[Sticky] Welcome Image BBS Sysop's!

Posted by: @bucko

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Good for you Chuck!! You don't have to stay on topic here, just ask Palkat, we end up going off on tangents all the time, you should see some of our LENGTHY emails!! Jeez.. Best times for support with Image is posting here, (I try to get on here every few days)...

On topic seems to be optional in my mind, so many thoughts and ideas they just all blurt out in endless emails or posts like @Bucko stated.  I will say though if you get stuck or have questions @Bucko is my go to, the man lives and breathes Image BBS.  

Greetings.
Codetsu From Genetic-PET and Genetic-Point BBS

I'm writing this a little late.
Image BBS has been online for years but I only just registered for the forum.

Genetic-PET BBS is back in action
after a few years of quiet I had the pain of driving to my old house to
constantly restart the C64 BBS and no modifications seemed to help the end
result was closing the BBS until the situation improved

Finally now the devices are under the same roof the maintenance is much easier
so it was time to restart the systems in honor of Christmas
at the same time I also thought to test what updates 3.0 has come out during
this time so now there are two BBSs at the same time
I wanted to try two other things the use of real disk drives and C128 mode

The idea for the Genetic-PET BBS
came from the fact that I had never seen a C64 or even a C128 BBS in action
they weren't here when I was young BBS only became common at the turn of the 80s-90s
when the price of PCs started to drop and old 286 scraps started to come up for used sale
for reasonable money and the telephone companies' modem monopoly collapsed
and there was no equipment here to even set up From the C64 BBS
store only got a C64 and C1541 disk drive, nothing else

2011 when I became interested in BBS again and started browsing websites dealing with the
subject, my surprise was great. The USA BBS community was large and even a C64 BBS existed.
This started my new interest in get my beloved BBS up again and a little later a
C64 BBS because PETscii just looked so sickly handsome
and C64 BBS programming interested me

Genetic-PET BBS on the hardware side
my C64 BBS is a single unit including storage devices that are built in
and the Wifimodem, the only thing it needs from the outside is
a display and a transformer

Bredpin C64 2x SD2iec Wifi card modem expansion bus capable of 38.4Kbaud speed
(I also have an internal version but if the machine breaks down, the external one is easier to replace)
it also has a built-in fan for the summer heat
I have also bought a few ATX motherboards that I dream of for my future BBS frame
but they need to be built first...

I started my BBS hobby in 1998 with an Amiga 2000.
The BBS was up and running for 4 years until moving forced me to live without phone lines.
In 2002, despite my attempts, I couldn't get the Telnet connection to work.
The BBS remained on the dock until 2012.
I fought with Telnet for a year without getting it to work and finally had to ask
for outside help and in 2013, finally, the BBS was back online.
This has lasted until today. I plan to continue this until the end of my life.

Well it was again in halt last year
Since the summer, after the hardware broke down (modem), we are now back again, still experiencing the same problems as in 2018 when I set up the first Image BBS. The problems are mainly caused by scanners and other internet troublemakers.
This year I will also try to follow this forum better and more often than before.

Towards summer this year, the goal would be to also join the Nissa network

Posted by: @codetsu

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Well it was again in halt last year
Since the summer, after the hardware broke down (modem), we are now back again, still experiencing the same problems as in 2018 when I set up the first Image BBS. The problems are mainly caused by scanners and other internet troublemakers.
This year I will also try to follow this forum better and more often than before.

Towards summer this year, the goal would be to also join the Nissa network

Welcome back, as I said in another post, if you are running the SCPU on it make sure you install the latest fixes as there is a fix in there that turns off the SCPU at the waiting for call screen, and has pretty much fixed all those who have been having issues with Bots. The Kats Alley run by Palkat was constantly crashed daily by bots, we installed the fixes and since January 1 I can count the number of times it was crashed due to a bot on 1 hand. If you are not running SCPU, then my only suggestion is to go to a higher port if you are at a lower port..

Hi!, 

My name is Jared, and I was the sysop of an Image BBS in the 90s called Windwraith, out of Houston, Texas. I connected directly to several other Image BBS's, most closely with Harry's Asylum.

Nice to see old Image sysops here.

@jaredc Glad to see ya here Jared!

Image is not just alive and well but still growing to this day! In fact Commodore64BBS.com:6464 running on a c64u has created fixed to the hardware firmware and some update to Image for various features. It is great that Image keeps evolving and for those of us that ran it 30+ years ago, you can really appriciate that it is still going thanks to Xtec and Bucko!