Re: the Night Owl BBS
By: Mythicmrmun to Brian Martin on Fri Jan 03 2025 01:55:18

> Re: the Night Owl BBS
> By: Brian Martin to All on Fri Dec > 2024 23:49:01
>
> > Hi All, just a note to advertise > > ownniche BBS based over here in t > > UK. Itis a Videotex system and it > > called the Night Owl BBS. It runs > > a BBC Master computer via TCPSER > > there are dialup gateways to it
> > also. There is plenty info on
> > accessing on the TELNET BBS guide > > ..It is a very retro system and
> > colourful with lots of readin
> > matter,
> > articles and ART features. I have > > recently learned the newest versi > > of Syncterm now caters for Videot > > so it's very
> > easy to use this for all your
> > BBSing.
>
> > for Syncterm https://sourceforge
> > t/projects/syncterm/
>
> > nightowlbbs.ddns.net:6400 2400 b >
> > there is a weblink available if
> > you'd prefer to view that way at
>
> > https//:vd-view.azurewebsites.net >
> > the BBS runs in evening hours onl > > but that should suit those in Nor > > Americato some degree.
>
> > Hope to see you visit .. thanks
>
> > Night Owl Sysop�(Brian)
>
>
> Hi Brian!,
> I just tried connecting to your serv > however i'm experiencing some odd
> characters displayed on the screen.
> Is there a specific connection setti > needed? I'm using SyncTerm Default
> settings and also tried in windows
> telnet.
>
> Regards
> MythicMrMun
>
Hi MythicMrMun , cool name
If you are using syncterm you can
display Viewdata but only on the latestrelease which is now no longer a beta
version . You can get it here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm


or you can just use a web link if
that's easier at

https://vd-view.azurewebsites.net


Sorry for lthe late reply, I dont
frequent Dovenet that much but would
welcome any call you make to Night Owl.Hope to see you on there soon.
thanks
Brian

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Re: Re: the Night Owl BBS
By: Gamgee to Brian Martin on Thu Jan 02 2025 08:10:33

> -=> Brian Martin wrote to MRO <=-
>
> > so what do you call evenings?
> > it's 6pm my time and no connect
>
> BM> I bring up the Host around 7pm GMT
> BM> usually and it runs till the early
> BM> hours, usally around 6am. With North
> BM> America east coast being 5 hours behindthat'd be from about 2pm-1am so
> BM> stil counts as evening for those in the
> BM> East. Westerly places I suppose
> BM> couldn't describe it as an evenings
> BM> only BBS, more of late morning-
> BM> afternoon, sorta thing. Would welcome avisit from you , sincerely Brian >
> Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age?
> That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you
> don't have internet access 24 hours a day?
>
> BM> = Synchronet = My Brand-New BBS
>
> You should fix this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
>
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An Acorm Master 128 is an 8bit machine, which has one serial input, therefore
only one caller at a time. My machine is now 40 years old so a 24/7 operation
is not a good idea for a machine thats so old. The board is very,very retro

and a reflection of what Viewdta boards were like in the 1980's UK. So a
limited schedule is appropriate and consistemt with how things were back then.
Viewdata is now available with SyncTerm. You can access a new versio here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm/



Thanks Brian ..

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