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The BBS designed for the BBC Micro
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OBBS disconnects
After much faffing OBBS can now disconnect a call, which means itb s now
live on the interwebs. My stumbling block proved to be sending +++ to the
serial port, which causes a Hayes modem to disconnect a call. What I hadnb
t realised is there needs to be sufficient time between sending each +
character for TcpSer to detect the disconnect signal. After adding a WAIT
procedure between sending each + OBBS could successfully break a
connection.
Setting up OBBS as a user was fairly simple following the User Guide
(although I doubt I would have found it quite as simple without it!).
Thankfully the userguide has been scanned and uploaded to various places
around the internet, although I suspect originating from a Stardot Forums
post. There is a setup utility included which allows the Sysop to set up
the structure of the BBS including number of boards, size of message file
and drive numbers for files.
A simple menuing system and message file has been set up along with a few
test BBC Micro files to download. Thus far the majority of BeeBS is
working well however there are a few new problems to investigate:
1. Key time-out not disconnecting the client after 3 min inactivity (as
per the manual)
2. Chat with sysop only works for first call
3. Random freezes on cursor key presses on a BBC Micro client.
Created on my Acorn BBC Master 128
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