Recommendation for pure DOS BBS's?

[Andrew]

Hi, amazing to see BBS's continuing to be developed for modern systems!

Do you have experience using BBS's on legacy machines, such as MS-DOS or FreeDOS? I am looking for a BBS that can run COMMAND.COM shells, and able to run wget and other network utilities in COMMAND.COM sessions. I've only tried one so far, rmenu, and somehow its shell session breaks wget :/

[Jeff Quast]

Mystic bbs I think is still pure DOS

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[haliphax]

Mystic has been Win32 for quite a while now.

[Michael J. Ryan]

Your best bet would probably be to run a modern BBS, then use your active DOS BBS as a door behind that via DOSEMU+FreeDOS in Linux. For network support, you'll probably need to use the Microsoft LAN tools for DOS. I don't know if MS even hosts these files anymore, so you'll need to look for them.

Synchronet does offer the ability to run direct shell access for sysops, if your main desire is remote admin capability, which shouldn't be given to users directly.

Also, IIRC, there are serial relay projects that will take a network ingress and relay it via a nullmodem cable to a legacy system...

[Bryan Ashby]

There are a ton of people running retro DOS systems on FreeDOS, Windows XP, etc. I'd suggest hopping on one of the existing systems that is hooked up to fsxNet or similar and start asking there.