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[ After hearing exciting news about a new BBS door game, I invited BBS door historian Josh Renaud of Break Into Chat to write up a post about it for VC&G. — Benj] <\/em><\/p>\n My name is Josh Renaud, and I run a BBS wiki<\/a> and retrocomputing blog<\/a> called “Break Into Chat.” I love old BBS door games, and I’m also fascinated by the ways today’s sysops are doing new things with old technology.<\/p>\n I’m here to tell you about a new BBS door game<\/a> launching today. Its author is none other than Shooter Jennings<\/a>, son of country music legend Waylon Jennings<\/a>.<\/p>\n I first encountered Jennings when I came across his question on Reddit’s \/r\/bbs<\/a>: “If I made a door game for money would you play it?”<\/p>\n I’m not into country music, so the username “ShooterJennings” didn’t mean anything to me. But his question grabbed my attention. I wanted to know what he had in mind. A “freemium” pay-to-play model? A registration fee for sysops like the old days? No. Jennings wanted users to pay a small fee to join his game. Then they would compete to win a jackpot.<\/p>\n We had some back and forth. He told me he had come across Break Into Chat, and had been blown away by one of my ANSI game demos. So I looked him<\/em> up. It was my turn to be blown away. Jennings has a successful music career. He’s appeared in movies and on TV.<\/p>\n It’s a fascinating story. And his game is pretty cool too.<\/p>\n To play it, you can access Bit Sunrise BBS and play the game over the web using a browser-based client at bitsunrise.com<\/a>. Or if you want a slightly more authentic experience, then fire up a terminal program like SyncTerm<\/a>, and telnet to bitsunrise.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n In an email announcing the game’s launch, Jennings promised that “the first player to pass through The Coil (the final gate) with all 20 artifacts will receive 1 Bitcoin (~$240) sent directly to their Bitcoin wallet!”<\/p>\n The game will last for 30 days, or until someone wins the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shooter’s new game is called From Here to Eternity, and for the last several weeks, he has been beta-testing it on his BBS, which is called “Bit Sunrise.” I first encountered Jennings when I came across his question on Reddit’s \/r\/bbs: “If I made a door game for money would you play it?” I’m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37,7,13,21,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Shooter’s new game is called From Here to Eternity<\/em>, and for the last several weeks, he has been beta-testing it on his BBS, which is called “Bit Sunrise.”<\/a><\/p>\n
I wanted to know why he was spending time writing a new BBS door game, so I interviewed him<\/a> at length about From Here to Eternity<\/em>. Jennings explained how writing the game helped him through the loss of a close friend, and how important retrocomputing is to him (he started with an Apple IIe as a kid).<\/p>\n