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Hi to everybody, I'm a newbie sysop, I'm trying to start up a small bbs.
I'm sorry for my bad english.

Well, I have a pc celeron/366 64Mb, it is plugged inside a slot A
motherboard. I put an external modem 33.6 over com1 and one ISDN adapter
in slot isa over com3.
All hardware is used, you know what I mean, it's all cheap and old
hardware because it's only an hobby and i try to save up money ;). My
software for the bbs is lora bbs, it's an italian software.

Well lora doesn't run because it seems that the pc hasn't fossil drivers installed. Damn!! All modem, and isdn adapter run very well in
windows98. For example hyperterminal runs very well and there is no
troubles or software warfare over IRQ values. My operating system is the
old windows98, and Hyperterminal works very good with 33.6modem.

Lora bbs, also all bbs sotfware need fossil drivers to work. I updated
the fossil drivers but they don't run, they freeze my pc. Old realese of
fossil drivers doesn't run but they don't freeze windows. Fossil drivers doesn't work, and I don't know why. Fossil detects only the external
modem over com1 (none over com3 with isdn adapter damn! why not?), at
least fossil print an error message and it stops. It says error over a
serial port and also lora bbs says fossil drivers aren't installed.
My bbs server doesn't run.

Actually an italian sysop is trying to help me, he says it may be a
software warfare in IRQ. IRQ:14 doesn't answer over fossil driver so
msdos doesn't run. My pc doesn't boot under msdos type, it freezes and a
black screen show only a prompt flashing. Nobody runs over msdos boot. I
format the hard disk 4 twice, I installed windows but it's the same
problem, the pc doesn't reboot over msdos. May be a sotfware warfare
with my chipset or a virus? Wrong!, Nortorn antivirus doesn't detect any
virus on my hard disk (I'm sure, I updated it last week, Dr norton
antivirus says to me, no virus detected!!).

Well, I check out the problem; what's wrong in IRQ:14? In IRQ:14 there
is installed the hard disk controller also the viatech motherboard
chipset controller. I try to change manually the irq in IRQ:14, (the
hard disk controller ot the motherboard controller) but at least windows doesn't change them. May be the chipset controller doesn't release che
IRQ14 and msdos doesn't access over the system resource.


Is there anybody here?

Is there anybody can help me?


I'd like to run my bbs over isdn and modem, but i'dont know how to
resolve the problem.



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From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.allsysop

To: the_maker@sat6502-quanticolaser.radiokilocurie.net (6502)
Re: HELP, Fossil drivers doesn't run
By: the_maker@sat6502-quanticolaser.radiokilocurie.net (6502) to alt.bbs.allsysop on Sun Oct 03 2004 11:55 am

Hi to everybody, I'm a newbie sysop, I'm trying to start up a small bbs.
I'm sorry for my bad english.

Well, I have a pc celeron/366 64Mb, it is plugged inside a slot A motherboard. I put an external modem 33.6 over com1 and one ISDN adapter
in slot isa over com3. All hardware is used, you know what I mean,
it's all cheap and old hardware because it's only an hobby and i try
to save up money ;). My software for the bbs is lora bbs, it's an
italian software.

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Well, i don't know anything about that software -- but most of the old softwares require com port emulation to be used over telnet. There is comip, but unless you can find a "cracked" version, it REALLY expensive because the author cators to mostly busineses and really doesn't really care about
Sysops.

Netmodem works however when I used to run it, it was very unstable and you practically had to babysit the PC because it crashed so much. Netmodem was
pay software however I heard somewhere that it will be going open source soon (altho I don't know when or if it already has) so at that point it will be free, plus -- hopefully a third party will fix some of the bugs.

You can also use Synchronet as a telnet frontend -- i've seen people do this for Renegade BBS Software. I've also seen GameServ used this way also.

My suggestion would be to use Synchronet (http://www.synchro.net) ... you can make it look like anything you want, and it supports multipul themes. So you can have one menu set in English, and another in Italian, to cator to both English and Italian speaking users.

I'd suggest modifying the "Renegade" theme in Synch because it is the easiest to follow. To make the menus not be default anymore, TheDraw still works just fine, and there is also a Win32 ANSI Editor called PabloDraw.

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