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    From Mickey@1:249/307 to All on Thu Jul 4 14:23:54 2019
    Are there any AmiExpress SysOP's on this echo? I know they're a rare breed.
    :-)

    Mick Manning

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    * Origin: Central Ontario Remote (1:249/307)
  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/101 to Mickey on Thu Jul 4 17:27:26 2019
    Are there any AmiExpress SysOP's on this echo? I know they're a rare breed. :-)

    Not many but I ran it for years in the 90s. I am working on getting the
    latest version which is a re-write of Ami/X in Amiga E compiled on OS 4 so I can move my current Amiga system over to it.

    BTW, I sent you a netmail about joining AmigaNet as you were asking about joining.

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  • From Mickey@1:249/307 to Frank Linhares on Fri Jul 5 09:51:48 2019
    On 04 Jul 2019, Frank Linhares said the following...

    BTW, I sent you a netmail about joining AmigaNet as you were asking about joining.

    frank // netsurge

    I replied the same day. Can't remember if I sent it to Netsurge or Sysop. Better have a look. If you can't find it I'll resend. :-)

    Mick Manning
    centralontarioremote.com:2323

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  • From Charles Stephenson@1:226/16 to Mickey on Thu Jul 4 21:37:04 2019

    On Jul 4th 6:57 pm Mickey said...
    Are there any AmiExpress SysOP's on this echo? I know they're a rare breed. :-)



    Yeah they are, one of the things on my (hopefully soon) bucket list is setting up AmiExpress...



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  • From Mickey@1:249/307 to Charles Stephenson on Sat Jul 6 10:50:46 2019
    On 04 Jul 2019, Charles Stephenson said the following...

    Yeah they are, one of the things on my (hopefully soon) bucket list is setting up AmiExpress...

    I ran Transamiga back in the day but thought I'd try Amiexpress. Got it all
    set -up and running here, though without Fidonet. THAT is a challenge as
    there is no docs anywhere. We presently wade through piles of old Amiga fido packages. Wish me luck. :-)

    Mick Manning

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    * Origin: Central Ontario Remote (1:249/307)
  • From Charles Stephenson@1:226/16 to Mickey on Wed Jul 10 22:17:16 2019

    On Jul 8th 10:16 pm Mickey said...

    I ran Transamiga back in the day but thought I'd try Amiexpress. Got it all set -up and running here, though without Fidonet. THAT is a challenge as there is no docs anywhere. We presently wade through piles of old Amiga fido packages. Wish me luck. :-)



    Ahhh, yeah, TransAmiga! I remember that one. That was another nice package. I wonder if anyone is running it now through Telnet? I'd love to check out a modern TransAmiga BBS...


    I'll have to look into that too

    Sooo many things to look at so little time!



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  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/101 to Mickey on Thu Jul 11 11:59:14 2019
    I ran Transamiga back in the day but thought I'd try Amiexpress. Got it all set -up and running here, though without Fidonet. THAT is a
    challenge as there is no docs anywhere. We presently wade through piles
    of old Amiga fido packages. Wish me luck. :-)

    I can give you a hand getting Crashmail up and running on your Amiga. That
    and something like BinkD for the Amiga is all you really need to get FTN
    style networks up and running on your Amiga.

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  • From Mickey@1:249/307 to Charles Stephenson on Sun Jul 14 15:30:58 2019
    On 10 Jul 2019, Charles Stephenson said the following...

    Ahhh, yeah, TransAmiga! I remember that one. That was another nice package. I wonder if anyone is running it now through Telnet? I'd love
    to check out a modern TransAmiga BBS...

    I loved it, and ran it online for years but the last thing the author did was correct Y2K and then stopped upgrading and supporting it. Since it had no echomail capabilities it sorta became redundant. If memory corrects me (and
    it probably won't) there may have been a small release buy can't remember if Fidonet stuff was included. I ran Metro OZ BBS for a while as well. I often wonder what ever happened to Percy Broadnax.

    Mick

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    * Origin: Central Ontario Remote (1:249/307)
  • From Mickey@1:249/307 to Frank Linhares on Sun Jul 14 15:34:58 2019
    On 11 Jul 2019, Frank Linhares said the following...

    I can give you a hand getting Crashmail up and running on your Amiga.
    That and something like BinkD for the Amiga is all you really need to
    get FTN style networks up and running on your Amiga.

    Actually, I have BinkD dialing out and transferring packages ok, and Crash
    mail installed. Its looking for a nodelist but it does not like my modern
    Fido nodelist file. Traplist won't make one, and freezes up. Oh we are
    working on it as time permits. :-)

    Mick

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    * Origin: Central Ontario Remote (1:249/307)
  • From Frank Linhares@1:229/101 to Mickey on Sun Jul 14 23:10:24 2019
    Actually, I have BinkD dialing out and transferring packages ok, and
    Crash mail installed. Its looking for a nodelist but it does not like my modern Fido nodelist file. Traplist won't make one, and freezes up. Oh
    we are working on it as time permits. :-)

    I will send you a nodelist compiler that will take care of that issue for you when I get home, I'm on the road for work right now.

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  • From Charles Stephenson@1:226/16 to Mickey on Mon Jul 15 21:44:48 2019

    On Jul 15th 12:48 am Mickey said...
    had no echomail capabilities it sorta became redundant. If memory corrects me (and it probably won't) there may have been a small release buy can't remember if Fidonet stuff was included. I ran Metro OZ BBS for a while as well. I often wonder what ever happened to Percy Broadnax.





    Yeah TransAmigaa was nice! A buddy of mine ran it for a few years. I DO remember last time I saw/connected it didn't have the FidoNet stuff. It was still a nice package



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  • From Gary Mcculloch@1:154/50 to All on Wed Mar 25 18:05:10 2020
    I just called a nice AmiExpress v4.20 BBS at amigaunderground.com:2300 and I am sure She would love some callers. Her website is BaudGirl.com

    Tell her Spitfire sent ya!

    -Spitfire Inc presents 3 Unique Systems...

    Reign of Fire rof.cnetbbs.net:2300 C-Net Amiga Pro BETA System.
    Reign of Fire II rof.cnet64.com:6400 C-Net DS-2 BETA System.
    Reign of Fire III rof.cnet128.com:6800 C-Net Amiga Pro v3.05g.
    * C-Net/5

    * Origin: rof.cnetbbs.net:2300 * rof.cnet64.com:6400 (1:154/50)
    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
    4
  • From Don Lowery@1:340/1000 to Gary Mcculloch on Thu Mar 26 09:16:56 2020
    I just called a nice AmiExpress v4.20 BBS at amigaunderground.com:2300 and I am sure She would love some callers.
    Her website is BaudGirl.com

    Tried this after dinner last night. Every time...it came up with connecting
    to port 23 & dropping me. Finally gave up after 3 tries & started working on setting up BinkD for ArcaOS.

    ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.

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  • From Wilfred Van Velzen@2:280/464 to Don Lowery on Thu Mar 26 18:26:28 2020
    Hi Don,

    On 2020-03-26 09:09:56, you wrote to Gary McCulloch:

    I just called a nice AmiExpress v4.20 BBS at
    amigaunderground.com:2300 and I am sure She would love some callers.
    Her website is BaudGirl.com

    Tried this after dinner last night. Every time...it came up with
    connecting
    to port 23 & dropping me. Finally gave up after 3 tries & started working on setting up BinkD for ArcaOS.

    What do you think the :2300 in the address stands for? ;)

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Gary Mcculloch@1:154/50 to Don Lowery on Thu Mar 26 17:19:06 2020
    On Thu 26-Mar-2020 9:09a, Don Lowery@1:340/1000.0 said to Gary McCulloch:
    amigaunderground.com:2300 and I am sure She would love some callers.

    Tried this after dinner last night. Every time...it came up with
    connecting
    to port 23 & dropping me. Finally gave up after 3 tries & started working on
    setting up BinkD for ArcaOS.

    Good, its doing just what it should on port 23. Now try it on the correct port of 2300 and enjoy the BBS. Then you can get back to you PC fun with Binkd!

    -Spitfire Inc presents 3 Unique Systems...

    Reign of Fire rof.cnetbbs.net:2300 C-Net Amiga Pro BETA System.
    Reign of Fire II rof.cnet64.com:6400 C-Net DS-2 BETA System.
    Reign of Fire III rof.cnet128.com:6800 C-Net Amiga Pro v3.05g.
    * C-Net/5

    * Origin: rof.cnetbbs.net:2300 * rof.cnet64.com:6400 (1:154/50)
    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
    4
  • From Don Lowery@1:340/1000 to Wilfred Van Velzen on Thu Mar 26 21:42:56 2020
    amigaunderground.com:2300 and I am sure She would love some callers.
    Her website is BaudGirl.com
    to port 23 & dropping me. Finally gave up after 3 tries & started wor on setting up BinkD for ArcaOS.
    What do you think the :2300 in the address stands for? ;)

    Had :2300 in the setup...but :23 kept answering/disconnecting on her end.

    ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.

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  • From Don Lowery@1:340/1000 to Gary Mcculloch on Thu Mar 26 21:43:44 2020
    Good, its doing just what it should on port 23. Now try it on
    the correct port of 2300 and enjoy the BBS. Then you can get back to
    you PC fun with Binkd!

    Will when I get a chance in a day or so.

    ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/18 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: ACME BBS-W.Coyote & D.Brown are our best users. (1:340/1000)
  • From Mark Lewis@1:3634/12 to Don Lowery on Fri Mar 27 08:00:14 2020
    Re: Re: AmiExpress
    By: Don Lowery to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Mar 26 2020 21:35:57


    Had :2300 in the setup...but :23 kept answering/disconnecting on her end.

    it appears, from what's been written here, that your terminal, whatever it is/was, wasn't attempting to connect to the remote system's port 2300 for some reason... it appears that it was using the default port 23 instead... different terminals (and virtual modems if using such for old DOS programs) have different ways of specifying the destination port to connect to... quite many of them do not use the defacto standard of today where you tack a colon and the port on to the end of the domain address... some use another character in place of the colon... some use an AT command to change the destination port... it depends on the implementation...

    if you provide a little more detail on what terminal and possible virtual modem setup you used, i'm sure that someone will provide a pointer on how to connect to a non-standard port...


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  • From Don Lowery@1:340/1000 to Mark Lewis on Sat Mar 28 00:53:12 2020
    connect to... quite many of them do not use the defacto standard of
    today where you tack a colon and the port on to the end of the domain address... some use another character in place of the colon... some use
    an AT command to change the destination port... it depends on the implementation...

    Know that the version of MagiTerm is a few versions behind current...but will try Netrunner/SyncTerm as well. Have had this happen on a couple of other boards...but just shrug it off.

    ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.

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    * Origin: ACME BBS-W.Coyote & D.Brown are our best users. (1:340/1000)
  • From Phillip Taylor@1:275/201.30 to All on Mon Apr 20 11:07:14 2020
    On Wed 10-Jul-2019 17:13 , Charles Stephenson@1:226/16.0 said to Mickey:
    On Jul 8th 10:16 pm Mickey said...

    I ran Transamiga back in the day but thought I'd try Amiexpress. Got
    it
    all set -up and running here, though without Fidonet. THAT is a
    challenge
    as there is no docs anywhere. We presently wade through piles of old Amiga fido packages. Wish me luck. :-)


    I started running a BBS connected to FidoNet back in the late 80's using my Trs-80 Color Computer, then moved it to a 386 and since then I hosted it using Remote Access, Opus, Wildcat and now I am running CNet on the Amiga and Synchronet on Linux.

    Ahhh, yeah, TransAmiga! I remember that one. That was another nice
    package. I
    wonder if anyone is running it now through Telnet? I'd love to check out a modern TransAmiga BBS...

    I never tried TransAmiga.
    --- CNet/5
    * Origin: 1:275/201.0 (1:275/201.30)
  • From Phil Taylor@1:275/201.30 to All on Fri Apr 24 14:36:40 2020
    On Thu 4-Jul-2019 16:33 , Charles Stephenson@1:226/16.0 said to Mickey:

    On Jul 4th 6:57 pm Mickey said...
    Are there any AmiExpress SysOP's on this echo? I know they're a rare breed. :-)



    Yeah they are, one of the things on my (hopefully soon) bucket list is setting
    up AmiExpress...

    Just wondering if Amiexpress is freeware or shareware?


    --- CNet/5
    * Origin: 1:275/201.0 (1:275/201.30)
  • From Ryan Fantus@1:218/820 to Phil Taylor on Sat Apr 25 00:24:52 2020
    Just wondering if Amiexpress is freeware or shareware?

    Freeware! :)

    https://github.com/dmcoles/AmiExpress

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