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If there are any Opus boards online today, I'd love to check them out.
Does anybody know of Opus-CBCS BBSes online?
I am interested in Opus for multiple reasons. Maximus is inspired by Opus. The first BBS I called, and the one I picked up Fidonet mail
from, ran Opus (with FrontDoor). And Pride Month is just around the corner!
If there are any Opus boards online today, I'd love to check them out.
If there are any Opus boards online today, I'd love to check them out.
This will be your next job! I remember opus boards from years and years ago and they were far superier to fido software.
That's all I can remember.
There was another package that was quite good back then written in basic and was open source. I can't htink of the name of it right now.
Pcnet? pcbbs? bbspc? something like that.
Does anybody know of Opus-CBCS BBSes online?
I am interested in Opus for multiple reasons. Maximus is inspired by Opus. The first BBS I called, and the one I picked up Fidonet mail
from, ran Opus (with FrontDoor). And Pride Month is just around the corner!
If there are any Opus boards online today, I'd love to check them out.
Likewise so would I.
In the day I found running an OPUS CBCS system rather
easy compared to the sysop-distancing of the
contemporary BBS software packages.
Some may be that things were just that much simpler back
then, security largely on the "honor system", mostly a
bot-less world, and I had a different mindset of youth?
Whatever it was I found OPUS a more rewarding sysop experience than Fido, and ran it until I shut the first version of SPOT down
about 1992/3 when sysops were being held responsible for
their user's mischief.
I had a couple unrepentent
trolls who thought it cute to upload bad files, troll
message threads and generally be about as aweful as they
could get. Was an easy decision to cut out the costs of
a second phone line and shut down my OPUS board. Let
someone else deal with the miscreants and foot the bill.
I don't think there was much awareness of that gay
driver behind BBSes out here in flyover country. To be
honest many sysops were chasing warze and junior hacker
things, low level smut and crap like that, or if they
were more into the technology they basically wanted a
way to communicate to away places.
Returning back to OPUS, was the code portable enough to
work today? Don't think it was Y2K ready for a start.
If there a compatible FOSSIL driver today?
Secretely hoping there are running systems out there.
think it was Y2K ready for a start. If there a compatible FOSSIL driver
My BBS-to-do-list keeps growing! :) Hopefully someone will beat me to
it.
I don't think I ever called a Fido board. I think by the time I started calling BBSes in the 90s, Tom Jennings had already left, I don't know if
Pcnet? pcbbs? bbspc? something like that.RBBS-PC?
BY: k9zw (21:1/224)
I don't think there was much awareness of that gay driver behind BBSes out here in flyover country. To be honest many sysops were chasingFidonet was even founded by a gay dude too.
Which really doesn't matter.
The community is basically innovative. That was the main focus. I think the interface of the bbs software is the main focus not the personal stories of the people.
The community is basically innovative. That was the main focus. I think the interface of the bbs software is the main focus not the personal stories of the people.
Pcnet? pcbbs? bbspc? something like that.RBBS-PC?
That was it. I started to mess with it at one point but then remote access got popular in this area so I ended up just using it.
telnetbbsguide, there are two RBBS systems listed currently:
I guess RBBS is still alive! I don't see either of these systems listed
in fsxNet. Do you know if RBBS had Fidonet support?
I guess RBBS is still alive! I don't see either of these systems listed
in fsxNet. Do you know if RBBS had Fidonet support?
I believe it did, but I could be wrong. Again I wish my darn BBS image was here so I could look. I'm sure I had RBBS and a ton of addons in the file base.
RBBS can do fido. There were 2 tossers that I recall
supporting its message base format: MSGTOSS and
RBBSMail. Look around for MSGTOS2B.ZIP or RMAIL182.ZIP.
Looks like annex.retroarchive.org has them both off of
Kirk's Comm CD numero 2.
I think both packages only do echomail. There is a
separate package for netmail, called NoSnail.
NOSN190A.ZIP same place is some alpha version. There
are better versions around.
I have run all of the above with RBBS 17.4 but it's been
literally 30 years or more. no idea how I remember all
this stuff.
Back to the original topic, I'm not aware of any live Opus-CBCS systems on the internet. 1.79 is widely available and should be
Y2K complaint. The older ones, good luck. 1.73a is
around, and someplace I saw version 0.00 for download
(sunsite maybe?), Wynn started with 0.00 as the initial
release. 1.14 was a common version, at least here in
Pittsburgh, but I haven't seen it around lately.
RBBS can do fido. There were 2 tossers that I recall supporting its message base format: MSGTOSS and RBBSMail. Look around for MSGTOS2B.ZIP
I have run all of the above with RBBS 17.4 but it's been literally 30
years or more. no idea how I remember all this stuff.
Back to the original topic, I'm not aware of any live Opus-CBCS systems
on the internet. 1.79 is widely available and should be Y2K complaint.
with telnet support via rlfossil years ago, but there are certainly
better options nowadays. I may give it another try.
Do you remember if there was a preferred frontend mailer? I presume any of them would work (like with most other BBSes)?
to remember how much Opus changed through the different versions? I am curious how close 1.79 is to the early versions written by Wynn Wagner.
Was that was released for y2k? Or was he ahead of the game when he coded it?
Do you remember if there was a preferred frontend mailer? I presume any of them would work (like with most other BBSes)?
I most likely was using BinkleyTerm with it. My
recollection is that MSGTOSS could only handle ARCMail-
attach mailers so I was using oMMM or something behind
it to get the BSO.
to remember how much Opus changed through the
different versions? I am
curious how close 1.79 is to the early versions
written by Wynn Wagner.
The basic concept is pretty much the same as Wynn's
time. Tons of new features, but those could be switched
off in the control file.
Is MSGTOSS part of Opus or is it another utility that works with it? Interesting to hear what people actually used, thanks for sharing.
OK, sounds like if one were to setup an Opus 1.79 system that really would be a good representation of Opus as a whole?
Is MSGTOSS part of Opus or is it another utility that works with it? Interesting to hear what people actually used, thanks for sharing.
I was mixing up talking about RBBS-PC and Opus in the same set of emails. MSGTOSS was a 3rd party echomail tosser for RBBS-PC. I
think it supported *.MSG format too, so I suppose you
could use it with Opus if you wanted to.
Opus could work with a frontend mailer, and many ran it
that way, but it has its own decently capable mailer as
well. I found it less featureful than I preferred and
ran FrontDoor or BinkleyTerm instead, but my NC ran on
just Opus for many years.
OK, sounds like if one were to setup an Opus 1.79
system that really would
be a good representation of Opus as a whole?
I think so. Wynn passed on a few years ago, so he's not
around to disagree with me.
I never got to chat with Wynn, but with Opus being a formative part of my BBS experience and seeing him in the BBS Documentary and reading a bit of
I unfortunately never got to meet Wynn either. Most of
my involvement with Fidonet and BBSs was during my
teenage years, 30 (!! egad !!) or more years ago. I did
get to meet some of the auxiliary cast who were from
here in Pittsburgh - Paul Kelly, George Stanislav, Bev
Freed - at the annual Fidonet picnics (PittNic, great
name).
Thanks for the link to Rik's photo gallery. Interesting
stuff and a lot of history there. Also some PG-13
content hahaha.
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