Comments on: My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: Brian

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:20:19 +0000

dialup to an old school 'retro style' bbs with music - demos - games and more!

TMS BBS @ (201)-471-2205

Note: Board maybe busy, keep dialing in

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: jas

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:53:45 +0000

just wanted to let everybody know that bbsing is still alive in some form, via telnet.

there's a list of bbses here http://telnetbbsguide.com/

you have to weed through a bunch to find decent bbses, but it's worth it.
Also check out http://www.myspace.com/bbses for more bbs information, especially for those
people that are using vista, you have to enable the telnet client.

a good client is mt32, you can get it at http://ozone.eesc.com

i'd like to see more GOOD people in the bbs scene, so i'm working on getting people involved again!

have a good one!

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: RedWolf

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:55:56 +0000

DarkBringer. That's awesome — thanks for sharing your BBS memories with us. Actually, I currently have a Synchonet BBS online via telnet. It's not much, but it has some games and you can check it out here:

telnet to "cavebbs.homeip.net" port 23

Thanks again.

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: DarkBringer

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:31:21 +0000

I just found this site tonight while surfing around for retro games. I got into the BBS scene kind of late, around '93 at the age of 24, which is when I got my first PC, a 486SX-25 with a 210MB HD and 2MB ram. My cousin convinced me to get a modem, so I got this internal Zoon 2100 baud job and I learned how to overcome the nightmare of com ports and modems and serial mice, lol. About a week later I was running a single node RA BBS call The DarkLands. After a month of that I got Synchronet, a 16 node license and 4 brand new phone lines and 4 brand new 14.4 modems. Ahhh those were the days. Anyone run a Synchronet BBS? It was so cool, using Baja to make your own custom screens and crap. Remember THE DRAW? lol. How about loading up Quemm and Deskview so that you could multitask?
LORD was cool, TW was cool, LOD was cool……but I loved one of the last games that came out right as the BBS started to die to the internet, Exitilus.

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: Brian Jepson’s Weblog » Blog Archive » On the BBS, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Wolf

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:25:50 +0000

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Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: Jay Battle

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:14:05 +0000

Sadly, I was the only person that I ever knew that used BBS's… I did meet a friend off of one ten years ago, but I know no one else.. heh

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: RedWolf

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:34:44 +0000

Hehe..I love Telix, still use it to this day. But you won't need that — there's a great telnet program called CRT that is perfect for telnet BBSes and for playing TradeWars on the Net. I could send you a copy. But we'll need more than three people to play for a good game. Got any friends who might want to join in?

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: Jay Battle

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:00:23 +0000

I'd be game.. as long as I don't have to remember all the Telix commands again, that'd be cool.. Too much partying makes memory… uh.. bad..?

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: RedWolf

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:42:18 +0000

Yeah, TW2002 is awesome. I was just recently running a Telnet BBS that had a few TW2002 games on it. We had to abandon the games because we didn't have enough players. If you're interested, maybe we can get enough people together to play a game and I'll put the telnet BBS back up. You can play LORD too.

Comment on My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45 by: Jay Battle

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:39:21 +0000

Wow.. TradeWars.. I'd forgotten that one..