Date   : Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:36:07 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: OBBS Software

On 21/12/2007, Jon Welch <jon.welch@...> wrote:
>
> I just need to know how to configure the menus etc using the MEDIT program.
> It seems to write to M.MENUS and M.MINDEX but these aren't automatically
> created by the SETUP or SETUP2 programs.

Do you have both discs in the set?  The complete package was split
across two discs - I used all four drives to get enough disc space on
my system.

>
> If you have something with a set of menus already configured, this would
> help.

I'll see what i can do... the only set I have as an image on the
system is a backup of an 800KB goMMC image of both discs, and it
crashes beebem if I try and load it as a disc.  (at least on 3.2,
which is all I have installed at the moment.)

>
> > Would like to see the telnet enabled BeebEm; is it released now? docs?
>
> This will be available soon, but only in the Mac version for the moment. I
> am just adding a few new features over the xmas hols and the Ethernet port
> bits was one of them.

Um... I haven't got a Mac :-(  unless you count a pair of VERY old
ones that I have no keyboards, mice, monitors or ethernet, and I don't
even know if they work ...

A command line *BSD version would be nice, with VNC as the display - I
can then run multiple copies on on of the headless machines.. (no X
installed.)  ;-) ;-)


>
> Whilst I was in Bradford at uni around '84, I went to a chaps house and
> wrote him an XMODEM mod for OBBS. I think he worked for Pace and his name
> was something like Iqbal Sadiq. Does this name ring a bell with you Rob ?
>

Oh yes, I remember him.  I think I only spoke on the phone with him
though.  What was the mod you did?  I did have Xmodem in OBBS, but
only in the basic checksum version, not CRC.


As an asside, the whole thing was written simply to be a clone of TBBS
Liverpool, because my phone bills were getting silly, and I thought I
could get people to call me instead!.

The latest version had diverged into a front end that had the phone
answering bit in it, which then offered the caller options to either
access the BBS, or run a multi-user game I was developing (it had two
of it's own phone lines as well, plus a couple more local stations.
Pity i never actually finished it..)

Rob