• Modem emulator over TCP/I

    From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to Tony Langdon on Mon Jan 8 17:46:00 2018
    Indeed. I'm looking for something that'd let me run "something"
    (FroDo) under "something" (DOSbox in Linux) and still believe
    it's talking to a standard COM port and modem.
    Ummm.. Interested.
    Hmm, doesn't DOSBox offer this already?

    I don't know about DOSBox, but dosemu does.

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Mike Powell on Wed Jan 10 08:26:00 2018
    Mike Powell wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    Indeed. I'm looking for something that'd let me run "something"
    (FroDo) under "something" (DOSbox in Linux) and still believe
    it's talking to a standard COM port and modem.
    Ummm.. Interested.
    Hmm, doesn't DOSBox offer this already?

    I don't know about DOSBox, but dosemu does.

    I've had Telix working under DOSBox into an emulated modem on my Win64 system. :)


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  • From Ed Vance@1:2320/105 to Rick Christian on Tue Jan 16 09:42:00 2018
    01-15-18 22:01 Rick Christian wrote to Tony Langdon about Modem emulator over TCP/I
    Howdy! Rick and Tony,

    @MSGID: <5A5DCD84.5879.fi-linux@capitolcityonline.net>
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    -snip-
    Bink worked for me, and when I had my point running GIGO (the point
    was spun off the original BBS), Bink's bidirectional transfer protocol saved a lot of time, with a lot of mail travelling in both directions,

    FD had a nice setup screen, status screen, and there was more it to a
    the time,
    which I don't recall all the details. Alot of it had to do with actual operation of the queue(s) etc, but that is a rough recolection at best.

    especially in the earlier days, when I was running 2400 bps. Was interesting seeing bot RxD and Txd lights on continuously. :)
    -snip-
    I was a big fan of GIGO at the time. :)

    I got hooked into the beta testing of it early on, and it was like FD
    it worked
    better than what was the big work horse of this at the time, I think UFGATE??
    GIGO was just awesome. I had to be doing this on something for awhile before GIGO came along..hmmm.. I had a uucp account with Telerama for a long time. Matter of fact I think I was like one of the last few they
    were allowing to keep the darn things! I 'd love to see the code of
    this revived for Linux. It won't be me as a I don't touch C.

    Yeah, all are dead, as are the [amateur|Part 97] packet radio to
    FTN
    gating
    systems
    that were around in the 90s. :(

    Really?? None of those survived? Hmm I would have thought some of that stuff in the packet world of Amateur radio would continue on. I never
    got into that as at that time you still needed 5WPM CW, and my brain
    just didn't then and doesn't know work for CW. I moved on to build much bigger radios sytems in numerous states.

    Sadly, GIGO is abandonware. Someone
    would have to rewrite a clone from the ground up. :(

    I think source was released, but then the sites that had it disappeared and they who wrote seems to be rather against discussing any part of
    GIGO, as the site I found mentioned pretty much "Don't boterh me about GIGO!"

    I'd wonder if The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive https://archive.org would have pages with the source code ..--..
    -snip-
    My lab notes for testing have things like FD, BGFAX under DOSBox on the list, I
    just have so many things going on right now the list never seems to shrink!

    Same thing here - I call it My ROUNDTUIT List.

    73 de Ed W9ODR . .


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  • From Rick Christian@1:135/377 to Ed Vance on Wed Jan 17 22:00:56 2018
    Hello Ed!

    16 Jan 18 09:42, you wrote to me:
    much "Don't boterh me about GIGO!"

    I'd wonder if The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive https://archive.org would have pages with the source code

    I seem to recall trying those tricks, and the site that hosted this had robots.txt that blocked arvhive.org harvesting, just like I do. Along with .htaccess that does the same things for things that ignore robots.txt.

    Rick


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to Rick Christian on Mon Jan 22 17:56:00 2018
    Nope, don't touch that thing with a 100000000000000000000000000000000 mile pole. Linux, BSD, Unix, VAX/VMS, S3|400, z/OS, z/VM, bring it on.

    I don't do windows!

    That looks similar to my list of OSes I am familiar with, and I don't do Windows, either. Well, except on an old laptop that does not connect to anything else just to play my old SimCity games. :)

    I prefer native 100% Linux, only. Thanks.

    Well, I do run dosemu and old dos stuff on my nix box. :)

    Mike

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  • From Rick Christian@1:135/377 to Mike Powell on Tue Jan 23 22:00:49 2018
    Hello Mike!

    22 Jan 18 17:56, you wrote to me:

    That looks similar to my list of OSes I am familiar with, and I don't
    do Windows, either. Well, except on an old laptop that does not
    connect to anything else just to play my old SimCity games. :)

    I had a cold turkey purge of anything windows. I had enough of its stupid nonsense and instability and crappy drivers. Thats been decades ago, and I don't regret it.

    Never played games on PC. I had my Atari VCS2600, and now I have one of those reto VSC2600 things which has like 130+ games in it including the Activision ones, Pitfall Harry! Yeah the graphics suck for most of the arcade ports, but Centipede, and Space Invaders is pretty good to the arcade, so I am happy. That
    is where my interest in games ends. I've got an "official" PacMan on the tablet.

    I migth if the list ever shrinks down to it put a PiMAME box together to do real arcde versions of Centipede, PacMan, SI, Zaxxon.

    I have not touched winslobber to use in decades. I don't support it at work or peronsally. I take in machines decontaminate them, and repurpose them with Linux of some sort on them. I make it a point to avoid that arena at all costs.

    I prefer native 100% Linux, only. Thanks.

    Well, I do run dosemu and old dos stuff on my nix box. :)

    DOS is/was not my issue. I don't really have an issue with it other than not ever really getting what we needed, DOS/386 so that all the shenaningans of DESQView, DESQview/X, EMS, XMS, etc. could have been avoided. A true DOSNIX of
    a sort, where upon X would have been the GUI. The path that went forward with the stolen, and YES STOLEN! XPARC GUI systems from the STAR etc. that lead to crapple crapintosh and winslobber.

    I might try dosbox to try to get it to run FD, FOSSIL, etc. just more for giggles than anything. DOS like I said was not my issue, its what came after that. The fact that I can run 3 GUI terminals off my little measly dual core with RasPi's as basically X terminals and then the 4 core runs several VM loads. *NIX based stuff just has more functionality to start.


    winslobber setback computing by decades, and continues to rot the brains of its
    users and those who use it as more than anything other than a glorified typewriter with a screen.


    Rick


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to Rick Christian on Wed Jan 24 18:16:00 2018
    winslobber setback computing by decades, and continues to rot the brains of its
    users and those who use it [..]

    I feel the same way about smart phones. :D

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