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    From Maurice Kinal@1:261/38 to Sean Dennis on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 20:48:42
    Hey Sean!

    Fun fact about the original Scrabble door: it was created with
    Hasbro's blessing, so it was (still is?) the official Scrabble
    door.

    That makes a huge difference. How is it currently working wrt whatever BBS platform you currently have working and is it multiplayer?

    Interested in seeing what you have as that could be run as a
    stdio program on my system.

    Which system and for what purpose?

    At the moment I am working on a text based output for a USB GPS receiver that I

    am thinking of replacing with a raspi and an Arduino GPS breakout board which will require some jiggery-pokery on my part to
    have it outputting the desired output on the LAN. Offhand I am thinking socat just to keep it simple. Also I'll need to rebuild my customized 64-bit thingy - currently called motorshed, formerly known as medevil - for aarch64-linux-gnu.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

    ... Don't cry for me I have vi.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Maurice Kinal on Thursday, October 18, 2018 10:15:09
    Hello Maurice,

    17 Oct 18 20:48 at you wrote to me:

    That makes a huge difference. How is it currently working wrt
    whatever BBS platform you currently have working and is it
    multiplayer?

    It's working okay though the screen drawing is slow for unknown reasons. I'm just thinking it's the homemade FOSSIL driver that is in the software itself. I'm running MBSE 1.0.7.9 under Slackware 64 v14.2 stable with the DOSemu available from Github using PC-DOS 2000 for the DOS setup.

    Which system and for what purpose?

    The very one mentioned above. :)

    At the moment I am working on a text based output for a USB GPS
    receiver that I am thinking of replacing with a raspi and an Arduino
    GPS breakout board which will require some jiggery-pokery on my part
    to have it outputting the desired output on the LAN. Offhand I am thinking socat just to keep it simple. Also I'll need to rebuild my customized 64-bit thingy - currently called motorshed, formerly known
    as medevil - for aarch64-linux-gnu.

    Sounds like fun. I have so much I want to do these days but unfortunately, my job keeps me busy and with two hours wasted each day commuting, I just don't have time anymore. I barely have time to keep the BBS up right now.

    Later,
    Sean

    ... If it looks easy, it's tough; if it looks tough, it's impossible.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200)