General Discussions

Over the last few weeks, I have been testing and now finalized a direct post from the Atari BBS Gateway to BlueSky. Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging social media platform that looks and functions very similarly to X (formerly Twitter). It is designed to be an open, user-controlled alternative to traditional, corporate-owned social networks.

So what does this mean for sysops and users? First, as a BBS is selected from the Atari BBS Gateway, it is published as you will see below: The Atari BBS, Address, etc. This helps make the awareness of the Gateway and your BBS available to BlueSky users. It also will advise users when someone heads over to the Chat app so you know when we have people in the chat room or playing multiplayer games.

So why BlueSky and not some other outlet - Hey, its free and has an API thats easy to use..…

Just landed in the latest issue of Compute!’s Gazette — my newest Dialed Back column:

“Reading the Board: The Atari BBS Written in BASIC”

This month dives deep into the actual code behind Atari BBS systems like AMIS, FoReM, Carina, and NiteLite — from modem answer routines and ATASCII handling to message bases, file transfers, and how 64K machines somehow became full online communities.

Still amazing to me that these systems, written largely in BASIC, handled users, databases, uploads/downloads, and real-time communications decades before the modern web. Even better — many of them are still online today.

Huge respect to the sysops, coders, restorers, and preservationists still keeping these systems alive.

The possibilities are extending for FujiNet… iOS is coming, the app is developing! #bbsing #fujinet #atari

THis one is a close 2nd favorite. 86 Samuari. Whats not done to it!