I've run Reign of Fire BBS for over 25 years, and I write the software that keeps it — and other Amiga boards — on the FidoNet networks.
Everything here runs a live board every day. None of it is a proof-of-concept, and nothing gets published until it has survived a night of real traffic.
AmiBinkD · C · GPL-2.0
A native AmigaOS 3.x port of binkd, the FidoNet mailer. No ixemul, no
ixnet — it talks straight to bsdsocket.library, and builds for plain 68000,
so a stock A500 will start it. BinkP/1.1 with CRAM-MD5.
The goal was never to write a new mailer. It was to get binkd itself onto
the Amiga: 18 of its 34 source files are untouched, and protocol.c — the
binkp engine, 3,769 lines — carries exactly one Amiga-specific line.
RoFTIC · C · MIT
An AmigaOS TIC and nodelist processor. Routes file-echo announcements into file areas, extracts and verifies archived nodelists, and runs TrapList only when one actually changed. Also on Aminet.
SSH and RLOGIN gateways · Python · MIT
Three ways into a telnet-only BBS that it cannot provide itself, and one way out — all driven from outside, with no changes to the BBS binary. SSH straight into the board (with CP437→UTF-8 transcoding, so the box-drawing characters survive on a modern terminal), inbound RLOGIN with scripted auto-login, and an outbound telnet→RLOGIN bridge for door servers.
Most of the hard parts turned out not to be in the BBS software at all. They were in the Amiga C library:
- an
fstat()that reports every file as zero bytes while returning success — which meant every piece of outbound mail was announced as empty, with nothing anywhere logging an error; - a file-descriptor table with no locking anywhere in it, so two processes opening files at the same moment could be handed the same slot and write into each other's files.
Both are written up in the repositories, because anyone else building Amiga software with the same toolchain has them too and probably doesn't know it.
And because this shouldn't die with one sysop's hard drive. It's all licensed so you can take it, run it, fix it, and pass it on.
Reign of Fire BBS — call.rofbbs.com — telnet 6800 · ssh call@call.rofbbs.com
Bug reports, patches and questions all welcome.