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On May 20, 1986 the ZMODEM protocol specification posted to Usenet. For more info on zmodem and Chuck Forsberg of Omen Technology visit:

Usenet post: https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.unix/1986-May/004372.html

About Zmodem: https://grokipedia.com/page/ZMODEM

I am the sysop of a small BBS themed around the Portal series, and I wish to program an Easter egg that recreates "Still Alive." I am willing to pay anyone who

A. Can recreate the look of Portal's credits, with the lyrics appearing as the song plays

B. Can program (or at least debug) the song itself using ANSI music.

I can't remember where I read or heard this, but I vaguely remember someone saying they didn't like the politics of FidoNet and preferred WWIVnet. I only ever experienced FidoNet in my teens, so I have no idea what WWIVnet was like. Can anyone elaborate on the cultural differences and feuds between the two networks? I tried to do some research and found mention of WWIVnet being less governed, seemed to have an open source, modding and hacking culture. I also vaguely remember someone mentioning Tom Jennings when talking about the cultural differences, but I can't remember any more detail than that.

I checked the Wiki/FAQ and didn't see thisinfo. What is best way to create a static IP for a incoming telnet connection? My ISP does not offer the option, so the $imple way is a no go. BBS will be running on a Commodore 128 using a Ultimate II+ cart.

# ✦ The realm is now open and live ✦

**Crimson Protocol BBS — MajorMUD+ The Black Dominion**

Stock MajorMUD with rebalance edits, plus a fan-made Dragonlance expansion. Level cap 200. Hosted, polished, and ready for characters.

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## 🔥 Two quick things up top

**MegaMUD 2.0 Beta just dropped — new version released.** Great time to try it if you've been on the fence. Smoother, faster, and built for modern systems.

**MME .DAT files are posted in the Discord right now.** No more waiting on the phoenix — full pack is ready to download, drop in, and walk straight into the realm.

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## What you're walking into

- **All nine stock MajorMUD modules** running, plus the fan-made **Dragonlance Expansion** and **Blighted Marshes** fully featured at launch

- Content already in place to push you comfortably to **level 80**, with **legendary level-90 gear** in the loot tables

- Cap is **level 200**

- New expansions roll out when later-game zones saturate, or **monthly — whichever comes first**

- **Reset policy:** no resets unless the realm goes derelict or a majority vote calls for one, and even then not until at least **one full year** has passed. Your investment is safe.

## Rebalance edits that respect your time

- **Stock limited drops converted to farmable** with set percentages. Everyone gets a shot at the rare gear they always wanted. New-content limited rares are preserved for the daring.

- **Stock boss EXP reduced, quest rewards significantly boosted** to compensate:

- Smash & Meditate now available at level 20, only 10 items required, **500,000 EXP**

- Master Assassin's Stealth quest now level 20, **500,000 EXP**

- Dao Lord drops **7,500,000 EXP** (up from 2M)

- Phoenix Feather quest **1,500,000 EXP**

- Alignment quests 1-3 **tripled**

- **Overworld monster regen more than doubled.** Camping pays.

- **Lair Mod equivalent — and better.** Regen increased across the board.

- **Instant-regen monster arenas** seeded for squishy classes that struggle early. Tucked away. Not advertised. Find them.

- **Caster spell scripting rooms** for Caster-2 and above, with new spells including **Indignation** — a Mana Storm-tier AOE for Priests against the undead.

## Class & item changes

- **Warlocks now have two-handed weapon access.** If a Mage can channel through a staff, a Warlock can channel through a great axe.

- **Scale armour weights reduced 15%**

- **Mage 'Illuminate' now functions like Starlight** — no more lighting it like a torch

- **Potions are no longer magical** — Witchunters can finally use them

- **New Smash-tier weapons** in the 20-40 loot pool in limited availability

## Player permissions

- **SYS GO and SYS MAP are enabled.** Player time is valuable; the way home shouldn't cost an hour a session.

- **Lawful option enabled** — pick Good alignment at character creation

- **Entertainment Module enabled** — extra lives purchasable in-game

- **No SYS BOT** — no free alignment changes or retrains

## Custom commands you'll want day one

- **`RM`** — Map & room number, regen time remaining, illumination level

- **`DEA`** — Recent deaths log: what killed you, where, when. No more hunting your death pile through 300 rooms of Diamond Mines.

- **`ST A`** — Full stat drill-down. Every META-level detail: HP/MA, AC base + vs-alignment, DR, all five resistances, dodge, crits, spell damage, regen rates, backstab numbers, full attack/bash/smash tables, all six core stats, complete skills breakdown

- **`MN`** — Remote monster lookup. `MN { name }` in-room, or `MN { room# } { map# }` to check any spawn anywhere in the realm. Find out if the Beholder is up before you walk there.

## The rules of the realm

- **No PvP.** Disabled per pre-launch player feedback.

- **Death-pile raiding is discouraged.** Disputes get settled in the Arena. The sysop does not intervene in player affairs — gang politics, ninja looting, training etiquette, social drama. That's for the realm to settle.

- **Multiboxing:** keep it to 2-3 boxes while the realm finds its feet. Light duping is fine. Large coordinated dupe parties cornering the loot economy in bad faith get their characters banned and their loot pinned up in the town square. Don't be that guy.

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## Ready to roll in?

- **Full house rules:** https://www.cp-bbs.com/realm-info/

- **Connect / MegaMUD walkthrough:** https://www.cp-bbs.com/connect/

- **Discord (MME .DATs live here):** https://discord.gg/8HxzN6qph9

*See you in The Black Dominion.*

Hi guys, was told you might be interested in this. The game is a space simulator heavily influenced by 1980s tech and sci fi. I'd been messing around with telnet recently and saw how easy it would be to add in. I've even managed to control the game via my Amstrad CPC464!

For some reason the Renegade 05-11 release sticks with me and I've remembered the anniversary every year. It's hard to believe it's been 30 years! The 05-11 release was the final version that Cott Lang developed before passing on development.

The summer of 1996 was also the last year I ran my BBS as I moved away for college and the internet was really starting to take off. I recently picked up a nice collection of Night Owl CDs and they've brought back some good memories going through all that old Shareware.

Anyways, just wanted to say cheers to all the Telegard and Renegade SysOps out there both past and present. It's nice to see people are still interested in BBSes and the scene is alive after all these years. :)

https://a-net-online.lol/sixel-tv to Download

Simple to set up, if you want audio you must allow the port(s) on your router/firewall.

You edit one line in the .bat or .sh run file with your domain name, and point it to door32.sys.

There was a lot of positive feedback this morning on fsxNet in the BBS Support group, made me think I should drop the link in here.

https://a-net.online

https://bbs.a-net.fyi

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Thanks to Codefenix of Constructive Chaos BBS for the super cool screenshot! =:-)

I'm extremely new to the BBS community, to the point where I have only now finished reading up on the basics. A little while ago I acquired the latest release of SyncTERM for Windows, and after feeding it through VirusTotal, I received alerts by TrendMicro and TrendMicro-HouseCall, flagging "HEUR_NAMETRICK.D".

I'm confident that this can't be anything but a false positive, given that TrendMicro is also flagging LibreOffice, InkScape, and plenty of other FOSS tools for the same reason... not to mention that it's only two out of seventy possible detections. Despite this, 1.9rc2 is only a couple of days old with only a few hundred downloads, so I'm wary to launch it for the first time.

I'm hoping that other BBS users may have some insight on this. In short, is there any reason to be concerned about this? Can I dismiss this detection without concern? Thank you.