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  • Re: BBS'ing

    From Dumas Walker@1:2320/105 to NICK ANDRE on Sat Jun 4 10:41:00 2022
    I keep hearing from many people that Chicago had *the* scene, possibly the biggest in the country at one time. Toronto had a big one but nothing compared
    to some other American cities.

    Houston, TX, was huge. I never lived there but, if I called a board LD it
    was probably there. They had over 100 active nodes in the GT Power Network at one point.

    Mike


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  • From Dumas Walker@1:2320/105 to NICK ANDRE on Sat Jun 4 10:28:00 2022
    RBBS, that was the one written in Quickbasic? *That* was impressive.

    I think so. If not Quickbasic, some other *basic. The source is/used to
    be available on the web somewhere. I thought about downloading it and
    seeing what, if anything, I could do with it. That is still on my
    'RoundToIt list. :)

    Mike


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  • From Dumas Walker@1:2320/105 to ANDRE ROBITAILLE on Sat Jun 4 10:42:00 2022
    I've heard bits and pieces about different software influencing each other. I st liked the menu system a lot more than other stuff out there, and I enjoyed ing able to modify the source. And WWIVnet offered a lot to me because of the aller community in my city...

    But then I switched high schools and got a girlfriend, so the BBS never recove
    d.

    You mentioning high school and WWIV got me thinking. There were not too
    many long-running WWIV boards in the area I lived in c1988-1997. Most of
    them were were like Commodore boards... up for a while and then
    disappeared. But there was one that was up for most of that period, until BBSing started to wane. It was run by one of the local high school
    computer departments. Considering that kids are only in high school so
    long before moving on, looking back I am surprised it stayed active for more than 4 years.


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  • From Daniel Path@2:371/52 to Nick Andre on Sat Jun 4 22:00:05 2022
    Hello Nick,

    03 Jun 22 18:15, you wrote to me:

    On 03 Jun 22 22:09:22, Daniel Path said the following to Nick Andre:

    I know theres some Max diehards out there... for a good
    reason, that software apparently was a dream to run on OS/2.

    you're right. it was very good on DOS, but when i switched to OS/2
    it was a whole new world opening :)

    The ones who had the Max/Squish/Binkleyterm combo were *diehards*.
    Those guys swore by it, never at it.

    i had binkleyterm in the first 1-2 years, but at a point i switched to Xenia, i think it was when i transferred all my stuff to OS/2 and some issues occured with Binkley..

    Regards,
    --
    dp

    telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-

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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Nick Andre on Sat Jun 4 14:39:13 2022
    Re: Re: BBS'ing
    By: Nick Andre to Andre Robitaille on Fri Jun 03 2022 06:12 pm

    On 03 Jun 22 13:51:13, Andre Robitaille said the following to Nick Andre:

    I never really saw any WWIV or even any Tag systems in my area, ever.

    There were only a few boards in my small town, and mine was WWIV because yo could buy the source. My friend had Hermes (WWIV mac clone), and I was alwa jealous of the much better configuration system. But having access to bette doors and WWIVNet gave me a huge advantage.

    I heard the source of WWIV was available, pretty sure thats what influenced Renegade and some others. Mark Hoffman I believe still runs Wwivnet? I helped him add the INTL kludge to Netmail.

    More than "influenced": Renegade, Telegard, TAG and many other BBS programs of the era are actual hacks/rip-offs of the WWIV v3 Pascal source code.
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  • From Andre Robitaille@1:154/70 to Dumas Walker on Sat Jun 4 17:14:44 2022
    You mentioning high school and WWIV got me thinking. There were not too many long-running WWIV boards in the area I lived in c1988-1997. Most of them were were like Commodore boards... up for a while and then disappeared. But there was one that was up for most of that period, until BBSing started to wane. It was run by one of the local high school computer departments. Considering that kids are only in high school so long before moving on, looking back I am surprised it stayed active for more than 4 years.

    I seem to have left the scene right as it was spinning up. Last night I remembered that the was one board in the area that was a Fido node, so I started looking up old nodelists. You can see this explosion of BBSes around like 1991-1994, and then a they started all disappearing right around the time the first ISP showed up.

    Apparently I missed the heyday of having lots of boards to call.


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  • From Zero Reader@1:123/525 to Rob Swindell on Sat Jun 4 19:02:37 2022
    On 04 Jun 2022, Rob Swindell said the following...

    More than "influenced": Renegade, Telegard, TAG and many other BBS programs of the era are actual hacks/rip-offs of the WWIV v3 Pascal
    source code. --

    I'm curious what parts of WWIV they ended up using, because from an end-user view, those packages seem very different from WWIV. I never used WWIV when it was written in Pascal -- so I don't know how different it was from the C version -- which I am very familiar with.

    I think it's only been fairly recently that WWIV has created a menu editing system along the lines of RG/TG.

    I really find the history and evolution of these packages interesting.

    -Andrew Haworth

    ... Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives

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  • From Glenn Rossi@1:275/301 to Dumas Walker on Sat Jun 4 19:43:18 2022
    On 6/4/2022 10:28 AM, Dumas Walker wrote:
    RBBS, that was the one written in Quickbasic? *That* was impressive.

    I think so. If not Quickbasic, some other *basic. The source is/used to
    be available on the web somewhere. I thought about downloading it and
    seeing what, if anything, I could do with it. That is still on my
    'RoundToIt list. :)

    Mike


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    I've used QuickBasic, TurboBasic, and IBM Basic to compile RBBS-PC.

    I'm currently using QuickBasc 7.1 on modified RBBS-PC 17.4 with the
    Cellar Door 2000 mods.
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  • From Matt Munson@1:218/109 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Jun 7 19:12:52 2022
    BY: Kurt Weiske(1:218/700)


    Can confirm. I ran Max/2 for several years. Low overhead when running on
    a
    properly multitasking BBS, and what I liked about it was being able to
    make
    changes to file areas and message areas in a text editor.
    Copying/pasting
    new areas, reordering them and changing naming conventions was a breeze.
    When MS stops supporting Windows 10/32, I might have to consider ArcaNoae or Linux. Or maybe there will be a dosemu for win64.


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  • From Matt Munson@1:218/109 to Nick Andre on Tue Jun 7 19:13:59 2022
    BY: Nick Andre(1:229/426)


    Okay I'm game to stir it up. Your favourite BBS software NOT Mystic or Synchronet. Am a huge fan of Renegade, TBBS, Searchlight and MajorBBS.
    WWIV, WinServer



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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Matt Munson on Wed Jun 8 08:16:00 2022
    Matt Munson wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    When MS stops supporting Windows 10/32, I might have to consider
    ArcaNoae or Linux. Or maybe there will be a dosemu for win64.

    There is a 16-bit VXD for 64-bit Windows that seems to work pretty well from what I've heard.


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  • From Jas Hud@1:103/705 to Kurt Weiske on Wed Jun 8 15:58:35 2022
    To: Kurt Weiske
    Re: Re: BBS'ing
    By: Kurt Weiske to Matt Munson on Wed Jun 08 2022 08:16 am

    Matt Munson wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    When MS stops supporting Windows 10/32, I might have to consider ArcaNoae or Linux. Or maybe there will be a dosemu for win64.

    There is a 16-bit VXD for 64-bit Windows that seems to work pretty well from what I've heard.


    i wouldn't trust it.
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