Hutch BBS - Restored

Yes, another restoration by the southern amis projects.. First of 2022 and a pretty good challenge. During the Atari BBS Guru’s Call, Tillek brought up Hutch BBS as a corrupt set of ATR’s and well BF2K+ had the files. One for a challenge, I grabbed the ATR’s and went to work. A bit more effort than I wanted but after a complete tear down and rewrite of the modem, answer routine, XIO’s, polling, and a hell of a lot of clean of the code, we have a restored version running at amis86.ddns.net:9001 - lot of history here, maybe Tillek or BF2K can add some of the commentary.. So once you check out Hutch, than compare with Amis XE at amis86.ddns.net:9000 and if you have not been on southernamis.ddns.net:23 you can complete the rounds followed by the full atari scene by checking out the active bbs list at http://sfhqbbs.org/ataribbslist.php

After some documentation and testing, the full project ATR will be available for download here.

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Craig Abruzzese

Jan 12, 2022

There were so many bbs programs floating around in the mid 8os. None of them appealed to me. Though I think if I wasn’t overloaded with FoReM and Amis derivatives I would have looked at one of them.

I know I had hutch disks but I think they were 85o based. At that time I was a 1o3o guy. (Taking the abuse for being 3oo baud).

nice to see it dug up from the cemetery.

southernamis

Jan 12, 2022

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It was an interesting challenge but the byproduct of the effort is also the Altirra use of the Full SIO handler. Got it working smoothly so if you do try the BBS, just select the right handler from the 850. Also, first time seeing the use of "R3:" In modem XIO's.. Had to take them out since it did nothing but create issues on the drives.. Someone had an idea just not sure exactly what it was..

southernamis

Jan 12, 2022

Just with all weird things, Hutch BBS has come to it's demo end.. Thank you all who visited the past. 1984 had some funky code, messages bases, and lack luster features but it's still a part of Atari BBS history. Interesting and short lived, the Hutch BBS will live on in the Download section of this website for all to marvel at its code..

Enjoy and Thanks to BF2k+ for sharing this once thought lost, now found, and concluded, copy and rename of NightShift BBS, called Hutch BBS by some guy with the last name Hutch...

Link to Download: HutchBBS ATR