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  • Re: Hotline servers in 2025?

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to scole on Sat May 10 18:53:41 2025
    On 2025-05-10 05:26:02 +0000, scole said:

    Inspired by the retro-friendly websites thread and seeing Gopher
    mentioned, I started thinking about another fun old system; Hotline! I haven't used it in ages, does anybody have a list of active and good
    servers?

    Haven't used Hotline in years, and didn't use it that much even then.
    Here's a few that might be still working ...

    MacOS Retro OS Hotline Servers:
    macos.retro-os.live
    macosx.retro-os.live
    macosix.retro-os.live

    System 7 Today Hotline Server:
    hotline.system7today.com

    Commodore Amiga Hotline Server:
    amigacity.xyz


    Hotline Trackers:
    tracker.preterhuman.net
    hltracker.com
    saddle.dyndns.org

    More possible servers and trackers at
    <https://hlwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page> not Mac-specific though.

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  • From Knezzen@21:1/5 to scole on Sat May 10 16:28:24 2025
    In article <[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (scole) wrote:

    Inspired by the retro-friendly websites thread and seeing Gopher
    mentioned, I started thinking about another fun old system; Hotline! I haven't used it in ages, does anybody have a list of active and good
    servers?

    I'm running hotline.system7today.com and I think it's fair to say it's
    one of the most active, if not the most active server around.

    I would recommend you to add some trackers to your Hotline client to
    find some new and awesome servers. These are the trackers I have
    configured in my Hotline clients:

    hltracker.com
    tracker.preterhuman.net
    hotline.duckdns.org
    hotline.kicks-ass.net
    saddle.dyndns.org
    tracked.agent79.org

    And try out HotStuff if you haven't already. The client I'm working on,
    so I'm a bit partial perhaps ;)

    If can be found here: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hotstuff

    Have fun! :)

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  • From Sebastian P.@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 10 16:26:52 2025
    In article <vvmt5l$3dbkn$[email protected]>, Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-10 05:26:02 +0000, scole said:

    Inspired by the retro-friendly websites thread and seeing Gopher
    mentioned, I started thinking about another fun old system; Hotline! I haven't used it in ages, does anybody have a list of active and good servers?

    Haven't used Hotline in years, and didn't use it that much even then.
    Here's a few that might be still working ...

    MacOS Retro OS Hotline Servers:
    macos.retro-os.live
    macosx.retro-os.live
    macosix.retro-os.live

    System 7 Today Hotline Server:
    hotline.system7today.com

    Commodore Amiga Hotline Server:
    amigacity.xyz


    Hotline Trackers:
    tracker.preterhuman.net
    hltracker.com
    saddle.dyndns.org

    More possible servers and trackers at <https://hlwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page> not Mac-specific though.

    Good mentions! Yes, Hotline is very much alive. I'm connected to MacDomain (hotline.system7today.com) right now, which is pretty active I'd say. Right now it has 7 users online, for example.

    There are many other servers too - definitely worth using a tracker like hltracker.com and explore the Hotline universe. Counting about three dozen+ servers right now by going through the list.

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  • From ferg@21:1/5 to Knezzen on Wed May 14 09:36:50 2025
    On Sat, 10 May 2025 16:28:24 +0200, Knezzen wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    [email protected] (scole) wrote:

    And try out HotStuff if you haven't already. The client I'm working on,
    so I'm a bit partial perhaps ;)

    If can be found here: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hotstuff


    Back in the day I'd never even heard of Hotline but as I've got back into
    Mac OS over the past few years I've played a little with Hotline on my Mac
    OS9 G4 Mac Mini. Your client looks good. Just downloaded and installed HotStuff. Will play more! Perhaps even try it out on Mac OS 7.5! Thanks!

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