[Blindapple] Apple BBS

[Aaron Howell]

Kegs, available from http://kegs.sourceforge.net,
is an Apple //gs emulator, which has virtual com port support.
With that, you can run one of the old apple bbs packages,
and have tcp ports associated with serial lines, so when someone telnet's to the bbs, kegs handles translating that to something the 2gs sees as serial.
Unfortunately, Kegs itself isn't speech friendly, but with a little initial sighted assistance,
you could get to a stage where you could remotely administer the board.
Another option would be to run a real apple 2 with an echo or doubletalk,
and use something like a lantronics ethernet to serial adaptor to talk to the apple super serial card or something.
(google comp.sys.apple2 for serial and ethernet and you'll find quite a few examples
(including Boycott BBS which is  publicly telnettable), of people who are doing just that.
Regards
Aaron
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:11:07PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> Were you thinking of a BBS software package actually running on an emulated
> Apple?  If so, I don't know how that would work.  Each time somebody
> connected, A2 would have to be run.  That would mean the BBS would have to
> be prepared to deal with an incoming connection at the console immediately
> upon bootup.  Also, no multi-line functionality would be possible, as each
> user would be connecting into his own emulated Apple.  Not to mention
> problems with file locking and file use between each emulated Apple.
> If you're talking about a system whereby people can connect and run various
> programs via A2, that could work.  Somebody would have to write a program to
> deal with people connecting, let them choose what they want to run, and then
> run A2 to run the actual program.  A2 would have to be secured.  All disks
> available over the system would have to be write protected to prevent
> accidental or intentional damage or destruction, and probably some features
> like shelling out would have to be disabled from A2.
> Jayson.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
> To: <blindapple at jaybird.no-ip.info>
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:15 AM
> Subject: [Blindapple] Apple BBS
> 
> 
> > Hi all.  I just remembered something and had a bit of a brainstorm, so I
> > thought I would ask.  Would anyone be interested in connecting to an Apple
> > II BBS?  It would be emulated of course.  I'm not sure how practical it
> > would be or if it would even work since A2 doesn't make itself easily
> > available for telnet.  It would not be a dial-up system.  It would be
> > private, restricted only to people on this list.  I don't have the
> > bandwidth or desire to open it to the public.  Is there any interest?  No
> > guarantees if this would really happen or not, but if there is interest, I
> > would try just for the fun of it.
> >
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