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omg you've made it worse! juuuust kidding lol... let's see... so, assuming a default config with the 64 emulator, x64sc or whatever the binary is called... (not at my computer). you should be able to just change to 1541 drive (presumeably 1541ii would work also), enable rs232 on one of the ports, set speeds to 300 baud. nothing else, just a fresh NTSC machine. have tcpser running with the basics, -v 25232 - p 6400 -s 300 -S300 -l 4 -t mM -i"s0=0" Insert the 3.1 disk, and load "set up" to create the...

omg you've made it worse! juuuust kidding lol... let's see... so, assuming a default config with the 64 emulator, x64sc or whatever the binary is called... (not at my computer). you should be able to just change to 1541 drive (presumeably 1541ii would work also), enable rs232 on one of the ports, set speeds to 300 baud. nothing else, just a fresh NTSC machine. have tcpser running with the basics, -v 25232 - p 6400 -l 4 -t mM -i"s0=0" Insert the 3.1 disk, and load "set up" to create the data disk....

It hangs whenever it tries to access the disk, after you've run the program and entered the date/time etc. You can call in as a remote caller, and after entering "y" to the linefeed question it will try to access the disk to display a bulletin and crash. If you didn't enable the bulletin it will crash right after you create a new account when it tries to access the disk. Seems like any sort of disk access will get hung up. CTRL-D from the waiting for call prompt should offer a way to exit gracefully...

Sure. It's old BBS software. You'll have to set up a tcpser connection before it will initialize. The software queries the modem right at the start and won't continue until it sees a response. I'll attach it here, I guess? let me know if you want the tcpser init string that I use along with the ip232 settings that seem to be required. Once you mount the disk, you'll have to load "set up" and create a data disk. After that's created, you can run "blue board up" and follow along. thanks in advance...

Infinite loop.