ICE BBS - Up and running!

[wiskow]

Another C= program has been rescued from oblivion!  I came into posession of what may very well be the last existing copy of a BBS program, written in 1987, called ICE BBS (Interactive Communications Exchange Bulletin Board System), along with the original manual.  This BBS program was inspired by an early version of C-Net BBS.  It's ASCII-only, but is a very well written program.  I was so impressed with it that I decided to see if I could get it to run via Telnet.  I tracked down the program's original author, got his permission to release the software and manual to the Public Domain, and with his help, I was able to figure out the necessary changes that had to be made to get it up and running via Telnet.

For the past couple months, I've had a second BBS, called Cottonwood II, running on Ivory BBS software.  This BBS has not been as successful as I might have hoped, so I decided to change this over to ICE BBS.  You can now call in and check out this forgotten piece of Commodore history at telnet://cottonwood.servebbs.com:6400 ...  For more information, check out the BBS's website at http://cottonwood.servebbs.com ...  Please note:  Due to the fact this this software is ASCII-only, you must call in with an ASCII-capable terminal program.  In other words, CGTERM will NOT work.

-Andrew

[RedWolf]

Another C= program has been rescued from oblivion!  I came into posession of what may very well be the last existing copy of a BBS program, written in 1987, called ICE BBS (Interactive Communications Exchange Bulletin Board System), along with the original manual.  This BBS program was inspired by an early version of C-Net BBS.  It's ASCII-only, but is a very well written program.  I was so impressed with it that I decided to see if I could get it to run via Telnet.  I tracked down the program's original author, got his permission to release the software and manual to the Public Domain, and with his help, I was able to figure out the necessary changes that had to be made to get it up and running via Telnet.

For the past couple months, I've had a second BBS, called Cottonwood II, running on Ivory BBS software.  This BBS has not been as successful as I might have hoped, so I decided to change this over to ICE BBS.  You can now call in and check out this forgotten piece of Commodore history at telnet://cottonwood.servebbs.com:6400 ...  For more information, check out the BBS's website at http://cottonwood.servebbs.com ...  Please note:  Due to the fact this this software is ASCII-only, you must call in with an ASCII-capable terminal program.  In other words, CGTERM will NOT work.

-Andrew

Great work, Andrew.  You should contact Jason Scott about your BBS software find.  He maintains a list/archive of BBS software ( http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/ ) and he could add yours (including a disk image of the software and/or scan of the manual) to his list.  I'm sure he'll be happy to have it.

I'll try to call it some time.

[wiskow]

Great work, Andrew.  You should contact Jason Scott about your BBS software find.  He maintains a list/archive of BBS software ( http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/ ) and he could add yours (including a disk image of the software and/or scan of the manual) to his list.  I'm sure he'll be happy to have it.

I'll try to call it some time.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll definately contact him.  Before I release the software, however, I want to finish scanning the manual.  It's a 112-page printed manual, so it's going to take some time to finish it.  The manual really is required to make use of this program...

-Andrew

[RedWolf]

Great work, Andrew.  You should contact Jason Scott about your BBS software find.  He maintains a list/archive of BBS software ( http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/ ) and he could add yours (including a disk image of the software and/or scan of the manual) to his list.  I'm sure he'll be happy to have it.

I'll try to call it some time.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll definately contact him.  Before I release the software, however, I want to finish scanning the manual.  It's a 112-page printed manual, so it's going to take some time to finish it.  The manual really is required to make use of this program...

-Andrew

Wow.  That is one heck of a manual, especially for BBS software.

On the other hand, I remember printing out the entire WWIV BBS manual back in the day.  I still have it in a binder somewhere.  It was about 100 pages or so.