[Coco] ESP8266 BBS setup

[Ken Flanagan]

I don't know if the source has ever been released. If my memory is correct,
it was originally written by Charles West and then Wes Gale took over.

On Jul 31, 2017 7:02 PM, "phil pt" <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Michael R. Furman
> > Email: n6il at ocs.net
> > Phone: +1 (408) 480-5865
> >
> > > 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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