bbs of old days
 

anyone interested in the old bbs door games?
if so go here
telnet mudungeons.com

What games you got? I used to like Falcons Eye (when no one cheated). I got a real cool one called "Spider Gates", actually came with an editor so you could add what you wanted. Also Lore is a lot of fun.
I play all this with my Old PCBoard and Dosbox (never could figure out how to run PCB/Dosbox and the emulated modems for others to play).

games
 

I was going to run Falcons Eye but im to cheap to regester it for now.
this is the list so far.
Num │ Name
────┼──────────────────────────
1 │ Food Fight!
2 │ Synchronet Blackjack!
3 │ The Beast's Domain
4 │ Dragon's Hoard
5 │ DoorMUD v0.99
6 │ Ultimate Universe
7 │ Tradewars
8 │ Legend of the Red Dragon
9 │ BRE

I used to run a few bbs's back in the day. I loved Trade Wars and LoTRD :) My first BBS ran off of a floppy on an Atari ST lol. I will be checking yours out.

you reminded me of mine; I could afford only one HD, so I had it in one machine, then I had four other machines I put together from parts people donated to me for memberships; these had floppys - not like your Atari 120.00 shoe-box sized floppy, these were the 720 "floppys of the future" ( I had Atari too, hehe!). They were all 286 but the "server" (with the "cutting edge"20 meg HD) was a 386, the network was a Novell Lite network. I actually made a 600.00 loan so I could buy a five node PCBoard ( I had convinced my wife and myself I was on to something big!). Well, never got rich (as usual), but had a ton of fun trying, and those games were great, we lived for those silly old door games. Since games like FE were played by a number of turns daily, the BBS would light up every day at midnight with disparate players coming in to take there turns.

Ahh I love the sweet scent of nostalgia.

"The Edge; Secret Society" went online June 1986, on a Commodore 128 (in C64 mode) running C-Net BBS software and 1 floppy drive (still have the hardware). In 1988, I moved to an IBM PC 8088 with a whoppin 640k ram and TWO floppies! I got my first ever hard disk a year or so later which I think was 20mb RLL and WWIV BBS software. Moved to AZ, and put TESS back online under VBBS, where it stayed until late 1996 when I could no longer compete with the growing popularity of the Internet for users.

I still have all my software, "doors", and leet 0-1day wArEz (though they are about 5400 days old now) on my servers here... which, by comparison, are 2 x64 linux boxes, a new PE2900 server with 10 virtual machines and a total of around 5tb of storage space counting all machines.

What a change from 20 years ago, eh?

sdabbs65 - i have a question for you? what are you using as a comport redirector for the telnet ability? Or is it a built in feature of PCBoard?

http://www.synchro.net/

So cool sdabbs. Course...now I have to start my own BBS again. =P

I have this client I always used since Internet started (and still do) - although its abandon-ware, it still runs fine. I even had it runing perfect with wine under Linux, but now it doesn't work and I can't figure out why.
its's called RIPTEL ver 3.1. It easily ran all the RIP graphics-Doors. You can easily Google-Find it, or I can post a link to mine.

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?

I just downloaded it. Time to play :) Wow, I feel so nostalgic.

I downloaded an awesome documentary. I didn't buy it :( but it's packed with flashback info. I figured you guys would be intersted. Check your local torrent sites if you don't want to pay the $40-$50.

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

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.

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...

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

bbs.
 

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.

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.

20 years later
 

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.