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First post, by guesst

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Okay, this idea is way over my head, but I for the life of me can't see why it can't be done, provided a clever enough mind were on it. So let me bounce this around here and see if any one here has any ideas.

If the letters B, B, and S all crammed together don't have any meaning for you, please read this first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

The BBSs I used to go to had what was called "door games", many of which are legendary. I'd like to play them again, but they require a BBS to play. Well, BBSs ran on DOS. What if I could host a BBS in DOSBox and allow connections via the internet. Well, then I'd have to fake a modem over the internet. What if more than one person dialed in, as would obviously be the case. Well, some BBSs could handle more than one line. Then of course we'd need a web telnet client so that it can be accessed from a browser to allow ease of use.

So discuss. Is an browser based BBS client connecting to a DOSBox BBS possible?

Reply 1 of 2, by HunterZ

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I used to use Synchronet (SBBS) for my dialup BBS, and they ended up converting it into a telnet BBS software. I think it may still have a bunch of hacks/drivers/whatever to run door games over telnet with the SBBS software running on Windows or Linux.

Reply 2 of 2, by guesst

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Now, see, I have to post something like this so that I can discover that they already exist.

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ lists tons of them. Trolling through the list I already found one, Jersey's best, that has a bunch of old doors games. Not the one's I was looking for, but they're there. telnet://jerseysbestbbs.dyndns.org

Ah well, can't be smart all the time.