The Omnimaga BBS Project

[Juju]

Yet another side project I started, partly inspired by Hackaday's Retro edition (so users can submit pictures of their old hardware that wasn't even supposed to go on Internet browsing Hackaday) and a video of Keoni29 accessing a BBS with his eZ8. The goal here, like Hackaday, is to access the Omnimaga forums on old hardware, such a Commodore 64 or a TI-82 calculator. Wouldn't it be fun to post from those devices? All you need is a serial port connection!

You can access the interface via telnet (just like an old-school BBS) which is currently at derpy.juju2143.ca, the rest of the steps is left as an exercice to the reader.

Right now, only the login is implemented (you can login with your Omnimaga account!), it will give you a few info about your account and a basic command prompt, I'll gradually add more and more features (which you can see by typing 'help').

CVSoft already been able to login to Omnimaga using his TI-82 (which is a first!), you can post here your own hardware accessing it. Have fun!

[Eiyeron]

I tested from my work computer, it seems to work. Nice logo though, with my color scheme, it rocks!

[Juju]

Hehe, thanks.

Windows' cmd seems to choke on it (as well as the TI-82, obviously, and the colors are obviouly not supported there), so I might add a mechanism to check which device you are on and act accordingly. Also the server will reboot kinda often, so if you lose connection it's me upgrading the server.

[Sorunome]

wha, nice, gotta give this a try!
EDIT: fail

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[sorunome@sorunome-desktop ~]$ telnet derpy.juju2143.ca
Trying 137.175.175.153...
Connected to derpy.juju2143.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
Username: Sorunome
Password:
Logging in...
Welcome to
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              The Coders of Tomorrow since 2001
Welcome back Sorunome! You are connection #1.
1 users online.
Usertype: normal | Posts: 6014
o> help
Help on built in commands

? [<command>] - Display help
BYE - Exit the command shell
ECHO <text to echo> - Echo text back to the console.
EXIT - Exit the command shell
HELP [<command>] - Display help
HISTORY - Display the command history
INFO - Provides some information about the current terminal.
LOGOUT - Exit the command shell
QUIT - Exit the command shell
TIMEIT <time> <message> - In <time> seconds, display <message>.
TIMER <time> <message> - In <time> seconds, display <message>.
WHOAMI - Returns your username.
o> whoami
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 992, in handle
    self.COMMANDS[cmd](params)
  File "./omnibbs.py", line 286, in command_whoami
    self.writeresponse(self.omnilogin['username'])
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 738, in writeresponse
    self.writeline(text)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 746, in writeline
    self.write(text+chr(10))
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'instance' and 'str'

Connection closed by foreign host.


[Streetwalrus]

Wow nice. Also Eiyeron, isn't that solarized dark (the color scheme) ? I use the solarized palette with a custom dark scheme too.

[Eiyeron]

I love solarized in a way that is's very readable, and that's very nice of that. If it exsits a colorscheme as versatile as Solarized, but in shades of black, I'll have to try that.

[Streetwalrus]

Nah, solarized's blue is tons better than black.

[Eiyeron]

Meh, I love black. Shades of dark gray with text on bright colors are way more lisible. let's get back on topic, please.

[Keoni29]

I will try to log in from my ez8 computer!

[ordelore]

That blue against black is painful. Any suggestion on fixing the ascci troubles?

[Sorunome]

Just noticed that it claims i was user type normal

[bb010g]

That blue against black is painful. Any suggestion on fixing the ascci troubles?

Use PuTTY?
EDIT:

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brayden@archbook ~ % telnet derpy.juju2143.ca
Trying 137.175.175.153...
Connected to derpy.juju2143.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
Username: bb010g
Password:
Logging in...
Welcome to
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              The Coders of Tomorrow since 2001
Welcome back bb010g! You are connection #13.
13 users online.
Usertype: normal | Posts: 207
o> whoami
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 992, in handle
    self.COMMANDS[cmd](params)
  File "./omnibbs.py", line 286, in command_whoami
    self.writeresponse(self.omnilogin['username'])
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 738, in writeresponse
    self.writeline(text)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 746, in writeline
    self.write(text+chr(10))
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'instance' and 'str'

Connection closed by foreign host.
brayden@archbook ~ %
EDIT 2: The above is WHOAMI crashing, but it's after the break.

[ordelore]

That blue against black is painful. Any suggestion on fixing the ascci troubles?

Use PuTTY?

Which is what I ended up using.

[ben_g]

It seems to crash on the whoami command. Is that normal?

EDIT: stack trace:

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o> whoami
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 992, in handle
    self.COMMANDS[cmd](params)
  File "./omnibbs.py", line 286, in command_whoami
    self.writeresponse(self.omnilogin['username'])
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 738, in writeresponse
    self.writeline(text)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/telnetsrv/telnetsrvlib.py", line 746, in writeline
    self.write(text+chr(10))
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'instance' and 'str'


[Streetwalrus]

Yay for reporting the same issue three times !