PCBoard 15.3/M · est. 1993 · an interactive digital museum · sysop Lanttu
telnet frbbs.carrata.fi
(bbs.carrata.fi works too)
Any telnet client with ANSI works (SyncTERM, NetRunner, PuTTY, Windows telnet). For Smodem transfers, dial frbbs.carrata.fi:2323 (raw) from Terminate - see downloads.
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Lists: FireHOL level1, blocklist.de, Emerging Threats. Only the BBS ports are filtered.
Fresh off the wire: Amiga BBS software gets telnet, ANSI art detectives dig into old logon screens, and sysops keep inventing new ways to dial in.
Zeus Developments dropped four Amiga updates at once: native Telnet support for Zeus BBS 1.8, a security overhaul for AmyBW, a public beta of SlamMail, and a new RAID-1 disk mirroring utility. Amiga sysops, your weekend is booked.
Break Into Chat digs into the scene tradition of ripping, or remixing, older ANSI art. St. Louis sysop Fire Escape often repurposed so-called public domain ANSI to liven up her board, and the post traces where those logon screens came from.
A Mystic sysop whipped up a secure browser-based terminal, available on GitHub as ssweb. Uploads and downloads use the browser's built-in transfer, and Sixel graphics and sound work too. Only tested in Chrome so far, so bring your bug reports.
One caller wrote a BBS client for mIRC that connects over secure websockets, so you can BBS while IRCing. The author admits it is pretty useless but an interesting project, which is honestly the spirit of this whole hobby.
BBSindex broadcast the Vintage Computer Festival Switzerland panels on November 7 and 8, 2026, on YouTube and Twitch, with talks in German, English and French. Opening the lineup: a German talk on dial-up, back when the internet was a phone number.
Fresh art pack alert: Fire Productions has released fire-47, now up on 16colo.rs. Mistigris also put out mist1026 recently, so there is plenty of new color to download for your menus.
Synopses are written by AI (Claude) from the linked sources and checked by the sysop. Read the originals.