Wills Dungeon
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"Wills Dungeon had, at it's peak, 30+ online games (doors)
running.
"It was run by Will, a 14-15 year old, out of his parents
basement, for a little over a year; the phone line and hardware
were funded by a 2 mile long news paper delivery route for the
Daily Gleaner.
"It had one phone line, and averaged one call per hour, though
occasionally exceeded 40 calls a day.
"Wills Dungeon shared a messaging forum with GateWay (operated by
Trevor Rivet), using the VNet technology that was part of VBBS.
Every morning around 3am, Wills Dungeon would call GateWay and
transfer email and forum messages destined for other VNet users.
In this way you could send an email from Wills Dungeon (or
GateWay) to anyone on the planet (provided they were hooked up to
VNet).
"Some of the most popular games were Legend on the Red Dragon,
Barren Realms Elite, and TradeWars 2000 (all registered).
"While not a warez site, Wills Dungeon distrubuted a lot of custom
made applications written by Will, and some of the other younger
programmers in the Fredericton area. Two of the more popular were
'VGADraw' and 'VSCRIPT'. A BBS member eventually added mouse
support to VGADraw, which was kind of cool back then, making it an
'open source' collaboration. lol
"VGADraw was a bitmap drawing program, and VSSCRIPT was a vector
based drawing program.
"One of the applications on the site got the BBS in to a bit of
trouble with the local police. Will had written a program to
create 'ANSI Bombs' and posted it on the BBS. Essentially, the
program would let someone embeded character remapping in to an
ANSI file/animation they had. In this way, you could remap the
keyboard so that the key 'a' would go 'dir c:\'.
"Someone, we'll call him 'Bob', downloaded the program, and used
to it to create bomb that would format the primary hard-disk. Bob
was having trouble with someone else from school, and sent him
this 'bomb'. Long story short, someones hard drive got formatted.
The police got involved, and 'Bob' told them he used Wills program
to create the 'bomb'. The police called Will and had a rather
lengthy, but surprisingly nice, discussion with him about such
things. The program came down shortly there after, with no hard
feelings.
"The BBS eventually met it's demise once the Sysop got his drivers
license." - Evil

Phone   : 506-453-2925
Place   : Fredericton, NB
Years   : 1994 - 1995
Sysop   : Evil
Software: VBBS

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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