Spent time mucking about in DOSBox, and got my 1993/94 era setup working
again. By this, I mean dialing out from Telemate in WFW 3.11 and using
Bluewave for my offline mail reading. Plan on tinkering with DOSBox source
some to see if I can fix some issues I'm seeing (ANSI gets corrupted in
Telix, while Telemate freaks out over how fast BBSes answer calls.)

I unironically like Blue Wave, even over the more modern and presumably better MultiMail. Windows 3.1 has been fun to tinker with; I forgot how much old
OSes tended to just get out of your face. My next plan is to transplant this setup to my RPi upstairs and see how well it runs. Find time to escape from
the family, queue up old favorite MOD files and replay some Gold Box AD&D games...

I'm also curious if I properly applied the "y2k fix" for Blue Wave. Guess
we'll get some confused responses if I didn't.


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I unironically like Blue Wave, even over the more modern and presumably better MultiMail. Windows 3.1 has been fun to tinker with; I forgot how much old OSes tended to just get out of your face. My next plan is to transplant this setup to my RPi upstairs and see how well it runs. Find time to escape from the family, queue up old favorite MOD files and
replay some Gold Box AD&D games...

I'm also curious if I properly applied the "y2k fix" for Blue Wave.
Guess we'll get some confused responses if I didn't.

Yep, I haven't used Blue Wave in a very long time but I always found it
worked well. I used it a lot in the DOS and OS/2 days. Blue Wave actually
has a twit filter that I don't think many OLR's have. I don't think
MultiMail has one.

And yep, the format and look of your message is fine. I don't see any Y2K issues with it.

Ttyl :-)
Al

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Quoting deepthaw to ALL <=-

I unironically like Blue Wave, even over the more modern and
presumably better MultiMail. Windows 3.1 has been fun to tinker with; I

I use bluewave every day! I also just like it more.

I'm also curious if I properly applied the "y2k fix" for Blue Wave.
Guess we'll get some confused responses if I didn't.

It looks okay here but that doesn't mean much. :)

Shawn

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deepthaw wrote to ALL <=-

Spent time mucking about in DOSBox, and got my 1993/94 era setup
working again. By this, I mean dialing out from Telemate in WFW 3.11
and using Bluewave for my offline mail reading. Plan on tinkering with DOSBox source some to see if I can fix some issues I'm seeing (ANSI
gets corrupted in Telix, while Telemate freaks out over how fast BBSes answer calls.)

Nice! There are some interesting screen tweaks you can do to DOSBOX, I
changed the scaler setting under the [render] section to "advinter2px
forced" and get a much smoother font, especially in full screen mode.

I had to change cycles to "max" under CPU to get archivers to work
acceptably fast.

I can't get downloads to work in Telix, but I usually download/upload
packets via FTP outside of DOSBOX.

I unironically like Blue Wave, even over the more modern and presumably better MultiMail. Windows 3.1 has been fun to tinker with; I forgot how much old OSes tended to just get out of your face.

I had a big black hole in my memory regarding Windows 3.11 - forgot that I'd used it pretty extensively for 2 years at a software company. I wish I could get DOSBOX to display a neatly rendered 1920x1080 in full screen, though.




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On 10-26-19 01:34, deepthaw wrote to ALL <=-

I'm also curious if I properly applied the "y2k fix" for Blue Wave.
Guess we'll get some confused responses if I didn't.

I found some already patched copies of Bluewave online. :)


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On 10-25-19 23:19, Al wrote to deepthaw <=-

Yep, I haven't used Blue Wave in a very long time but I always found it worked well. I used it a lot in the DOS and OS/2 days. Blue Wave
actually has a twit filter that I don't think many OLR's have. I don't think MultiMail has one.

And yep, the format and look of your message is fine. I don't see any
Y2K issues with it.

I loved Bluewave back in the day. I could convert across to running Multimsil to Bluewave, but I like having native readers.


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I can't get downloads to work in Telix, but I usually download/upload packets via FTP outside of DOSBOX.

I can do zmodem transfers only with Mystic BBSes via Telix in DOSBox, but not SBBS. Still working to figure that one out.

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And yep, the format and look of your message is fine. I don't see any
Y2K issues with it.

I loved Bluewave back in the day. I could convert across to running Multimsil to Bluewave, but I like having native readers.

It's a great format. George Hatchew did well putting it all together.

I use Multimail myself if I want offline since I have no DOS or OS/2 but
it was Blue Wave that made that format work.

Ttyl :-)
Al

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