hey kids i recall someone mentioning some issue with owning a domain and
having a dynamic ip.

recently i switched from godaddy to namecheap and i notice they
provide dynamic dns service for any domain for free. it can be registered with
any registrar.

some links
http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/111/11/using…
heap-dynamic-dns-client-version-20-beta
http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/5/11/are-the…
-alternate-dynamic-dns-clients
hope this helps.

Article source: http://www.bbsnews.org/node/126

Mike Ehlert from Pcmicro says:
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of NetFoss, I’ve released a new version today. The NetFoss package includes the Net2BBS Open Source Telnet Server for Windows.

http://pcmicro.com/netfoss/download.html
http://pcmicro.com/netfoss/netf104.zip

Article source: http://www.bbsnews.org/node/125

fTelnet, a new flash telnet client, needs some testing!

Head on over to http://www.ftelnet.ca/ and put in your BBS info (below the client, may have to scroll down to see it), and see if there’s any mis-displayed ANSI or anything else that isn’t working quite right. If there is, please contact me and let me know so I can correct it! The BBS you try connecting to must be running a socket policy server (flash requirement, not my own), so you won’t be able to connect if one isn’t running.

For a demonstration of a few cool features, check out the demo page. NOTE: This page doesn’t let you specify a server to connect to, it’s more about playing with the settings off to the left.

Article source: http://www.bbsnews.org/node/100

Well sixteen colors was down for half a year, and it was down for quite some time before that. I thought it was down for good and i was so upset.

Now i just decided to checkout sixteen colors and i see it is UP and NOT BROKEN!

it has a great new look and it’s very functional thanks to Bryan Cassidy
the source code is even on github!

so go check it out now!
http://sixteencolors.net

Article source: http://www.bbsnews.org/node/119

sorry there are dupe posts because bryan at bbsnews.org had to change his .rss url

if i delete them they’ll just come back

X-bit bbs has come back back, and as a gift to the community he has
released Spacequest2112 as freeware.

Article source: http://www.bbsnews.org/node/120

PabloDraw v3.0.9 ALPHA

This is a preview version of PabloDraw v3.0. This release is considered unstable. This means that you may lose your work if it doesn’t save correctly.
Screenshots

Windows
Windows

Linux
Linux

Mac OS X
Mac OS X

New Features

* Integrated Viewer Editor
* Browse the Sixteencolors archive directly
* Can VIEW: ANSI, ADF, ASCII, AVT, BIN, CG, IDF, XBIN, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RIP, and Animated ANSI
* Can EDIT: ANSI, ADF, ASCII, AVT, BIN, CG, IDF, XBIN
* Can SAVE: ANSI, BIN, XBIN, JPEG, GIF, PNG
* Can view files within .ZIP and .RAR archives without unzipping them
* 9px Fonts DOS aspect emulation
* Edit with any zoom level
* Multi-platform for Windows, Linux, and OSX using native GUI toolkits (Windows Forms, GTK, and Cocoa, respectively)

Requirements

* Linux: Mono 2.8 or 2.10 and GTK
* Windows: .NET 4.0 (installer will install this if needed)
* OS X: 10.5 Leopard (or greater)

Download

* Windows Installer
* Windows Linux
* Mac OS X

Feedback

Join the discussion on the forums, or join #ansi on efnet.
Additional Notes

To run on linux, execute “mono PabloDraw.exe” from the command line. Ubuntu users can use this script to install mono 2.10.

To use the F1, F2, etc keys on OSX without having to press the FN key, change the setting in System Preferences-Keyboard-Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys

Article source: http://www.bbsnews.org/node/123

I’m not sure when this changed, but i looked into my dyndns.org account
and now see that my account was GONE… and when signing up again i now only have a SMALL choice of parent domains http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-free/domain-names/

i know a lot of bbs people are effected by this, a lot of bbs people used kicks-ass.net and other domains.

the remaining domains are now attainable via the PRO service.
http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-pro/domain-names/

i know everyone’s got to make money but these are HUGE changes.

wish i would have been notified.

i’m sticking with http://dtdns.com he’s a former bbser [darktech.org] and a good
guy.

Article source: http://www.bbsnews.org/node/124

PabloDraw v3.0.9 ALPHA

This is a preview version of PabloDraw v3.0. This release is considered unstable. This means that you may lose your work if it doesn’t save correctly.
Screenshots

Windows
Windows

Linux
Linux

Mac OS X
Mac OS X

New Features

* Integrated Viewer & Editor
* Browse the Sixteencolors archive directly
* Can VIEW: ANSI, ADF, ASCII, AVT, BIN, CG, IDF, XBIN, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RIP, and Animated ANSI
* Can EDIT: ANSI, ADF, ASCII, AVT, BIN, CG, IDF, XBIN
* Can SAVE: ANSI, BIN, XBIN, JPEG, GIF, PNG
* Can view files within .ZIP and .RAR archives without unzipping them
* 9px Fonts & DOS aspect emulation
* Edit with any zoom level
* Multi-platform for Windows, Linux, and OSX using native GUI toolkits (Windows Forms, GTK, and Cocoa, respectively)

Requirements

* Linux: Mono 2.8 or 2.10 and GTK
* Windows: .NET 4.0 (installer will install this if needed)
* OS X: 10.5 Leopard (or greater)

Download

* Windows Installer
* Windows & Linux
* Mac OS X

Feedback

Join the discussion on the forums, or join #ansi on efnet.
Additional Notes

To run on linux, execute “mono PabloDraw.exe” from the command line. Ubuntu users can use this script to install mono 2.10.

To use the F1, F2, etc keys on OSX without having to press the FN key, change the setting in System Preferences->Keyboard->Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys

Well sixteen colors was down for half a year, and it was down for quite some time before that. I thought it was down for good and i was so upset.

Now i just decided to checkout sixteen colors and i see it is UP and NOT BROKEN!

it has a great new look and it’s very functional thanks to Bryan Cassidy
the source code is even on github!

so go check it out now!

http://sixteencolors.net