Not really BBS, but remember INN? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2015-01-06 04:43 There is an INN Revival program that uses TCP/IP to make it work. I've done it but no one is ever there. I would totally play again if they were. It also gave me a Trojan. Lol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ILikeBumblebees · 2015-01-06 05:28 How could it give you a trojan? It's just the original INN client running in DOSBox. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2015-01-06 05:33 I should have said that Malwarebytes and Hitman Pro both said the INN executable that I downloaded was infected. It is modded to work over the net right? So its not just the original. Who knows. I tried to redownload it several times all to the same effect. I would like to try it again though. Do u have it running okay? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ILikeBumblebees · 2015-01-06 06:13 No, I don't think it's modified at all. It's just using DOSBox's emulated serial ports, mapped to telnet. Your anti-malware utilities are probably just giving you a false positive from overaggresive heuristics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2015-01-06 10:50 Can't argue with you there. They said my crabs were herpes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- resetsurvivor · 2015-01-06 11:15 Back in the day, I used a credit card generator to gain access to this thing. Somehow my parents found out and yanked my modem. :( Probably the shittiest time of my life. I had to leave the art scene and everything... but I'm back and in full swing thanks to my blocktronics buddies. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- travisjd2012 · 2015-01-06 14:51 INN was awesome, the revival is amazing. If we had enough people from here, maybe we could breathe some life in it, if only temporarily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2015-01-06 16:46 Count me in. I'm gonna reinstall it tonight. I'll be "Gunslinger6" on there ---------------------------------------------------------------------- intermammary_sulcus · 2015-01-06 17:57 I'm not familiar with INN, what's it all about? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ILikeBumblebees · 2015-01-06 18:41 It was a pre-internet online service originally launched by Sierra, and designed primarily for multiplayer gaming. It came with lots of games, including multiplayer versions of popular games like Red Baron, along with games unique to the service e.g. multiplayer CRPGs like Shadow of Yserbius. There were also plenty of traditional games, like Chess, Backgammon, etc. This was before the era of *massively* multiplayer games, so the typical way it would work was that you'd join a lobby, find other players who were looking to play a particular game, and once enough people were present, you'd leave the lobby to start a new game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I-baLL · 2015-01-06 19:28 > I've done it but no one is ever there. ...maybe if you'd post a link to it whenever you mention it then maybe more people might show up? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2015-01-06 23:34 I would love to do that, at the time I wasn't on Reddit or connected to anyone who actually even knew what INN was. I'm installing it tonight and will post on here! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2015-01-07 06:07 Hey I probably knew u. What group were u in? I'm friends with lord scarlet and the 16colors folks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I-baLL · 2015-01-07 15:13 Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- resetsurvivor · 2015-01-07 21:04 I was in a small group called Apathy. I went by Balls Wilson at that time. Unfortunately, I was yanked outta the scene before Apathy became a part of iCE. I was this close! .. but now I'm in the best ansi group ever, blocktronics! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zombieauthor · 2015-01-08 01:26 I used to love Sierra online/INN. Playing red baron online and trying to join fighter squadrons. Good times.