Back in the day I was always been fascinated with the MajorBBS software.
Being I was just gettign out on my own with my first job and everything I always considered the software too pricey and out of my league, so I stuck
with my Virtual BBS/Virtual Advanced software until the internet made us
Sysops obsolete.
The other day I discovered a pre-configured package of Major BBS called "mbbs4ever" so I downloaded it and set it up. I set it up on a seporate VirtualBox image and added a Telnet link to it from my Mystic BBS main menu. Its really neat because it already has some of the teleconference games that
I used to enjoy playing on MajorBBS configured.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to "auto-start" the BBS package. It
comes with a BBS "pif" file, which launches a batch file. I know how to add a file to the startup in Windows, but I'm not sure how to tell MajorBBS to
start. Normally, you have to run the .pif file and then press "5" (or "F5")
to actually start the BBS. I haven't found any good documentation yet that tells me so I'm wondering if there are any old MajorBBS gurus out there that may know/remember how to do this?

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* Origin: Dave's BBS (21:1/140)

El 18/5/20 a las 10:58, bamageek escribió:

Back in the day I was always been fascinated with the MajorBBS software. Being I was just gettign out on my own with my first job and everything I always considered the software too pricey and out of my league, so I stuck with my Virtual BBS/Virtual Advanced software until the internet made us Sysops obsolete.
The other day I discovered a pre-configured package of Major BBS called "mbbs4ever" so I downloaded it and set it up. I set it up on a seporate VirtualBox image and added a Telnet link to it from my Mystic BBS main menu. Its really neat because it already has some of the teleconference games that I used to enjoy playing on MajorBBS configured.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to "auto-start" the BBS package. It comes with a BBS "pif" file, which launches a batch file. I know how to add a file to the startup in Windows, but I'm not sure how to tell MajorBBS to start. Normally, you have to run the .pif file and then press "5" (or "F5") to actually start the BBS. I haven't found any good documentation yet that tells me so I'm wondering if there are any old MajorBBS gurus out there that may know/remember how to do this?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Dave's BBS (21:1/140)

you can run with number meu parameter

start the bbs:

bbs 5

run hard config:

bbs 1


etc..
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On 18 May 2020 at 08:58a, bamageek pondered and said...

Back in the day I was always been fascinated with the MajorBBS software.

Interesting. MajorBBS was indirectly called out in the
MindVox manifesto: http://textfiles.com/bbs/MINDVOX/voices.txt

Apparently, part of the interface referenced MajorBBS (cleverly
disguised as "a galacticomm") in a pejorative way:

"""
The gnome walks out from behind the bushes where he was hiding, points the
great ROD OF DAMNATION at you, and says, "Your wish is my command" as he
dooms you to a life of eternal wandering amongst a million Galacticomms.
""" http://textfiles.com/bbs/MINDVOX/mindvox.words.txt

This was apparently the text that would greet the user if s/he
typed, "damn".

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/20 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

you can run with number meu parameter

start the bbs:

bbs 5

run hard config:

bbs 1

That didn't work, but gave me a clue so I dug around in the batch file and found a "go" parameter. Tried that one and it worked!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Dave's BBS (21:1/140)

The other day I discovered a pre-configured package of Major BBS called "mbbs4ever" so I downloaded it and set it up. I set it up on a seporate VirtualBox image and added a Telnet link to it from my Mystic BBS main menu. Its really neat because it already has some of the teleconference games that I used to enjoy playing on MajorBBS configured.

There's an effort to bring MBBS door functionality to regular BBSes. Check
out http://mbbsemu.com (if it isn't the right link, google mbbsemu, sorry, posting via iPad). It's a very slick project and works with RLogin :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/13 (Linux/64)
* Origin: monterey bbs (21:1/168)

There's an effort to bring MBBS door functionality to regular BBSes.
Check out http://mbbsemu.com (if it isn't the right link, google
mbbsemu, sorry, posting via iPad). It's a very slick project and works with RLogin :)

Now thats cool! Thanks for the tip I'll definately check that out!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Dave's BBS (21:1/140)