The Crow's Nest running Hermes v3.1.1 is up for the month of March during #MARCHintosh again at crowsnest.ddns.net ports 6801-6805. Now featuring 57.6k connections and a real dial-up modem connection at (612) 886-6348!
Greetings Byte Knight! Well, seeing all of these recent posts regarding Hermes II comes as quite a surprise to me, and a happy surprise at that!
I first set up my Hermes II BBS on a Mac LC III back in 1993. I ran it for a number of years until the late 90s as I recall. I was simultaneously running a Hotline server, as well as the very first version of my website.
The last time I set up Hermes II was in 2015 using this comfiguration:
El Capitan-->VirtualBox-->Mountain Lion-->SheepShaver-->Mac OS 9.0.4-->Hermes II 3.5.11
With Michael Alyn Miller's help, I downloaded the source from GitHub, and I was able to figure out how to compile 3.5.11 using my PPC iMac at the time. In fact, as far as I know, I was the only one who ever did compile 3.5.11. I really wanted 3.5.11 because it fixes some bugs that were in 3.5.10b3.
After Walter Bowen shut down the Mezzanine BBS, as far as I know, I was the only Hermes II SysOp left standing .... which is why I am so surprised to see that some folks here are breathing some new life in it.
Anyway, a few days ago, I got an urge to see if I could set up Hermes again on my current machine, so I have been trying to compile 3.5.11 on my 2019 5K iMac running Sonoma. However, I am running into some errors during the compilation. The problem is that I no longer have the in-depth instructions which I wrote for myself nine years ago when I did it last time.
I've already got SheepShaver and Mac OS 9.0.4 installed, as well as Hermes II 3.5.10b3, but as I said I'd really like to upgrade to 3.5.11, even though it means having very few externals to run, if any at all, other than Leech.
I noticed in your above comments that you mentioned that you do in fact have 3.5.11 available on your BBS. So I went to crowsnest.ddns.net port 6801 using the Firefox web browser, hoping that I could download it from you. However, I was not able to get a login screen. All I get is a web page with this:
Welcome to The Crow's Nest BBS, running Hermes II v3.1.1 on a Mac IIci!
Enter number or alias or 'NEW'
Alias/Number: GET / HTTP/1.1
Unknown User.
Enter number or alias or 'NEW'
Alias/Number: HOST: CROWSNESTBBS.DDNS.NET:680
Unknown User.
Enter number or alias or 'NEW'
Alias/Number: USER-AGENT: MOZILLA/5.0 (MACINT
Unknown User
Even if I prefix that URL with telnet://, the address is still not working. Do I need to use a telnet client in SheepShaver perhaps?
Anyway, your assistance to an old Hermes II SysOp would be greatly appreciated, either to help me compile it myself, or if I could just geta c opy of the compiled binary from you. Thanks so much. Oh, BTW, my BBS was called the Armageddon BBS. I hope you see this message soon.