[Coco] ESP8266 BBS setup

[phil pt]

Does anyone have the source code for Ribbs BBS?

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Michael Furman <n6il at ocs.net> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I was the one who did some investigation of the stock AT code that comes
> with the esp8266.  I found that the stock code is not usable for using with
> DriveWire at all.  I have my own custom esp8266 firmware that I have been
> working on that is a complete transparent bridge: you telnet to it and the
> bytes sent over wifi go to the coco, and whatever the coco sends goes back
> out the other direction. The stock firmware does not work this way, and in
> fact is really broken if you are expecting a transparent communication
> channel like this or any other modem would provide while it is connected.
>
>
>
> IIRC RiBBS is a os-9 bbs system right? If that is the case it would be
> possible to write a custom esp8266 firmware that runs a mini DriveWire
> server on it that accepts incoming telnet connections and can open a /N
> virtual serial channel on the nitros9 side, or I guess a bbs would want to
> open multiple /N  ports and sit on them until someone connects, could be a
> solution there too.
>
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> > On Jul 30, 2017, at 3:14 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey guys I’ve acquired a few extra ESP8266’s and decided to hook one up
> to the Coco 3.    I got the ESP8266 setup for 19,200 baud and I have it
> running & connecting to sites no problems.  But now that I having it going,
> I’ve gotten an inspiration.
> >
> > I would like to revive my old RiBBS BBS system and bring it back to life
> on the Coco 3 VIA telnet. Aside from port forwarding the router, what other
> things do I need to setup on the network.  I do have various systems I can
> configure if need be (Raspberry Pi, Mac, Linux & Windows machines) I also
> realize that I need to write a asm translation on the 3 for the
> incoming/outgoing packets on the 8266 in the system driver (due to the way
> the data is produced to the RS232 from the 8266 and vice versa).
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers.
> >
> > Bill Nobel
> > b_nobel at hotmail.com<mailto:b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> >
> >
> >
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