TuxedoCat Lounge BBS

Felix and Charlie

Keeping the nostalgia of the 90s alive!

Dial-up: 341-221-4808, or 844-227-4979 toll free
US Robotics Courier V.34/V.Everything (up to 33.6k)

Telnet: bbs.tuxedocatbbs.com port 2323 (IPv4 and IPv6 supported)

Web client: www.tuxedocatbbs.com/bbs

This is the website for my vintage bulletin board system running on MS-DOS with a bit of a modern connectivity twist. This system runs on Wildcat! BBS v4.20 released in 1995.

Features

  • Dial-up modem and telnet support
  • Message boards
  • Off-line QWK mail reader support
  • Door games and programs, classics and modern, including Legend of the Red Dragon, Trade Wars 2002, BBS Tournament Wordle, Sudoku, DUBLZ
  • Some files!
  • UUCP Internet e-mail
  • USR Stats - View modem connection diagnostics while connected to the BBS

    • Recommended terminal clients

    Don't suffer with a world without ANSI colors and IBM graphics with a boring CLI telnet client!
  • Qodem - A re-implemenation of the MS-DOS Qmodem program - Windows/Linux/Mac - Modem/Telnet/SSH
  • MuffinTerm - iOS/Mac - Telnet
  • SyncTERM - Windows/Linux/Mac
  • FastTerm II - TRS-80 - not color, no IBM graphics, but does Ymodem and is pretty nice!
  • ZTerm - Mac/Mac Classic - modem/serial - Use at least 0.9 for color PC ANSI graphics
  • Black Night - Mac Classic - telnet

    Related links

  • Blog - Dial-up UUCP to get email to a vintage DOS BBS
  • Blog - Running Qodem on MacOS + iTerm2 - how to get IBM CP437 graphics to render correctly
  • Github - Batch files and other interesting configuration files to run the BBS
  • Flickr photo album - Screen shots, hardware photos of the BBS
  • Flickr - Vintage modem teardowns - NEW! Inside and outside photos of vintage dial-up modems as they are tested with VoIP connections
  • Telnet BBS Guide - find other dial and telnet BBSes

    YouTube

  • Testing the BBS - Wildcat V4.11
  • Dialing into a BBS in 2023 with a modem
  • More dial-up modem calls over VoIP, including 56k
  • Dialing a BBS with a TRS-80 in 2024 (featuring FastTerm II)
  • Dialing into a BBS with Macintosh SE (featuring ZTerm)
    • Wildcat! BBS v4
    Elaborate ANSI art
    US Robotics Courier modems
    A TRS-80 called here
    UUCP found here
    A Macintosh IIsi called here
    A Macintosh SE called here