Hello from turkey i was set up a bbs in 1996 with my parents second landline it was amazing i shared photos, mod music files , same games and upload folder the download ratio at that time 1/1 😊
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!
Back in my BBS "hosting" days i had experience running Wildcat!, PCBoard, Renegade and a GUI based software called Roboboard. In late years i had the fido net dialer that would answer calls and accept feeds for the message boards. Some of my favorite door games were The Pit, Food Fight and Tradewars! Thanks for posting this blast down memory lane! I have a US Robotics Courier modem in my closet that would work well for that 486 project you suggested. 😉
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
I ran a renegade website in the 80s when I was a freshman in highschool. I started with telegard. Renegade was just modified and improved telegard source code.
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.
As a kid in the 80's, I love this. Grew up dialing into BBSs from 300 bps on a C64 up into the 9600 bps days before internet took over. Good memories. You're right about Z-modem, it's all we remember using. There were a few door games I loved too... returned daily to play them!!
OS/2 is the best OS for doing such a thing, using the SIO serial drivers to emulate COM ports for telnet connections. I added telnet access to my Renegade BBS in 1997 in that way, after I got a cable modem for high speed access.
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
These BBSs (not just Telegard) had a bug that caused them to hang if file sharing was enabled and if a clever user entered DOS service file names like CON, CLOCK$, etc. This forced me to write my own BBS with blackjack and ...ladies of easy virtue. P.S.: I always considered the fossil driver to be a nasty appendage, even though I was a Fidonet participant.
Very cool, I ran a Doom themed BBS on renegade but I was only 13 yrs old so not really knowing what I was doing other then changing colours and menus. Would be neat to go into a technical deep dive on how this all worked.
OS/2 was great for running a multi-line BBS. Windows just couldn't do that well at the time. DesqView also ran it OK. But I really like OS/2 much more than I ever liked Windows.
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)
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!
JetBBS was my favorite. I can directly trace being a sysop to a career as a sysadmin.
Hello from turkey i was set up a bbs in 1996 with my parents second landline it was amazing i shared photos, mod music files , same games and upload folder the download ratio at that time 1/1 😊
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!
Oh neat, there is a current project to build a modern replacement to PCBoard with support for PPEs called IcyBoard
Back in my BBS "hosting" days i had experience running Wildcat!, PCBoard, Renegade and a GUI based software called Roboboard. In late years i had the fido net dialer that would answer calls and accept feeds for the message boards. Some of my favorite door games were The Pit, Food Fight and Tradewars!
Thanks for posting this blast down memory lane! I have a US Robotics Courier modem in my closet that would work well for that 486 project you suggested. 😉
Wildcat! was what I ran, but I think I tried Renegade as well
I had a MajorBBS system. Cost a pretty penny and I modded it to hell and back. It was a hoot.
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
Very cool, didn't know RA was from Australia!
I thought _everyone_ into BBSes was like 14 years old.
I set up a BBS back in the day for the sole purpose of being able to reset my turns in LORD and LORD2. 😂😂
This is AWESOME! I used to run a BBS using WWIV.
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 ran a renegade website in the 80s when I was a freshman in highschool. I started with telegard. Renegade was just modified and improved telegard source code.
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 ran a WWIV BBS and later switched to PCBoard. Had two lines. Those were great times. Even got a small article into the local paper about BBS'ing.
As a kid in the 80's, I love this. Grew up dialing into BBSs from 300 bps on a C64 up into the 9600 bps days before internet took over. Good memories. You're right about Z-modem, it's all we remember using. There were a few door games I loved too... returned daily to play them!!
OS/2 is the best OS for doing such a thing, using the SIO serial drivers to emulate COM ports for telnet connections.
I added telnet access to my Renegade BBS in 1997 in that way, after I got a cable modem for high speed access.
I was totally unaware there was a 2nd channel related to the Serial Port. Glad youtube finally suggested it to me!
I liked RemoteAccess and PCBoard. Those were mostly used here in Sweden. I might set one up as well.
Oh man, the memories! I loved creating doors and other tools for RemoteAccess in Borland Pascal. 🥰
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
These BBSs (not just Telegard) had a bug that caused them to hang if file sharing was enabled and if a clever user entered DOS service file names like CON, CLOCK$, etc. This forced me to write my own BBS with blackjack and ...ladies of easy virtue.
P.S.: I always considered the fossil driver to be a nasty appendage, even though I was a Fidonet participant.
Cool. I wrote my own BBS software back in the day. But didn’t run it as a BBS for that long. Code lost to time.
Very cool, I ran a Doom themed BBS on renegade but I was only 13 yrs old so not really knowing what I was doing other then changing colours and menus. Would be neat to go into a technical deep dive on how this all worked.
I saw references to OS\2, would be interesting to see an IBM PC\Server running a BBS
OS/2 was great for running a multi-line BBS. Windows just couldn't do that well at the time. DesqView also ran it OK. But I really like OS/2 much more than I ever liked Windows.
My favorite door game back on the day was Lord (legend of red dragon), if my memory serves me well
memory serves you well, indeed
ever try Usurper back then?
Quite similar but twice as vulgar...
@@fizzletits3561no, don’t recall Usurper. I will need to look it up. Perhaps if I see it then perhaps it might jog loose a memory cell
LORD, TW2000, and some others were all popular.
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
Is there any way to get this working with todays internet and not dialup?
btw the best door game ever was Legend of the Red Dragon, followed by Usurper
I got telnet disabled, port 23 blocked. maybe on a play computer its ok but not your "banking computer"
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)
Why install Telegard when you used to run the newer upgraded bbs: Renegade? Are the Renegade installers no longer available?
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 am at the moment setting up an mystic bbs that is a little simpler as it has the telnet server embedded into the daemon.
That's awesome, yes, Mystic is much more modern and has a great community around it today!
Anybody remember when RIP graphics took over BBS's?
7zip is your friend
It's so annying to see you type ".exe" you DO know that you're not supposed to do that, right? :)
😝
Yeah, that kept triggering me also.
Same with typing out the long form of MKDIR and RMDIR instead of MK and RD.