Just wanted to thank all those who showed up to the "Release Party" tonight.. It was a pleasure chatting with you all.. The files are available for download now via Facebook, www.wrgnbr.com,
www.8bitboyz.com. I will ask Avon to hatch them also in a couple of
days.. :)
It was rad to hear you explain about the 2 releases - I'm glad I saw a post about it so I could get by. Thanks!!
Funny, too, I think I got kicked by that same time-out one of the
chatters was warning about. :P
Hey folks if anyone is interested. I am having a release party of sorts tonight at 10PM EST for my new PFile disk for Image BBS along with my
BBS on a stick project of Image BBS for the C64.. It will be held at ciaamiga.org:6400 if you can't get a slot dial into wn3.wrgnbr.com:6400 and there will be slots there also... The PFile disk has a couple brand new files written by me (Holiday Announcement, and Birthday
Announcement) along with a bunch of conversions of old PFiles over to
the new Image 3.0 format. The BBS on a stick project is great for
newbies who want to run a BBS but aren't tech savy in the Commodore Emulation world. All you do is unzip it, drop it on your c: drive and
run a runme.bat file and it boots into C64 with Lt Kernal Emulation then boot the BBS and configure it up and you are running a BBS!! It's a good way to learn about BBS'n and the Commodore...
Hope to see some folks tonight...
AL
www.8bitboyz.com. I will ask Avon to hatch them also in a couple of
days.. :)
Al
Lifes obligations have been a bit insane for me lately. I would love a copy though. Is this being hatched out on fsxNet?
DrClaw
Lifes obligations have been a bit insane for me lately. I would love a copy though. Is this being hatched out on fsxNet?
Yer on Linux too, right? I'm [going to] working on porting Bucko's BBS
on a stick to work with Linux... any interest/help?
pAULIE42o
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Yer on Linux too, right? I'm [going to] working on porting Bucko's BBS
on a stick to work with Linux... any interest/help?
you mean get to work on a project with pAULIE42o?!?!?! heck ya. pretty sure it would be super easy as Linux has great emulators.
Let me know what I can do.
The 2 things to do is convert the .bat file to a bash script (I already have on my system here) and then create a bash script or another way of installing Vice in Linux, I have a doc file on how to do it, just not
sure if just writing a script would do it step by step.. I can do basic bash scripts but this would be an intense one as there is about 30 steps to getting Vice installed correctly..
Whatever you guys do is appreciated as I have to step aside from Image
for a couple of weekends to finish a new project I want to do on my
Mystic board, and do an update on my Synchronet board to 3.20...
The 2 things to do is convert the .bat file to a bash script (I already have on my system here) and then create a bash script or another way of installing Vice in Linux, I have a doc file on how to do it, just not
sure if just writing a script would do it step by step.. I can do basic bash scripts but this would be an intense one as there is about 30 steps to getting Vice installed correctly..
Whatever you guys do is appreciated as I have to step aside from Image
for a couple of weekends to finish a new project I want to do on my
Mystic board, and do an update on my Synchronet board to 3.20...
I wasn't even thinking of adding the VICE install to an .sh - I already have VICE installed; and on arch its just 'yay -S vice'... or similar w/ Ubuntu, esc - so I was just gonna modify the BBS-on-a-stick .bat to copy and run (or whatever IT does on Windows..) VICE w/ those configs...
When I looked, tho, I think I also saw a packet driver that was included
- so that would have to be duplicated, too. At any rate, I haven't
looked deeper at it but I intend to use BBS-on-a-stick on my Arch [nix] system and will make sure I post here w/ anything I did to get it
going... prolly this coming weekend. I have tons of projects, as always, that I'm playing with. :P
Sounds good I'm not super bash writer or anything but I do have a book with extras for when there needed. Could even do it in python. Linux comes with python.
I've been around if paulie is up to it I'm sure he will hit me up.
DrClaw
LOL no biggie, I already have a bash script which starts tcpser, then
Vice and goes as far as autobooting the BBS software. In fact
technically, I could set a cron to run the script immediately after boot up to auto boot right into the BBS. I am more worried about doing a
Vice install so it installs all of the dependencies etc. I had issues
with Debian/Ubuntu a few years back with Vice installing really old versions from the repositories.. I am going to look closer into creating
a bash script installing Vice from scratch though..
Yep, thats all I was looking to write - and would have to include tcpser for Linux, or the source... yer idea of installing VICE is probably SMARTER, but theres so many flavors of Linux that... maybe just support Ubuntu and the other folks will know what to do. :P
What you describe as having is all I was gonna try to do - maybe I'll
bug you for it on yer bbSes.
pAULIE42o
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Yep, thats all I was looking to write - and would have to include tcpser for Linux, or the source... yer idea of installing VICE is probably SMARTER, but theres so many flavors of Linux that... maybe just support Ubuntu and the other folks will know what to do. :P
What you describe as having is all I was gonna try to do - maybe I'll
bug you for it on yer bbSes.
You just use Flatpack. Then you can make it work on all flavors of
Linux.
You know, I didn't think of the other flavors other then Debian/Ubuntu.. Good point!!! I will put together a package of the source codes of the Vice I use which works with file transfers, and TCPSER and let those who want to play with it assemble themselves. I will include my bash script
to boot it all.. Thanks for the info Paulie...
Personally I think you could just include info on how to install Vice in the package - once yer scripts are created for like... Ubuntu, they
become 'unusable' without modification on say.. Arch.
pAULIE42o
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Not on flatpack. Flatpack creates an isolated mini install with only
what is needed to make the program work. It still relies on the underlying OS a little but anything it needs to run will be built in. Older libraries newer libraries OS specific commands for a bash script. you name it. On top of that if someone has Linux subsystem for windows you can run it on windows too.
Personally I think you could just include info on how to install Vice in the package - once yer scripts are created for like... Ubuntu, they
become 'unusable' without modification on say.. Arch.
Prereqs = VICE x.x, telser - with telser it might be neat to supply the source and build it using tools that are available on all nix flavors.
Its small enough, should just be a make / make install- or move to a directory.
I know - I hate running flatpak (or snap's), but yer right... only
problem is - while they'll certainly have VICE, they won't have smaller packages - syncterm, telser, etc...
pAULIE42o
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What I'm saying to do is make a flatpack with all of that software in one package. So its a one piece install.
I am going to look into Flatpack.. I like the idea that it could all be
in one package.. Including a doc file and source code is one thing, some folks will have issues with assembling etc.. If Flatpack handles that I
am all for it!! Thanks again DC...
Whoot let me know when its ready I have got to check it out!
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