[Coco] BBS for coco

[mike delyea]

Yes, I think thats it.  Specifically the "coterm" program.  That program
sends all screen output to the serial port and prints input from the serial
port to the screen as well if I recall correctly.  You can make your own
custom BBS built around coterm.

On 9/20/07, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps you refer to Richard Duncan's COBBS. The whole series appeared on
> The Rainbow magazine, if I remember correctly it was with the September
> 1985
> Telecommunications Issue (please correct me if I'm out of synch here).
>
> This is a good place to start searching for the files:
>
> http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/TANDY/RSDOS/COBBS/
>
> I saw the ZIP archive and at first glance contains all the needed files,
> some names have stuck in my memory since those days as I also braved the
> becoming a BBS Sysop days :-)
>
> Perhaps other archives of CoCo software have copies of the COBBS files.
> The
> system was constantly hacked and modified as it was written mostly in
> Basic,
> so it was sort of easy to customize. There were modifications done for use
> in the CoCo 3, specifically the terminal driver; COBBS was better suited
> to
> be used with the RS232 pak rather than the built in serial port - a couple
> of drivers were done to allow so, with the trade off in functionality that
> came from using the bi-banger.
>
> The BBS Documentary site has lots of info on many BBS systems (
> http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/)
>
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>
> On 9/20/07, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There was some software I got out of one of the coco mags that allowed
> you
> > to run a BBS under DECB years ago.  I don't remember the name of the
> > software but it was very easy to use (you could write the whole BBS in
> > BASIC).  Anybody know what it was or have a copy?
> >
> > On 9/19/07, Richard Ivey <rrivey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, for a while, this seemed to generate some talk, interest, ideas
> > and
> > > even plans?  I am watching a modem for $10 and wondering if I should
> > > bother.  I miss my bbs days.
>
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