Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

I'm attempting to get some actual use out of my Pi 4B that's sat around collecting dust.

Noh Wai wrote to All <=-

Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

I'm attempting to get some actual use out of my Pi 4B that's sat around collecting dust.

I run BBBS/Linux 64bit on Raspian. Never misses a beat

TC

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On 28 Apr 2025, Noh Wai said the following...

Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

I'm attempting to get some actual use out of my Pi 4B that's sat around collecting dust.
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A number of years ago, I ran Synchronet on a 3B+ until the power circuit
died.

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Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

Mystic BBS runs great on an RPi. Mystic Guy on Youtube has a whole series on setting it up.

I originally ran my BBS on an RPi4 using Mystic. Converted it to a VM since I have an RX720 in the rack.

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Re: Re: Raspbian BBS?
By: TheCivvie to Noh Wai on Mon Apr 28 2025 10:29 pm

Noh Wai wrote to All <=-

Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

I'm attempting to get some actual use out of my Pi 4B that's sat around collecting
dust.

I run BBBS/Linux 64bit on Raspian. Never misses a beat

TC

Marvelous! Any special steps needed?

Noh Wai wrote to TheCivvie <=-

Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

I'm attempting to get some actual use out of my Pi 4B that's sat

around

collecting

dust.

I run BBBS/Linux 64bit on Raspian. Never misses a beat

TC

Marvelous! Any special steps needed?

Nope, runs straight out of the box. Think you need the base linux files and then add the raspian ones on top, but I am not sure. BBBS is not always the easiest to setup, old MUD style I believe

TC


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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:55:36 -0400
"Noh Wai" (86:100/12) <Noh.Wai@f12.n100.z86.fidonet> wrote:

Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

I'm attempting to get some actual use out of my Pi 4B that's sat
around collecting dust. --- SBBSecho 3.24-Linux
* Origin: Too Lazy BBS - toolazy.synchro.net:2323 (86:100/12)

I modified instructions that were already posted on the Synchronet Wiki
for running on the latest Rpi at the time, I think it was a Rpi4. This
includes running dosemu2 for door games. I didn't actually run the BBS
on it, more of a proof of concept.
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:46:52 +0100
"TheCivvie" (86:553/20) <TheCivvie@f20.n553.z86.fidonet> wrote:

Noh Wai wrote to TheCivvie <=-

Has anyone attempted to run a BBS on a Raspberry Pi?

I'm attempting to get some actual use out of my Pi 4B that's
sat

around

collecting

dust.

I run BBBS/Linux 64bit on Raspian. Never misses a beat

TC

Marvelous! Any special steps needed?

Nope, runs straight out of the box. Think you need the base linux
files and then add the raspian ones on top, but I am not sure. BBBS
is not always the easiest to setup, old MUD style I believe

TC

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* Origin: TCOB1: https/binkd/telnet binkd.rima.ie (86:553/20)

https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:raspbian_install
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