AmiCon/C-Link! International AmiConnection
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"AmiCon started in June of 1982 in Fayetteville Arkansas and was
called Non-Prophet BBS. It has run since then with limited
interruptions when the SysOp moved from Arkansas to California in
1987, then again back to Arkansas in 1996, and then from Arkansas
to South Carolina in 1998. Total downtime is estimated at less
than a week over that entire time period, including time down
while the system was moved to new hardware/platforms.
"AmiConnection was *THE* official support board for CNet
(Commodore 64, 128 and then Amiga) between 1987 and the time when
it was totally abandoned by the author/maintainer in about 1999.
Most of the users on the BBS were comprised of other SysOps from
around the world. AmiCon was also the originator of a FidoNet-like
network which was had around 500 nodes at its height. The name was
C-Link!. AmiCon was an official beta test and support site for
hard ware companies such as GVP, Xetec, Supra, US Robotics, as
well as for many software companies.
AmiCon still operates today, in Easley South Carolina. It is
telnetable at telnet://amicon.net and runs CNet Amiga. There are
currently around 1000 users in the user log, but only about 100 of
them are active. The most active group is a group of roll players.
In 1999, Scott Smith (GodSmith) turned over the gnomes.org domain
to AmiCon and a good number of those visitors to the Northern
California BBS (TGGH / The Gnomes Guest House) migrated to AmiCon.
WarNPeace / Warren Peace / John M. Hoyt authored several
pfiles/doors, and modified many more. Empire, which was a Crazy
Cad / Warren Peace offering was the most popular CNet 64/128/Amiga
game of all time. Empire is still supported and played on this
board." - John Hoyt
"In regards to the game, EMPIRE, I can tell you with 100 percent
certainly that the game was not written by WarNPeace / Crazy Cad.
It was a door that they modified. I know this because I wrote the
original Empire in the course of a weekend when I was in 9th grade
(1983 or so - Cleveland OH area). The original was on the C-64,
written in 5 parts, about 50 lines of BASIC each I think that the
new C-NET of the day would POKE over each new loaded line and
trick BASIC into thinking that the new lines that been typed. It
was actually ingenius for the day. The game was actually based on
a TRS-80 Model III BASIC game of the same name, where 4 players
could play on a local machine...." - Bryan Chilcher

Phone   : 213-630-1595
Place   : Paramount, SC
Years   : 1987 - 1996
Sysop   : Warren Peace, John Hoyt
Software: C-Net

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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