Docker


CONTAINER=dos-bbs
IMAGE=jgoerzen/dos-bbs

docker stop $CONTAINER
docker rm $CONTAINER
#docker rmi $IMAGE

docker run -d \
-p 5901:5901 \
-p 23:23 \
-v $PWD/bbs:/dos/drive_g/bbs
--env VNCPASSWORD=xxx \
--name $CONTAINER \
$IMAGE


This docker image using an environment variable to set the VNC password.


Connected using VNC


To run dosconsole, issue the following command

dosconsole


Running Telegard


h:
cd ADF
lh adf COM1 3F8  4 38400 8192  8192  8

date 01-01-1999
g:
cd bbs
telegard



Apparently, we need something in h:\startup\node1


Modem Settings:

Debugging

#from vnc unix terminal

startdossession console h:\\startup\\node1.bat

dosemu -D+a -o /tmp/debug


Utilities

UtilityDescriptionURL
synctermA cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH.https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm/
ftelnetBrowser Based Telnet Clienthttps://www.ftelnet.ca/





References



Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegard

Open Telegard

https://github.com/sharkos/opentelegard/
List of BBS Softwarehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBS_software
BBS’ing with Windows/386 & Windows 3.0 under Qemuhttps://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/07/01/bbsing-with-windows386-windows-3-0-under-qemu-or-how-i-learned-to-love-rlfossil/
How To Play: TradeWars 2002! Retro BBSing in 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldfdU7F0H5Q
Digital Distortion BBShttp://digitaldistortionbbs.com/
** An old DOS BBS in a Docker containerhttps://changelog.complete.org/archives/9836-an-old-dos-bbs-in-a-docker-container
Docker-dos-bbs https://github.com/jgoerzen/docker-dos-bbs
Renegade BBS Dockerhttps://github.com/jgoerzen/docker-bbs-renegade
BBS’ing with Windows/386 & Windows 3.0 under Qemu or how I learned to love rlfossilhttps://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/07/01/bbsing-with-windows386-windows-3-0-under-qemu-or-how-i-learned-to-love-rlfossil/
Hayes Modem Command Sethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set
BBS Software

http://archives.fidobbs.net/area1308.htm

https://archives.scovetta.com/pub/fehq/BBSSoftware/00_index.htm

http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/telegard.html

Running a DOS-based BBS through Linux and Telnethttps://web.archive.org/web/20100405185907/http://satoricode.com/2010/02/24/running-a-dos-based-bbs-through-linux-and-telnet/
Netfoss Guidehttp://pcmicro.com/netfoss/guide/