Any developers still out there kicking.. Things seems pretty quiet around he and this seems to me to be one of the more intereting networks around. I write Enthral BBS, just started backup on development after i was busy going back to school and working full time. It's good to see alot of various thin still being worked on by people in their free time. I'd love to hear about what others are up too. :)
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Any developers still out there kicking.. Things seems pretty quiet around here and this seems to me to be one of the more intereting networks around. I write Enthral BBS, just started backup on development after i was busy going back to school and working full time. It's good to see alot of various thing still being worked on by people in their free time. I'd love to hear about what others are up too. :)
Looks like that's the answer <silence>quiet</silence>... ;)
Must all be doning their own projects and otherwise keeping quiet. I've been playing around with a few raspberry pi systems. I have one setup as DMZ on my DSL line but of course that jumps around. I need to look into the free nameservices and such before I could think of setting one up as a bbs. ssh is working for me to get in, the webserver (apache2) doesn't seem to work remotely, but I just installed it. I have noticed things rarely work right after being installed remotely (but do work locally).
It's good to have you here. :) I've been curious about Enthral myself but haven't tried it yet.
I do software development & testing professionally and occasionally work on various things in my free time when I have the motivation to do it.. Lately I've mostly worked on Synchronet mods (since I use Synchronet for my BBS), but occasionally I like to mess around with other projects if I have an idea I want to work on. Several years ago, I had an idea for sending live MIDI signals (for music) over a network and created a program to do that - but as I suspected, network latency caused the MIDI signals not to all play back at the same rate they were played from the source machine.. That was still a cool little project to work on though. Another thing I worked on several years ago was a C# WAV file class, which would let you read & write WAV files from C# code, as well as a little app using that class which could mix multiple WAV files together (such as for a musician to record multiple tracks and mix them all into a single .WAV file): http://bit.ly/1haWTfd
That was based on an earlier project I did in C++ to allow someone to record different audio tracks and mix them together. My C# app didn't record though, it just did the mixing.
Occasionally I've thought about what it would be like to create my own BBS software or programming language, but then I think there are already many available, and I'm not sure what I'd do to make one unique or improve on what's already available.
Thats one thigns i've always thought was lacking in bbs's. Music, nothings like some ambiance to help give a system a unique feel i must say. I've played with the idea myself several times to write a custom client interface that would transform the ansi graphic to open gl so you can do all sorta of animation and lighting effects and even have sound over a client. One day i plan to work on it more.. but as things go it always gets pusted a side due to time and enegry to work on it. :)
Occasionally I've thought about what it would be like to create my
own BBS software or programming language, but then I think there are
already many available, and I'm not sure what I'd do to make one
unique or improve on what's already available.
Well i would say it should matter about whats already out there, if all about you and want you want to do. and nothing wrong with making something unique to your ideals and tastes. That part of the fun. :)
The main issue with music on a BBS is that there is (and has never been) a single standard for streaming music from a BBS to a client.. Some BBS door games had their own terminal software to support extended graphics and sound, but no official standard for a BBS. I'm not sure how useful that would be though.. That would be similar to an internet web site with background music (which used to be more popular, in the mid 90s, usually in the form of MIDI). I tend to find that fairly annoying though - I sometimes like to listen to music on my computer while browsing the web & doing other things, so when I load a web page that has its own background music, it tends to be annoying rather than adding to the experience of the web site.
Well i would say it should matter about whats already out there, if
all about you and want you want to do. and nothing wrong with
making something unique to your ideals and tastes. That part of the
fun. :)
Do you mean to say shouldn't matter?
similar to an internet web site with background music (which used to
be more popular, in the mid 90s, usually in the form of MIDI). I
tend to find that fairly annoying though - I sometimes like to
listen to music on my computer while browsing the web & doing other
things, so when I load a web page that has its own background music,
it tends to be annoying rather than adding to the experience of the
web site.
Ya midi's can be an ear full. some of the tunes are ok but i much rather have mp3's. of course a custom client would be needed and the files would most likely have to be downloaded and cached in a folder to not casue streaming lag and eat up the connection.
HDX was a pretty interesting
type of graphical bbs system i played around with. Something along those lines would make for a nice type of secondary connection or interface to the bbs.
Looks like that's the answer <silence>quiet</silence>... ;)
Must all be doning their own projects and otherwise keeping quiet. I've been playing around with a few raspberry pi systems. I have one setup as DMZ on my DSL line but of course that jumps around. I need to look into the free nameservices and such before I could think of setting one up as a bbs. ssh is working for me to get in, the webserver (apache2) doesn't seem to work remotely, but I just installed it. I have noticed things rarely work right after being installed remotely (but do work locally).
Well, I'm back on here again. I've made a few stabs at firing things up on DevNet a little bit here, but I was kind of lacking for active, and seriously involved, projects at the time. I'll be putting together some posts about some things I'm working on here pretty soon . . . I'd
really love to see some more traffic here, myself.
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