Nectarine
General » Nectarine BBS Door
Pages:
1
| Author | Thread |
|---|---|
 HappyDude Nostalgic BBS Sysop - v2.0 17 Posts #1585 (3 years ago) |
Hi Everyone, Just a crazy nostalgic beer fuelled idea (again)...  Would there be anything wrong or frowned upon if I were to write a little DOS BBS door that read the https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/xml/queue/ endpoint and allowed users of the BBS to see the currently playing song/artist? Perhaps more? I'd love to have my DOS, RemoteAccess based BBS display the currently playing Nectarine Tuna to the thousands of users I get logging in each day... ok 4 or 5... Aaron/HD |
| Quote | |
|
HappyDude Nostalgic BBS Sysop - v2.0 17 Posts #1586 (3 years ago) |
Little update... Since I didn't receive any objections (yet) I've been developing the door and have the first public version working   It uses CURL (for DOS) to connect to the queue endpoint and then parses the resulting XML to extract the currently playing song & artist (could take it further to get the requester, upcoming, etc...). It then writes the song and artist variables into a text file surrounded by embedded ANSI colour control codes to make the text look pretty. When the BBS displays the Demoscene ANSI menu, an embedded control code attaches the text file and displays the contents in glorious 16 colours! The song/artist text file is updated each time a caller first requests the Demoscene menu. So far no rate control issues... I'll have to deal with that when my BBS reaches 1000 callers per day... Once it's polished, I'll put the code up for download on my BBS.. don't all rush to get it at once! I only have 2 nodes... I'd wager this may be the first RemoteAccess BBS DOS door written in decades. lol |
| Quote | |
|
HappyDude Nostalgic BBS Sysop - v2.0 17 Posts #1596 (2 years, 12 months ago) |
A little display line cleanup and faster parsing/trimming of the raw XML data. 
|
| Quote | |
 A1200680301 Posts #1597 (2 years, 12 months ago) |
Very cool
|
| Quote |
Pages:
1
Post a Reply
Please log in to post a reply.