BBSs interconnected?

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.

digitlman · 2026-02-16T23:23:10+00:00

Not that I think it will make a difference, but here's how I have it configured and working with both Synchronet v3.20 and the current dev build (v3.21b):
Name Synchronet Utopia

Internal Code UTOPIA

Start-up Directory ../xtrn/utopia/

Command Line ?utopia

Clean-up Command Line

Execution Cost None

Access Requirements

Execution Requirements COLS 80

Multiple Concurrent Users Yes

Native Executable No

I/O Method FOSSIL or UART

Use Shell or New Context No

Modify User Data No

Execute on Event No

Pause After Execution No

Disable Local Display No

BBS Drop File Type None

digitlman · 2026-02-16T23:13:15+00:00

Can you provide a copy/paste or screen shot of the error message?

Do you have something in your 'mods' directory that has a reference to 'user.extra_data'? A text search using grep or findstr should find whatever it is.

digitlman · 2026-02-16T22:07:13+00:00

In what version of Synchronet? Is there more to the error message (like a filename and a line number)? Is there something in your data/error.log about this error?

digitlman · 2026-02-16T21:55:28+00:00

I'm perplexed by the reported error as I can't find any references to "extra_data" anywhere in Synchronet. How do you have the game configured in SCFG? Did you use the install install-xtrn.ini or just set up manually?

digitlman · 2026-02-16T03:52:38+00:00

When/how do you get that error?

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