25 Nov
2009
25 Nov
'09
7:17 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Well here's something that the last time it was made was around 1993.
It's about as classic as you can get. I had an idea to get my old Rainbow
based FidoBBs (circa 1986) running again by hooking it up to the net via
DECServer200/MC and reverse Telneting into it.
I looked round for a copy of FIDO_DEC, found one but NUSQ would not unsqeeze
it. Finally I found my way to Tom Jennings (The guy who wrote Fido) website.
Total shock and horror!! All of the sources and backups had been trashed in
a computer crash around 1993. So most of what he had done from 1983 to 1993
was a heap of smoldering ruins.
Yeah, that was a horrifying discovery for me too. :(
You may be able to still use one of the later Fido releases on your
Rainbow via FOSSIL driver. Opus might also work via FOSSIL. You can use
tcpser to handle the inbound/outbound interface. I use that program for
the interface to the Apple IIe board I run. The IIe thinks there's a
Hayes Smartmodem on the other end. I don't know if Jim has had time to
integrate my WILLDO ECHO patch to tcpser though. (without it, the telnet
client does it's own echoing which rreessuullttss iinn tthhiiss....))
....
I just did a bit of digging and yes, you can run Opus on the Rainbow.
The following link has both Opus and the FOSSIL driver for the Rainbow
(ODEC_301.LZH): http://www.sentry.org/~trev/opus/173files.html
If you head over to http://cd.textfiles.com/kirkscom9409/msdos/bbs/fido/
you can download Fido v12U configured for FOSSIL use. (F12U_FSL.ZIP)
If you need any help, just holler. :)
Telnet to aor.retroarchive.org if you're feeling _really_ nostalgic.
*laughs*
g.
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