Hotline!

[fogWraith]

I tried it @fogWraith , on my Mac Plus. Looks and works great!
Hopefully peeps start running servers full of interesting mac files, games, shareware, art and .mod!

It does have some advantages over FTP, makes things a fair bit more entertaining at the same time ... and it's very close to feature-complete

if it had version control(somehow) it'd be a nice development tool!

That would be something, but most likely something for both the server side and client side to agree upoin, which is slightly out of scope at this time... for code purposes, I would advice looking towards Amend and AmendHub

 

[fogWraith]

The "final" version of Liteline is being released sometime today, as it is finally what I consider "feature complete". Version is being bumped to 1.0 and moving forward I think fixes and tweaks will be the focus area if reports come in.

In other news, the server, Janus, has reached a point where it has received updating capabilities... there is no longer a need to download the full package with every new release. One also gets to read a changelog as well.

The Hermes client is also being retired and replaced with Zephyr, after quite some time of working on this it has reached a point where I feel comfortable enough to have something to present at least in the near future.

 

[fogWraith]

For anyone interested, there have been some pretty large updates / changes and additions lately to my server and client (Hermes > Zephyr).

On the client side,
Hermes was retired a ways back and has since been surpassed by Zephyr, moving from a reference client showcasing features to a more proper Hotline client which is macOS (12+) exclusive. While it would be nice to make it cross-platform, I just do not feel like testing on more than one platform.

There are a lot of nifty little features, but I'll leave that to be discovered by potential users... a new version might drop in the near future with a fairly large and interesting feature as well - something nice, niche and ready for discovery.

Overall, a polished and nice experience for any Hotline user coming from the official later clients. And of course, it's available for Intel, ARM and as a universal binary - signed and notarized.

On the server side,
If I haven't mentioned yet, there is now not only voice chat available, but also video and screen sharing, extended privilege bitmap support, ranged download support as well as server linking (ooh, aah). These are but a few of the improvements and something that Zephyr takes full advantage of.

It's not just new fancy features that's in the spotlight either, there have been (where discovered) plenty of security updates made to ease the minds of any operator running the server, which includes myself.

A new version of the server is also coming sometime soon, which combines an earlier project of mine with Hotline. Though the project had been meant as something standalone for VesperNet, it is being realized through the Hotline server instead.

 

[fogWraith]

And here it is, the new version of the server is ready and available.

Apart from the minor fixes and adjustments there is the thing mentioned in the previous post - something I had worked on for VesperNet that would be standalone, but found its way into the server code. This is mostly because a lot of components are essentially free on the server side.

Telnet BBS!
So, not only can it serve Hotline users with their newfangled graphical clients, it is also possible to use a telnet (ssh is also available) client, or why not SyncTERM or any other fancy client for that matter? It's there, it works. Standard ASCII and Color support, heck, there's even support for doors. The latter can be written in everyones favourite language, Lua.

Again, the basics are there - chat, good old message board, threaded news discussions, private messaging, online users etc.
Heck, there's even file up/down support, currently ZMODEM, but XMODEM and YMODEM is in the works.

Boop!