[Coco] ESP8266 BBS setup

[Bill Nobel]

Hey guys I’ve acquired a few extra ESP8266’s and decided to hook one up to the Coco 3.    I got the ESP8266 setup for 19,200 baud and I have it running & connecting to sites no problems.  But now that I having it going, I’ve gotten an inspiration.

I would like to revive my old RiBBS BBS system and bring it back to life on the Coco 3 VIA telnet. Aside from port forwarding the router, what other things do I need to setup on the network.  I do have various systems I can configure if need be (Raspberry Pi, Mac, Linux & Windows machines) I also realize that I need to write a asm translation on the 3 for the incoming/outgoing packets on the 8266 in the system driver (due to the way the data is produced to the RS232 from the 8266 and vice versa).

Thanks for any pointers.

Bill Nobel
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