Hello All!

As this year wraps up, I thought it would be interesting to
recount some of the new developments that took place affecting
the Fidonet/BBS hobby.

In no particular order..

[1] Thomas Bampi of 2:333/808 (Veleno BBS) introduced a point
system completely webbased that does not impose the requirement
for the user to use additional sofware beyond a standard web
browser. The system provides the reading and writing of messages
with GoldED+.

[2] Stas Mishchenkov of 2:460/58 (Lame Users Breeding BBS)
introduced a Fido by Telegram process that allows the use of the
Telegram app to access Fidonet echomail areas. This is primarily
to demonstrate the feasibility and convenience of using Telegram
on mobile devices (or a desktop) and enjoy true protability and
syncing across devices when accessing echomail.

[3] Vince Coen of 2:250/1 rebuilt a new version of the ELIST
robot.

[4] Originally in Decemeber 2019 but considered for this report,
Glenn Rossi of 1:275/301 (IPTIA BBS) announced that the entire
content of the outgoing fidonet.ozzmosis.com archive was
recovered, as well hundreds of thousands of other echomail
messages from the Internet Archive and other sources, online at: https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/

[5] A Sourceforge project was made available for porting the
NTVDM subsystem of 32-bit Windows, over to 64-bit.

[6] BBSing took a comedic turn around March with a series of
YouTube videos exploring the current state of select BBSes by the
personality know as "Cheese Burger" as he visited random BBSes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzhw8__cyDQHcQ7dHAFRnQ/

[7] Mystic BBS software was succesfully installed and operational
on a smartphone. The full documentation on how it was achieved is
found here: https://bit.ly/2UK60jk

[8] A new 3-part BBS documentary series was announced. "Back to
the BBS" aired its first episode on Dec 20.
https://youtu.be/n0OwGSX2IiQ

If anyone can think of adding anything else, please do.


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On 28 Dec 2020, August Abolins said the following...

[7] Mystic BBS software was succesfully installed and operational
on a smartphone. The full documentation on how it was achieved is
found here: https://bit.ly/2UK60jk

I would just like to point out that while yes, the only two BBSes on
smartphone that I am aware of are running Mystic, it should be possible as
well to do so with other software that will run on a Raspberry Pi. At the
very least, Synchronet and Enigma BBS should work.

Christian, the gentleman who wrote up the documentation, used Mystic for reasons of his own. I did so because it was used in rhe documentation.
Too many new things for me at the time to attempt compiling as well afyer a long time since I have done so. I'm experimenting with otjer devices which will use other software, but I'm running into issues with port forwarding.

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Hi August,

On 2020-12-28 22:05:00, you wrote to All:

As this year wraps up, I thought it would be interesting to
recount some of the new developments that took place affecting
the Fidonet/BBS hobby.

Indeed. You should send it in as an article for FidoNews!

Bye, Wilfred.

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August Abolins wrote to All <=-

If anyone can think of adding anything else, please do.

No, but thanks for doing this - I didn't realize that the ozzmosis
archives were saved.



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