Amiga BBS Online in 2019
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TheLimpingNinja · 2019-07-03 07:19

I was always wanting an Amiga but couldn’t quite get one - it made no
sense; we had a 286, 386, 486 — initially these were toys, oh look a
CD drive and “San Diego Zoo” during that time my C64 and C128 started
growing into irrelevance though as I got lost in Ultima VI and Wing
Commander II; and pushing forward into thousands of BBSs; learning to
program; etc.

I recently purchased an Amiga and felt completely lost on what to do
next; played a few games, smoothed out the desktop experience, then
put it in a box.

Your blog post is amazing to me and something I’m definitely going to
do “for fun” and I just wanted to thank you for keeping a little bit
of this history alive in both Amiga and in BBSing- whole BBSes will
likely never be again as they were, the fondness and pleasant memories
are great to keep around.

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sardaukar_siet · 2019-07-03 09:39

I hope you have fun! Not sure how this would work on a real Amiga but
I think there are ESP8266 based wifi enablers you can buy.

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TheLimpingNinja · 2019-07-03 10:30

Indeed there are; though I was reading that the safe baud rate for
these on the Amiga hardware is closer to 19200; I’ll test that out
when I get to it :D

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TheLimpingNinja · 2019-07-29 07:45

Got an A500 readied and, conveniently, my Vampire V2+ Accelerator
shipped and is waiting in customs. Hopefully have some fun before
summer is out and get something up and running. Maybe not the same as
you did here, but you pushed the motivation button!