[Blindapple] Apple BBS

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
I just sent an Email to the developer of KEGS, asking if there's any hope
whatsoever of making it accessible by modifying it to print to a Windows or
Linux text mode console.  Now just waiting.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron at kitten.net.au>
To: "Blind Apple Discussions" <blindapple at jaybird.no-ip.info>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] Apple BBS


> 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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