BeeBS II

With the help of a couple of the members over at the Synchronet forum (namely Nelgin and Digital Man) I've been able to send out Mode 7 screens with Synchronet (running on a rpi3), the whole thing is a bit of a hack and requires that the pages are stored with a .40col extension so that Synchronet will send them if the client selects that they are using a 40 column terminal.



The problem seems to be that even when you disable auto terminal detection and set this as the 'default' by removing various pages, the end user still has to go though quite a few hoops to set up Synchronet to work with Mode 7 correctly as well as requiring them to log out then log back in again for all the settings to take effect.

Despite this as you can see it is possible to have a modern BBS host working nicely with Mode 7 graphics.



It is also important on the Beeb end to select a terminal client that sends the correct ASCII codes for the cursor keys (one has been included in the BeeBS Files area where I have modified the PD Scrolling Terminal).

Available @ beebs.ddns.net:6505 (NOTE: no longer available SD card corrupted)

Update to the update: Recovered (well remade) and running on port 6502, a much more elegant solution is to have BBC Micro as a language rather than a terminal type.

Update to the update about the update: I now run my own BBS written in python.