Re: Dial-Up BBSes...

On 01 Aug 2026, Martin Kazmaier said the following...

 MK> Does anyone run Mystic with a dial-up node or two?

I run Mystic with a dial-up node. It's a bit complex, but it's very stable. On an Ubuntu box in my home in North Carolina, Claude Code wrote for me the code that watches and answers the modem. When a caller connects, Claude's code makes a connection to a proxy server on the Ubuntu machine where Mystic is running (that's a VPS server hosted at Hetzner in Germany). The proxy connects to Mystic's telnet port on localhost. The proxy layer also handles ssh connections and passes them to Mystic's telnet port on localhost. The proxy project is at https://github.com/johnsonjh/dps8m-proxy.

Though I have been using Unix since the 1980s and Linux since the 1990s, Claude Code has saved me an incredible amount of time setting up systems and writing software for me. Claude knows quite a lot about how Mystic works, but a lot of stuff can be done only through the configuration GUI. When Mystic configuration can be done using a shell in the file system, Claude can handle that.