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Running a BBS through DOSBOX on a MAC, Want access through WEB

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First post, by thegoldenscript

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Hi folks, I am new to this forum, and heres where Im at..

I decided to start up a BBS again (its been about 15 years). I am running OS X on a macbook, and am running Renegade on DOSBOX. I can telnet to my BBS but what i am looking for (and havent found yet) is a way to make it so my friends on myspace can link to my bbs without having to download a telnet software. Is there a telnet client software (is that what its called?) that will run on a website (Java maybe?) so there will be a window that opens when they click a link and they can access my board via telnet? Or is there another way to do this all together? My main goal is to run a BBS for musicians in the area and i want to make it accessable to people who are not computer or telnet savy. I want to make it simple, that way people will actually log on.

Even if it means setting up this (java?) client interface on another website and just putting a link on my myspace page (or in bulletins). In fact that would maybe be prefered as i could give the link out to people who dont myspace in the first place. Again, i dont want to have to make my users download or learn to use telnet. Just a click on a link for them and they are on my login screen to my bbs.

Thanks a billion to whomever can help,

A Sysop from the Old School.

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Reply 1 of 3, by MiniMax

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I believe most of your friends (if not all) already have a TELNET client installed on their computers. Have you tried a simple URL like telnet://1.2.3.4:5678/

Replace the 1.2.3.4 with your public IP-address (or hostname) and 5678 with whatever TCP-port you use for DOSBox.

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Reply 2 of 3, by thegoldenscript

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Cool, yea that works. It brings up my default telnet client. Well, heres the problem Im having with that, and maybe it is a mac thing:

I get double lines that print out at least once a screen. If i type a message, everytime i hit enter it repeats my last line typed (but not in the actual message just on my screen). ANSI is a disaster, except on one screen, so i am getting these problems in VT-100 mode as well.

I could almost swear I went to a webpage once where you could login to a bbs via a window in the website it self. Maybe it WASNT telnet, Im not sure. Any ideas?

I will have to try logging into my bbs via work tomorrow to see if the windows computers have the same garbled text that this macbook is experiencing. Maybe i need to ajust some parameters in my DOSBOX preferences?

Thanks for your response. Every day i feel i am getting a little closer...

-A

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Reply 3 of 3, by DosFreak

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If they are using Vista they may have to go into "Programs and Features" in Control Panel and install Telnet.

Putty is much better though.

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