Tag: BBS
“Don’t copy that floppy”. Those who followed this advice issued by the Software Publishers Association were certainly in the minority, and the supporting music video didn’t exactly help the cause. Here in the UK it was the full page adverts from FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) who tried to scare us into binning any pirated software and grass up our…
After three parts dealing with CoCo cross development, I thought I’d change direction for a bit and discuss something completely different. We’ll get back to cross development once we have something to develop. Before WWW was BBS The story so far… My first exposure to computer bulletin board systems (BBSes) was in Houston, Texas around 1981. I had become friends…
The Altiworld BBS has been updated. There are new tutorials regarding navigating the system. The BBS has sub-boards for nearly every system. You can access the bbs using a modern browser. Source: altiworld.com
The Atlantic website has published an article where the author, Benj Edwards goes back down the memory lane, talking about his time as a kid accessing the BBSes via a dial-up modem and how liberating that was, before the Internet was really a thing. The article has a good mix of personal experiences and straightforward history facts and I believe everyone…
Before browser-based games, before the Internet, there was darkness….oops, I mean BBS Door games. PCMag has published today a featured article talking about this way people used to play games online at the time online meant BBS (Bulletin Board Systems). “Once connected to these mostly hobby-run services, users could bring up a list of games to play. These early online games…
Chicken Lips is a English-speaking podcast talking all about Commodore computers. The first episode was released two years ago, and now the episode 2 is available with the promise that every month a new episode will be available. This episode brings a new co-host, Todd George, who is promising to help Earl Evans to keep the episodes interval a little…
ContikiBBS is a tiny text based bulletin board system (BBS) for the Commodore 64 and any compatible ethernet cartridge, (e.g. TFE, RRnet, 64NIC+). It can be accessed through a standard telnet connection and currently provides basic BBS functionality. Download: ctkbbs270.zipWebsite: CSDb
