NULL mag Issue 04 02 News from the scene

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null magazine

 · 26 Dec 2020

  

::s c e n e:: 
A new emag/newsletter (will see in the future what is exactly :) ) 
released from apam! its called Splat! and you can get it at: 
                   
                  https://magickabbs.com/files/splat/101/   

 
::s o f t w a r e:: 
g00r00 is back in developing mystic bbs and nuskooler is on fire 
making updates for enigma 1/2... ahhh... that's the spirit... :) 
many new features and bug fixes... 

i released xansiviewer, which is a quick and dirty, ansi viewer. i  
built it mainly because in linux we don't have many (almost none)  
ansi viewer apps. give it a try at http://github.com/xqtr/xansiviewer 
not so great and for sure i will give it more work when i got the time, 
but it does the job, for now. 

 
::g r o u p s:: 
Phenom (http://www.phenomprod.com/index.html) keeps doing stuff.  
great job! they are developing mods for various systems and also some 
new door games. some snapshots of game screens are awesome!  

i was busy the last months doing some bbs/scene stuff... so i made the  
snippet project, which is a revive of the old SWAG project  
[swag.delphidabbler.com/]. its a way to store and look offline for source code. 
you can use the snippet project to store info and source code for various  
things, like programming languages, scripts, raspberry pi solutions, linux tips 
and even more. you can find it here: https://github.com/xqtr/snippet 

the xbbslist is another project of mine. its a way for bbses to provide info 
to users and also keep a 100% correct, list of available/live bbses. each bbs 
sends a data packet, which is being collected from the main program and tracks 
the bbs info. you can get it here: https://github.com/xqtr/xBBSList 
it can be used with multiple networks. this way all bbses from various nets can 
be listed. 

at last, i made a rewrite (i suppose) of an idea originally g00r00 had and  
implemented in netrunner. i made a crt unit, which uses sdl2 graphics. this way 
we can build ansi/ascii related apps, without the need of a terminal that  
supports the cp437 codepage, which is very rare lately. 
   

 
::w w w:: 

have you seen these? 

https://www.insentricity.com/index.cl 

https://int10h.org/blog/ 

 
::r e t r o   s t u f f:: 
portal for c64 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxjHjFXvwM 

PS classic hacked. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBmSn-IU2TY 

Wifi on a 1992 Apple Mac & BBS fun [ Tech Nibble ] 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvC7K5DRSDA 

Amiga 1500 Trash To Treasure 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGGH_TUR6O4 

Make a modern modem with RPi to connect old computers to the Net 
http://mygpslostitself.blogspot.com/2017/07/ 
raspberry-pi-zero-w-serial-modem.html 

 
::i n t e r e s t i n g:: 
Hacking Competition in Zhengzhou China 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S_TXaGYD8E 

Lets hack a BBS... sort of... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62bqnwpSb0 

Amstrad CPC 6128 - RS-232 Communications 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBffMYpfss 

Amiga 500 on the Internet via Null Modem Cable and Raspberry Pi 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEonOb5SkEg 

Saturday Morning Cartoons Aren't Gone, You Just Have to Know Where to Look 
https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/270/ 
saturday-morning-cartoons-arent-gone-you-just-have-to-know-where-to-look 
  
::p a r t i e s:: 

High Coast Hack 2019 Winter - 3rd - 6th January 2019 
Harnosands Kommun, Vasternorrland, Sweden 

MAGFest Demoparty 2019 - 3rd - 6th January 2019 
National Harbor, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States 

DiHalt 2019 Lite - 4th - 6th January 2019 
Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizjnij Novgorod, Russia 

SynchroNY 2019 - 11th - 12th January 2019 
Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

ExCeSs Meeting 2019 - 18th - 20th January 2019 
Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany 

Demobit 2019 - 1st - 3rd February 2019 
Bratislavsky kraj, Bratislavsky, Slovakia 

Gerp 2019 - 1st - 3rd February 2019 
Skovde Kommun, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden 

KozMOS 2019 - 1st - 3rd February 2019 
Finland 

BCC Party 2019 - 22nd - 24th February 2019 
Land Berlin, Berlin, Germany 

Instanssi 2019 - 28th February - 3rd March 2019 
Jyvaskyla, Central Finland, Finland 

Fjalldata 2019 - 1st - 3rd March 2019 
Ostersunds Kommun, Jamtland, Sweden 

Forever 2019 - 15th - 17th March 2019 
Horna Suca, Nitriansky, Slovakia 

Revision 2019 - 19th - 22nd April 2019 
Regionalverband Saarbrucken, Saarland, Germany 

JagNES [Fest] 2019 - 27th April - 4th May 2019 
Mermet, Powiat starogardzki, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland 

Moonshine Dragons 2019 - 17th - 19th May 2019 
Wojewodztwo Opolskie, Opole Voivodeship, Poland  

...more at: https://demozoo.org/parties/ 

 
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