BBS on the Ret

[acehoss]

With r n s h becoming more usable by the day, I thought it would be fun to open something up on Testnet that folks could connect to using it. Install r n s h and stop on down to play a classic game of minesweeper! (that's under External Programs > Games on the main menu)

If you've installed nomadnet (and are running at least Python 3.9 on macOS, Linux, Android, or WSL), you should hopefully not have too much trouble. pip3 install rnsh

After that, connecting is as simple as running rnsh feda42292d882c5586e548d79b5af27b

At this point I don't really have much of the proper BBS stuff set up. The main purpose is to test r n s h a little harder. It's still very fresh software and there are certainly bugs--but without testing, we won't find them! If you run into any issues--particularly issues that you can replicate multiple times with the same steps--let me know on the r n s h GitHub page.

UPDATE 2023-03-08

rnsh v0.0.13 is now required to connect to the BBS. Run pip3 install -U rnsh to update. As part of the update, the destination hash changed. The hash is unchanged,feda42292d882c5586e548d79b5af27b .

[4c3e]

This is awesome! Nice work!

[Erethon]

Just want to say again congrats and good job on writing rnsh! I tested the BBS again over a LoRa connection using two RNodes and it provides a pretty authentic BBS experience due to the low speeds ^_^.

Here's a webm showing the BBS loading in real time
Peek 2023-02-20 16-30.webm

[markqvist]

This is really quite something :) Well done @acehoss! I've had a few sessions and everything worked flawlessly. It's the first time I've played minesweeper in ages :)

[faragher]

This is exactly what I hoped the concept would evolve into. The BBS was designed for exactly this kind of system, a plurality of severs with relatively swift bulk data synchronizations, all connecting to individual stations with a slow uplink.

Amazing and thank you.

[acehoss]

UPDATE 2023-02-22

rnsh v0.0.12 is now required to connect to the BBS. Run pip3 install -U rnsh to update. As part of the update, the destination hash changed. The old hash (beginning with 14) will no longer work, use the hash feda42292d882c5586e548d79b5af27b.