Does somebody knows a Chinese BBS system? Are there any at all? Preferably
with a ssh connection ;)

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Does somebody knows a Chinese BBS system? Are there any at all?
Preferably with a ssh connection ;)

Google 'ptt' - it's in Taiwan. Really cool graphical interface, honestly. But
I think it's telnet only.

Has like, thousands of simultaneous users. Impressive.

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Google 'ptt' - it's in Taiwan. Really cool graphical interface,
honestly. But I think it's telnet only.

Thank you! :)

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On 29 Jan 2020, xqtr said the following...

Does somebody knows a Chinese BBS system? Are there any at all?
Preferably with a ssh connection ;)

Not sure about SSH, but yeah, they're pretty popular there because of the level of speech oppression that goes on over there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

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Not sure about SSH, but yeah, they're pretty popular there because of
the level of speech oppression that goes on over there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

I found the BBS, after Ryan said to me... tried to login with Netrunner and Syncterm, but even the login screen is garbled... they must use some strange encoding perhaps. Anybody has a suggestion?

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Google 'ptt' - it's in Taiwan. Really cool graphical interface,
honestly. But I think it's telnet only.

PTT Bulletin Board System is the largest terminal-based bulletin board system based in Taiwan. It was founded by Yi-Chin Tu and other students from the National Taiwan University in 1995, and it is currently administrated by the Electronic BBS Research Society as a non-commercial and open-source BBS. (Wikipedia)

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On 29 Jan 2020, xqtr said the following...

Not sure about SSH, but yeah, they're pretty popular there because of the level of speech oppression that goes on over there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

I found the BBS, after Ryan said to me... tried to login with Netrunner and Syncterm, but even the login screen is garbled... they must use some strange encoding perhaps. Anybody has a suggestion?

I'm not sure of the exact codepage used, but it's definitely in Chinese. If
you could find out specifically which codepage it is, Syncterm will let you
use a tool to incorporate it into itself.

http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/FED.ZIP

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Not sure about SSH, but yeah, they're pretty popular there because of the level of speech oppression that goes on over there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

I found the BBS, after Ryan said to me... tried to login with Netrunner and Syncterm, but even the login screen is garbled... they must use some strange encoding perhaps. Anybody has a suggestion?

Yeah, they have a different emulation they use and of course its going to be non-latin language with probably a UTF-16 encoding since that is most
efficient with Chinese.

I actually had a professor from a Chinese university contact me years back about making a Chinese version of Mystic BBS. But at the time I didn't have the time to commit to it. He explained some of the stuff to me about what they're doing but I forget most of it by now.

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I'm not sure of the exact codepage used, but it's definitely in Chinese. If you could find out specifically which codepage it is, Syncterm will
let you use a tool to incorporate it into itself. http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/FED.ZIP

Thank you. I'll make a try, but i am all ready discouraged :( The tool for syncterm is for Windows, which i don't have and even if i find it, from a look in the webbbs service they have, it seems that all posts are in Chinese :(

https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/index.html

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Yeah, they have a different emulation they use and of course its going
to be non-latin language with probably a UTF-16 encoding since that is most efficient with Chinese.

They have built a new bbs software for them, which is open source: https://github.com/ptt/pttbbs

I took a look, but it's all Chinese to me... :)

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On 01-29-20 18:19, xqtr wrote to maskreet <=-

Not sure about SSH, but yeah, they're pretty popular there because of
the level of speech oppression that goes on over there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

I found the BBS, after Ryan said to me... tried to login with Netrunner and Syncterm, but even the login screen is garbled... they must use
some strange encoding perhaps. Anybody has a suggestion?

Use a terminal capable of supporting UTF-8, because a lot of content, including usernames is in Asian script languages (Chinese, Taiwanese, etc). You may get better results with plain old "telnet".


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On 01-29-20 20:44, xqtr wrote to g00r00 <=-

Yeah, they have a different emulation they use and of course its going
to be non-latin language with probably a UTF-16 encoding since that is most efficient with Chinese.

They have built a new bbs software for them, which is open source: https://github.com/ptt/pttbbs

I took a look, but it's all Chinese to me... :)

I had a bit of a look too, found the source and PTT BBS itself, and same deal, just a wee little language barrier. ;)


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Yeah, they have a different emulation they use and of course its going to be non-latin language with probably a UTF-16 encoding since that is most efficient with Chinese.

I actually had a professor from a Chinese university contact me years back about making a Chinese version of Mystic BBS. But at the time I didn't have the time to commit to it. He explained some of the stuff to me about what they're doing but I forget most of it by now.

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Hey gooroo. When is your next version of Mystic released?

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Hey gooroo. When is your next version of Mystic released?

He just released a new pre-alpha the other day.
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Hey gooroo. When is your next version of Mystic released?

Probably very soon. Maybe a week for the next alpha? There are preview
builds as current as whatever my tear line says (today maybe?)

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I had a bit of a look too, found the source and PTT BBS itself, and same deal, just a wee little language barrier. ;)

It would be nice to reverse engineer that piece of software. It supports hundreds of simultaneous connections!? Perhaps there are other cool features.

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He just released a new pre-alpha the other day.
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Yeah but it’s not officially posted on his website yet. That’s what I was asking him about.

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Probably very soon. Maybe a week for the next alpha? There are preview builds as current as whatever my tear line says (today maybe?)

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Thanks g00r00. Always a pleasure conversing with you. :-)

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Re: Chinese BBSes?
By: xqtr to All on Wed Jan 29 2020 08:39 am

Does somebody knows a Chinese BBS system? Are there any at all? Preferably with a ssh connection ;)

I've heard BBSes are actually still fairly popular and active in China, due to the Chinese government's policy of censorship and restricting their citizens' internet access.

I haven't used any Chinese BBSes though. I imagine they're probably in Chinese, which I don't read or speak.

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Re: Re: Chinese BBSes?
By: ryan to xqtr on Wed Jan 29 2020 12:53 am

Google 'ptt' - it's in Taiwan. Really cool graphical interface, honestly. But I think it's telnet only.

How does that work? Does it use RIP or something?

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Re: Chinese BBSes?
By: Nightfox to xqtr on Thu Jan 30 2020 03:27 pm

I've heard BBSes are actually still fairly popular and active in China, due to the Chinese government's policy of censorship and restricting their citizens' internet access.

BBSes are popular in China, but not all are BBSes as we know them. (In fact I've not heard of any like "ours" until that ptt topic cropped up.)

In China, "forums" are called BBSes, so most have a web interface (and probably
an app now - now that wifi is available on smart phones - it didnt used to be).
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Re: Re: Chinese BBSes?
By: ryan to xqtr on Wed Jan 29 2020 12:53 am

How does that work? Does it use RIP or something?

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The source code is here if interested:

https://github.com/ptt/pttbbs

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Re: Chinese BBSes?
By: Alter Ego to Nightfox on Fri Jan 31 2020 10:44 am

BBSes are popular in China, but not all are BBSes as we know them. (In fact I've not heard of any like "ours" until that ptt topic cropped up.)

In China, "forums" are called BBSes, so most have a web interface (and probably
an app now - now that wifi is available on smart phones - it didnt used to be).

Ah, I thought I had heard that old-style BBSes are still popular in China.

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Google 'ptt' - it's in Taiwan. Really cool graphical interface, hones But I think it's telnet only.

How does that work? Does it use RIP or something?

I think it's just a character encoding like utf16 or something.

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On 01-30-20 13:49, xqtr wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I had a bit of a look too, found the source and PTT BBS itself, and same deal, just a wee little language barrier. ;)

It would be nice to reverse engineer that piece of software. It
supports hundreds of simultaneous connections!? Perhaps there are other cool features.

Yes, and there's the matter of the encoding. I did eventually see on the Wikipedia article that it uses an encoding called "Big5", which is common in China/Taiwan. The specs seem impressive. It certainly seems to have an integrated web forum. Wonder if it can be made to have other "classic" BBS features like FTN, QWK, doors, etc. :)


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On 01-30-20 18:14, ryan wrote to Nightfox <=-

Google 'ptt' - it's in Taiwan. Really cool graphical interface, hones But I think it's telnet only.

How does that work? Does it use RIP or something?

I think it's just a character encoding like utf16 or something.

According to Wikipedia, the encoding is called "Big5", and is commonly used in the Chinese region.


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Re: Chinese BBSes?
By: xqtr to All on Wed Jan 29 2020 08:39 am

Does somebody knows a Chinese BBS system? Are there any at all? Preferably with a ssh connection ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

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