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A look at my BBS Software from '93
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Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#22I wrote a lot of BBS software starting from 1986. This was in Toronto mainly on the C64 (28k RAM… plus some available via switching out ROM using assembler), so Spence BBS was an inspiration, but with a friend we wrote software called M1 which had creative features like user contributed ongoing stories and a way to display files or run simple scripts from any command, like a shell. Eventually around 1990 it was exten…
" ... around 1993 as it became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online"
I remember "io.org" as the shortest domain name I knew in 1993 and adopted it as my default password for anonymous ftp logins.
In fact to this day if I login as anonymous on an ftp server, muscle memory dictates I type in "k@io.org" as my password.
Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#23Fellow obscure BBS software author here. Mine was Apocalypse / ApX (a hack of Havok, which was a hack of something else, which was a hack of Emulex/2, which I think was a hack of Forum?), around '92. I, too, remember recruiting ACiD guys to help out with the menu art. Ah, memories.
Weren't the vision/vision2/visionX based on forum hacks as well ? And celerity ?
All written in turbo pascal, right ?
Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know. It was on a computer that burned down in a fire. So, it's very much gone. Both that and the message archives from the bbs itself would have been a treasure trove of nostalgia.
I have the last few months of logs and messages from my bbs but have lost all of the menus.
I'm in the opposite situation, I have all the ANSI art I created but none of the Remote Access database + config files. CRC error. Oh 3.5" floppy disks, how you made storage exciting.
Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#25Fellow obscure BBS software author here. Mine was Apocalypse / ApX (a hack of Havok, which was a hack of something else, which was a hack of Emulex/2, which I think was a hack of Forum?), around '92. I, too, remember recruiting ACiD guys to help out with the menu art. Ah, memories.
Weren't the vision/vision2/visionX based on forum hacks as well ? And celerity ? All written in turbo pascal, right ?
Oblivion* also, Renegade was Pascal. This is a lot on the topic: http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/FORUM/
Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#26Anyone play TradeWars 2002? That's what I was doing in '93 on my BBS.
So much tradewars. That and Legend of the Red Dragon were my jam.
Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#27I spent an absurd amount of time modding my Renegade board, drawing ANSI, listening to the latest mods out of the demoscene and failing miserably at learning Assembly circa 1993-1996. And then IRC came along..
412/724 scene, north of Pittsburgh. Lots of good friends met on the boards, some still friends today.
Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#28Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#29Fellow obscure BBS software author here. Mine was Apocalypse / ApX (a hack of Havok, which was a hack of something else, which was a hack of Emulex/2, which I think was a hack of Forum?), around '92. I, too, remember recruiting ACiD guys to help out with the menu art. Ah, memories.
Pfft, iCE > ACiD any day of the week!
Re: A look at my BBS Software from '93
#30Re: losing BBS/source from the 90's -- I was fortunate enough to regularly back things up to QIC tape, and lo and behold, 22 years later a hacked up box restored the BBS perfectly and it ran in DosBox on my laptop. I was pleasantly surprised that it all worked immediately. Hardest part was finding parts for a floppy tape and installing the right Windows version. Seeing the ANSI art made it all worth it... https://twi…
Frankly I'm most impressed that you had a QIC drive available.