Hi Folks!

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a
few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel
quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

Greetings

Snobsoft.de 6401

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Snobsoft to All on Sun Feb 23 2025 02:23 am

Hi Folks!

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

Greetings

Snobsoft.de 6401

hey there's an ADs section where this stuff goes.
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Snobsoft wrote to All <=-

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a
few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel
quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

I'd love to see it in action! I'm quite nostalgic thinking back, my
first experiences online were with a C64 and a 300 baud Anchor
Signalman modem. Remembering the first time I connected to BBSes, my
computer wasn't just local, but a connection to a whole world of
information. I still feel that way, I suppose. :)



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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Snobsoft to All on Sun Feb 23 2025 02:23:11

Hi Folks!

I am now online with my real C64
works pretty good after I sorted out a few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Video
on this Session. Check out my channel quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and stuff

Greetings

Snobsoft.de 6401

I would love to get ahold of a C64... just too pricy for my pocket. Are you using the RS232 WIFI interface to connect it and what are you using for storage. Seen many ways people are doing it now... I follow Retro Recipes on YTand saw how he was doing it.

Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

I would love to get ahold of a C64... just too pricy for my pocket. Are you using the RS232 WIFI interface to connect it and what are you using for storage. Seen many ways people are doing it now... I follow Retro Recipes on YTand saw how he was doing it.

just watch ebay a lot. you can get one for a couple of hundred bucks.
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Snobsoft to All on Sun Feb 23 2025 02:23 am

I am now online with my real C64

Me too! Happen to be on the ol'
breadbin at the moment. Got my board
answering PETSCII on port 2064, too!

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Re: Re: Now online with my C64
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:00 am

Snobsoft wrote to All <=-

I am now online with my real C6 > Sn> works pretty good after I sorte > Sn> out a
few issues.
I think I will do a Youtube Vid > Sn> on this Session. Check out my channel
quipzz on YT for BBS Videos and > Sn> stuff

I'd love to see it in action! I'm
quite nostalgic thinking back, my
first experiences online were with > C64 and a 300 baud Anchor
Signalman modem. Remembering the fi > time I connected to BBSes, my
computer wasn't just local, but a
connection to a whole world of
information. I still feel that way, > suppose. :)

Yes, that was really magical back then.Now that I managed to get back in here with my C64, I find it pretty awesome
again. Especially since I'm now on Port6464, which the Partybowl Sysop set up just for me. This makes everything
PETSCII - pretty colorful and of courcenot so fast at 300 baud. But it looks cool. Thanks, Droidmike!

The filming of the video is completed
btw, and I'm already busy editing. It
should be out soon.

Greetings from Hamburg/Germany

Snobsoft.de 6401

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

I would love to get ahold of a
C64...
just too pricy for my pocket. Are
you
using the RS232 WIFI interface to
connect it and what are you using
for
storage. Seen many ways people are
doing it now... I follow Retro
Recipes
on YTand saw how he was doing it.

I am using a nullmodem cable and a mini
pc running the modem emulator tcpser
as shown in this video i did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thCV-Gf4DAo

For storage I use one of my 1541

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: phigan to Snobsoft on Tue Feb 25 2025 11:35 am

I am now online with my real C64

Me too! Happen to be on the ol'
breadbin at the moment. Got my board
answering PETSCII on port 2064, too!

Great. I am online with Putty for once. But otherwise, it's just more awesome with the real C64.

For me, here in the Partybowl, I am actually getting a bit of that old BBS feeling again. I wouldn't have thought so. I started back in 1984/85 with a 300 baud acoustic coupler on the C64. Here in Germany, phone costs were very high - so you had to watch every minute. That's why the Snobsoft BBS, which I brought back online after 40 years, still has a one-minute inactivity timeout built in. Back then, it was to protect the user from accidentally staying on the line and incurring unnecessary phone costs. Today it can be annoying - I think I'll remove it since I've realized how relaxing it is in comparison in the Partybowl when I can take my time to understand all the menus without getting a timeout right away. Especially for me as an 80s BBS enthusiast, these "modern" 90s-style BBS are still quite unfamiliar in terms of handling, but I am slowly getting used to it.

BTW: Does anyone have an idea how to make it so that the BBS is accessible via Telnet and Dial-up on the C64? I've managed either one, but not both at the same time. I would need some kind of switch to allow either Telnet or Dial-up. The Snobsoft can only handle one port. Maybe with a Raspberry Pi at the user port of the C64 somehow? I appreciate any tips.

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Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

just watch ebay a lot. you can get one for a couple of hundred bucks.
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I hadn't looked, but are You saying a the cost for a 64 PC or a System with 1541 FD , Modem and 64 ?

Just curious.
Ed
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

Re: Now online with my C64
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Mon Feb 24 2025 09:56 pm

just watch ebay a lot. you can get one for a couple of hundred bucks.
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I hadn't looked, but are You saying a the cost for a 64 PC or a System with 1541 FD , Modem and 64 ?

Just curious.

go look. they post stuff every week.
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Re: Now online with my C64
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Thu Feb 27 2025 12:08 pm

I hadn't looked, but are You saying
a
the cost for a 64 PC or a System
with
1541 FD , Modem and 64 ?

Based on the prices here on eBay Germany, I'd say (in dollars):

C64 functional with power supply - $50-80
1541 - $100
Modem - $50
Acoustic coupler - $150-200
RS232 adapter (new) - $50

These are only approximate estimates and could be incorrect.
Overall, everything has become more expensive.
But there are still bargains to be found -
maybe not necessarily on eBay.

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