#rcbox — Public Fediverse posts
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RC-BOX BBS is currently offline due to a gas leak one block down the road and local service crews cutting everything off.
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RC-BOX BBS is currently offline due to a gas leak one block down the road and local service crews cutting everything off.
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RC-BOX BBS is currently offline due to a gas leak one block down the road and local service crews cutting everything off.
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RC-BOX BBS is currently offline due to a gas leak one block down the road and local service crews cutting everything off.
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RC-BOX BBS is currently offline due to a gas leak one block down the road and local service crews cutting everything off.
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Did I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!
Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.
Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!
P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
#z80 -
Did I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!
Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.
Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!
P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
#z80 -
Did I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!
Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.
Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!
P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
#z80 -
Did I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!
Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.
Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!
P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
#z80 -
Did I ever mention RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based bulletin board system?!
Running on a real RC2014, powered by a Z80, CP/M 2.2 and a highly customized fork of RBBS4 this single-user system offers you the 1985 online experience.
Text games available on the CP/M command shell !!
P.S.: connection info is in the ALT-text or in my profile info.
#rc2014bbs
#rcbox
#rc2014
#bbs
#rcbbs
#bulletinboardsystem
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As you may remember, RC-BOX BBS - the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based BBS - has been struggling with connectivity issues.
The good news: I have finally been able to successfully mitigate these.
Some background info: in October last year, I decided to do some maintenance on the system, updating my WiFi modem firmware and replacing the SC132 serial I/O module (using a 6.144 KHz crystal for a fixed 9600 bps) with its cousin, the SC110 serial I/O module which features a CTC chip so it can dynamically set any baud rate.
Turns out that while the module is techincally 100% okay, it sometimes locks up when being used with the BYE.COM program for CP/M.
I think this has to do with BYE.COM setting the CTC to the selected bps during initializiation (which happens after each hangup). For some reason, this often works but occasionally causes the SIO/2 to lock up.
Sometimes, without any reason, BYE.COM would drop into an +++ATH loop although no one was connected, not being able to actually perform the AT command.
It took me weeks to finally realize this, because I was so sure the problem originated from the Zimodem firmware and because the issue only showed up occasionally. It was very annyoing to debug.
So as a result of this finding, I've put the SC132 with the fixed 9600 bps back into the system. Since then, no more of these issues occurred.
As always, you can find all info on how to connect to RC-BOX BBS in my profile info.
P.S.: so now I think the problem originates from the BYE.COM code. But since everything is working properly again, I don't have the desire to dig into the BYE.ASM code any time in the future. There are other projects that I'd like to go on with first.
#rcbox
#bbs
#rc2014
#rc2014bbs
#retrocomputing
#newretro
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Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.
This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.
Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!
Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.
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Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.
This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.
Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!
Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.
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Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.
This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.
Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!
Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.
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Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.
This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.
Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!
Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.
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Out there, in the worrying world of today is a little #Zilog #Z80 computer with a mere 64KB of #RAM and running the #1970s CP/M operating system.
This little machine is connected to the #intertubes and it's serving a #singleuser #bulletinboardsystem for you, the worrying souls of #yesteryears to visit.
Take a break from today, connect like it's 1985 - here on RC-BOX BBS, the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based bulletin board system in the world!
Check out the #alttext or my #profile info for information on how to connect.
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Aside from (hopefully) working around the recent connectivity issues with RC-BOX BBS, I've also purged the "General" message file and moved all existing messages to a new "Archive" message file. It's read-only but it cotnains all the posts to "General" from july 2022 - january 2025.
Also, the "Making", "Code & Co." and "Announce" message files have been dropped as they have never been used.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Another Sysop News +++ Another Sysop News +++
Aside from (hopefully) working around the recent connectivity issues with RC-BOX BBS, I've also purged the "General" message file and moved all existing messages to a new "Archive" message file. It's read-only but it cotnains all the posts to "General" from july 2022 - january 2025.
Also, the "Making", "Code & Co." and "Announce" message files have been dropped as they have never been used.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Another Sysop News +++ Another Sysop News +++
Aside from (hopefully) working around the recent connectivity issues with RC-BOX BBS, I've also purged the "General" message file and moved all existing messages to a new "Archive" message file. It's read-only but it cotnains all the posts to "General" from july 2022 - january 2025.
Also, the "Making", "Code & Co." and "Announce" message files have been dropped as they have never been used.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Another Sysop News +++ Another Sysop News +++
Aside from (hopefully) working around the recent connectivity issues with RC-BOX BBS, I've also purged the "General" message file and moved all existing messages to a new "Archive" message file. It's read-only but it cotnains all the posts to "General" from july 2022 - january 2025.
Also, the "Making", "Code & Co." and "Announce" message files have been dropped as they have never been used.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Another Sysop News +++ Another Sysop News +++
Aside from (hopefully) working around the recent connectivity issues with RC-BOX BBS, I've also purged the "General" message file and moved all existing messages to a new "Archive" message file. It's read-only but it cotnains all the posts to "General" from july 2022 - january 2025.
Also, the "Making", "Code & Co." and "Announce" message files have been dropped as they have never been used.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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Over the past few months I have witnessed some strange behavior with RC-BOX BBS (the world's first - and currently only - RC2014 based BBS) where the Wifi modem would loose connection over night and not restore it properly. As a result the BBS was unreachable.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happens but may have found a workaround.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Sysop News +++ Sysop News +++
Over the past few months I have witnessed some strange behavior with RC-BOX BBS (the world's first - and currently only - RC2014 based BBS) where the Wifi modem would loose connection over night and not restore it properly. As a result the BBS was unreachable.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happens but may have found a workaround.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Sysop News +++ Sysop News +++
Over the past few months I have witnessed some strange behavior with RC-BOX BBS (the world's first - and currently only - RC2014 based BBS) where the Wifi modem would loose connection over night and not restore it properly. As a result the BBS was unreachable.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happens but may have found a workaround.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Sysop News +++ Sysop News +++
Over the past few months I have witnessed some strange behavior with RC-BOX BBS (the world's first - and currently only - RC2014 based BBS) where the Wifi modem would loose connection over night and not restore it properly. As a result the BBS was unreachable.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happens but may have found a workaround.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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+++ Sysop News +++ Sysop News +++
Over the past few months I have witnessed some strange behavior with RC-BOX BBS (the world's first - and currently only - RC2014 based BBS) where the Wifi modem would loose connection over night and not restore it properly. As a result the BBS was unreachable.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happens but may have found a workaround.
As always you can find the telnet address of the BBS in the ALT-Text or my profile here on #oldbytesdotspace
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Season's Greetings - Ho! Ho! Ho!
RC-BBS the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based Bulletin Board System wishes you happy holidays!
Connection information can be found in the #Alt #Text and on my profile page.
#rcbox
#rc2014bbs
#rc2014
#bbs
#cpm80
#rcbbs
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Season's Greetings - Ho! Ho! Ho!
RC-BBS the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based Bulletin Board System wishes you happy holidays!
Connection information can be found in the #Alt #Text and on my profile page.
#rcbox
#rc2014bbs
#rc2014
#bbs
#cpm80
#rcbbs
#seasonsgreetings -
Season's Greetings - Ho! Ho! Ho!
RC-BBS the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based Bulletin Board System wishes you happy holidays!
Connection information can be found in the #Alt #Text and on my profile page.
#rcbox
#rc2014bbs
#rc2014
#bbs
#cpm80
#rcbbs
#seasonsgreetings -
Season's Greetings - Ho! Ho! Ho!
RC-BBS the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based Bulletin Board System wishes you happy holidays!
Connection information can be found in the #Alt #Text and on my profile page.
#rcbox
#rc2014bbs
#rc2014
#bbs
#cpm80
#rcbbs
#seasonsgreetings -
Season's Greetings - Ho! Ho! Ho!
RC-BBS the world's first and (currently) only RC2014 based Bulletin Board System wishes you happy holidays!
Connection information can be found in the #Alt #Text and on my profile page.
#rcbox
#rc2014bbs
#rc2014
#bbs
#cpm80
#rcbbs
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refining the full message scan by adding a "quiet scan" option and a nifty summary.
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refining the full message scan by adding a "quiet scan" option and a nifty summary.
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refining the full message scan by adding a "quiet scan" option and a nifty summary.
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refining the full message scan by adding a "quiet scan" option and a nifty summary.
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refining the full message scan by adding a "quiet scan" option and a nifty summary.
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RC-BOX BBS has been updated and now includes an optional full message scan during login.
That way, you can easily scan all subject files (boards) for new messages to you.
The original RBBS 4.1 implementation did not have that feature, requiring you to manually select each message file. I found that annoying so I changed it.
As always, you can find the connection information for RC-BOX BBS in my profile.
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+++ SYSOP NOTICE +++ SYSOP NOTICE +++
RC-BOX BBS has been updated and now includes an optional full message scan during login.
That way, you can easily scan all subject files (boards) for new messages to you.
The original RBBS 4.1 implementation did not have that feature, requiring you to manually select each message file. I found that annoying so I changed it.
As always, you can find the connection information for RC-BOX BBS in my profile.
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+++ SYSOP NOTICE +++ SYSOP NOTICE +++
RC-BOX BBS has been updated and now includes an optional full message scan during login.
That way, you can easily scan all subject files (boards) for new messages to you.
The original RBBS 4.1 implementation did not have that feature, requiring you to manually select each message file. I found that annoying so I changed it.
As always, you can find the connection information for RC-BOX BBS in my profile.
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+++ SYSOP NOTICE +++ SYSOP NOTICE +++
RC-BOX BBS has been updated and now includes an optional full message scan during login.
That way, you can easily scan all subject files (boards) for new messages to you.
The original RBBS 4.1 implementation did not have that feature, requiring you to manually select each message file. I found that annoying so I changed it.
As always, you can find the connection information for RC-BOX BBS in my profile.
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+++ SYSOP NOTICE +++ SYSOP NOTICE +++
RC-BOX BBS has been updated and now includes an optional full message scan during login.
That way, you can easily scan all subject files (boards) for new messages to you.
The original RBBS 4.1 implementation did not have that feature, requiring you to manually select each message file. I found that annoying so I changed it.
As always, you can find the connection information for RC-BOX BBS in my profile.
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I am currently doing some testing with #rc2014bbs and there is something strange here:
#rcbox #BBS runs on a Z80 CP/M system ( #rc2014 ) and I am using the CP/M file transfer tool KMD.COM to #transfer #files to and from the system via #xmodem (CRC and 1K - both possible).
This seems to work as long as the client machine up- or downloading files is an #8bit machine: a RC2014 with #Qterm works, a #Commodore64 with #CCGMS works - but as soon as I try to use #Syncterm or #Qodem or any other modern #Linux #terminal #program the transfers fail with either "error in header" or, more often, with "CRC error".
How is this possible?! 🤔
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Season's Greetings from #RCBOX #rc2014bbs - the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based #BulletinBoardSystem on the network.
The #BBS software is a customized version of the original #RBBS 4.1 #BDSC code for #CPM which I extended to feature: a simple SysOp <-> User chat, support for Mr. Gelee's 4x 7-segement LED module for RC2014 (to display the active user number and activity locally), a Textfiles section and several bugfixes.
You can #Telnet to it on:
rc2014 (dot) ddns (dot) net : 2014
Please keep in mind that this is a single-user system, so if you get a *BUSY* message, try again later as someone else is already logged in.