BBS Software #OG reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iolitela · 2017-11-13 06:27 I was the only female sysop back in the day. Memories of installing Wildcat BBS software and late night ansi graphic creations.. what about you? :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- digimer · 2017-11-13 07:04 Renegade BBS on a 2400 baud... Never had warez or porn, but people never believed me at first. lol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- athen66 · 2017-11-13 10:08 Also ran a two line Wildcat board in the 90s! It started as a project in middle school. I wrote a letter to the CEO of Mustang Software asking if he'd donate a 10 line version of Wildcat! for my GATE project. I was elated when a copy came in the mail a month later with a personally written letter encouraging me to pursue computers and technology. I also really got into programming thanks to wcCODE. I pretty much re- wrote the entire UI or my BBS to imitate Major BBS login selection and other features I liked from Renegade/WWiV BBSs. I ran the BBS through 1996 on dial-up then converted it to telnet only - because I had started a dial-up ISP, web, hosting, colo company and needed all the spare phone lines. Really miss those late nights in high school playing LORD, Usurper, TW2002, BRE, etc... ;( I did however resurrect my BBS a few years ago with Mystic software... you can get to it at http://bbs.kiwi.net Sorry to ramble but your post sure brought back some great memories. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NuSkooler · 2017-11-13 20:12 Ran a heavily modified Oblivion/2 based "scene" board for many years. I think I shut it down around '96. At one point we had attracted too much attention (heh) so a sub board for special members was added running System/X. Experimented with many BBS softs, but Obv/2 was the funnest to heavily mod and the like. I did create my own software (a couple times actually) in Pascal, but never really completed them enough for "shipping". ...years later, I created ENiGMA 1/2 BBS Soft which I'm running now for nostalgic / hobby purposes :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- doogmeist1 · 2017-11-13 21:19 I started out with a single line Waffle BBS. It was great for doing Usenet newsgroups and email back in the beginning. My friends wanted door games and they sucked on Waffle. I switched to Renegade later. I also set up a tech support BBS running Maximus on OS/2 for my employer at the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kbuzz99 · 2017-11-16 23:38 I ran a “scene” board in South Florida in 1994-1996 with ViSiON-X on my USR 16.8 (that thing was the shit!). I miss the days of 0-day warez and FelonyNet. When I got to college I ran a mostly art scene board on a heavily modded Mystic. Co-founded ZeroNet which, I think, is still around. Ahh, the good ‘ole days. Still miss the BBS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MWisecarver · 2018-04-02 20:01 Ran a 25 line Wildcat! multinode using Desqview for Microsoft, Frontdoor and zillions of free files and game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iheartbaconsalt · 2018-04-28 22:27 What really grinds my gears is the bad emulation of WildCat! in SynchroNet. It's just not the same. I spent literally years in WCDRAW, and then one day found TheDraw could save in that format, and never went back. Never saw WC5. First BBS was PowerBoard, it had it's own PowerBASIC sort-of language like WCCODE! Moved to Spitfire, so simple and smooth, and then RA. Never had the big bucks for WC! hehe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iheartbaconsalt · 2018-04-28 22:29 Heh heh I met chicks once using Renegade at 2400 baud.