Welcome to The Dog House BBS's website! This BBS was first launched in the mid 1990's and
was up for around 3 years before the Internet totally slaughered all the local boards. It was shut down July 8 1998
and put on tape until now. After Jason Scott from The BBS Documentary
came to my house and interviewed me about my experiences as a former user, SysOp and BBS utility software developer
I was inspired to re-open my BBS and restore it to it's full glory.
Features
2 telnet nodes
Over 500 FidoNet echomail areas -- node 1:229/1394
CD-ROM Door : Night Owl 22
Many popular door games, most registered
A SysOp who has loved and always will love BBS's and is dedicated to having one of the best BBS's around
I'm willing to invest money into registering software for The Dog House BBS. I'm not interested in cracking the software
unless the author can no longer be contacted or is no longer supporting the software. I'd rather use freeware or
pay the authors for their time and great products. I've installed a door tracker to help determine which doors are most
popular. I'd appreciate a message or email from users suggesting which doors and/or IGM's they would like installed and
registered.
Specifications
BBS Software : Maximus 3.01
Mailer : binkd 0.9.6
Tosser/Packer/Scanner/Linker : Squish 1.11
Telnet Server : GameSrv v3.10.19b2
Fossil Driver : NetFoss
Operating System : Windows XP Home
Hardware : P4 1.5 GHz, 640 MB RAM, 120 GB hdd. I originally wanted to run it on a 386 or 486
like it did originally but to run multinode on telnet with fidonet packets coming
in several times an hour I needed a faster computer and this
was the only spare I had.
Getting Connected
To connect to The Dog House BBS you'll need an ANSI compatible telnet client. In my experience many telnet clients
are very bad at rendering ANSI. If you connect to The Dog House BBS and the screens don't look right then try using
different terminal software.
SyncTERM is the only BBS terminal I know of that renders ANSI and IBM extended ASCII
100% correctly in Linux without having to install special fonts and configure your terminal
window. It also runs in Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X , Solaris and FreeBSD.
It supports ZModem, backscrolling, phone book, etc... Recommended for Linux
Windows Hyper Terminal
I've tested Hyper Terminal in Windows 98/2000/XP and it does an excellent job
at rendering ANSI. Hyper Terminal also have a built in phone book, and support ZModem file transfers.
There is no link to download Hyper Terminal because it comes with Windows.
Recommended for Windows
mTelnet is a tiny, single executable that doesn't need to be installed. You can just run it.
It does an excellent job at rendering ANSI. It also has a phonebook, supports ZModem file transfers,
and backscrolling.
Recommended for Windows
Putty is a tiny, single executable that doesn't need to be installed. You can just run it.
It does ANSI emulation but doesn't always render things properly. If you use Putty make sure
you have "character set translation on received data" set to CP437 so that you get the right ASCII characters.
Putty doesn't support ZModem file transfers. It does have a phone book and support backscrolling.
I don't recommend Putty.
Windows Telnet
Windows Telnet comes with Windows. It does not support ZModem file transfers. In Win 98 and NT4 it
doesn't support ANSI. The version that comes with Windows 2000 and XP does support ANSI but often
doesn't render ANSI properly. Specifically the version in Windows 2000 will not work with this BBS.
You will find menus will not display at all when returning from doors, after browsing messages, or
doing other normal BBS activities.I don't recommend Windows Telnet.
