There are like 2 or 3 folks playing on mine.  They're all on map 1 I think.  Map 2 and 3 aren't getting much use tho.

telnet://bbs.fleethq.org

--Chris

Runs on Debian Linux.  Version is whatever Lenny is.... gotta update it at somepoint since Lenny isn't supported anymore.  Overkill door runs in dosemu.

FleetHQ BBS
Telnet or SSH to: bbs.fleethq.org (Offline)
(or dialup! +1-401-949-0465)
Facebook: www.facebook.com/FleetHQ

3 Maps active (3 separate doors obviously) version 1.20.
Synchronet on Debian Linux.  (Overkill support via dosemu)

FYI, on bbs.fleethq.org I fixed the issue with the 'resolving hostname' bit.  Seems the firewall ahead of the DNS server on my end was freaking out at all the DNS requests.   silly thing.

I've finally also gotten around to announcing that the BBS exists... tho not like that really made traffic jump up all that much.   I did toss it in as an 'app' on facebook so hopefully that helps a bit.

For those wanting to hit up our FB page it's:   www.facebook.com/FleetHQ  no real oauth on FB or anything like that.  Just fTelnet in there for now.  (so no ooterm support yet).  Obviously you can use Syncterm directly if you want.

--Chris

I think Rick (who wrote fTelnet) may be working on adding OOTerm support to fTelnet.  Not entirely sure tho.  I asked him about it and a few others have as well... so it may happen.  That would be spiffy, and make even the old game 'webable' . Obviously tho, the multi-player bit is probably something of a challenge.

--Chris

Ok cool. 

place is kind of a ghost town right now.  While it's been running for 8 months I never told anyone about it.   About to officially open it in a week or so... just tweaking things like some of the menu,s adding games and adding a facebook app to access it.

There's also a Tradewars Game Server running there as well.  ( tradewars.fleethq.org for direct telnet).

I wonder if there's been any further dev on the Overkill game server?  Saw posts about it but nothing in years.  Would be spiffy to run that.

--Chris

Did it not let you in at all?  You definitely connected, that 'resolving hostname' bit was my server trying to do a reverse dns resolution on you.  It should just timeout after a few seconds and let you in.  Were there any other error messages or did it disconnect?

I'll look to see if there is a config setting that requires reverse DNS to be working ... tho 99times out of 100 the ISP's at least have generic rev-dns setup, so it's pretty rare to find an IP that doesn't reverse resolve.


edited:  just checked the logs... see you came in, took my stuff 6 sec to do a reverse resolve (not great) but it worked... then a couple min later it saw a disconnect.  Strange.  I'm assuming you tried hitting enter or something during that time?  I wonder if it was having trouble displaying the entry screen.  I'll poke around a bit and see if I can figure out what's up...  I use Syncterm to connect and play overkill... wonder if the overkill term has issues with my ansi login page?

--Chris

I've finally got my old BBS back online...  Started working on bringing it back to life last summer but got tied up with 'real life' for a while. 

Just about ready to open it to the public again... but if anyone wants to get some 'overkill fix' feel free to hit it up now.  Have 3 games configured now using Vidland, NightOwl and Paradox with varying config options between them to keep it interesting. 

bbs.fleethq.org  (runs Synchronet, available via telnet or ssh, or hit it with HTTP and you can use flashtelnet)


Tarix: if you need hosting let me know.  I can give you a whole VMWare VM for this stuff if you want or a VPS slice if you don't need much in the way of resources.

--Chris