bbs
bbs goodness
2011/09/15 03:31
[ back to part #1 ]
Oh well that JS-tainted effort did not amount to much. Let’s try it on OS/2. Wait, what?.. It installs straightforwardly? (albeit slowly, see problem description below) Needs some hacking, but not at all comparable to the jackassery of dealing with UNIX incompatibilities? (one of the reasons why I’m abandoning this cesspool) And it even feels cool to create??
Yes.
Oh well that JS-tainted effort did not amount to much. Let’s try it on OS/2. Wait, what?.. It installs straightforwardly? (albeit slowly, see problem description below) Needs some hacking, but not at all comparable to the jackassery of dealing with UNIX incompatibilities? (one of the reasons why I’m abandoning this cesspool) And it even feels cool to create??
Yes.
That’s how life was before 2000 (okay, [windows]’95 era or whatever, I’m rounding up).
There are some difficulties with a nasty “hard drive” I/O bottleneck which I’m attributing to qemu. This wouldn’t have happened if the only 486 notebook with working PCMCIA slot (remember: virtual modems over TCP/23) wouldn’t have severe POST problems lately. Or if I had my old pre-2000 PC gear currently stashed away some 300km away. VMODEM sometimes messes up one of the ports, no idea why (yet).
I digress: the BBS is up (telnet://bbs.gabucino.be - use SyncTerm or at least “toggle crlf” in telnet), and I can up/download QWK packets for my favorite mailer: “Terminate!”, therefore accomplishing 50% of my goal. Yes, I have other stuff in mind too...
synchronet hell
2011/09/10 21:46
When you see Synchronet v2.x deprecated (DOS/OS2/modem support), and v3.x (TCP/UNIX/WIN32) supporting JavaScript as a script language, you know that cancer is eating this BBS soft. I knew I should have given up right there, but instead decided to go ahead and suck cock nevertheless. Well what do ya know: getting it to work is getting into the same nightmare that characterizes the IT of the 21st century.
FreeBSD/amd64: will not compile because some callbacks were renamed in libmozjs, and sbbs code isn’t easily fixable.
FreeBSD/i386: compiles, because the libmozjs libs are factory-supplied by sbbs. Too bad I can’t use this one. Also, the case sensitive filesystem is an endless pain in my ass.
OS/X Tiger: will not compile, the environment is still stuck in the Panther era or is just incompatible with my Xcode version. Inconceivable.
OS/X Snow Leopard: will not compile, Firefox.app doesn’t even contain libmozjs.dylib and I’m already damn too pissed to continue.
IT after 2000 is a disgusting piece of fuck.
[ part #2: OS/2 ]
FreeBSD/amd64: will not compile because some callbacks were renamed in libmozjs, and sbbs code isn’t easily fixable.
FreeBSD/i386: compiles, because the libmozjs libs are factory-supplied by sbbs. Too bad I can’t use this one. Also, the case sensitive filesystem is an endless pain in my ass.
OS/X Tiger: will not compile, the environment is still stuck in the Panther era or is just incompatible with my Xcode version. Inconceivable.
OS/X Snow Leopard: will not compile, Firefox.app doesn’t even contain libmozjs.dylib and I’m already damn too pissed to continue.
IT after 2000 is a disgusting piece of fuck.
[ part #2: OS/2 ]