For those of you not running on remote servers, it'd be really interesting to see some photos of your actual BBS machine. For those who are users, it'd be interesting to see what your battlestations / computer setup looks like.
I've always been interested in this. In the early days, a computer was a device in a room generally used for another purpose. As time has gone by, the presence of the computer in the room has led to reconfiguration of the rooms themselves to some extent.
Anyone got any photographs?
This is my BBS PC: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/BBSComputerSetup/BBSComputerSetup.html
This is a super cool thread. We need clearingHouse to add a small
area for server image upload :)
Meanwhile here is my BBS running here in Philly:
https://imgur.com/99IkS5I
-andy
This is my BBS PC: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/BBSComputerSetup/BBSComputerSetup.html
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This is a super cool thread. We need clearingHouse to add a small area for server image upload :)
Meanwhile here is my BBS running here in Philly:
https://imgur.com/99IkS5I
This is my BBS PC:
http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/BBSComputerSetup/BBSComputerSetup.html
Nightfox
Killer! Is that running Mint Linux?
Fissile Syntax wrote to All <=-
Anyone got any photographs?
Was thinking about putting Subtext on it, but was worried about the wear-and-tear...
The SE's are pretty bullet-proof compared to the later mac systems with the SM caps..
-andy
https://imgur.com/a/cqgFI8c has a photo of (some of) my old computers.
Ohh.. Amiga 2000!! Hardware p0rn... Does she work and has the battery
been removed?
https://imgur.com/a/cqgFI8c has a photo of (some of) my old computers.
If you look at the clone on the bottom right of the photo, you'll see
that the power and turbo leds are on. That's Lumpy the 386, which is a
40 MHz 80386 with 32 MB of RAM running OS/2 Warp 3 off of a couple of CF cards. That's the heart of my T.A.G. BBS, walledctty.com (port: 1989).
Ohh.. Amiga 2000!! Hardware p0rn... Does she work and has the
battery been removed?
Yep. Battery was replaced with a non-leaker long ago. She does still
work, with many, many, many upgrade$.
For those of you not running on remote servers, it'd be really interesting see some photos of your actual BBS machine. For those who are users, it'd interesting to see what your battlestations / computer setup looks like.
For those of you not running on remote servers, it'd be really
interesting to see some photos of your actual BBS machine. For those
who are users, it'd be interesting to see what your battlestations / computer setup looks like.
Well my BBS' originally were all run on seperate i3's and i5's, I run an Amiga board, PC board, C64 board... Each one had it's own PC, the Amiga and C64 boards were run in Emulation, although I did run 2 C64 boards on 2 C64's one with a Lt Kernal HD, and one with a uIEC/SD card on a Ultimate 64. I have
since moved everything to a Proxmoxx server, the Amiga and C64 boards in emulation..
This is an epic setup, Bucko. Makes sense to move to emulation/ProxMox.
I also ran a C64 board briefly on an Ultimate64... Love me some PETSCII
:) I gotta get back to your boards!!
--- Noddy git-Unknown
Well my BBS' originally were all run on seperate i3's and i5's, I run an Amiga board, PC board, C64 board...
https://www.wrgnbr.com/page3.html
You know - somehow that was exactly what I imagined the Bucko BBSes looking like!!! :P
Bucko wrote to j0HNNY a1PHA <=-
Thanks.. Appreciate the comment.. Main reason I Went to Proxmox was I
was getting worried about losing my U64 to a lightning hit, or my LT Kernal..
I was running a 32-bit OS on a system with 8 GB of RAM and didn't want
the ram above 4GB to go to waste - so I installed Proxmox, virtualized
the BBS, and got enough headroom to run a couple of small VMs on the
same hardware that had run the BBS only. And, Snapshots! I love being
able to take a snapshot before upgrading the BBS.
Lots of roads lead to proxmox. :)
I was running a 32-bit OS on a system with 8 GB of RAM and didn't want
the ram above 4GB to go to waste - so I installed Proxmox, virtualized
the BBS, and got enough headroom to run a couple of small VMs on the
same hardware that had run the BBS only. And, Snapshots! I love being
able to take a snapshot before upgrading the BBS.
computer I had found in the garbage, install Mystic, C-Net Amiga, and[...]
real hardware, I said enough. 1 computer all the systems. 64gigs ram,
8TB storage, and a Ryzen 12 core processor. No issues anymore. It all
runs on that machine with Proxmox. Nothing better..
How are you tackling the mouse issue with a virtual Amiga setup?
Everytime I've tried the various Amiga emulators in a virtual
enviroment,
the mouse has gone mad and tracking is a total flop.
Yes indeed they do.. Back in 2018, my plan was to run Virtual Box on a computer I had found in the garbage, install Mystic, C-Net Amiga, and Synchronet on it. Well the system wasn't enough to do it. I ran all of them on seperate computers, then after running 2 Commodore boards on
real hardware, I said enough. 1 computer all the systems. 64gigs ram,
8TB storage, and a Ryzen 12 core processor. No issues anymore. It all
runs on that machine with Proxmox. Nothing better..
For those of you not running on remote servers, it'd be really
interesting to see some photos of your actual BBS machine. For those
who are users, it'd be interesting to see what your battlestations / computer setup looks like.
I've always been interested in this. In the early days, a computer
was a device in a room generally used for another purpose. As time
has gone by, the presence of the computer in the room has led to reconfiguration of the rooms themselves to some extent.
So.
Anyone got any photographs?
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Would it have? If the CPU supports PAE (or the equivalent for
other architectures) you can still make use of the RAM, just
not in a single virtual address space.
the bbs computer resides in my office, near the entrance :)
http://bbs.roonsbbs.hu/bbs1.jpg
http://bbs.roonsbbs.hu/bbs2.jpg
tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Would it have? If the CPU supports PAE (or the equivalent for
other architectures) you can still make use of the RAM, just
not in a single virtual address space.
I didn't know that - all I knew was that 32-bit Windows would show a maximum of 3.xGB available.
All I know of PAE are that older Thinkpads supported PAE but didn't advertise it, so you'd need to jump through hoops to get some 32-bit linuxes to install. There was a package called "fakepae" that would
report support for it.
Hi Bucko,
How are you tackling the mouse issue with a virtual Amiga setup?
Everytime I've tried the various Amiga emulators in a virtual enviroment, the mouse has gone mad and tracking is a total flop.
It makes using the system a non-starter to begin with.
Same question!
Bucko: have you used AmiKit on proxmox?
How are you running your Amiga boards? I was thinking of using Amithlon but am not sure this would work. I mean, I guess I can just give it a
shot but am curious to see how you're doing things.
No I played with AmiKit free edition one time on a real machine but
didn't like the bloat of it, call me a purist. LOL Just a quick add on
for mouse issue.. Go to this link and peruse K-Guides install
instructions for C-Net Amiga.. I use these settings on my setups and
have no issues at all...
the mouse has gone mad and tracking is a total flop.[...]
It makes using the system a non-starter to begin with.
Actually, I have no issue at all with it. I have USB mouse ticked in Miscellaneous settings, and I think that is it.. In Proxmox I didn't
do anything special for the mouse.. I have heard people having issues,
but I have been running in Emulation now for a good 8 months with
nothing..
I literally just re-purposed my proxmox server for my Talisman
Ubuntu server... It's a an old but still beefy gaming rig, so thinking about returning to proxmox, but on another unit. I've got some older PCs laying around, but they may be underpowered for multiple VMs... I do
love me some proxmox tho
Hi Bucko,
What about accessing the Amiga system, is that just done through the proxmox console into the host vm? Or do you also install some sort of remote acess system? (Ie: anydesk/vnc etc)
tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Huh. It's enabled by setting a bit in %cr4, and you can
probe support for it via CPUID. My guess is that the
ThinkPad CPU probably supported the CR4 bit (and the updated
page table format) but didn't advertise it in the relevant
CPUID leaf; probably an oversight in the BIOS. :-(
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