discover how to do it on other systems... including my Model 4P! This, of course, got the wheels turning in my head...