Southern Amis

Southern AMIS now has a modern gateway with period-correct behavior that routes callers to multiple Atari BBS systems through a single telnet address.

This gateway acts like a classic front-end modem selector, and understands the differences between ATASCII and ASCII callers automatically.

How it works

• Callers connect to ataribbs.ddns.net:6502

• The gateway pauses briefly to allow terminal baud/handshake setup

• Users press RETURN and the gateway detects:

  • ATASCII

  • ANSI/ASCII (Seperate menu for ANSI or ASCII Boards)

ATASCII callers

• Screen clears using native ATASCII

• A clean ATASCII menu is displayed

• User selects a BBS:

  • Southern AMIS

  • AMIS XE

  • Nitelite BBS

  • Basement BBS

  • (after testing expect to add additional boards)

    
    

• Screen clears again and shows CONNECTING… in ATASCII

• Gateway bridges directly to the selected BBS

• When the BBS disconnects, the gateway disconnects as usual

  
  

ANSI/ASCII callers

• Seperate menu

• Automatically routed to AMIS XE for the moment

• Clean connect → clean disconnect

  
  

Why this has been built

• We hope this will help to drive new users to the Atari Boards since one Telnet address simplifies the process

  
  

This is intentionally simple, behaving exactly like a multi-node front-end selector would have in the 1980s — just delivered over telnet instead of phone lines.

If you’re running an Atari terminal or emulator and want a single entry point into multiple live Atari BBS systems, this gateway is now live and ready to dial.

Dial in and give it a try. ataribbs.ddns.net:6502