An old Ansi Ad I made for the BBS I used to co-sysop for NIGHTOWL 21 BBS CD Door and the last caller add-on that put up Bill Clinton's name in the demo. I always got a kick out of that. Brutal to think that 600 Megs online was awesome back 1995 ~ 1996 reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- orion3311 · 2020-01-16 22:32 Do you still have the rest of the files, or the whole BBS? If so maybe put it back online? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheLimpingNinja · 2020-01-16 23:02 Getting mad Wildcat vibes off that AD! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2020-01-16 23:04 the Original BBS I do not have I still have my test Renegade BBS that I tested new games and doors and ansi's on before uploading them and having the sysop install them. But it was never setup to function outside of that. I still have the NIGHTOWL 21 CD LOL I have been playing and recording old BBS door games and posting them on Youtube I have been trying to find ones that I never got to play or unheard of you can find them here [**http://www.youtube.com/c/TheDigitalInfinity**](http://www.youtube .com/c/TheDigitalInfinity) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2020-01-16 23:37 When I went to DeVry in Chicagoland area in 94~95 a lot of BBS's used the NIGHTOWL CD's to have files online to download and when I came back to Indiana and found out a friend of mine ran a BBS I convinced him to put up the nightowl 21 CD I bought at a trade show to have more things for people to download it was a massive hit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheLimpingNinja · 2020-01-17 01:00 Hah! I imagine we were a bit spoiled, I was in the Tampa area BBS scene from late 80s to somewhere in the mid/late 90s. I can imagine somewhere that didn't have all those it would be mind-blowing to have sudden access to all that wealth of games, apps, etc. 813 area code list may blow \*your\* mind: [http://bbslist.textfiles.com/813/](http://bbslist.textfiles.com/813/) Look at that count! Some of the bigger boards would have multiple CDs online with automatic disc changers. Talk about science fiction to my mind back then. You can actually still download the ISOs on [archive.org](https://archive.org) (just google) There was also another site that had Night Owl, Pier 1, and Cream of the Crop hosted online files: [http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index .html](http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html) Unfortunately the links died somewhere in the last 6 months :( Anyways, just saying that the UPPERCASE font and art style reminded me of Wildcat bbs servers (they had an upper-case penchant) but the Last 10 callers looked like something off an RA or Tele board. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2020-01-17 01:31 I did see that alot of those old file disks are available online STILL after 25 years yes it was crazy to think it was cheaper to buy a cd-rom and a cd of files to host than to buy a hard drive to store them I have looked up hard drive sizes and prices for 1995 a seagate 1000 meg drive was $850 retail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- stupidbuttryn2lrn · 2020-01-17 02:42 do you have operation overkill? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SpreadItLikeTheHerp · 2020-01-17 06:25 Any TradeWars to be had there? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2020-01-17 10:59 No I didn't have that one ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2020-01-17 11:04 We had trade wars, Barren realms elite, Falcons eye, kannons and katapaults, lord, usurper, lunatix, Just the usual stuff for a bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pvt_Ryan100 · 2020-01-17 14:19 You spelt time wrong....... ​ ​ Sorry had to point it out... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2020-01-17 14:24 Good to spot that but that was the last caller addon for renegade bbs that we were testing The night owl was the what's new splash screen when you logged in following the last caller splash screen Funny how that made it to the released product ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pvt_Ryan100 · 2020-01-17 14:31 lol.. even better ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalarWeapon · 2020-01-17 18:18 Lol. "Tiem", wow. Maybe when you register, they give the correct spelling! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-01-17 21:08 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2020-01-25 02:52 tiem? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2020-01-25 13:21 Good to spot that but that was the last caller addon for renegade bbs that we were testing The night owl was the what's new splash screen when you logged in following the last caller splash screen Funny how that made it to the released product ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exodus694 · 2022-06-05 18:11 I have over 400 online if you wanna try some out. [http://www.rgbbs.info](http://www.rgbbs.info) or telnet over [ttb.rgbbs.info](https://ttb.rgbbs.info) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thedigitalinfinity · 2022-06-19 17:25 I'll keep that in mind, Thank you!