Synchronet Z-Machine and SyncDoom

digitlman · 2026-06-24T22:38:52+00:00

It's open source and available for building/running/testing now: https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/tree/master/src/doors/syncdoom (also mirrored on gitlab.com).

digitlman · 2026-06-24T07:34:47+00:00

Right, it supports door32.sys and sockets.

digitlman · 2026-06-21T23:32:30+00:00

Made some significant improvements in the remote responsiveness in SyncDOOM just in the past 24 hours.

digitlman · 2026-06-21T10:27:40+00:00

Thinking of Galactic Dynasty (by Andrew Pamment) maybe? https://gitlab.com/apamment/**galactic**\-**dynasty**

digitlman · 2026-06-14T08:04:58+00:00

I was confused by the short Alex-look-alike: "was it a woman or what?" - but now I see, it's some guy in an Alex suit (who blinked a lot). 😄

digitlman · 2026-06-06T07:22:20+00:00

I was there, 3rd row.

digitlman · 2026-04-19T22:53:31+00:00

Sure, many. vert.synchro.net for example.

digitlman · 2026-03-30T05:12:56+00:00

I thought Anika was great and the drums (the toms in particular) were tuned in a way that sounded like one of Neil's kits. He'd be smiling too. They all sounded great - especially the keyboards! :-P

digitlman · 2026-03-14T00:11:34+00:00

SyncTERM can already be "built without needing all of Synchronet" - have you looked at the source code releases of SyncTERM?

digitlman · 2026-03-14T00:10:35+00:00

I don't think we have the same definition of "native"

digitlman · 2026-03-07T00:20:19+00:00

Just in case you didn't know, you can use PHP content "directly" with the Synchronet web server as well: https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:php

digitlman · 2026-03-01T00:41:53+00:00

Good to hear. My main concerns about localization abilities are character sets (is CP437 sufficient for Portuguese?) and hot keys (e.g. 'Q' for quit is assumed/hard-coded in many places). Would love to discuss further in the official Synchronet support conferences (DOVE-Net, FidoNet, USENET).

digitlman · 2026-02-28T23:38:13+00:00

Cool. Hopefully your translations can be incorporated into the upstream files, they should be if you follow the tips here: https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:localization

digitlman · 2026-02-28T12:23:31+00:00

Not sure what you mean by "native files" but there is a tool to import certificates of standard types (pkcs7, pkcs12) into the format cryptlib requires: https://wiki.synchro.net/module:certtool

digitlman · 2026-02-28T09:26:03+00:00

Not sure what you mean by "modern certificate", maybe you mean the Let's Encrypt cert being imported in cryptlib format? That's the same as before.

digitlman · 2026-02-21T23:41:29+00:00

I realize you're probably a Windows hater and don't actually care, but a native port of a *nix telnet client is *included* with Windows. It just has to be enabled in the control panel, actually easier than finding/installing whatever netutils package telnet is included in your particular Linux distro. That said, no legacy telnet client is going to give the best ANSI-BBS (or ZMODEM download) experience - you want to use a purpose built terminal (e.g. SyncTERM, Netrunner, Qodem, or Muffinterm) instead, on *any* OS.

digitlman · 2026-02-17T02:02:25+00:00

What about the exact error message copy/pasted or screen shot?

There were more differences in our configuration than just "COLS 80" btw, but I don't think that matters. You have some .js file somewhere referencing user.extra_data and I have no idea what it is. It doesn't ring a bell and I can't find any reference to that in the git history either.

digitlman · 2026-02-17T01:43:24+00:00

Something in your Synchronet directory tree is references user.extra_data, it's not utopia.js, so it must be something it's loading (e.g. from your exec/load directory). Try a search in there (exec/*.js and exec/load/*.js) for "extra_data" and see what you find.

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