Subj : Back from the dead To : hyjinx From : hyjinx Date : Sun May 18 2025 01:59 pm I realise that the below message may have not sent properly because my BBS mail sender cron scripty thing has not been running. D'oh! I have done fixing up of my BBS.. INCLUDING!!! .... an upgrade of Mystic from a46 to a49! I've upgraded the many broken mods, including, most importantly, MRC chat! I invite users to log on to bbs.alsgeeklab.com 2323 (telnet) and check it out. I still haven't figured out why I can't get the SSH cipher to work, that's a job for another day I guess! -Al (hyjinx) hy> Heya everyone, hy> hy> It is I, Al, hyjinx the 3rd of the New Zealand kind. hy> hy> I wanted to drop by and say hello. It has been too long my dear friends. hy> hy> Trouble is, I'm always working these days, my business demands so much of hy> and then the remaining time I'm either making the odd little video here an hy> there, or I'm with the missus or the kid doing family gubbins. hy> Now, one of the things I really wanted to do was combine my passion for hy> working on my old PCs and being able to practically call up BBSes at the hy> same time. This involved a bunch of things to be a reality. However, today hy> I write this from my IBM 5160/XT, now with upgraded Intel InBoard/386 hy> goodness. Yes, my XT (which originally had a sucky 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU and a hy> 8-bit bus), is now running in 32 bits with a 386-16MHz CPU. This is all hy> courtesy of a rare beast of a card from Intel, which I spent faaaar too mu hy> money on on Ebay. I will be uploading the video to my Patreon supporters v hy> soon. YouTubes sometime later. hy> hy> Naturally, I am chuffed about the performance this gives, but it opens up hy> doors to multi-tasking in a way that the 8088 or 80286 could not. So now, hy> can launch the microweb web browser in a separate DesqView window, or writ hy> doc in word, and the BBS will still stay connected. This may sound like 's hy> what, I have an Amiga pal, I've been doing that shit since 1985', but for hy> IBM PC under plain-jane DOS, it wasn't a thing. You had to quit an app, hy> launch another and then do a dance. Then there was networking. If you want hy> TCP/IP, you could only ever have one app access the packet driver at once. hy> Anything else, and the app would crash. No longer! I have figured out hy> something called PKTMUX, which is a packet driver multiplexer, essentially hy> you can load up multiple packet drivers that pull from the main packet dri hy> and they just have different driver interrupts (i.e. 0x60 for the main hy> driver, 0x65 for mux1 and, say 0x70 for mux2). Works like a charm! hy> hy> Some other weirdo out there will find this fascinating.... or is it just m hy> I have Ltning on my Discord channel to thank for this (he runs a BBS hy> somewhere), and I also have Michael Brutman for pointing me in the right hy> direction. hy> hy> Now, will I say "I'm back, baby".. .Back to the BBS scene? Not totally. I hy> have quite a bit of busyness that won't go away any time soon. What I will hy> doing, is coming along more. hy> hy> Anyways I've prattled on long enough now. hy> hy> Yours in cyberspace, hy> Mr "Back to the BBS". hy> hy> Al / hyjinx hy> hy> hy> hyjinx // Alistair Ross hy> Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) hy> alsgeeklab.com hy> hy> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64) hy> * Origin: bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2323 (21:1/126) hyjinx // Alistair Ross Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64) * Origin: bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2323 (21:1/126) .