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  • Any OPUS systems still running?

    From k9zw@21:1/224 to All on Wed Feb 14 15:51:33 2024
    All the discussion of various DOS flavors posed the question to me - is anyone able to run an OPUS system anymore?

    Would be a cool thing to do it possible!

    73

    Steve
    K9ZW

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  • From Bf2K+@21:3/171 to k9zw on Wed Feb 14 23:34:24 2024
    On 14 Feb 24 15:51:33 k9zw wrote...

    All the discussion of various DOS flavors posed the question to me -
    is anyone able to run an OPUS system anymore?

    Would be a cool thing to do it possible!

    73

    Steve K9ZW

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    k9zw (21:1/224)

    To which Bf2K+ replies...

    Opus was the first BBS I ran in FidoNet back in 1987 or 88 (I forget
    which). I ran it with a SEAdog front-end mailer. Over my 10 years in
    FidoNet, I ran 4 or five mailers and 3 or 4 BBS programs... some were FrontDoor, Binkleyterm, Intermail, QuickBBS, RemoteAccess BBS etc... I
    wish I had saved backups of some of these systems, if for no other reason
    than to have access to all of my old DOS batch files... some of those
    were doozies! I ahve forgotten most of that stuff these days... the RAM
    chips are starting to deteriorate...

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to k9zw on Thu Feb 15 08:10:00 2024
    k9zw wrote to All <=-

    All the discussion of various DOS flavors posed the question to me - is anyone able to run an OPUS system anymore?

    Would be a cool thing to do it possible!

    I set up a FIDO system a while back and made it accessible via telnet.
    For the life of me, I can't recall how I got the port redirection
    working, I wonder if I used DOSBOX?

    My first incarnation of realitycheckBBS was on Opus CBCS, I switched to Telegard because my poor AT couldn't keep up with tossing individual
    *.msg files very well.

    For most of the '90s, I ran on Maximus - because I liked the sparse
    menus in Opus.

    I kept thinking back to Opus - being able to combine a BBS, full screen
    editor and a mailer into a DOS BBS was quite a task.



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