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Post by Cyberjank on Mar 16, 2005 0:26:40 GMT -5
Cyberjanks Mad World is coming soon. Its way in beta. Its up, your more than welcome to come and see it!
murdworld.bounceme.net
It will be up most of the time. It has proven stability - well mostly. Its in Beta. Ive some hardware issues to work out, make sure you log off, completely. There exsists a chance that someone can log on under you if you do not log off correctly.
I have a few fun things that I'd like to point out. I have a fake 1581 on one of the message boards. Its really a 64hdd (Thanks Nick Coplin). Other than that the bgoard is running on a C128 with JD as well a two 1571s (with JD) a 1581, and one CMD FD 2000 and a CMD FD 4000.
Feel free to come around and BETA test it. I have some bugs to work out, but its starting to look like a BBS worthy of note.
Like I said before, make sure you log off. If you dont, connect and log off. This is important, as I dont have the settings right yet. Of course, I'd like to add that I have this bbs running at 57600 under Leif's Telnet server. So until I get all of it sorted, we have to deal with the beta it is.
Enjoy Folks,
There are message boards, FLAME ME! Im up for it.
It may take a few minutes to get reset when you call, so just chillax for a bit, it takes a few mins.....
Cyberjank
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Post by Cyberjank on Mar 16, 2005 1:14:51 GMT -5
Well for the most part its ready for BETA.
h*** folks, have some fun with it, please let me know what does not work. (nice would be nice) but if you wanna scream, thats cool, this is Cyberjanks MAD world. So GET MAD, hehe twill be the theme. Enjoy folks!
Cyberjank
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Post by Cyberjank on Mar 16, 2005 1:27:09 GMT -5
Dangit, forgot to mention that it may take a bit to log on, MY BBS does some recording now and then, just give it time.
CJ
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Post by Mo on Mar 19, 2005 7:36:15 GMT -5
It will be up most of the time. It has proven stability - well mostly. Its in Beta. Ive some hardware issues to work out, make sure you log off, completely. There exsists a chance that someone can log on under you if you do not log off correctly. Like I said before, make sure you log off. If you dont, connect and log off. This is important, as I dont have the settings right yet. Of course, I'd like to add that I have this bbs running at 57600 under Leif's Telnet server. So until I get all of it sorted, we have to deal with the beta it is. I had an issue using BBS Server myself with the Turbo232. I tried every setting I could think of on BBS Server. But, as soon as the telnet client would hang up, it would cause Centipede to freeze up. As soon as another call came in, it would unlock. So, if a user didn't logoff properly, the system would hang right where the user was when he dropped carrier. One way I found to prevent one user taking over a current session is have BBS Server wait for the ATA command before answering. It would not resolve the issue of BBS Server causing Centipede to lockup, but it would prevent one user from taking over another users session. Just curious, what version of BBS Server are you using? I was unable to get v1.1 working with Centipede. I still use v1.0 on the 2400 bps node on my BBS right now that has a user port RS232 adapter. On the 38400 node, I am using TCPSER with the Turbo232. -Moise
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Post by Leif Bloomquist on Mar 22, 2005 13:21:29 GMT -5
Good news - I have tracked down a Turbo232 and am borrowing a C128 from another friend. I still have my single-1581-disk version of Centipede from my last set of tests.
Should have all the bits set up for this weekend to work on these issues.
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Post by CJ on Mar 22, 2005 13:25:38 GMT -5
Leif,
Thats great news! Let us know what you find!
Mo,
Im using Version 1.0. I had some "issues" with v1.1 - cant exactly remember what, but suffice to say v1.0 is working out better for me. I will also change the ata setting. Thanks for the help.
OH YEAH. meant to ask you. I saw that you are mapping c64hdd to directories call something like 15 and whatnot. Dood, have you testing files transfers with a file like test.test.test ?
I see where your going with it, but I would think that LFN and stuff would mess up.
Thanks,
Cyberjank
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Post by CJ on Mar 22, 2005 13:39:11 GMT -5
Leif, Forgot to mention. I dont think Centipede locks up via eiether of user port RS232 interfaces. Only the T-232. And its not really a lock up, its more like a command or chunk of data has not been send to centipede after a caller disconnects. If this helps. I have some more information for you. When trying to use novaterm via the t-232 and your BBS server v1.0 or v1.1 One must telnet to the ip via dos box, then disconnect before novaterm will accept "AT" commands. I believe this is the same problem centipede is having. Its like it just needs a "kick" then it works fine. The good thing is that when a user calls, centipede resuming what it was doing, but via novaterm, a user much "kick" it by telnetting into the IP of the host computer, then hit "+++' on the commodore, then call out to a bbs. Hope this helps. This is what I've experienced. And yes I will get that adapter built that Dr'Video is screaming at me about. I've just been busy Cyberjank
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Post by Dr. Video / ADDiXiON BBS on Mar 22, 2005 17:19:06 GMT -5
Leif, And yes I will get that adapter built that Dr'Video is screaming at me about. I've just been busy Cyberjank <arnold> DOOO IT! NOWWWWW! </arnold> This is great CJ, it would be awesome if you can get it working with BBS Server. Then we just need Leif to add in the hardware flow control checks. Then again, maybe it doesn't even need this, based on what you have been experiencing thus far (I still don't understand how it is possible, unless the windows com port driver is doing all the rts/cts work).
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Post by Mo on Mar 22, 2005 22:24:10 GMT -5
OH YEAH. meant to ask you. I saw that you are mapping c64hdd to directories call something like 15 and whatnot. Dood, have you testing files transfers with a file like test.test.test ? I see where your going with it, but I would think that LFN and stuff would mess up. Thanks, Cyberjank I have tried file transfers, and I was able to get it to work. Although I did not try a name like that! I'll have some time this coming week-end to play around with it. I'll send off an update. On another note regarding Centipede and 64hdd. I have it setup on a Pentium Pro 200 machine. That is what I have been doing all my Centipede testing on. I just tried this past week-end to set it up on a 486 DX33 laptop. 64hdd setup went fine, drives mapped in to directories fine, installed LFN, copied over all the Centipede files, everything seemed alright. But, when I tried to boot Centipede, when I detects the drives connected to the computer, it detected my internal 1571 fine, but froze when it got to drive 9. I have drive 9-15 mapped into 64hdd. On the Pentium Pro system, when it detected the 64hdd drives, it found each one fine and came up with "Unknown" for the drive type. I dunno. Will need to look into this a little more..... -Mo
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Post by Mo on Mar 22, 2005 22:27:23 GMT -5
When trying to use novaterm via the t-232 and your BBS server v1.0 or v1.1 One must telnet to the ip via dos box, then disconnect before novaterm will accept "AT" commands. I believe this is the same problem centipede is having. Its like it just needs a "kick" then it works fine. I did notice that with Novaterm too. Usually I have to do an ATDT (or any other command) first. BBS Server will not do anything with it. But, when I send an ATDT the second time, it works fine. Again, this is with the T232 using both BBS Server v1.0, and v1.1. Don't experience this with any of my user port interfaces.... Like you say, it appears that it just needs a kick to get it going...... -Mo
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Post by CJ on Mar 23, 2005 9:25:34 GMT -5
Mo,
Thats good news, about it freezing when detecting the 64hdd drives. Hehe, bad for you, but at least Im not totatally crazy. It may be the speed thing, Im going to try a few more +p commands, and see. LOLthe 64hdd I have is running on a Duron 800. So, lol it may never work. But at least you could duplicate what happend to me. The LFN thing, Ive never got it to work right! I've tried the original LFN add-in that is supplied with 64hdd with no luck.
Well thanks for the info and help!
Cyberjank
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Post by Mo on Mar 23, 2005 18:54:06 GMT -5
The LFN thing, Ive never got it to work right! I've tried the original LFN add-in that is supplied with 64hdd with no luck. LFN is a little tricky. It took me quite a few tries to get it working right when I first set it up. A couple things to keep in mind when doing it. First, copy over the LFN files to your C:\64hdd\system directory. Second, make sure you set the C:\64hdd and C:\64hdd\system directories in your path statement in the autoexec.bat file. Third, make sure that you have the file LFN$$$16CHAR$LFN.$$$ on a floppy disk that was copied over on a system that supports long file names. Delete out the file LFN$$$16.$$$ out of the C:\64hdd\system directory. Then, use LCOPY to copy over LFN$$$16CHAR$LFN.$$$ into that directory. Use a command such as: lcopy a:\lfn$$$16char$lfn.$$$ c:\64hdd\system\lfn$$$16char$lfn.$$$ That should work. From there, you can type in LDIR to get a directory that shows the long file names on the PC. This allows the 64/128 to use 16 character file names (needed for Centipede). Of course you have to make sure and add the -lfn statement to the 64hdd launch. On the 64hdd system, I have created directories named 9,10,11,12,13,14,15. Then in the 64hdd launch I used +9 c:\9 +10 c:\10 +11 c:\11, etc. On my flat C128 I just dissolved the Centipede files from drive 8 (a CMD FD-2000) to the drives that I wanted the files to reside on. After that, I connected the 64hdd machine to my C128D, kept the internal 1571 as drive 8, and setup Centipede to have all the files stored on the 64hdd except for the user account files and the caller log. They are both REL files and I stored them on drive 8 since 64hdd does not support REL files yet. But, like I mentioned, I did run into an issue on one of my 64hdd systems. I hope to have some time to check it out soon. -Moise
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