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FuSiON BBS was created to support the TI-99/4a and Geneve 9640 home computers in order to keep the retro 8 bit computers alive!

To see it in action telnet to:

DNS : fusionbbs.ddns.net
Port : 9640

This bbs is designed to run on floppies but can be ran with no issues from hard drives and/or RAM disks.

I have also been successful to code a version (small changes) to run within MAME emulator emulating a Geneve 9640 and hard drive systems with a UDS10 device hooked up to it!.

The bbs was coded on a standard TI-99/4a with the following:

3 DS/SD (180k) floppy drives
32k RAM
Standard TI-99/4a Console
TI Floppy Disk Controller
TI RS232
CC TRIPLE-TECH
TI XB

BBS Software has also been tested with:

MBX clock
TIFDC
CC9900 FDC
Myarc FDC
HFDC
SCSI
Horizon Ram Disks

Minimum Hardware Requirements:

  • TI-99/4A
  • 32 K
  • 3 DS/SD (180k floppy drives)
  • TI Disk controller
  • TI Extended Basic
  • RS232 Card
  • Lantronix UDS 10/100/1100

I do not have an IDE card to test, but it should work.

This software has also been tested with the MESS emulation system on a PC using the serial bridge software of TI-Image by Michael Zapf and a modified machine code to use the joystick port to detect carriers and it works with no major issues. Of course you will need a USB to Atari Joystick adapter and a joystick cable to hook up to a pin on the back of the modem.

The only problem is with MESS itself and according to Michael Zapf this is by design. The issue is that when running this software from MESS the MESS window must remain active at all times in order to properly detect if a carrier is present or not. If the window becomes inactive, then MESS stops using the joystick port and the BBS thinks there is a carrier.

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