Does anyone use a QWK reader in Windows 10 or 11? I used a couple in the

Hi Skylar,

recently I've done similar search in order to find something that runs well on linux.

I came across SEMPOINT -- quite nice client that ran well in wine.
I didn't try it in win 10, but I've read somewhere on the nets here that it runs fine there -- you just need some tool for win16 compatibility. I can't remember the name though.

Rotorek

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Rotorek to Skylar on Tue Jun 18 2024 05:46 am

Does anyone use a QWK reader in Windows 10 or 11? I used a couple in the

Hi Skylar,

recently I've done similar search in order to find something that runs well on linux.

I came across SEMPOINT -- quite nice client that ran well in wine.
I didn't try it in win 10, but I've read somewhere on the nets here that it runs fine there -- you just need some tool for win16 compatibility. I can't remember the name though.

Rotorek

you could always run your own bbs and use THAT as a qwk reader.
that's essentially what a lot of people do and have done for decades.

with synchronet bbses you can link your msg bases up via nntp and that makes it super easy. you would just have to use one for a feed.
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Hi Skylar,

recently I've done similar search in order to find something that runs well on linux.

I came across SEMPOINT -- quite nice client that ran well in wine.
I didn't try it in win 10, but I've read somewhere on the nets here that it runs fine there -- you just need some tool for win16 compatibility. I can't remember the name though.

I tried running it on my win 11 machine in compatibility mode for win 95 and the setup program wouldn't even load.

Bryan

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Rotorek on Tue Jun 18 2024 10:40 am

you could always run your own bbs and use THAT as a qwk reader.

True. I ran Synchronet a decade ago. I didn't do much with it other than explore writing a door and a couple of minor custom mods. Nothing really useful, more for fun and learning.

And I've thought about doing so again. Although I have a dozen other projects at the moment and another two dozen that I would rather dig into. Not to mention working an extra 15 to 20 hours a week at one of the best jobs I could ask for, just because I want to. ;)

Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Rotorek to Skylar on Tue Jun 18 2024 05:46 am

I came across SEMPOINT -- quite nice client that ran well in wine.
I didn't try it in win 10, but I've read somewhere on the nets here that it runs fine there -- you just need some tool for win16 compatibility. I can't remember the name though.

I tried running it on my win 11 machine in compatibility mode for win 95 and the setup program wouldn't even load.

I was able to install and launch SEMPOINT in Windows 11 using https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

I imported a QWK packet and will give it a try. Thanks for mentioning it.

Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Skylar to MRO on Tue Jun 18 2024 07:45 pm

True. I ran Synchronet a decade ago. I didn't do much with it other than explore writing a door and a couple of minor custom mods. Nothing really useful, more for fun and learning.

And I've thought about doing so again. Although I have a dozen other projects at the moment and another two dozen that I would rather dig into. Not to mention working an extra 15 to 20 hours a week at one of the best jobs I could ask for, just because I want to. ;)

installing synchronet is really not a project. it takes minutes.
it wouldn't take long to put in networked msg boards either. if you have a half hour to spare, you can do it.
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Skylar wrote to MRO <=-

And I've thought about doing so again. Although I have a dozen other projects at the moment and another two dozen that I would rather dig
into. Not to mention working an extra 15 to 20 hours a week at one of
the best jobs I could ask for, just because I want to. ;)

Another option is to get a node number or point number and set up just a
mailer and tosser. I did that for a while with Maximus/BinkleyTerm, then
used TIMed to read the message bases directly. It was akin to reading
with a QWK reader, except I could go back and look through the whole
message base.



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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Skylar on Tue Jun 18 2024 10:34 pm

installing synchronet is really not a project. it takes minutes.

Yep! I think Synchronet is the easiest BBS I have ever set up. Took me almost five minutes (although I will admit that I did not do anything special with networked msg bases or anything like that.) Just a plain jane setup of 6 nodes.

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Wed Jun 19 2024 12:18 pm

Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Skylar on Tue Jun 18 2024 10:34 pm

installing synchronet is really not a project. it takes minutes.

Yep! I think Synchronet is the easiest BBS I have ever set up. Took me almost five minutes (although I will admit that I did not do anything special with networked msg bases or anything like that.) Just a plain jane setup of 6 nodes.

Ftn is pretty easy to setup;you just get the numbers right.
I don't know what i'm doing and I tought people how to do it and some of them are still running their own nets. I've also fixed some people's setups.

Some people like to act like it's complicated stuff and act like they are authorities on it. In the end it's just getting the right info put together, and that's something anybody can do.
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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Wed Jun 19 2024 12:18 pm

installing synchronet is really not a project. it takes minutes.

Yep! I think Synchronet is the easiest BBS I have ever set up. Took me almost five minutes (although I will admit that I did not do anything special with networked msg bases or anything like that.) Just a plain jane setup of 6 nodes.

Yeah, it's pretty easy to set up. But IMO it's good to put some time into customizing it so that it's not a stock setup, and that is the project.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Skylar on Tue Jun 18 2024 10:34 pm

installing synchronet is really not a project. it takes minutes.

I think you overlooked me saying that I had Synchronet running a decade ago.

You also don't know me at all. Everything is a project. If or when I install SBBS again, it won't be just to read messages. :D

Hello Bryan!

** On Tuesday 18.06.24 - 11:30, Bryan wrote to Rotorek:

Hi Skylar,

recently I've done similar search in order to find
something that runs well on linux.

I came across SEMPOINT -- quite nice client that ran well
in wine. I didn't try it in win 10, but I've read somewhere
on the nets here that it runs fine there -- you just need
some tool for win16 compatibility. I can't remember the
name though.

I tried running it on my win 11 machine in compatibility
mode for win 95 and the setup program wouldn't even load.

The best Windows-based "reader" would be WinPoint, imho.

http://winpoint.org/

"The Fidonet Point Package for Windows
Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 (32/64 Bit)"





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Hello Skylar!

** On Tuesday 18.06.24 - 20:31, Skylar wrote to Rotorek:

I was able to install and launch SEMPOINT in Windows 11
using https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

I imported a QWK packet and will give it a try. Thanks for
mentioning it.

I use Sempoint for many years. It supports QWK, BW, and MSG
style. It has many bbs/fido -centric things like stealing and
using taglines, and threading of messages.

But give Winpoint a try as well. All you need to do is get
established as a point with a BBS that will give you a unique
number.

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Skylar to MRO on Wed Jun 19 2024 07:56 pm

Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Skylar on Tue Jun 18 2024 10:34 pm

installing synchronet is really not a project. it takes minutes.

I think you overlooked me saying that I had Synchronet running a decade ago.

i was running synchronet a decade ago, also

You also don't know me at all. Everything is a project. If or when I install SBBS again, it won't be just to read messages. :D

whatever dude. like i said, you can use it as a qwk reader like a lot of people do.
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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Wed Jun 19 2024 02:47 pm

Ftn is pretty easy to setup;you just get the numbers right.

I hate to say that I have forgotten everything I know about Ftn. Getting old sux.

I was in Fidonet between the years of 1988-1997 and everything was DOS-based back then and run with magnanimous batch files (I recently found some of my old setups on floppies.) :)

I ran mailers like SEAdog, Frontdoor, Binkleyterm and Intermail.
BBSes: Opus, QuickBBS, RemoteAccess (never ran Fido BBS)

All controlled with a batch file called SVC.BAT which was originally written by a guy named Gee Wong and totally bastardized and modsified by moi... it would do system functions in the order on the command line like:

SVC scan toss backup runbbs

Sorry for getting carried away and rambling...

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Nightfox to Bf2k+ on Wed Jun 19 2024 01:19 pm

Yeah, it's pretty easy to set up. But IMO it's good to put some time into customizing it so that it's not a stock setup, and that is the project.

It certainly is. And I wish I had time to do more with it.

I originally set it (3.19) up about a year ago, but did not expose it to the world.

Then one of my sysop buds who was running 'Retrorunning BBS' decided he was going to shut his down and rather than let that happen, I copied his into my BBS machine and exposed it... only had to change the port numbers to keep it in the same range with my other BBS (an Atari 8bit BBS) which runs on an emulator on the same machine.

But... I'm rambling again.

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Bf2k+ wrote to MRO <=-

All controlled with a batch file called SVC.BAT which was originally written by a guy named Gee Wong and totally bastardized and modsified
by moi... it would do system functions in the order on the command line like:

Pretty amazing that you could run an node in a world-wide data network
using a batch file to accept callers, run maintenance, send and receive
new mail, and do everything on a DOS machine.



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Yeah, it's pretty easy to set up. But IMO it's good to put some time into customizing it so that it's not a stock setup, and that is the project.

If you are running in on *nix and have to compile it, that can also become
a project.


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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Thu Jun 20 2024 03:37 am

Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Wed Jun 19 2024 02:47 pm

Ftn is pretty easy to setup;you just get the numbers right.

I hate to say that I have forgotten everything I know about Ftn. Getting old sux.

I was in Fidonet between the years of 1988-1997 and everything was DOS-based back then and run with magnanimous batch files (I recently found some of my old setups on floppies.) :)

it's not about being old, it's just because you forgot what you didn't practice. I've forgotten tons of things.

I've written some huge batchfiles and other scripts that I just couldn't do today.
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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Thu Jun 20 2024 09:01 am

Yeah, it's pretty easy to set up. But IMO it's good to put some time into
customizing it so that it's not a stock setup, and that is the project.

If you are running in on *nix and have to compile it, that can also become a project.

I'm running Synchronet on Linux and it was very easy to compile, following instructions on the wiki.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Nightfox to Dumas Walker on Thu Jun 20 2024 09:50 am

I'm running Synchronet on Linux and it was very easy to compile, following instructions on the wiki.

Intructions? what are those? lol

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bf2k+ on Thu Jun 20 2024 06:28 am

Pretty amazing that you could run an node in a world-wide data network
using a batch file to accept callers, run maintenance, send and receive
new mail, and do everything on a DOS machine.

It was fun stuff. I found the SVC.BAT file here a few months ago after looking for it for ten years... I will give it to anyone who is interested. Maybe post it on my BBS for download.

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Thu Jun 20 2024 10:51 am

it's not about being old, it's just because you forgot what you didn't practice. I've forgotten tons of things.

You are probably right about that. I write Siemens PLC machine control code day in and out doing demos and projects for customers and I don't think I have lost any of that...

maybe a little :)

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Nightfox to Dumas Walker on Thu Jun 20 2024 09:50 am

I'm running Synchronet on Linux and it was very easy to compile, following instructions on the wiki.

Nightfox

Love the documentation on the wiki. Just wish I could find what
I needed on my own, LOL. But I'm learning and enjoying as I go.

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Re: Re: QWK reader for Window
By: Amessyroom to Nightfox on Mon Jul 15 2024 07:21 pm

Love the documentation on the wiki. Just wish I could find what
I needed on my own, LOL. But I'm learning and enjoying as I go.

You know wiki.synchro.net has a search box? :-)
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Love the documentation on the wiki. Just wish I could find what
I needed on my own, LOL. But I'm learning and enjoying as I go.

You know wiki.synchro.net has a search box? :-)

Works pretty good, too, so long as you know what you are searching for.


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