On Friday, October 13th Patch was heard saying...

One immediate question that I have, can you manually pass a connection from mystic to enigma in the 'Doors section? I remember someone doing this in the BBS days where they could access another BBS by selecting the option in the 'Doors' area, and the caller information was passed and such ... could Mystic do that?

A while back I created a 'door' mod to do this. It's currently mostly untested because the person requesting it lost interest I guess. I'm happy to bring it back up if you'd like to try it.

Basically, it allows you to pass (from another board) username info that will automatically create an account on enig so they can just bridge like you describe


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Basically, it allows you to pass (from another board) username info that will automatically create an account on enig so they can just bridge
like you describe

I love this. If you can use the same rlogin logic that Synchronet and GameSrv use, it would probably be the easiest for users/sysops to adopt. I've written a standalone connector that can launch as a door from any BBS and connect this way.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)

menu on my Mystic board, I have a section that allows users logging off
to not only view a "Other BBS'" list but highlight them and dial out to them..

This is easily my favourite feature of modern boards, it's so great to have such an easy option to go out and sample other boards, I've found most of my fav's this way

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* Origin: The Bottomless Abyss BBS * bbs.bottomlessabyss.net (21:1/172)

When I installed Mystic, I also installed enigma because ... well, why not? I'm really happy to see that we have a community for that here as well.

Once I get to a 'satisfied' stage of modifying and adding things to mystic, I want to start doing things on the enigma side.

One immediate question that I have, can you manually pass a connection from mystic to enigma in the 'Doors section? I remember someone doing this in the BBS days where they could access another BBS by selecting the option in the 'Doors' area, and the caller information was passed and such ... could Mystic do that?

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 12 Oct 2023, Patch said the following...

One immediate question that I have, can you manually pass a connection from mystic to enigma in the 'Doors section? I remember someone doing this in the BBS days where they could access another BBS by selecting
the option in the 'Doors' area, and the caller information was passed
and such ... could Mystic do that?

Yes on the Mystic side you can create a menu entry with the IT command I believe to telnet out of Mystic into the Enigma side OR you can use IR to RLogin into the Enigma (I believe Enigma allows RLOGIN). On my logoff menu on my Mystic board, I have a section that allows users logging off to not only view a "Other BBS'" list but highlight them and dial out to them..

Al

... My tagline could eat your tagline for breakfast

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (21:4/131)

On 11 Oct 2023, Bucko said the following...

On 12 Oct 2023, Patch said the following...

One immediate question that I have, can you manually pass a connectio from mystic to enigma in the 'Doors section? I remember someone doin this in the BBS days where they could access another BBS by selecting the option in the 'Doors' area, and the caller information was passed and such ... could Mystic do that?

Yes on the Mystic side you can create a menu entry with the IT command I believe to telnet out of Mystic into the Enigma side OR you can use IR to RLogin into the Enigma (I believe Enigma allows RLOGIN). On my logoff
menu on my Mystic board, I have a section that allows users logging off
to not only view a "Other BBS'" list but highlight them and dial out to them..

in fact, Mystic could be run from another BBS basically like a Door32 door:

http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=introduction

note in particular the -TID parameter

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
* Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (21:1/616)

On 24 Oct 2023, unc0nnected said the following...

This is easily my favourite feature of modern boards, it's so great to have such an easy option to go out and sample other boards, I've found most of my fav's this way

Definitely agree with you there.. :)

... Great minds think alike; small minds run together

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (21:4/131)

esc around Monday, October 16th...

I love this. If you can use the same rlogin logic that Synchronet and GameSrv use, it would probably be the easiest for users/sysops to adopt. I've written a standalone connector that can launch as a door from any BBS and connect this way.

It's pretty generic, so should be very doable from whatever system (note: You do need to be able to generate a sha). Happy to dig up the mod if anyone is interested.

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|08 â–  |03xibalba|08.|03l33t|08.|03codes |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08)
|08 â–  |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic
--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.14-beta (linux; x64; 18.18.2)
* Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.l33t.codes:44510 (21:1/121)

On Tuesday, October 24th unc0nnected muttered...

This is easily my favourite feature of modern boards, it's so great to have such an easy option to go out and sample other boards, I've found most of my fav's this way

FWIW, to achieve this in enigma, you'd just do the following:
1) Create a new menu.hjson entry for your board selections, using the 'telnet-bridge' built in mod.
2) Point to it in your existing logoff menu flow

mod docs here: https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/blob/master/docs/_docs/modding/telnet-bridge.md


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|08 â–  |03xibalba|08.|03l33t|08.|03codes |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08)
|08 â–  |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic
--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.14-beta (linux; x64; 18.18.2)
* Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.l33t.codes:44510 (21:1/121)

When I installed Mystic, I also installed enigma because ... well, why not? I'm really happy to see that we have a community for that here as well.

Is Enigma still under development?

... How do I set my laser printer to stun?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Clutch BBS * telnet://clutchbbs.com (21:1/199)

Twas Saturday, December 30th when niter3 said...

Is Enigma still under development?

Yep. Just pushed some changes last night, actually. Trying to finish up the ActivityPub integration enough for 'prime time'. A native DOS emulator is being worked on (so you can run DOS doors directly from enig), etc.

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|08 â–  |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic
--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.14-beta (linux; x64; 18.18.2)
* Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.l33t.codes:44510 (21:1/121)

Yep. Just pushed some changes last night, actually. Trying to finish up the ActivityPub integration enough for 'prime time'. A native DOS
emulator is being worked on (so you can run DOS doors directly from
enig), etc.

You just piqued my interest!

A native DOS emulator, eh? I wonder the speed and compatibility. Are you using js-dos? I'd be curious to see if it's possible to use this as a standalone module for other BBSes, since DOS doors are a common pain point.

dosemu2 is good but not perfect - some games are still wonky. Lore is one. LORD 2 is another. dosemu2 also seems to get stuck running nightly maintenance at times and I have to manually un-stuck it.

I wonder...how capable is js-dos or whatever it is you're using? There are some old DOS BBS packages that would be cool to run in something like this. Think iniquity or OBV/2 or even something like MajorBBS or TBBS.

Sorry for the off topic post :P

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)

Yep. Just pushed some changes last night, actually. Trying to finish up the ActivityPub integration enough for 'prime time'. A native DOS
emulator is being worked on (so you can run DOS doors directly from
enig), etc.

I was just watching Back To The BBS again, and watched over sime of yiur interview.

Is there a current good write up if where things stand today?

... If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Clutch BBS * telnet://clutchbbs.com (21:1/199)

niter3 around Saturday, December 30th...

Is there a current good write up if where things stand today?

The GitHub project is probably the best spot. A lot of things are documented, though there are still holes. Discord is another:

https://discord.gg/M2pbyvuGva


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|08 â–  |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
|08 â–  |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08)
|08 â–  |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic
--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.14-beta (linux; x64; 18.18.2)
* Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.l33t.codes:44510 (21:1/121)