Modern BBSing: Scene Update
by by "warmfuzzy" of The PHATstar Society
Liquid Matrix Pure\ Lighthouse In The Network Grid\ Spoofers Active\ And Go!
- Passing of Hawk Hubbard (ACiD), Sysop of Black Flag BBS, June 22, 2024
- Telnet: blackflag.acid.org
- New Most Popular BBS in The Scene: 20 for Beers
- Massive file archive and massively modded.
- Telnet: 20forbeers.com:1337
- SSH: 20forbeers.com:1338
- BBS Day: Our Very Own Day for Textmode Enthusiasts
- Free Massive Dial-In Phone System
- 2600.network
- POTS: 1-833-PLZ-DIAL, 564-244-2600, 760-330-2600, 929-470- 2600, 743-500-2600, 956-300-2600, 515-400-2600
- Donations could be well invested here.
- New BBS Door Server: A-Net Online BBS Game Server
- Several hundred door games all in one spot
- a-net-online.lol/gameserver
- Multi-Relay Chat - MeaTuP With MeaTLoTioN
- Now on Saturdays (20:00 UTC or 21:00 UTC) (Varies)
- www.erb.pw/projects
- Best Price vServer/VPS for Hosting BBSes: Contabo
- www.contabo.com
- This service provider runs my VPS servers.
- Anonymous Archivers File Distro Network Now at Release Version 2.0
- With Hardware 18 TB RAID-1 (2x 18 TB Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS HDD
- phatstar.net/anonarchivers
- A second RAID-1 array that will be able to hold many more family-friendly files is coming shortly with 2x 20 TB Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS HDDs. This series of drives has won the European Hardware Awards (2025) for "Best Hard Drive."
- lrzsz - Linux Native Z-Modem Protocol
- lrzsz
- Needs someone to figure out how to add it to Mystic BBS.
- There is a bounty for this from PHATstar.net. To collect the bounty from a working usage of lrzsz, mail (society@phatstar.org) With a live demonstration ready-to-go, the bounty is for $20 USD.
- Textmode Magazine
- Echomail Networks book in production, 2027 Release Date [PHATstar]
- phatstar.net/textmodemag
- BBS: THE /root OF THE MATTER - Album Released by MeaTLoTioN on February 16, 2025
- ansilove - Converts ANSI graphics (including iCE colors) to PNG with massive perfect upscaling
- MagiTerm is now a thing (rivals NetRunner and SyncTerm)
- Supports Kermit file transfer and all of the basics.
- talismanbbs.org/other
- MagiTerm-1.1.16-win32.exe
- Sp00knet ("The World's Most Intriguing Echomail Network") is seeking a network admin and scribe
- fTelnet - Browser-Based Terminal Clients
- www.ftelnet.ca
- Visit boards from the Web.
- Live demonstration at: bbsday.org/connect
- Multi-Relay Chat (MRC) Now Supports SSL/TLS and Offers an MRC to D-Dial Bridge
- The Bottomless Abyss BBS: bbs.bottomlessabyss.net
- www.phenomprod.com/Mods
- cp437 - UTF-8, etc., to CP437 (ANSI) Converter
- TitanMail - Modern QT-Based QWK Offline Mail Reader
- Grandstream HT802: Has an option of using an uncompressed VoIP codec that allows connecting it to a modem and getting good speeds
- AnonArchivers File Distro Network
- phatstar.net/anonarchivers
- Has transitioned from using a Sabrent Drive Dock to a TerraMaster D2-320 USB RAID enclosure. This is cleaner than a Just a Bunch of Disks (JOBD) setup. This RAID array costs $130 USD, boasting two drive ports each of 22 TB and is backwards compatible with USB 3.0. Both the Sabrent and the TerraMaster are good options, we've just come to the point of needing data permanence and redundancy that hardware RAID-1 offers.