Documentation for the Kalgoorlie Retro BBS, its games and servers https://kalretro.au/docs/ Thu, 12 Nov 2026 04:46:40 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://kalretro.au/docs/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg https://kalretro.au/docs/ https://kalretro.au/docs/sidebar?rev=1794448823&do=diff Home For sysops * Link your BBS to our LORD Server * Join our Door Hub Door Hub * Overview * Joining a hub * The connector * Synchronet set-up * Mystic and others * Running a hub * Hub on Linux * Hub on Windows * Settings * Games * Member BBSes * Players * Internet and security * Logs and backups * Command reference * Troubleshooting * Source and building * Version history The Broken Seal * Overview * Multi-player games * Installing * Saves … slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:00:23 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/saltbush/start?rev=1794448823&do=diff Saltbush Terminal Saltbush Terminal is a tabbed terminal for Windows and Linux with saved sessions in folders and split panes. Version 1.9.3 connects over SSH2 (built-in engine or the OpenSSH client), RDP (Windows Remote Desktop), SFTP, Telnet, RLogin, raw TCP, serial ports and local shells, and has a two-pane SFTP browser and an SSH agent window. It has a BBS Directory with the Synchronet BBS List and the Telnet BBS Guide, and calls BBSes with a proper DOS screen, the VGA font, Zmodem, Ymodem,… slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:00:23 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/saltbush/installing?rev=1794448823&do=diff Installing Saltbush Terminal Get version 1.9.3 from the download page. Both platforms are 64-bit. Windows Download saltbush-1.9.3-windows-x64-setup.exe and run it. It asks who Saltbush is for: * Just for me installs under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Saltbush Terminal slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:00:23 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/saltbush/history?rev=1794448823&do=diff Saltbush Terminal: version history 1.9.3 (2026-11-12) Added * Windows installer: choose Just for me (your own profile, no administrator rights, as before) or Everyone on this computer (Program Files and a Start menu entry for every user; Windows asks for administrator rights). An update keeps the choice made last time; slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:00:23 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/saltbush/building?rev=1794448823&do=diff Building Saltbush Terminal from source Saltbush Terminal is written in Rust. Download saltbush-1.9.3-source.tar.gz from the download page. Linux Install Rust (rustup), a C compiler and the libssh development files (libssh-dev on Debian/Ubuntu), then: tar xf saltbush-1.9.3-source.tar.gz cd saltbush-1.9.3-source cargo test cargo build --release ./target/release/saltbush slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Thu, 12 Nov 2026 02:00:23 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/start?rev=1794440521&do=diff Kalgoorlie Retro Docs Documentation for the Kalgoorlie Retro BBS and the software that runs on it and around it. Start with one of the sections below, or use the search box at the top of the page. For sysops Link your BBS to our LORD Server. Your callers can play Legend of the Red Dragon with players from other boards, straight from a door on your BBS. Sign up for a key and add it to Synchronet, Mystic or other BBS software: slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 23:42:01 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/openscrantic/start?rev=1794440521&do=diff Johnny Castaway (open-scrantic) Screen Antics: Johnny Castaway was a Windows 3.1 screensaver made by Dynamix and published by Sierra in 1992: a man stranded on a tiny island who fishes, builds sandcastles, waves at passing ships and works through a story over many days. The original no longer runs on modern Windows. slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 23:42:01 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/saltbush/sftp?rev=1794409180&do=diff SFTP browser and SSH agent SFTP browser Right-click an SSH session in the Session Manager and choose SFTP Browser…, or choose Transfer → SFTP Browser… while an SSH tab is active. The browser logs in with the built-in SSH engine; questions such as a new host key, a password or a key passphrase appear in the window, with an slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:59:40 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/saltbush/bbs?rev=1794409180&do=diff BBSes, file transfers and the SyncTERM list The BBS Directory [The BBS Directory] The BBS Directory is a dialling directory of BBS systems, kept apart from your saved sessions, like the one in SyncTERM. Open it with the BBS Directory button on the toolbar (the book), slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:59:40 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/yunhe/start?rev=1794403006&do=diff Banners of Yunhe Banners of Yunhe is a turn-based strategy game written for Kalgoorlie Retro Gaming. The Jade Court has fallen silent, and six houses raise their banners across Yunhe, a realm of 18 cities. You lead one house in the campaign The Broken Seal slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/yunhe/saves?rev=1794403006&do=diff Banners of Yunhe saves Slots and the autosave Save / Load in the top bar (or Load a saved game on the title screen) has ten save slots and an autosave. The game autosaves at the start of each of your turns and before each battle. If an autosave ever fails, a message offers to try again or to export the game to a file, and the previous autosave is kept. slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/yunhe/installing?rev=1794403006&do=diff Installing Banners of Yunhe The browser edition Nothing to install: open <https://kalretro.au/yunhe/play/> in a recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Sound starts after your first click or key press (browsers allow sound only then). Saves are kept in the browser: see Saves. The desktop edition slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/yunhe/building?rev=1794403006&do=diff Banners of Yunhe source and licence Licence Copyright (C) 2026 Michael Slater. Banners of Yunhe is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any later version. It comes with no warranty. The full licence is in slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/sengoku/start?rev=1794403006&do=diff Sengoku: Road to Unification Sengoku is a turn-based strategy game set in sixteenth-century Japan, written for Kalgoorlie Retro Gaming. You lead one of 28 clans in the 1560 or 1582 scenario. Each province has a governor and up to seven samurai, each with his own abilities, body points and men, and you appoint one for every order: govern your provinces or delegate them to governors, raise and train soldiers, trade at the market, recruit ronin and your rivals' samurai, make marriages, alliances, … slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/sengoku/online?rev=1794403006&do=diff Multi-player games Multi-player games are played online, in the browser edition: open <https://kalretro.au/sengoku/> and choose Multi-Player game on the title screen (7 once you have played; 6 the first time, before Continue appears). The game runs on the website's server, so you can come back to it from any computer. The desktop edition has no online games, but in both editions up to nine people can take turns at one computer. slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/sengoku/installing?rev=1794403006&do=diff Installing Browser edition Nothing to install: open <https://kalretro.au/sengoku/> in a recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Keyboard, mouse and touch all work. The music starts at the first key press or click, because browsers require that. F, or the button at the top right of the page, shows the game full screen. slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/sengoku/history?rev=1794403006&do=diff Version history 1.7.0 (7 November 2026) * You defend your own provinces: when a computer clan marches on one of them, you are asked after the month whether to lead the defence on the battle field or leave it to your generals. Leading it, your units hold the castle; you may call in reserves, or give up the castle and leave with your men. slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:46 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/riveroath/start?rev=1794403005&do=diff River Oath River Oath is a turn-based strategy game written for Kalgoorlie Retro Gaming. The River Intendancy of the Lian Empire has stolen the dike money, and the old flood-markers say the Great Flood will come in the seventh month of the twentieth year. You lead a band of outlaws on the Long Jade river and its two branches: win the people over with deeds that become tales, steal and expose the officials' ledgers, raid their garrisons on a hex battle field with boats and river current, and bri… slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:45 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/riveroath/online?rev=1794403005&do=diff River Oath multi-player games Multi-player games are played in the browser edition, at <https://kalretro.au/riveroath/play/>. Choose Multi-Player game on the title screen. Players and games * Make a player: a name, a password and (if you want the emails) an email address. River Oath has its own players, separate from Sengoku and The Broken Seal. slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:45 +0000 https://kalretro.au/docs/riveroath/installing?rev=1794403005&do=diff Installing River Oath The browser edition Nothing to install: open <https://kalretro.au/riveroath/play/> in a recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. The music starts after your first key press or click (browsers allow sound only then). F switches full screen. Saves are kept in the browser: see slaterm@undisclosed.example.com (slaterm) Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:16:45 +0000