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I've bookmarked this. I am going to explore them properly later at some point - probably via my Amiga 500.

What I think puts people off casual browsing of old-school BBSs is that almost all of them require 'user registration' before you can actually log on.

These days, I think 'guest' access is mandatory.

aaPageZero 394 days ago
How are you getting your Amiga 500 online? I've been working on a restoration and am about ready to boot it .. next step is going to be giving it a 21st Century upgrade ..
- Jaruzel 394 days ago
  [TL;DR - skip to the last paragraph!]
  I'm a strange person, I won't use 'modern' gadgets like the PLIP box[1] to get my Amigas online. For me, Retro is about re-enjoying the classic machines along with the era-appropriate peripherals (where possible).
  What I've been doing for a while now is using a Null-Modem cable to my main PC and running a custom 'BBS' type app that effectively offers file browsing of a local folder on the PC along with XModem upload/download. This is a good stop-gap to get stuff on/off my Amiga's hard drive. I use JComm on the Amiga as the terminal client.
  Lately, I've been playing with AmigaNOS[2], which is an all-in-one TCP/IP over serial application that runs on the Amiga. Connecting to a Linux machine (again over the null-modem) with slattach[3] running on the Linux box gives me a point-to-point TCP/IP connection. Googling AmigaNOS instructions on how to do this has shown that the knowledge has been lost over time, so I'm documenting it heavily for a future blog post.
  The downside of slattach is that it doesn't work with iptables so I can't route the amiga traffic to the outside world. So the next thing is a cheap old Cisco Router with a serial port on it that will route serial-to-network properly. I'm waiting for that to arrive at the moment. End goal on this is multiple serial ports to ethernet for all my retro machines.
  I love Kickstart/Workbench 1.3, but bigger TCP/IP stacks like AmiTCP or Miami don't play well (if at all) with it. Hence exploring this esoteric method with AmigaNOS.
  OK, this probably isn't the answer you were looking for :) So... for less crazy people, the answer is: A PLIP Box, Kickstart 3.x, and Miami or AmiTCP.
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  [1] https://amitopia.com/plipbox-deluxe-is-a-really-great-soluti.../
  [2] https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/amiga/networking/74-AmigaNOSFla...
  [3] https://linux.die.net/man/8/slattach
  - anthk 394 days ago
    On slattach and iptables, woudn't SLIP work?
    - Jaruzel 394 days ago
      slip over the null-modem from the amiga to linux with slattach works fine. What I can't get working is iptables to route the traffic from sl0 (the slattach 'network') to enp0s3. This is on Debian.