bbs of old days

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by rojadruid

Yeah I have riptell for my bbs. But I have been searching for quite awhile now for a comport redirector to be able to use telnet for my BBS. I have been looking for one that is freeware, but have had no luck

what brand bbs do you have, and what OS?

[rojadruid]

Originally Posted by Angelox

what brand bbs do you have, and what OS?

I use an old BBS software called PROBOARD. Works great easy to setup and licencing was not that bad back in the day. I currently run it under winxp without any problems.

[Aramid]

Wow, BBS days.... I started on a Commodore 64 running a Punter BBS from a floppy, then expanded with some old PET Computer IEEE Floppies, then added the MSD Dual Drive and finally ended up with the LT. Kernal Hard Drives . 20 MB for 1100.00 what a bargain. lol. I ported over games from the CNET BBS and had 14 overlays that compiled in Basic. It took 3 hours on the C-64. I then got a C-128 and could compile it blind in 90 minutes. I say Blind because I entered a poke to let me compile it on the C-128 but didn't get to see the prompt screens and had to key it in blind. I had done it so many times, I knew what to put...

After some years, I switched to Wildcat BBS from Mustang Software and ran it on 3 computers with 3 phone lines. I was also an Echomail Hub and used FrontDoor as my forwarding program and used QuickBBS to run the ecohmail forums on.

Those were the days... Get an e-mail message to the west coast in 2 days...

It was fun though...

[rojadruid]

Originally Posted by Aramid

I was also an Echomail Hub and used FrontDoor as my forwarding program.

Yeah I used frontdoor as well as well the front door for years. and Fast echo as my mail tosser for echo mail.

[sdabbs65]

I want a majorbbs clone.
I have to say majormud was the best mud ever..
and it still exists after all these years for thousands of dollars.

X THANKS FOR THE TIP ON RIPTEL ver 3.1 been loking for that to port some mbbs games.

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by Aramid

Those were the days... Get an e-mail message to the west coast in 2 days...

That quote made me smile. WWIVNet, seemed so huge in the day. So many systems linked. So slow by todays comparison. What a different world we live in now, barely 20 years later.

[sdabbs65]

There are some ugly things down in these message bases; there are narcissistic ravings from pre-adolescent social misfits.
There are calls for anarchy.
There's satanism, there's racism, there's all the -isms in the book lurking in the words.
But there's hope, too. There's excitement, there's joy, there's every manner of feeling being crammed down into ASCII and posted for the world to find. It's a spectrum of humanity, and this is what I hope you'll find, buried there, among the ruins of an day when Sysops ruled the world.
I wasn't a Big Player in the Turning Points of the last 20 years, but I was a good listener and a good watcher, and I hope that what I do bring to you will both excite and intrigue and make some remember there past.
If you were there, we'll reminisce together.
And if you weren't there, do I have a story to tell you....
yes there time has come and gone...the emu place seems to be the same in some ways. and in other ways... it's totaly the same.