VICE (the Versatile Commodore Emulator) & BBS Connections

[bubblesdee]

Hi


I am new to Linux and I want to connect to a commodore 64 BBS. I have Linux lite 2.0 installed on an old laptop. I am running Vice

for Linux (I also have Wine installed and have a copy of winvice on the machine as well.) I have a terminal program for the C64

emulator. I have been trying to get this to work but I cannot and I am getting a little frustrated.


Here is what I have done so far;


I installed TCPSER with
sudo apt-get install tcpser


Also made sure NETCAT was installed with
sudo apt-get install netcat
(I read somewhere that I need this)


I then did this from a command window in linux
nc 127.0.0.1 25232. I read that I had to initialize Netcat like this.


Question 1: Why is the IP address 127.0.0.1? should it not be the IP assigned to my Linux box by my internet router?


Then I did this from a command window in linux
tcpser -v 25232 -s 1200 -p 6400
Question 2: I must leave this command window open while trying to connect. Is this correct?


Then I opened Vice (Linux version)
in settings under the RS232 settings menu: ◦Turn on “Userport RS232 emulation


under “Userport RS232 baud rate set baud to 1200
Under “Userport RS232 device” select “Exec process”.
◦Under “Program name to exec…” type | nc localhost 25232


Question 3 : should I change localhost to the IP address assigned to my Linux box?


I then saved my settings in Vice, closed vice and restarted it.


I then opened my Terminal software (CCGMS 5.5) with vice and tried to dial a BBS IP address
Question 4: should I try using striketerm instead?


When I dial the BBS IP address, It just says no carrier
The command window where I did the tcpser -v 25232 -s 1200 -p 6400 command doesn’t show anything, it doesn’t tell me that it is

trying to connect.


I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong.


Can someone please help. I am going crazy here.


Is it because the BBS I am dialing is not working.
Do you have the IP of a known working BBS?


Please help


Thanks in advance

[Valtam]

That's some old school technology you have there. I don't know if anyone will be able to help you but you never know

[rokytnji]

Just a suggestion. I would join http://www.linuxquestions.org/ and try posting there.

Lot's of smart users there running all kinds of gear. It is a slackware based forum and if you used the search term

site:www.linuxquestions.org

in googles search box as well in another tab

site:ubuntuforums.org

You should maybe get some joy/solutions already posted to help you solve your problem.

Lastly. I bookmark http://www.googlubuntu.com/ that search engine when solving my own problems besides using the above search
tricks I learned using linux.

[Scott(0)]

Hi Bubblesdee,
I don't have any experience with your situation but I poked around on the Vice website and found these.

Have you looked at the Vice knowledge base? Here's a link but it's down due to a recent hacking. If you click the link they're showing a status.
http://vicekb.trikaliotis.net/

Here's a link to the resources page of the Vice website in case you haven't come across it yet.
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/index.ht...0Resources

[N4RPS]

Hello!

By any chance, is it Color64 Term, written by Greg Pfountz?

Back in the day (late '80s), I ran a couple of AWESOME C-64 BBSs on Color64 BBS software, also written by Greg Pfountz. A 20MB ICT Data Chief HD was a lot of space back then!

Even though technology has come a long way since then, I still miss those old days, when each fairly large city had dozens of BBSs, if not hundreds - most of them having some kind of theme to them. It was like creating and running your own world...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[Scott(0)]

I stumbled across this by accident, maybe it will help:

Installing Vice on linux
http://awesome.commodore.me/installing-vice-on-linux/

[Wirezfree]

There seems to be a few things on Youtube:
Like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHwT6o6Jvw

Yes, you need to know a working BBS
In the details you supplied above, you don't appear to be connecting to anything to get a response from.?
http://roxburysoftware.com/Blog/how-to-c...ux-or-mac/

[avj]

If you are trying to connect to bbs sites there are telnet client add-ons for Firefox that can be added from the add-on manager in the browser. Before deciding to use an add-on you should do a web search about the add-on to make sure other people haven't had a problem with it. To find add-ons for Firefox you click on tools in the menu and then click add-ons. When the add-ons page loads type "telnet client" in the search bar on the right top of the page. Hope you find what your looking for.