What Happened to Legacy/X?
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Iron_Slug · 2022-01-17 18:14

My link to Ozz Nixon's Legacy/X website is coming up dead:

[http://ryobbs.com/](http://ryobbs.com/)

Anybody know what's up?

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SmasherOfAjumma · 2022-01-17 18:35

What was this site?

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dikkiesmalls · 2022-01-17 18:39

Vapor ware is what I heard. Haven’t been able to connect to the whq
board in ages. The webpage was up as of…last week?

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SqualorTrawler · 2022-01-17 18:40

New BBS software, programmed in Pascal.

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SqualorTrawler · 2022-01-17 18:41

The BBS is still up.

Telnet:

legacyx-bbs.com

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Iron_Slug · 2022-01-17 19:46

I logged in, but wasn't able to save messages/comments to the sysop.

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SqualorTrawler · 2022-01-17 19:47

Interesting.  There was also a Discord server for development of that
but I cannot recall what it was.

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netderper · 2022-01-21 01:57

Pascal? Is it 1988?

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SqualorTrawler · 2022-01-21 02:07

Compiled in a Pascal the BBS author wrote.

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netderper · 2022-01-23 05:13

Even worse.

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Natural-Novel2499 · 2022-09-13 12:36

so according to the facebook group, the guy had brain cancer and
people got up and walked


[https://www.facebook.com/groups/LegacyXBBS/](https://www.facebook.com
/groups/LegacyXBBS/)


"Ozz E Nixon
June 25  ·
Wow! Time flies while getting your brain cancer removed... okay. So,
an update to the group.
1. Legacy/X was put on the shelf - as the Krew never finished the ANSI
theme they were building for the software.
\* Meantime, I took BinkP program I wrote and ported it into Legacy/X.
2. Inspired by Sean Dennis - I bought ArcaOS 5, and have started
building "Legacy/2 - the voyage continues" also CodeName "ProBoard32".
\* My partner in crime Jason Bock - put on an anti-gravity belt or
something, and has fallen off the planet \~ so, I am designing this
SOLO instead of a collaboration.
3. Today, I decided - let's take over the dead Legacy/X group, and
make it the home for ProBoard32 aka Legacy/2. So..."