Re: RE:the Night Owl BBS
By: Mythicmrmun to Mortar on Fri Jan 03 2025 11:02 pm

Yep, I'm beginning to see a massive difference in experience from using wind telnet to SyncTerm.

Not everyone always has Putty installed, but I do... it also works pretty well in a pinch, but you just have to set the character translation/encoding to CP437 and the font to Terminal. It does the job and looks good.

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Re: the Night Owl BBS
By: Mythicmrmun to Brian Martin on Fri Jan 03 2025 01:55:18

Re: the Night Owl BBS
By: Brian Martin to All on Fri Dec > 2024 23:49:01

Hi All, just a note to advertise > > ownniche BBS based over here in t > > UK. Itis a Videotex system and it > > called the Night Owl BBS. It runs > > a BBC Master computer via TCPSER > > there are dialup gateways to it
also. There is plenty info on
accessing on the TELNET BBS guide > > ..It is a very retro system and colourful with lots of readin
matter,
articles and ART features. I have > > recently learned the newest versi > > of Syncterm now caters for Videot > > so it's very
easy to use this for all your
BBSing.

for Syncterm https://sourceforge > > t/projects/syncterm/

nightowlbbs.ddns.net:6400 2400 b >
there is a weblink available if
you'd prefer to view that way at

https//:vd-view.azurewebsites.net >
the BBS runs in evening hours onl > > but that should suit those in Nor > > Americato some degree.

Hope to see you visit .. thanks

Night Owl Sysop�(Brian)

Hi Brian!,
I just tried connecting to your serv > however i'm experiencing some odd characters displayed on the screen.
Is there a specific connection setti > needed? I'm using SyncTerm Default settings and also tried in windows
telnet.

Regards
MythicMrMun

Hi MythicMrMun , cool name
If you are using syncterm you can
display Viewdata but only on the latestrelease which is now no longer a beta version . You can get it here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm

or you can just use a web link if
that's easier at

https://vd-view.azurewebsites.net

Sorry for lthe late reply, I dont
frequent Dovenet that much but would
welcome any call you make to Night Owl.Hope to see you on there soon.
thanks
Brian

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Re: Re: the Night Owl BBS
By: Gamgee to Brian Martin on Thu Jan 02 2025 08:10:33

Brian Martin wrote to MRO <=-

so what do you call evenings?
it's 6pm my time and no connect

I bring up the Host around 7pm GMT
usually and it runs till the early
hours, usally around 6am. With North
America east coast being 5 hours behindthat'd be from about 2pm-1am so stil counts as evening for those in the
East. Westerly places I suppose
couldn't describe it as an evenings
only BBS, more of late morning-
afternoon, sorta thing. Would welcome avisit from you , sincerely Brian >

Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age?
That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you
don't have internet access 24 hours a day?

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An Acorm Master 128 is an 8bit machine, which has one serial input, therefore only one caller at a time. My machine is now 40 years old so a 24/7 operation is not a good idea for a machine thats so old. The board is very,very retro

and a reflection of what Viewdta boards were like in the 1980's UK. So a limited schedule is appropriate and consistemt with how things were back then. Viewdata is now available with SyncTerm. You can access a new versio here https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm/


Thanks Brian ..

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