Hi All,

From 1991-1993 I ran a Telegard BBS at night. I had wonderful memories of it, and now, 27 years later, I'm starting a BBS again, named Neon Plaza! This time using Synchronet which, IMHO, was definitely the best option.

Anyway, there's not much on the BBS (yet!) short of Dove-Net Message board setup, so I'm looking for tips & tricks that you all might have. I've been digging through all the documentation and there's a ton here!

Glad to be back in BBSland!

-Eric
Neon Plaza: telnet://neonplaza.pixels.pizza
(@pixel on Twitter)

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From 1991-1993 I ran a Telegard BBS at night. I had wonderful memories
of it, a nd now, 27 years later, I'm starting a BBS again, named Neon Anyway, there's not much on the BBS (yet!) short of Dove-Net Message
board setup , so I'm looking for tips & tricks that you all might have. I've been digging t hrough all the documentation and there's a ton here!

I hope it goes good. Try to find a speciality to help get more people to
visit your system. Like cooking recipies, or door games.

Re: Hello World!
By: Pixel to All on Thu Feb 20 2020 04:52 pm

Hi All,

From 1991-1993 I ran a Telegard BBS at night. I had wonderful memories of it, and now, 27 years later, I'm starting a BBS again, named Neon Plaza! This time using Synchronet which, IMHO, was definitely the best option.

Anyway, there's not much on the BBS (yet!) short of Dove-Net Message board setup, so I'm looking for tips & tricks that you all might have. I've been digging through all the documentation and there's a ton here!

Glad to be back in BBSland!

-Eric
Neon Plaza: telnet://neonplaza.pixels.pizza
(@pixel on Twitter)

hello Eric. welcome!

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada

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Pixel wrote to All <=-

Hi All,

From 1991-1993 I ran a Telegard BBS at night. I had wonderful memories
of it, and now, 27 years later, I'm starting a BBS again, named Neon Plaza! This time using Synchronet which, IMHO, was definitely the best option.

Welcome! I ran Telegard around the same time. I'd love to find the old Telegard binaries and take a look again at it.


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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Utopian Galt to Pixel on Thu Feb 20 2020 11:11 pm

Thanks! I plan on building out a big collection of door games, good theming, as well as a nice files collection.

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Welcome! I ran Telegard around the same time. I'd love to find the old Telegard binaries and take a look again at it.

You mean 2.5? I think Mike E. has some of those old versions avaliable (ya
know the bbs archives site)

I started with Telegard then went with Renegade. Programmed some pascal utilities for Renegade that made it on the Night Owl CDs. I am running Synchronet Linux right now but have set up a Renegade Dos BBS on a Windows 2003 VPS and playing around with it. Trying to get my old utilities I made to run (Which I can run them in DoxBox) but the Screen div/0 error stops me on anything else (even with trying patches) Much like you just wanted to be back into it. I would like to get back into the programming as well. Just trying to decide what direction to go for long term :-) Welcome!

Gargoyle
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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Pixel on Fri Feb 21 2020 07:05 am

Welcome! I ran Telegard around the same time. I'd love to find the old Telegard binaries and take a look again at it.

You can find a bunch of them here:

http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/TELEGARD/

--Eric

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Re: Hello World!
By: Pixel to All on Thu Feb 20 2020 04:52 pm

From 1991-1993 I ran a Telegard BBS at night. I had wonderful memories of it, and now, 27 years later, I'm starting a BBS again, named Neon Plaza! This time using Synchronet which, IMHO, was definitely the best option.

That's cool i first started playing around with RBBS but telegard was my secound bbs software i played around with it along with renegade and a few off shots like software.... welcome back!

BrokenMind

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Glad to be back in BBSland!

Welcome back.

Daryl


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Gargoyle wrote to Pixel <=-

utilities I made to run (Which I can run them in DoxBox) but the Screen div/0 error stops me on anything else (even with trying patches)

Is that the Turbo Pascal issue I've read about?



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Re: Hello World!
By: Pixel to All on Thu Feb 20 2020 04:52 pm

From 1991-1993 I ran a Telegard BBS at night. I had wonderful memories of it, and now, 27 years later, I'm starting a BBS again, named Neon Plaza! This time using Synchronet which, IMHO, was definitely the best option.

Welcome! And thanks for the praise. Hope you stick around,

digital man

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Pixel wrote:

Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Utopian Galt to Pixel on Thu Feb 20 2020 11:11 pm

Thanks! I plan on building out a big collection of door games, good theming, as well as a nice files collection.

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Don't we all.

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gargoyle on Sat Feb 22 2020 07:58 am

Yes it was some type of CRT error, I think the number was 2000. I need to look at my real old CDs and see if I still have any source code.

Gargoyle
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FidoNet | Dove-Net | FSXNet | Doors BBSLink

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Gargoyle to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 22 2020 22:42:57

Yes it was some type of CRT error, I think the number was 2000.

runtime error 200: divide by zero

I need to look at my real old CDs and see if I still have any source code.

if youhave the sources, fixing the problem is pretty easy to do... otherwise the binary has to be patched with a patcher that can patch that specific version of TP/BP compiled programs... that also only works if the binary is not compressed with something like pklite... if the binary is compressed like that, it must be uncompressed first... then the next thing is if some anti-hacking code will whine about the patch and/or the unpacking...


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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Gargoyle to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 22 2020 22:42:57

Yes it was some type of CRT error, I think the number was 2000. I need to

Cathode Ray Tube? How does you monitor throw an error?

I think you meant CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check).
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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Lupine Furmen to Gargoyle on Fri Feb 28 2020 00:20:07

Yes it was some type of CRT error, I think the number was 2000. I need to

Cathode Ray Tube? How does you monitor throw an error?

no... he's talking about the borland crt units that are used when writing certain programs... they contain the delay() routine which calculates the proper delay time for accurate delays in the code...

I think you meant CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check).

nope... the delay() calibration routine emits some number of NOOPs which have a known time cycle... then it subtracts the starting time from the ending time to figure out how fast the machine it... the runtime error 200, divide by zero, happens when the number of NOOPs used all take place within the same start end range which results in their execution being done in "zero" time... the code doesn't check for this and jumps directly to doing the division to figure out the calibration and since you cannot divide by zero, the code throws an error...

the solutions are to use a different delay routine or to add more checks to the existing code... either way, patches have to be applied...


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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Lupine Furmen to Gargoyle on Fri Feb 28 2020 12:20 am

Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Gargoyle to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 22 2020 22:42:57

Yes it was some type of CRT error, I think the number was 2000. I need to

Cathode Ray Tube? How does you monitor throw an error?

C Runtime (library) error. "C" as in the programming language: 'C'.

I think you meant CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check).

Nope. :-)

digital man

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