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### Orillia, Ontario, Canada #### SysOp: Ryan de Laplante Welcome to The Dog House BBS's website! This BBS was first launched in the mid 1990's and was up for around 3 years before the Internet totally slaughered all the local boards. It was shut down July 8 1998 and put on tape until now. After Jason Scott from The BBS Documentary came to my house and interviewed me about my experiences as a former user, SysOp and BBS utility software developer I was inspired to re-open my BBS and restore it to it's full glory.
Features 2 telnet nodes Over 500 FidoNet echomail areas -- node 1:229/1394 CD-ROM Door : Night Owl 22 Many popular door games, most registered A SysOp who has loved and always will love BBS's and is dedicated to having one of the best BBS's around
I'm willing to invest money into registering software for The Dog House BBS. I'm not interested in cracking the software unless the author can no longer be contacted or is no longer supporting the software. I'd rather use freeware or pay the authors for their time and great products. I've installed a door tracker to help determine which doors are most popular. I'd appreciate a message or email from users suggesting which doors and/or IGM's they would like installed and registered. ### Specifications BBS Software : Maximus 3.01 Mailer : binkd 0.9.6 Tosser/Packer/Scanner/Linker : Squish 1.11 Telnet Server : COM/IP 3.11 - Registered Fossil Driver : BNU Operating System : Windows NT4 Workstation Hardware : PII 233 MHz, 96 MB RAM, 2 GB hdd. I originally wanted to run it on a 386 or 486 like it did originally but to run multinode on telnet with fidonet packets coming in several times an hour I needed a faster computer and this was the only spare I had. ### Getting Connected To connect to The Dog House BBS you'll need an ANSI compatible telnet client. In my experience many telnet clients are very bad at rendering ANSI. If you connect to The Dog House BBS and the screens don't look right then try using different terminal software.
Software | Description
mTelnet | mTelnet is a tiny, single executable that doesn't need to be installed. You can just run it. It does an excellent job at rendering ANSI. It also has a phonebook, supports ZModem file transfers, and backscrolling. This is the most commonly used terminal among telnet BBS'ers that I know of. Recommended for Windows
Windows Hyper Terminal | I've tested Hyper Terminal in Windows 98 and Windows 2000 and both do an excellent job at rendering ANSI. They also have a built in phone book, and support ZModem file transfers. There is no link to download Hyper Terminal because it comes with Windows. Recommended for Windows
Putty | Putty is a tiny, single executable that doesn't need to be installed. You can just run it. It does ANSI emulation but doesn't always render things properly. If you use Putty make sure you have "character set translation on received data" set to CP437 so that you get the right ASCII characters. Putty doesn't support ZModem file transfers. It does have a phone book and support backscrolling.
Windows Telnet | Windows Telnet comes with Windows. It does not support ZModem file transfers. In Win 98 and NT4 it doesn't support ANSI. The version that comes with Windows 2000 and XP does support ANSI but often doesn't render ANSI properly. Specifically the version in Windows 2000 will not work with this BBS. You will find menus will not display at all when returning from doors, after browsing messages, or doing other normal BBS activities. I don't recommend Windows Telnet.
## bbs.doghousebbs.com Note: If you get "Connection Refused", then all of the nodes are probably in use by other users. If the problem persists please contact me. Last updated Apr 25 2004

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