So what sort of rig do you BBS, work, browse or game on? I have only just began using the bulletin boards however I use an old Macintosh Plus (upgraded from an old '84 128K) with a terminal programme called Red Ryder to get online. I use a WiFi 232 connector known as Retro WiFi SI from Simulant to get this thing to connect to my broadband at 1200 baud. It's a great experience so far. I'd love an Apple IIe or something similar with a gorgous green text CRT such as the Apple II/III monitor to go with it. Wouldn't that be a great machine to BBS on?

My main machine is a ASUS Zephyrus GX501 laptop with an i7-8750H coupled with a GTX1080 Max-Q. It's quite a powerhouse and run everything at 1080p60 ultra.

Other than that, I have an original PS4, an XboxONE X and a NIntendo Switch Lite.

What sort of tech do you all sport?

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Re: Re: This strange world
By: Andeddu to Nightfox on Thu Jul 09 2020 06:30 pm

So what sort of rig do you BBS, work, browse or game on? I have only just began using the bulletin boards however I use an old Macintosh Plus

I built a new desktop PC last year, which is what I usually call BBSes from. Currently, my desktop has an Intel i9-9900k processor, Nvidia RTX 2070 Super graphics card, 32GB RAM, and Windows 10 64-bit.

I run my BBS on a second PC, which is an older one I built in 2012 - It has an Intel i5-2500 CPU, 16GB RAM, and it's currently running Linux Mint 20 (64-bit), with the BBS running in a Windows 7 32-bit VM. (I'm running a Plex media server and a couple other things from the Linux host OS.)

Nightfox

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What sort of tech do you all sport?

My board(s) are running on an Intel NUC. It has a dual core i5 w/ 8GB of
RAM & a 128GB SSD. I'm running Windows 10 32bit, so only 3.40GB of the RAM
is usable.

It's nothing too powerful, but way more power than I had when I ran a board back in the late 90's which was a Cyrix 6x86 166MHz w/ 8MB of RAM and a
1.2GB HD.

Jay

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Re: Re: This strange world
By: Nightfox to Andeddu on Fri Jul 10 2020 01:47 pm

Re: Re: This strange world
By: Andeddu to Nightfox on Thu Jul 09 2020 06:30 pm
I built a new desktop PC last year, which is what I usually call BBSes from. Currently, my desktop has an Intel i9-9900k processor, Nvidia RTX 2070 Super I run my BBS on a second PC, which is an older one I built in 2012 - It has

That's a great rig. I like the RTX2070 Super, it's probably the best bang for buck out in the market. So what sort of games are you into?

I think I'll avoid any PC/laptop upgrade this year or next and just purchase a PS5 once it's out. It's ridiculously powerful for the price they're asking for, plus I'd like to give PSVR2 a try once it's available.

Andeddu

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My board(s) are running on an Intel NUC. It has a dual core i5 w/
8GB of RAM & a 128GB SSD. I'm running Windows 10 32bit, so only
3.40GB of the RAM is usable.

Just curious. What are you not running the 64-bit version of Windows
and the BBS under a VM on that? My BBS host has 64 gigs of RAM, running Windows 10 64-bit, with the Windows-based BBSes (two of them) running in
a 64-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise VM under VMWare
Workstation Pro and the other (the one I am posting this on) running on
ArcaOS 5.0.3 in a VirtualBox VM.
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Just curious. What are you not running the 64-bit version of Windows
and the BBS under a VM on that?

I've thought about doing that. When I first re-started my board back in May
I initially started with Windows 10 64-bit but then I couldn't do the old DOS doors, so I re-formatted to Windows 10 32-bit. I guess a VM would have been another way to go. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to move to a VM if I wanted to go that route.

The NUC isn't doing anything other than the BBS, so it's not like it's taxed at all.

Jay

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Re: Re: This strange world
By: Warpslide to Robert Wolfe on Sun Jul 12 2020 04:39 pm

The NUC isn't doing anything other than the BBS, so it's not like it's taxed at all.

I currently have a small tower PC running my BBS (and my Plex media server). I thought about buying a NUC to run my BBS & things on. I've also seen VESA mounts for NUCs so you can mount them onto the back of a PC monitor if you wanted (as long as the monitor has a space for a mount). I'd want a NUC that's powerful enough to do media streaming along with running my BBS.. I also heard somewhere that the latest NUCs can't run Linux (though I don't remember the reason). I'm currently running a 64-bit Linux on my BBS machine, with my BBS running in a 32-bit Windows VM.

Nightfox

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I've also seen VESA mounts for NUCs so you can mount them onto the
back of a PC monitor if you wanted (as long as the monitor has a
space for a mount).

Yup, I've noticed the holes on the bottom for VESA mounting. I'm running it headless right now in the basement & do everything via RDP.

I'd want a NUC that's powerful enough to do media streaming along with running my BBS..

I'm sure I could utilize the power of this one a bit more. It's a 2013 dual core i5 with a base clock of 1.3GHz & turbo of 2.6GHz. Maybe put some sort of a hypervisor on it and go the VM approach.

Mine supports a max of 16GB of RAM while the newer ones have up to 6 core CPUs and up to 64GB of RAM.

Jay

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On 7/9/2020 10:30 AM, Andeddu wrote:

So what sort of rig do you BBS, work, browse or game on? I have only just began
using the bulletin boards however I use an old Macintosh Plus (upgraded from an
old '84 128K) with a terminal programme called Red Ryder to get online. I use a
WiFi 232 connector known as Retro WiFi SI from Simulant to get this thing to connect to my broadband at 1200 baud. It's a great experience so far. I'd love
an Apple IIe or something similar with a gorgous green text CRT such as the Apple II/III monitor to go with it. Wouldn't that be a great machine to BBS on?

I am running a BBS on a $20/mo Digital Ocean droplet and another on my desktop... both private for now.

My main machine is a ASUS Zephyrus GX501 laptop with an i7-8750H coupled with a
GTX1080 Max-Q. It's quite a powerhouse and run everything at 1080p60 ultra.

I built a new system in October, I used a placeholder (3600) CPU at the
time, it's now a Ryzen R9 3950X with an Aorus Master X570 board an a GB
RX 5700XT video card. I have a 1TB Samsung 960 EVO for my Windows drive
and a 1TB 970 EVO for my PopOS drive. 64GB of corsair ram at 3200mhz.
If I did it again would probably have just gone with the 3900X from the
start. It's a beast, I'm always amused when I see it at the top of the productivity comparison charts.

I'm running via a KVM on a 32" 1440p monitor running at 60hz. I don't
game much, but can run pretty much everything at high/ultra settings
without any noticeable issues. I may bump up to a new GPU next
spring/summer when pricing/stock hopefully settles after the fall releases.

I do software development and often have a few different database
servers (mssql/postgres, elasticsearch, redis), applications servers and active services I'm working on running at once (WSL2 or Linux with Docker).

Other than that, I have an original PS4, an XboxONE X and a NIntendo Switch Lite.

What sort of tech do you all sport?

I have an RPi 3 in the livingroom with retropi installed and a few
emulators, I have a couple RPi 4's still in the box, one to replace the retropie in the livingroom, and the pi3 will become a pihole. The other
pi may run the BBS or something else. I've also got a dell 510 server
that's not running, when I can get the 6x 8-12tb drives I want to put in
it, it will take over for my ageing 2009 era Synology NAS with 4x 4TB
drives.

I also have chromecasts on 2 tvs, firetv sticks on all 5 tvs in the
house, and an nvidia shieldtv on the backroom tv (the one I mostly
watch). Fiance and daughter prefer the fire sticks, I prefer the shield
and use content off the nas.

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On 7/10/2020 1:47 PM, Nightfox wrote:

Re: Re: This strange world
By: Andeddu to Nightfox on Thu Jul 09 2020 06:30 pm

An> So what sort of rig do you BBS, work, browse or game on? I have only just
An> began using the bulletin boards however I use an old Macintosh Plus

Nvidia RTX 2070 Super graphics card

Wound up with an RX 5700XT hoping for better linux support... instead I
got 3 months of buggy drivers and using beta kernels. Wish I'd gone
with a 2070 instead.

I run my BBS on a second PC, which is an older one I built in 2012 - It has an Intel i5-2500 CPU, 16GB RAM, and it's currently running Linux Mint 20 (64-bit), with the BBS running in a Windows 7 32-bit VM. (I'm running a Plex media server and a couple other things from the Linux host OS.)

Just got the PC I built for my mom back in ~2009 back.. will probably
throw linux on it and give it away. Athlon II X265, w/ 4GB ram.
Upgrading the ram might be an option, but if I went ram + usb3 card + RX
580 or similar to get it reasonable, I'd almost be better off just
getting a 3400g or better when say 4600g comes out and not spending much
more. So, getting it on linux, give it to someone who can use it.

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