Oblivion/2 is still Alive! JOIN US! Telnet to blackflag.acid.org:2629 and let your freak flag fly :) reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawk_Hubbard · 2021-02-03 01:50 [https://i.imgur.com/sVJK9Cl.png](https://i.imgur.com/sVJK9Cl.png) A shot of the Doors Menu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Galileo228 · 2021-02-03 01:51 Love this. Such a throwback. Obv/2 was gre5bbs software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawk_Hubbard · 2021-02-03 01:55 Oh Yea.. The Grand Mac Daddy of Elite BBS software. Glad you get a kick from it still mate. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- transizzle · 2021-02-03 02:27 I haven’t thought about obv/2 in a real long time. My whole body shot up when I saw this post. Gonna check this out when I get near a computer, thanks! edit: your doors menu even has the white/grey/black text that I specialized in back when I was like 13. hell yeah! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bourbeez · 2021-02-03 12:35 Love this! Once I saw obv/2 for the first time I immediately got to work on getting my bbs on it from renegade. The look and feel of it, I just preferred way more. Thanks for sharing! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- codefenix · 2021-02-03 14:38 Very clean looking menu. Love it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x15e · 2021-02-03 14:49 Hahaha nice! I remember back in the day if you wanted your board to be taken seriously (in my region) you ran obv/2. Sure a lot of us ran Renegade, and there were some others, but obv/2 was for the cool kids. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bourbeez · 2021-02-03 15:32 This is real talk, for sure. The software had some bugs, which I think really shaped my knowledge of computers as a whole. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sublinear · 2021-02-03 16:53 Cool board, fun to see obv/2 again... Anyone running iniquity boards anymore? I found some new iniq project on github and was wondering about it... back in the day for some reason i found iniquity easier to work with than obv/2 when it came to designing my menus and stuff. All the cool art boards in the area were running obv though ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kodiak01 · 2021-02-03 20:24 As opposed to us old farts running WWIV. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheeAbyssWalker · 2021-02-03 20:27 That command prompt! I remember that exact command prompt. Great homage!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawk_Hubbard · 2021-02-03 20:39 Thanks mate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eekatz · 2021-02-04 00:57 Sorry about the bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheeAbyssWalker · 2021-02-04 02:03 You blew my mind with your PCBoard config now I need to call Obv/2. Thanks for representing the old school. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalarWeapon · 2021-02-04 02:10 Oblivion/2 was great. I remember how much fun it was just configuring and seeing the results, how powerful it was. Makes me want to tinker with it again! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2021-02-04 03:04 [removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PraiseBobSlackOff · 2021-02-04 13:59 Awesome. I had one running telnet through GameSrv several years ago, but never really got it modded back to where I had it mid-90s. I read about the XRM version and was very excited. Checked the GitHub for the project today and it's been a while since there has been any movement. Hoping that sees the light of day someday. Kind of inspired to dig out that old GameSrv setup again and get it working again in a VM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bourbeez · 2021-02-04 16:57 No reason to be sorry. It’s ok, it was frustrating nearly 30 years ago. I’ve moved on. Lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawk_Hubbard · 2021-02-04 17:51 I used to also run obv/2 on Gamesrv many moons ago. Now I run it on Windows 10 Pro 32 bit - with Netfoss and Net2BBS as the server. Not through a VM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eekatz · 2021-02-04 23:01 hah. I was just trying to be funny by inserting myself in this Obv/2 thread. For those of you who haven't picked up on it, I'm DE. I can't believe it's been so long. I think I started Obv/2 early freshman year in HS. While other kids were getting into Nirvana.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bourbeez · 2021-02-05 01:29 Now that’s cool! I responded thinking, “I bet this is someone who’s connected to obv/2”... low and behold. I look very fondly on my bbs days as I’m sure we all do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawk_Hubbard · 2021-02-11 04:02 For those who have tried to log on in the last few days. I had some system crashes I had to wrestle with but its all fixed now. Were in the pipe 5 by 5. The Obv2 board is back up! # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Team503 · 2022-10-06 23:10 You were coolest if you ran WWIV as a front-end and made Obv/2 a hidden door program. :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kodiak01 · 2022-10-06 23:19 Never like Obv/2, or most of the other Renegade offshoots. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NoobVaper · 2022-12-12 14:20 damn blast from the past, I remember finally scraping up enough cash to stop pirating oblivion/2 as a teenager (because I had spent so much time customizing it and thought you deserved it) and iirc not long after, you stopped developing it. Moral of the story, warez 4 life. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eekatz · 2022-12-13 02:12 Hah. The $50 went into fixing my teeth later, so I thank you. I got overwhelmed at Ohio State and couldn't maintain Oblivion/2. And because of my unique programming style, no one else could. Would you believe that I'm still at OSU (with a couple of places in between)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NoobVaper · 2022-12-15 11:14 no worries, I always wondered what happened, and yeah the guys that took it over didn't do much with it. I also thank you, diving into Oblivion/2 and learning how to make it stand out was what really sparked my interest in PCs, and I still work in the IT field today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eekatz · 2022-12-15 15:40 Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XaviousD · 2023-08-27 07:36 Is this system still active. Back in the day I ran a dual node system out of 713/409 (Houston Area) . Had my stint running a ansi/bbs mod group named SOi (Sphere of Illusions). Anyway, I've got a pretty decent homelab rack now sporting about 180c's 1.5tb ram and 3.2pb of storage and I'm thinking of rebuilding my obv/2 setup and bringing it online. I saw the XRM github a while back but never looked more into it. Rewatching the bbs youtube vid's and i'm kinda getting the desire to rebuilt it. Any info would be appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- huff75 · 2023-10-12 12:44 I mailed you a money order back then... :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eekatz · 2023-10-12 12:52 It's probably been 30 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- huff75 · 2023-10-12 14:28 Yeah I remember it like yesterday. Had 2 nodes in Dayton running under DesqView with a Hayes 28.8 & USR HST 21.6. Fun times.