[kolleykibber]

I pulled an Amstrad cpc464 out of the loft at the beginning of the year and headed deep down the rabbit hole. For me the most interesting thing is interfacing with modern microcontrollers. Pics, stm32, esp(s) etc. There's something about telneting to BBS over the internet from a machine from 1985. The wargames effect maybe. Standouts for the CPC include the M4 board, the dandanator and the USIFAC. I have a lot of respect for those who built these. Despite an engineering degree and a 25 year career my low level knowledge has expanded greatly from playing with these things. It's also been a lot of fun.

[albertkoz]

Amstrad is definitely one of the machines I want to buy at some point. I really like the design.

[eb0la]

Some friends discovered during quarantine their old Amstrads still worked but their monitors weren't. Don't remember if they were green phospor CRT or color.

[agent008t]

Are there any active BBS that you can still telnet to?

[kolleykibber]

There quite a lot out there, few getting much use though.

List here: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ Other interesting telnet servers include JPL: telnet horizons.jpl.nasa.gov 6775 and telehack.com.

There's even a telnet WOPR emulator: https://github.com/abs0/wargames

[browningstreet]

Do any of them give you a busy signal and make you re-telnet?