Well your making progress and that's always a good thing. You will get it I know you will. Serial Ports a funny thing. Best way to check a serial port is to use a terminal program between the two computers connected with a NULL Modem and just type to see if what you type is going to the other computer. I have to still use Serial Ports at work to talk with my older industrial controls. I am ok until I connect to something i have not had to connected to for a while remembering what Baud Rate to use. Back in the day I had a friend who had one of those CMD Hard Drives running on his BBS it had a huge drive for the time around 100mb. I was using a multiplexed Lt Kernel HD System sharing it with up to 4 computers but it came with a 20mb SCSI Drive. I don't recall if I added a larger drive or not because that's when I changed my BBS from running C-Net 120 over to C-Net Amiga Pro and ran a bunch of 100mb SCSI Drives. I have to label everything I have way to many retro computers some I use more than others but its annoying when you forget what drive is what or what switch turns to send power to which computer or which video switch to change to send a video signals to the monitors. On my Amiga's I use KVM Switches so I can save a ton of space but without those labels I would be a major PITA for me and lots of WTF's coming out of my mouth.
Thanks for walking us through your BBS Server setup. This is probably the only video tutorial for it in existence. I also couldn't help but notice that you have BBS Server running under what looks to be Windows 10. So it can be made to work on something other than Windows XP? Everyone I've contacted so far says they couldn't use anything newer than XP. In addition, some have reported problems getting it to work with speeds above 2400bps but you very confidently chose 38.4k which compliments your SwiftLink perfectly. I was concerned that BBS Server maxed out at something much slower based on what I've read so far. Are you doing anything special to make BBS Server work on Win 10 such as running it in "Compatibility mode"? I would be happy to get it working with Win 7.
I do have this running on win 10 with no compatibility mode set. The only thing I do that is special really, is to set the com port settings in device manager. I have used this specific PC since I started running my BBS. As a matter of fact I have run 3 BBSs off of it all at the same time with 3 BBS Servers running at the same time. This would actually make an excellent video. I think I will work on making the video. :)
@@commodore4ever Sounds great! I look forward to seeing it. Glad to also hear about BBS Server supporting multiple BBSes. I will be pleased just getting one instance to work. I still need a couple of items. One of them I'm still not 100% certain about. Instead of a straight serial cable and null modem adapter, I will need to get one of those Serial to USB adapters since I plan to run BBS Server on an old Mac mini with Win 7. There is one BBS I know that is using one so that gives me hope.
@@jamesc2327 yes. It’s supports 40 col perfectly. I love centipede. It’s fast and more compatible with other computers. It’s definitely worth trying out.
What a relief that this stuff could be salvaged!
I know. I was really worried about the CMD HD. Fortunately it all worked out.
Thanks for the shout out! Glad everything is working.
No problem. I was going to link to your FB page but figured I should ask first :)
I’m glad to see you working on getting the BBS back up!
Always!
Well your making progress and that's always a good thing. You will get it I know you will. Serial Ports a funny thing. Best way to check a serial port is to use a terminal program between the two computers connected with a NULL Modem and just type to see if what you type is going to the other computer. I have to still use Serial Ports at work to talk with my older industrial controls. I am ok until I connect to something i have not had to connected to for a while remembering what Baud Rate to use. Back in the day I had a friend who had one of those CMD Hard Drives running on his BBS it had a huge drive for the time around 100mb. I was using a multiplexed Lt Kernel HD System sharing it with up to 4 computers but it came with a 20mb SCSI Drive. I don't recall if I added a larger drive or not because that's when I changed my BBS from running C-Net 120 over to C-Net Amiga Pro and ran a bunch of 100mb SCSI Drives. I have to label everything I have way to many retro computers some I use more than others but its annoying when you forget what drive is what or what switch turns to send power to which computer or which video switch to change to send a video signals to the monitors. On my Amiga's I use KVM Switches so I can save a ton of space but without those labels I would be a major PITA for me and lots of WTF's coming out of my mouth.
nice to see it's getting back up!.. also interesting to see commodore sysop's at work.. it's pretty rare to find on youtube..but so cool to see :)
This ... this is an amazing amount of CMD hardware. My piddly little FD-2000 seems quaint now.
Thanks for walking us through your BBS Server setup. This is probably the only video tutorial for it in existence. I also couldn't help but notice that you have BBS Server running under what looks to be Windows 10. So it can be made to work on something other than Windows XP? Everyone I've contacted so far says they couldn't use anything newer than XP. In addition, some have reported problems getting it to work with speeds above 2400bps but you very confidently chose 38.4k which compliments your SwiftLink perfectly. I was concerned that BBS Server maxed out at something much slower based on what I've read so far. Are you doing anything special to make BBS Server work on Win 10 such as running it in "Compatibility mode"? I would be happy to get it working with Win 7.
I do have this running on win 10 with no compatibility mode set. The only thing I do that is special really, is to set the com port settings in device manager. I have used this specific PC since I started running my BBS. As a matter of fact I have run 3 BBSs off of it all at the same time with 3 BBS Servers running at the same time. This would actually make an excellent video. I think I will work on making the video. :)
@@commodore4ever Sounds great! I look forward to seeing it. Glad to also hear about BBS Server supporting multiple BBSes. I will be pleased just getting one instance to work. I still need a couple of items. One of them I'm still not 100% certain about. Instead of a straight serial cable and null modem adapter, I will need to get one of those Serial to USB adapters since I plan to run BBS Server on an old Mac mini with Win 7. There is one BBS I know that is using one so that gives me hope.
Can you run centipede in 40 col mode?
No you can not. It has to be run in 80 columns.
@@commodore4ever ok thanks, does it support 40 col clients with PETSCII (c64)
@@jamesc2327 yes. It’s supports 40 col perfectly. I love centipede. It’s fast and more compatible with other computers. It’s definitely worth trying out.
@@commodore4ever will do, I assume the manuals are well documented as I cant see much out there for tutorials etc...
@@jamesc2327 the manual is great. There is no tutorials that I could find but it is pretty simple to get up and going.