JetBBS was my favorite. I can directly trace being a sysop to a career as a sysadmin.

Ran a few single line BBSs in the 90s using RemoteAccess. Even met Andrew Milner, the developer, when the largest BBS in town, Motor City, flew him in from Australia for a meet and greet. Me and my buddy were the only two 14 year olds there! So much nostalgia for this time! Thanks for the trip

@TheParallelPort

Ай бұрын

Very cool, didn't know RA was from Australia!

@nickwallette6201

6 күн бұрын

I thought _everyone_ into BBSes was like 14 years old.

Back in the day, I had strong feelings about BBS software. haha It seemed like Renegade was used by all the boards that wanted to look all "underground" and edgy. Wildcat! was bougie. PCBoard was like a BBS in a button-up shirt and a starched collar. I was all about Osiris XLT. Not the most flexible, full-featured, or for that matter, stable. But it had the character I liked in a BBS package. ;-D

I remember using PCBoard around 94-95, looking for nice demos and ansi graphics for the bbs on magazine cd's (no internet for me at that era). I also remember using RIPTerm 1.54 and connecting to an multiuser BBS with RIP graphics and about 50 concurrent users!

@TheParallelPort

Ай бұрын

Oh neat, there is a current project to build a modern replacement to PCBoard with support for PPEs called IcyBoard

I had a MajorBBS system. Cost a pretty penny and I modded it to hell and back. It was a hoot.

My favorite door game back on the day was Lord (legend of red dragon), if my memory serves me well

This is AWESOME! I used to run a BBS using WWIV.

This takes me back (almost 30 years!). I was a big fan of CNet Amiga, but I didn't have an Amiga, so I modded Renegade (and later Telegard) to look like CNet.

I have been playing with idea to setup a Wildcat BBS, I ran Wildcat and WINs from Version 2.6 up to 8.0 as a full ISP. Excellent hobby lost.

I set up a BBS back in the day for the sole purpose of being able to reset my turns in LORD and LORD2. 😂😂

I saw references to OS\2, would be interesting to see an IBM PC\Server running a BBS

I liked RemoteAccess and PCBoard. Those were mostly used here in Sweden. I might set one up as well.

@exception360

Ай бұрын

Oh man, the memories! I loved creating doors and other tools for RemoteAccess in Borland Pascal. 🥰

Two door games in try out when setting up a BBS for S&Gs are BRE and LoRD II. BRE can be annoying, since it picky about DOS. LoRD II has real time multiplayer. BRE was a pain to run outside of real DOS. LoRD needed SHARE.EXE and did multip

I used to run RemoteAccess 2.04 on 486 hardware. Then, wan the board on Windows 95 - didn’t make it to XP as BBSes were “dead” by then (Internet popularity)

7zip is your friend

i am at the moment setting up an mystic bbs that is a little simpler as it has the telnet server embedded into the daemon.

@TheParallelPort

Ай бұрын

That's awesome, yes, Mystic is much more modern and has a great community around it today!

Why install Telegard when you used to run the newer upgraded bbs: Renegade? Are the Renegade installers no longer available?

@TheParallelPort

Ай бұрын

Fortunately there are many recent builds of Renegade that work very well. We just wanted to start off with something different than Renegade, Telegard is closely related and was another popular option back in the 90s. We'll be getting in-depth with Renegade soon!

I got telnet disabled, port 23 blocked. maybe on a play computer its ok but not your "banking computer"

It's so annying to see you type ".exe" you DO know that you're not supposed to do that, right? :)

@TheParallelPort

Ай бұрын

😝