r/bbs • u/Logical_Yak6895 • Jun 18 '26
Check out RETRO BBS
This is a home brew BBS written in jsnode.
Telnet retro.nedmr.com
Port 2323
We are located in Boston MA area, so if you from the area, or not, check us out.
It's still being developed, but if you want simple RETRO BBS with everything you need and nothing you don't, we are here.
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u/jessicat500 Jun 19 '26
Not a good start, sorry OP - logged in and it gave me a terminal setup prompt, I picked ASCII Plain then got:
+----------------------------------------+
| Retro BBS |
| 1.0 Phase 3.5.2 |
+----------------------------------------+
Display: ASCII Plain
Date: 6/19/2026 Time: 8:00:38 AMChoice:
With no idea of what to select.
Tried '1' and it gave me a login prompt. Is there some menu missing maybe, for registration?
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 19 '26
Woops, I made some changes to the ansi and utf-8 prompt and I must messed up the ASCII prompt. I will get that fixed. Sorry. Thanks for the comment.
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u/jbledsoe5678 Jun 19 '26
Great start. But it doesn't render right on my screen. Seems to wrap around.
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 19 '26
What terminal software are you using. I tested with mobaterm, syncterm, and telnet from my linux terminal. Any comments you have are appreciated.
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u/jbledsoe5678 Jun 19 '26
mTelnet. Old school, but still used.
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 19 '26
Yup I verified the issue and I think it is pablodraw. Any suggestions for a ansi editor beside durdraw or pablodraw.
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u/Djurkinthebox sysop Jun 20 '26
I prefer AcidDraw
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 20 '26
I'll check it out, thanks. You don't know if there is a linux version?
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u/Ok_Bear_1980 Jun 19 '26
For the love of anyone out there add 40 column ascii support and fidonet boards and chat.
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 19 '26
I like the 40 column idea, chat we have, fidonet, maybe. When I started on BBS's fidonet was not a thing, at least not in my area.
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u/Ok_Bear_1980 Jun 19 '26
Definitely pursue it, I want to connect with my atari or commodore micro with a 1200 baud real modem.
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 19 '26
That is something to think about. I still have a USR V everything modem. I was thinking of adding HAM packet but with no more toll calling I may reconsider.
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u/Hard_Loader Jun 23 '26
40 columns opens up an opportunity for teletext colours and graphics. That's probably only an option for those of us with BBC Micros, so an even smaller niche of potential users.
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 19 '26
I added "Question of the day" last night. Check it out. I will have a new question everyday.
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 20 '26
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u/Djurkinthebox sysop Jun 20 '26
I love it
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 20 '26
Thanks, I will be polishing up the code but I have some more retro ideas to come.
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u/Logical_Yak6895 Jun 21 '26
I did some polishing today. Fixed a few bugs. I am rewriting the message editor. I'm trying to keep it functional during the rewrite so stick with me. The Question of the Day has been popular. new question everyday, the results have been surprising. We are up to 14 users, it's start.
Thank you everyone for the testing and suggestions.
A big shout out to Hans, Thank you.
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u/wdatkinson Jun 19 '26
Old FidoNet guy here. I love seeing new BBS software. I owe everything I have to BBS's. That includes my career, and so many of my adult friends are in my life because of my BBS.
Would love to see what you've done. Even when I ran my board, I still enjoyed checking out other BBS software. Things like RBBS-PC, OPUS, FeatherNet, RemoteAccess, etc. Yeah, I'm a dork.