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    From cbmeeks@3:770/3 to All on Wed Nov 29 10:40:14 2017
    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to play games?

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  • From Tom C=64@3:770/3 to All on Wed Nov 29 22:02:04 2017
    On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:40:14 -0800 (PST), cbmeeks <cbmeeks@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to play games?

    Back in the day I used my C128 for business. I ran accounting
    software, database software and GEOS for writing and spreadsheets. For
    $500 I had a complete computer system for my business. With a 1581
    disk drive and 1 MB of RAM it was fast enough to do the job.

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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to cbmeeks on Thu Nov 30 08:38:00 2017
    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to
    play games?

    I'm working on starting a BBS running in 128-mode. Hopefully it will be up this
    weekend if I can find the time and get all hardware to play nicely. On my C128D
    I will start to develop my own BBS system in Pascal. If I can find a Pascal for
    it.


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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Joacim Melin on Thu Nov 30 17:40:51 2017
    On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:38:00 +1200, Joacim Melin wrote:

    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to play games?

    I'm working on starting a BBS running in 128-mode. Hopefully it will be up
    this
    weekend if I can find the time and get all hardware to play nicely. On my
    C128D
    I will start to develop my own BBS system in Pascal. If I can find a Pascal
    for
    it.

    Will it be accessible via telnet?
    --
    Andreas
    You know you are a redneck if
    you hang pickled eggs and pop-tops from your christmas tree.

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  • From Chris Cureau@3:770/3 to cbmeeks on Fri Dec 1 07:33:33 2017
    On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 12:40:16 PM UTC-6, cbmeeks wrote:
    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to play
    games?

    I've been working for some time on a single user UNIX-like OS for my C128. Of course I never seem to have much time to dedicate to it, but I do have high hopes of finishing it one day.

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  • From cbmeeks@3:770/3 to All on Fri Dec 1 13:02:23 2017
    On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 1:02:06 AM UTC-5, Tom C=64 wrote:
    On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:40:14 -0800 (PST), cbmeeks <cbmeeks@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to play
    games?

    Back in the day I used my C128 for business. I ran accounting
    software, database software and GEOS for writing and spreadsheets. For
    $500 I had a complete computer system for my business. With a 1581
    disk drive and 1 MB of RAM it was fast enough to do the job.


    That's awesome. I'd love to get GEOS running on my C128D(cr) because of the extended VDC RAM. I used GEOS as a kid but on the C64.

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  • From cbmeeks@3:770/3 to Joacim Melin on Fri Dec 1 13:03:01 2017
    On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 3:11:13 AM UTC-5, Joacim Melin wrote:
    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to
    play games?

    I'm working on starting a BBS running in 128-mode. Hopefully it will be up
    this
    weekend if I can find the time and get all hardware to play nicely. On my
    C128D
    I will start to develop my own BBS system in Pascal. If I can find a Pascal
    for
    it.


    What do you use to connect online with your C128? I'd love to do some telnet/BBS'ing with mine.

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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to Andreas Kohlbach on Sat Dec 2 15:59:05 2017
    On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:38:00 +1200, Joacim Melin wrote: >>
    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to >>
    play games?

    I'm working on starting a BBS running in 128-mode. Hopefully it will be up t
    his
    weekend if I can find the time and get all hardware to play nicely. On my C1
    28D
    I will start to develop my own BBS system in Pascal. If I can find a Pascal
    for
    it.

    Will it be accessible via telnet?

    Of course it will. :)


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  • From Joacim Melin@2:201/120 to cbmeeks on Sat Dec 2 15:59:52 2017
    On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 3:11:13 AM UTC-5, Joacim Melin
    wrote:
    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to >>
    play games?

    I'm working on starting a BBS running in 128-mode. Hopefully it will be up t
    his
    weekend if I can find the time and get all hardware to play nicely. On my C1
    28D
    I will start to develop my own BBS system in Pascal. If I can find a Pascal
    for
    it.


    What do you use to connect online with your C128? I'd love to do some telnet/BBS'ing with mine.

    A VIC-1011A or a GLink-LT (which is basically a clone of the VIC-1011A), null modem to a raspberry pi which acts as a "modem" and then from there to my firewall and from there to the interwebz.


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  • From Bo Zimmerman@3:770/3 to cbmeeks on Mon Dec 11 16:05:44 2017
    On 11/29/2017 12:40 PM, cbmeeks wrote:
    What do you guys do with your C128's other than boot into C64 mode to play
    games?


    I've been a C128 fan for 30 years, so I think I can speak for the things
    I use it for.

    Word processing and text reading and editing is always a biggie: Zed
    128, Word Writer, and WordStar in CP/M are great editors I've used.
    JiffyDOS @T in 80 columns is my favorite SEQ text Reader these days. :)
    I've also long used it as both a BBS server (Zelch 128) and client
    (Desterm FTW). Desterm made a great MUD client and *nix shell client in
    the 90s as well, though the last 4-5 months I've been working on a
    GEOS64 80col ansi telnet client, so not so much lately. You can see
    some info and download links for Zelch 128 at the far bottom of this
    page: http://www.zimmers.net/bbs/index.html

    At various times I've enjoyed programming in C -- Power C 128 mostly,
    but some Hi-Tech C in CP/M also. Turbo Pascal in CP/M got me through my
    first 2 years of college, though I haven't messed with it since then. I
    have and still do quite a bit of BASIC 7 programming. And while I do
    all my ML in 64 mode with LADS, I'll use the ML monitor in C128 mode for debugging sometimes. The C128 ML monitor is also my favorite dec/hex converter. :)

    I ran variations of GEOS 128 for several years, and still prefer to do
    my WYSWIG geoWriting in it. Although it's more convenient to stick with
    GEOS64 to avoid having to keep switching screen modes, I also do native
    disk imaging/de-archiving in C128 mode, using either EMUTIL in native
    C128 or geoBEAP in GEOS 128, for the cpu speed and burst-mode disk access.

    The last year or so, I've written several wireless ethernet modem apps
    for the C64NET WiFi Modem, all of which work in C128 mode, including an
    IRC client, FTP client, WGET client, and a simple Telnet and BBS client.
    All but the BBS client I regularly run in C128 mode, especially IRC
    and native Telnet. So, you'd have to add those activities to the list.
    You can see the ascii-ported source and binary downloads for those here: https://github.com/bozimmerman/Zimodem/tree/master/cbm8bit

    If I need to do file copies in JiffyDOS, or filesystem browsing and manipulation in general, I go for the C128 in 80 Columns every time.
    And obviously if I need to do any one-off data file processing, BASIC 7
    is wonderful.

    Lastly, the 80 column VDC chip may lack sprites for games, but it has
    some interesting color video modes for displaying pictures. There are
    several good demos of these abilities out there that I go back to from
    time to time.


    - Bo

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