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bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:24 AM

Any old timer SysOp's here?

Back in the early 90's, I ran a bbs (part shareware, part porn (I was a teenager so part l33t warez to)... At it's peak, my board had 4 nodes (running remote access, I always hated PCBoard and wildcrap).

Anyone else? Let talk history ;)

Whatever happened to 'the windy city' ?? I used to have traders dialing in all the time uploading pics with their watermark...

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:25 AM

btw... for the north of the UK, 4 nodes is quite a lot.. even the london boards, I only know of 2 that that had more than 8.. and one of them is now a well respected ISP.

cellmoresmut · 08-17-2006, 07:26 AM

Yea I used to run a Mac BBS (Hermes) Myron's Manor I'm told it was one of the longest running Hermes boards around.

StuartD · 08-17-2006, 07:35 AM

Yup, had a BBS for quite a while.
I miss LORD and BRE and Trade Wars.

Dollarmansteve · 08-17-2006, 07:37 AM

Of course.. In '92-'94 I had a board called LSD IV (Liquid Speed Dome IV) - warez.. porn.. I was sooo l33t

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:37 AM

Hermes.. I never heard of... I did exchange files with a mac bb owner for a while.. mac files were tiny compared to dos stuff..

Yeah - I remember LORD and BRE... I could never get into the RPG thing, but my members loved it.

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:38 AM

Legend Of The Red Dragon... Lol.. no reason why that could not be ported into perl or php, and use feeds to syndicate... worth thinking about I guess..

Dagwolf · 08-17-2006, 07:39 AM

I ran a BBS for 2 days. :D hehe

It was fun setting it up but I decided I wanted to play games more.

StuartD · 08-17-2006, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bizarredollars

Legend Of The Red Dragon... Lol.. no reason why that could not be ported into perl or php, and use feeds to syndicate... worth thinking about I guess..

http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lord.html

Tom_PM · 08-17-2006, 07:42 AM

I was a cosysop on a couple of boards. I have source code for a some BBS software somewhere on my XT clone. I also wrote a BBS game similar to Operation Overkill, but it worked much faster and better.

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StuartD

http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lord.html

Cheers -- I am taking a look now

!!!

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:44 AM

Tom were you 'involved' back in the day??

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:47 AM

I would also like to know if anyone knows the full story about Rusty'n'Eddies??... I got the gist of what happened with amateur action via 2600 quarterly at the time, but no real discussion..

Can we discuss the busts and the reasons why??

I know AA were dealing in underage stuff (even if it was just nudes, they were still kids, so I have no sympathy), so if the got busted, the deserved it.. but whenever I dialed into R+E (at massive expensive from the uk at that time), I got warez and relatively low quality porn... The first I knew of the bust was through a PPA (phederal phuking authority) or similar release.

Any info would be nice

-- Ancient history, but would be nice to know.

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 07:49 AM

What language did you code at the time tom?? I learnt the basics of C to improve my BBS, and now I am an adult, it pays 90% of my weekly income.

bizarredollars · 08-17-2006, 08:30 AM

What did you run?? PCB?? RA? RBB?? Info please... were you part of fidonet?? my fido was: f205.n256.z2 (2.256.205) with about 80 points... all geeky teens.

jimthefiend · 08-17-2006, 08:34 AM

I ran a PowerBBS.

Sarah_Jayne · 08-17-2006, 08:34 AM

I miss the BBS world.

CIVMatt · 08-17-2006, 08:38 AM

Trade Wars 2002.. hehe

Dont forget about McHenry's I think that was the first porn I ever saw online.

fris · 08-17-2006, 08:38 AM

used to bbs to a few boards park central was 16 lines, xfactor, ghostship.
was in prophecy, and dod.

Tom_PM · 08-17-2006, 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bizarredollars

What language did you code at the time tom?? I learnt the basics of C to improve my BBS, and now I am an adult, it pays 90% of my weekly income.

Mostly turbo pascal with some assembly modules for speed. I started to learn c++ also, but instead of being on the computer 24/7, I had to get a "real" job to help pay some bills.

Sarah_Jayne · 08-17-2006, 08:41 AM

people actually got beaten up in the halls ways in my school over trade wars. Of course nobody but the nerds knew that was the reason.

AaronM · 08-17-2006, 08:55 AM

I was a beta tester for Mustang Software between 1993 and 1997. Ran a Wildcat BBS with 16 nodes and dominated L.O.R.D. on every BBS that I could telnet into. I still have the modem pool laying around somewhere if anybody needs one for a museum or something.

AaronM · 08-17-2006, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CIVMatt

Trade Wars 2002.. hehe

Dont forget about McHenry's I think that was the first porn I ever saw online.

McHenery's has their shit everywhere. I think that was the first online porn for me too.

dennisthemenace · 08-17-2006, 09:08 AM

I ran a multi-line board. Shareware, online games, porn..

Made the top 100 in Boardwatch magazine in 1993.

Psycho Ward BBS run on Cnet Amiga software.. WHOOO..

Brad Gosse · 08-17-2006, 09:14 AM

I ran a small BBS for a while on an old 286. I remember upgrading to a 486 33mhz with 16 MB of ram for running the bbs and all the computer store geeks thought I was rich. Nobody had that much ram back in the day lol.

Nasty · 08-17-2006, 09:32 AM

I used to run a 12 node pcboard bbs, used to mirror everything from exec bbs in NY, plus had the warez and the porn, fun times, still have the usrobotics modems and the 2 2500meg external drives, they cost me so much fucking money I just cant seem to throw them away

bringer · 08-17-2006, 09:37 AM

look at all the nerds

Sarah_Jayne · 08-17-2006, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bringer

look at all the nerds

and your point would be?

itto · 08-17-2006, 09:51 AM

i used to run a 3 node PCB setup in the 90's - The Junction - WHQ and GHQ of quite some groups, mainly demo/ansi/cracking scene related stuff..

damn, those were *teh* timezZ!

Thumbking · 08-17-2006, 10:04 AM

I used to run a BBS. Had it going for 3 years, or so under a few names. I met a guy from florida that was involved with a really big ansi art crew who decked his board out for him, then when he moved near me we transfered all the images to a modded renegade BBS. Was called Higher Grounds. Was art,warez and porn of course

Was playing the new PHP version for a while, but since GamePort bought the rights to Legend of the Red Dragon, it had to be called Legend of The Green Dragon kinda fun if you can get enough people playing

good ol times!

the Shemp · 08-17-2006, 10:14 AM

access LA
handle: bigbob

Evil1 · 08-17-2006, 10:34 AM

ran renegade then iniquity, has the super elite ansi that took five minutes to load up too.

bringer · 08-17-2006, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarah_webinc

and your point would be?

it was a joke

sextoyking · 08-17-2006, 11:15 AM

Ah, the good old days ;)

We started in the very early 90's.. First with Wildcat, tons of adult pics, some door games, etc.

In 93 or 94 we switched to major bbs (galacticomm) and got up to 60 lines with cd changers of adult / shareware, chat, games,etc.

It was fun as heck and we would have bbs parties every couple months - ah the memories. A few people that met in our chat got married..

Sometimes miss the old bbs days, more local you know...

08-17-2006, 07:24 AM	#1
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	Any old timer SysOp's here? Any old timer SysOp's here? Back in the early 90's, I ran a bbs (part shareware, part porn (I was a teenager so part l33t warez to)... At it's peak, my board had 4 nodes (running remote access, I always hated PCBoard and wildcrap). Anyone else? Let talk history ;) Whatever happened to 'the windy city' ?? I used to have traders dialing in all the time uploading pics with their watermark... __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 07:25 AM	#2
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	btw... for the north of the UK, 4 nodes is quite a lot.. even the london boards, I only know of 2 that that had more than 8.. and one of them is now a well respected ISP. __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 07:26 AM	#3
cellmoresmut Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: state of confusion Posts: 149	Yea I used to run a Mac BBS (Hermes) Myron's Manor I'm told it was one of the longest running Hermes boards around. __________________ ICQ: 43380900

08-17-2006, 07:37 AM	#5
Dollarmansteve Confirmed User Join Date: May 2005 Location: T.O. Posts: 2,849	Of course.. In '92-'94 I had a board called LSD IV (Liquid Speed Dome IV) - warez.. porn.. I was sooo l33t __________________ I died.

08-17-2006, 07:37 AM	#6
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	Hermes.. I never heard of... I did exchange files with a mac bb owner for a while.. mac files were tiny compared to dos stuff.. Yeah - I remember LORD and BRE... I could never get into the RPG thing, but my members loved it. __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 07:35 AM	#4
StuartD Sofa King Band Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Outside the box Posts: 29,903	Yup, had a BBS for quite a while. I miss LORD and BRE and Trade Wars.

08-17-2006, 07:38 AM	#7
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	Legend Of The Red Dragon... Lol.. no reason why that could not be ported into perl or php, and use feeds to syndicate... worth thinking about I guess.. __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 07:39 AM	#8
Dagwolf President of Canada Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Leaving Hell, Entering Limbo Posts: 23,141	I ran a BBS for 2 days. :D hehe It was fun setting it up but I decided I wanted to play games more. __________________ Sleep well, and dream of large women.

08-17-2006, 07:42 AM	#10
Tom_PM Porn Meister Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 16,443	I was a cosysop on a couple of boards. I have source code for a some BBS software somewhere on my XT clone. I also wrote a BBS game similar to Operation Overkill, but it worked much faster and better. __________________ 43-922-863 Shut up and play your guitar.

08-17-2006, 07:44 AM	#12
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	Tom were you 'involved' back in the day?? __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 07:47 AM	#13
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	I would also like to know if anyone knows the full story about Rusty'n'Eddies??... I got the gist of what happened with amateur action via 2600 quarterly at the time, but no real discussion.. Can we discuss the busts and the reasons why?? I know AA were dealing in underage stuff (even if it was just nudes, they were still kids, so I have no sympathy), so if the got busted, the deserved it.. but whenever I dialed into R+E (at massive expensive from the uk at that time), I got warez and relatively low quality porn... The first I knew of the bust was through a PPA (phederal phuking authority) or similar release. Any info would be nice -- Ancient history, but would be nice to know. __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 07:49 AM	#14
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	What language did you code at the time tom?? I learnt the basics of C to improve my BBS, and now I am an adult, it pays 90% of my weekly income. __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 08:30 AM	#15
bizarredollars Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: bizarredollars.com Posts: 1,582	What did you run?? PCB?? RA? RBB?? Info please... were you part of fidonet?? my fido was: f205.n256.z2 (2.256.205) with about 80 points... all geeky teens. __________________ [email protected] icq: 205-252-550

08-17-2006, 08:34 AM	#16
jimthefiend So Fucking Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: icq: 121189 Posts: 18,889	I ran a PowerBBS.

08-17-2006, 08:34 AM	#17
Sarah_Jayne Now with more Jayne Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 40,077	I miss the BBS world.

08-17-2006, 08:38 AM	#18
CIVMatt Amateur Pimpin Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 13,075	Trade Wars 2002.. hehe Dont forget about McHenry's I think that was the first porn I ever saw online. __________________ Make easy money with Webcams

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08-17-2006, 08:41 AM	#21
Sarah_Jayne Now with more Jayne Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 40,077	people actually got beaten up in the halls ways in my school over trade wars. Of course nobody but the nerds knew that was the reason.

08-17-2006, 08:55 AM	#22
AaronM Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: ┌∩┐ ◣_◢ ┌∩┐ Posts: 46,909	I was a beta tester for Mustang Software between 1993 and 1997. Ran a Wildcat BBS with 16 nodes and dominated L.O.R.D. on every BBS that I could telnet into. I still have the modem pool laying around somewhere if anybody needs one for a museum or something.

08-17-2006, 09:08 AM	#24
dennisthemenace Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In the present moment Posts: 2,668	I ran a multi-line board. Shareware, online games, porn.. Made the top 100 in Boardwatch magazine in 1993. Psycho Ward BBS run on Cnet Amiga software.. WHOOO.. __________________ All the best to you

08-17-2006, 09:14 AM	#25
Brad Gosse Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Carpal Tunnel Posts: 2,616	I ran a small BBS for a while on an old 286. I remember upgrading to a 486 33mhz with 16 MB of ram for running the bbs and all the computer store geeks thought I was rich. Nobody had that much ram back in the day lol. __________________ Free Clipart

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Nasty Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sunny Fucking California Posts: 1,575	I used to run a 12 node pcboard bbs, used to mirror everything from exec bbs in NY, plus had the warez and the porn, fun times, still have the usrobotics modems and the 2 2500meg external drives, they cost me so much fucking money I just cant seem to throw them away __________________ “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” ― Omar Bradley (1948)

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itto Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: world wide Posts: 1,363	i used to run a 3 node PCB setup in the 90's - The Junction - WHQ and GHQ of quite some groups, mainly demo/ansi/cracking scene related stuff.. damn, those were teh timezZ! __________________

08-17-2006, 10:04 AM	#30
Thumbking Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Canadabis Posts: 1,067	I used to run a BBS. Had it going for 3 years, or so under a few names. I met a guy from florida that was involved with a really big ansi art crew who decked his board out for him, then when he moved near me we transfered all the images to a modded renegade BBS. Was called Higher Grounds. Was art,warez and porn of course Was playing the new PHP version for a while, but since GamePort bought the rights to Legend of the Red Dragon, it had to be called Legend of The Green Dragon kinda fun if you can get enough people playing good ol times!

08-17-2006, 10:14 AM	#31
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08-17-2006, 11:15 AM	#34
sextoyking Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Portland, OR. Posts: 6,034	Ah, the good old days ;) We started in the very early 90's.. First with Wildcat, tons of adult pics, some door games, etc. In 93 or 94 we switched to major bbs (galacticomm) and got up to 60 lines with cd changers of adult / shareware, chat, games,etc. It was fun as heck and we would have bbs parties every couple months - ah the memories. A few people that met in our chat got married.. Sometimes miss the old bbs days, more local you know... __________________ ICQ: 52344098 -------------------------------------- 50% Commissions on all Product Sales. http://www.wishing.com/money