DarkForce! BBS Info/News/Prizes

[Darklord]

Here is the lucky winner for December 2024 at The DarkForce! BBS:

December 2024

1. BOP - wins an Atari ST game themed 2025 calendar!

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Congratulations to our winner, and thanks to all our callers!



PS BOP, I need your actual physical address.

[Darklord]

You know, since I added the Nakamichi 6-pack SCSI CD-ROM changer to DarkForce!, my desktop is starting to look a little crowded...

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[Darklord]

Atari TT030 Connects To Darkforce! BBS - WiModem232 Pro - Vintage Computing - 1st Time BBS

We got some free publicity!

[Darklord]

This month, March 2025, the DarkForce! BBS is giving away:

A NetUSBee...!

Network adapter for ATARI ST and Falcon along with USB controller

Network based on RTL8019AS as used by EtherNEC, backwards compatible with drivers
USB based on ISP1160 chip
47 mm by 65 mm PCB dimensions
Compatible with ST(e), Mega ST(e), Falcon, TT
Optional IRQ (interrupt) line to speed up transfers and give more CPU time to applications
Plugs into Cartridge Port/ROM Port

More details here:

https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=46

It's a wonderful device.

Good luck to all, and thanks for calling!

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[Darklord]

SyncTerm Update - It now supports Atari VT52.

SyncTerm is a popular terminal program for Linux, Mac and Windows.

As of the latest nightly release (1.7b), users can change the palette.

Simply put an entry like this (this is the one I am currently using):

Palette =16777199,16711680,4215804,0

At the end of the BBS entry that you want to change the palette
on, in the "SYNCTERM.LST" file found (on my system) in:

C:\Users\darkl\AppData\Roaming\SyncTERM\syncterm.lst

These are hexadecimals, translated into decimal, then used.

I used this website to grab a color and it's hexadecimal value for my screen:

https://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/RGB_Color.html

The only change I needed was for green, which is entry 3 in the palette list.

The author of SyncTerm has stated that in the 2.0 release he will make this better/easier.

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[Darklord]

Here is the lucky winner for March 2025 at The DarkForce! BBS:

March 2025

1. Bob_C - wins a NetUSBee...!

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Congratulations to our winner, and thanks to all our callers!



PS Bob_C, I need your actual physical address.

[Darklord]

Everyone should call DarkForce! today - but beware! strange things are afoot!

Take care with all the Main Menu choices...

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[Darklord]

Yeah, pretty lame I know - I was just trying to mix it up for callers
since it's April Fool's Day.

[Darklord]

Josh Renaud (of BreakIntoChat) fame, was kind enough to make and post a video of his experience
logging into The DarkForce! BBS on April Fool's Day.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/aprilfool25