Cottonwood BBS - Now on Color 64!

[wiskow]

Well... I did it... I've toyed around in the past with switching to Color 64 software on my BBS. But, I've held off in hopes that the "updated version" of All American BBS would have support for my CMD hard drive. After much waiting, I've finally received that update. However, much to my dismay, I discovered that it has full support for Lt. Kernal and ICT Data Chief hard drives, but NO support whatsoever for CMD hard drives. Well, that discovery spelled the end of my association with All American BBS. I will still be releasing the final versions of AA BBS for the 64 and 128, as well as the source code for each, to the Public Domain on Nick Smith's behalf, for anyone who is interested in these programs. More to come on this...

So it's happened, and Cottonwood BBS is now running on Color 64 v7.37. This was the final version written by Greg Pfountz, Color 64's original author. I've got a very basic setup right now, but I have *full* hard drive support, and all 240 MB are now online, with 26 directories of Commodore goodness.

I'll be working in the coming weeks at transferring much of my software collection to these directories, as well as contributions from former Commodore BBS SysOps that are on their way to me. I'll also be adding some online games, and basically doing some general "sprucing up" of the BBS.

So check out Cottonwood BBS today at (951)242-3593, and enjoy the "new look".

-Andrew (aka Balzabaar)
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Cottonwood BBS
+1 (951) 242-3593
Open 24/7 at 300/1200/2400 baud
http://hometown.aol.com/cottonwoodbbs

 

[80sFreak]

Well, I tried last night using the terminal software from your website and a 1670 modem, but with no success. I don't even hear the modem dialing out, but I hear a dial tone with a phone connected into the "Phone" jack of the modem and the C64 has just started. After the term software is running, the is no longer any dial tone on the regular phone. I also tried using an external US Robotics modem hooked up using a CMD SwiftLink cartridge, but still nothing. (Although I think this term software may not be compatible with it...)

Any ideas what I am doing wrong or other things I can do to troubleshoot?

Cheers,

80sFreak

 

[Bill_Loguidice]

This is wild, Andrew, I can't wait to it give it a go with one of my Commodore systems. Does anyone know if I can do dial-up over a VOIP connection (Comcast cable) with a standard dial-up modem? If not, I'm out-of-luck...

 

[80sFreak]

Does anyone know if I can do dial-up over a VOIP connection (Comcast cable) with a standard dial-up modem? If not, I'm out-of-luck...

Yes-ish... I have been able to use an external 56K US Robotics modem with Vonage over Comcast. I have found that the higher your *upload* speed, the better your chances are of getting a good connection. Make sure you don't have anything else running at the time that uses your upstream bandwidth (like uTorrent) and also put a "*99," before the number you are dialing. This is supposed to give you a better connection made specifically for data-type communication like fax.

Cheers,

80sFreak

 

[Bill_Loguidice]

Great tip, thanks, I'll give it a go!