[NBLUG/talk] BBS nostalgia
Jordan Erickson
jerickson at logicalnetworking.net
Wed May 13 13:35:18 PDT 2009
I remember those boards as well. Ah, BBSes. I still think about putting
one up again some day, just for fun. In the meantime, there's some
pretty cool activity here (via telnet), including active RG development:
ttb.slyip.com
(Official Renegade BBS)
gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
> Cool. I remember Dark Forces although I'm not certain that I had an account there. I was hanging out on Oceans of the Moon, City Nights and Rapture. I'm pretty sure the DarkSide is sitting in my storage locker. I could probably put in a new CMOS battery plug it in and it'd start taking calls. It's a Packard Bell 486sx25.
>
> (imagine a cute or dirty tagline here)
>
> On Wed 13/05/09 1:10 PM , Jordan Erickson jerickson at logicalnetworking.net sent:
>
>> Nice to run into you again, Gandalf. =)
>>
>> -= The Darkener =-
>>
>> (SysOp of "Dark Forces" (and later named "Innerlink")
>> BBS)
>>
>>
>> gandalf at son
>> ic.net wrote:> I was always getting eaten by grues. I guess
>> some of my first computer training were on Unix computers, the Cyber 40 and
>> PDP-11 at Sonoma State. But I first played with an Apple ][ in the 3rd
>> grade. It took quite some time to load Integer Basic from the Cassette
>> Drive and then we were programming "Hello" like crazy. Wizardry,
>> Ulitima, ASCII Star Trek, wheee! Basic then Assembly then Pascal. Now I'm
>> mostly Perl and PHP. >
>>
>>> Anybody remember Lunar Lander (text) and Lib
>>>
>> Eliza? Ohhh we loved it when we found Eamon with it's programmable
>> dungeons. When I took my first Linux class at the JC, Dane and Scott were
>> working on Nermal and Odie and Eric was a fun and weird guy who seemed to
>> know everything. My friends and I got into tradewars and I put up a BBS so
>> we could play. Then we made it better. It was called The DarkSide and I
>> used Gandalf Retlaw for my handle "28.8 it's like being at home".
>> Then the internet reared it beautiful ugly head and nothing has ever been
>> the same since to start from the beginning each time! Yack! Of course, I
>> was 5 years >
>>
>>>> old...). Didn't matter though, killing the
>>>>
>> troll each time provided much>> excitement. I remember a bug in the version
>> I had, too..from the >> beginning of the game, if you type 'run', it
>> asked "What do you want>> to run?" Reply 'me', and it jumped you
>> to the cave. Weird!>>
>>
>>>> This is just too cool: http://thcnet.net/zork/>> ...And, something that even the original
>>>>
>> Sierra devs probably would have>> never guessed would happen with their
>> creations... multiplayer online >> versions of a bunch of their original
>> games!>>
>>
>>>> http://sarien.net/>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jordan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steve Johnson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I started out with a Tandy TRS80 CoCo
>>>>>
>> the old>>>
>>
>>>> silver case one, my mum > bought it for
>>>>
>> me for xmas, and paid the>> radioshack guy a little extra > to solder
>> in more memory and took it from 4K to>> 14K :) I loved that > machine.. It is
>> the machine that introduced me>> to Zork :)>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Eventually I got a C64 and I learned to
>>>>>
>> program>>>
>>
>>>> on that, first basic, > and then
>>>>
>> assembly. I wrote a couple programs>> that had been published > in RUN
>> magazine, and worked on several projects>> that eventually got > released into
>> shareware..>>
>>
>>>>> I was known locally for my not so
>>>>>
>> legal>>>
>>
>>>> activities ;) but I was not > an uber
>>>>
>> hacker, I did hang out with a few (RT3!)>> and we did lots of > run and interesting
>> things.. That all ended>> when I got paranoid > because my buddy at
>> the time got busted for>> hacking a bank.. yikes!! > Find out your
>> friend is being held by the FBI is>> a path straightener > :) So I stuck to
>> cracking software protect..>> mainly for fun..>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Eventually I got into the IBM PC world,
>>>>>
>> and>>>
>>
>>>> pretty much stayed there > until last
>>>>
>> year.. When I bought my first mac..>> (Hey, its BSD now!!) > but since about
>> 1994 on I have run linux as my>> primary workstation, > and have worked as
>> a sysadmin in the linux world>> for just as long.>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Amazing what a 4K COCO lead to in my
>>>>>
>> life :) >>>
>>
>>>> Such an influence.. I > wish I still had
>>>>
>> it, just so I could put it on a>> pedestal and offer it > windows CD's as
>> sacrafice ;)>>
>>
>>>>> Oh the days of 40 columns, 16 colors..
>>>>>
>> How I>>>
>>
>>>> miss them.. And raster > chasing to get
>>>>
>> neat video effects.. oh>> boy...>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -Steve
>>>>>
>>>>> (Some of you may know me from the old
>>>>>
>> days...I>>>
>>
>>>> wont reveal my old bbs > handle here. ;)
>>>>
>> )>>
>>
>>>>
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