ZX-News #05 22 сентября 1996

ZXNet

BBS on ZX?! - BBS on SPECCY - this is real.

      BBS on the Speccy - it is real!

Our readers have repeatedly asked us
the question of whether we can do to bbs
Zx-Spectrume, and, if so, how it will look like and what it 
takes ... 

In the near future we will produce more
article on Moscow's Zx-Net. For those who
do not know - Zx-Net - a computer network in
Moscow, which, as servers are used the most ordinary Zx, 
Scorpion'y and Pentagon'y, with one or two drives, as well as 
CDOS-modems. 

I hope that most of our readers already imagine the difference 
between bbs and the network (Net).


BBS - this is some one station on which you can call, and the 
network - is many stations bbs, between which set a permanent 
connect (bond) for exchange of information between these 
different most bbs, such as mail and echo conferences. Perhaps 
such an explanation, and not the most accurate, but 
understandable ... 

In St. Petersburg for sinkleristov there is an opportunity to 
work directly in only one network - FidoNet. Can get out and 
Relcom, but only through netmail, and even then not all of bbs 
... 

Our Spectrum bbs'ki as
servers use IBM PC, and installed them on a terminal program -
"Maximus". And a very interesting situation
formed: in just a sea Vicomm'ov, and only one (1) bbs. I am
Eldorado mind and do not take into account ZxNet,
which is already so much time working without
Sysop that it is already considered a bbs
not ... And vice versa: you can hayes'nikov
counted on the fingers, but the bbs for
them - a huge amount. In fact,
Any PC-shnaya station can accept them,
However, not all do it. Ie spektrumisty really enjoyed so far 
only 4-hayes'nymi bbs'kami.


Gradually, the trend continues the transition to Hayes'y bulk 
of ex-vikommschikov, but the rate of this trend very small. 
All-the vast majority of the population still has Vicomm.


So where is the population? Is it at
not so much interested in the opportunity to work with
bbs, it sits there at home and connect'itsya only with their 
friends from next parade? Why not call

the station at least once, to see what
it is - FidoNet, and then, if not
like, remove your modem on the shelf -
Let them collecting dust? ..

Practice shows that those who are really sort out the work in 
Fido, never again it is not casting. It's like big game that 
does not bother to play for many years. It's like a huge 
demonstration, the effects of which are outdated, and that you 
periodically download, to relax ...


Well, I do not know what else to write this,
to make you all IMMEDIATELY call a bbs, logged, and work, work, 
work! .. 

Hmm ... We return to the bbs on the Speccy ...

"Why is it necessary? - Ask some of the -
if you already have a PC? "

Well, that such and such is a complex philosophical question 
such as "To be or not be, for example. 

From the standpoint of hayes'nika - is nonsense, but not in 
terms of vicomm'schika. For various reasons, but most of the 
past does not have access to a single Eldorad'e ... So they 
sit, mayatsya ... A if there was another bbs, or two / three? 
Yes on which would have allowed all comers?


And, mind you, these bbs would be engaged not
mail, but only programs. Mail remains on the conscience of IBM 
and Hayes'a. A file download - and Vicomm quite suitable.


Just imagine: a new program, and the next day you have it.
It is absolutely free and does not need
go anywhere. Drives only manage to buy clean ...

Of course, not all the prog will be "put" at sysops. I think 
they will still respect the rights of authors, though, would be 
our, Russian ... 

And most importantly - bbs will have around
any sinklerist, and not necessarily
buy their own PC.

Agree that such an alternative, yet
not all have moved on Hayes'y, perfectly acceptable.

Well, sort of figured out what's good
bbs'ka on the Speccy. Now let's see how
is "reliznut" in practice.

What you need user'u to download
file from another user'a, so much so that
one another, not taken in this matter
involved?

Correctly, "Macro-Modem" - a new terminal program for Vicomm'a. 
Only it allows you to download the catalog from the reporter 
noted his interest in files and pump yourself! Or vice versa.


Now we need programs for servers (bbs). In
the full sense of such a program until
no. More precisely it is, but not in the
form, which should have ... What
is - it is a bit modified "MacroModem". But not yet finalized 
much. We just wonder - does it make sense this byaku finish, or 
not? 

And the bbs on the Speccy is already working! So far, only
one, and even that in test mode. This means that nobody, not 
even SysOp, does not know the exact time of its operation.


Bring the contents of some files in bbs
the order in which they are
disk:

[Begin]


          Hello and welcome to:


          -= Tornado station =


          Good gay, dear user!

Hours: bbs runs until

             stable. All information

             See the ZxNews.

Modem: Vicomm (so far)
SysOp: Alex Mikhailov
Phone: (812) 186-13-58
Number of Net: 2001
Computer: Scorpion ZS 256 Turbo +
Drives: one (A) - until ...
Speed: 1800
Protocol: Macro-Modem only

for ZxNews: yes
Specialization. : All (mail, games, systems,

                  demos, newspapers / magazines)

Before anything I upload, write a letter in my name (file: 
to_sysop.C), where all listed in detail. I 'll Tell you what 
you need and what is not. A similar effect, if you need 
something from I ...


If you want to send someone a letter in OmegaNet, then simply 
upload file, whose name contains the address

correspondent.

For example:

Letter from Ivan Ivanov, who is registered on the fifth bbs at 
number 12, as well as modem "Vicomm".


His address - 5/12/V.

File name-calling "5/12/VC" and upload
"Macro-Modemo" om.

If you know what kind of PP Petrov has an address in ZxNet, but 
do not know what, ask the coordinator (to_coord.C) - he

You will answer.

If you want to leave a message for
all, then name the file: "all.C". Within days, he appears on 
all other bbs'kah.


Do not forget to look before the injection,
is there enough disk space.

Before leaving the BBS necessarily use the macro "Bell" (Ext 
+0). Wait for the inscription "Goodbye" and only then hang up. 
If " does not appear, then try again ...


To speak with SysOp'om,
Use the "Bell" 2 times in a row. If I
series, then go up necessarily.

Time stops while you upload to the bbs program, but not mail.



  Remember that one day you can

  call the BBS only once, even

  if not used all the time!


Council, after the entrance to the BBS first thing
read the file "bbs_info.C", since all the additions and changes 
to this and other files will be posted there!



                          11.09.96, SysOp



          -= Tornado station =

               net_info.C


St. Petersburg network Zx-Spectrum bbs

               "OmegaNet"

"OmegaNet" - a network of bbs, working on Zx and
for Zx!

 To work with bbs'kami network, you must:

1. Modem (for a start - Vicomm, then

          will and Hayes)
2. The terminal program "MMD"
3. Desire and patience ...

After the first call to the BBS will ask you to
register - enter the name and surname
(In English), phone number and password. After
registration you will write down the list user'ov
and tell your level of access and address in
OmegaNet.


             Example address:

2/78/V -> second bbs / 78 user / Vicomm
19/8/H -> 19th bbs / 8 user / Hayes

If everything is OK, you get access to
disk drives (two / three discs).

On the drive there are a few key files:

good_day.C - greeting sysora
bbs_info.C - no comment
net_info.C - this file ...
i_want.C - he wants to fuck sysop
ZxNewsXX.B - current issue
userlist.C - member list bbs

             (Number / Name / Surname)

As well as private (dark) files:

for_news.C - letters to ZxNews
to_sysop.C - no comment
to_coord.C - letters coordinator

If the bbs 2 drive, then the mail is at B, and files on A.


             Access Levels:

(Of course, dark-files you can just leave, but not read)

fuck'in - 0 minutes (especially malignant

                   violators)

novice - 10 minutes, the files are available:


                   good_day.C

                   bbs_info.C

                   net_info.C

                   i_want.C

                   ZxNewsXX.B


            No netmail

            No work with dark files

normal - 15 minutes + Work with dark files

average - 15 min. + Netmail + userlist.C

poor - 15 min. + File area

master - 20 min.

deadly - 25 min.

* ELITE * - 30 min. (Max for user)

-= OMEGA =- - 1:00

<[SysOp]> - unlimited

Levels puts sysop. As soon as he sees
that the user is quite accustomed to his level'e, immediately 
improves. 



          -= Tornado station =

               bbs_info.C



            Hello, dear user!


      At present, BBS-news are:

Tornado station temporarily working in the "test" mode. This 
means that all the while the level of average, and it is not 
known exactly what time of bbs will serve users.


Most likely, from 22:00 to 23:00 daily. While ...

Of all the bug in work and their wishes
leave in the file: to_sysop.

Catalog of programs available on the bbs, I can put on a disk 
if you wish to one day. And all the new programs, transferred 
to the station last week, You can read this file.



     To date, no new programs!


                           11.09.96



          -= Tornado station =

                i_want.C


            Hello, dear user!

SysOp would not mind fuck the following
prog:

1. Newest Games
2. Most new systems
3. Newest demo
4. Assembler listing of all effects
5. Articles for newspapers ZxNews

All I get from you a couple of days
will necessarily be included in the directory
station ...


                         11.09.96, SysOp

[End of skip]

And so on ...

On-mail. In principle, some semblance
mail to arrange possible ... For example,
netmail or message for everyone. Just
upload a text file on the bbs, and
his name indicates either "All", or the address of the 
correspondent on the network. Complexity only in how bbs 
exchange mail ... But it is completely solve the problem - you 
only think about it all ... 

In general, for mail I can advise
Hayes (or, in extreme cases, Vicomm),
as Fido - a much more efficient
tool for communication!

And now I would like to hear your IMHO
in this respect: it has or does not make sense
Now this idea. And, preferably, try to
justify your answer ...


   Continued, probably followed by ...


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