Any interest in y2k patched vision/2?
reddit / bbs

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stlalphanerd · 2022-01-22 06:53

I had some time earlier this month and spent a little bit playing with
the available v2 source.  I used to run it as a kid and was interested
in seeing if I could get it running (yes) and if I could get it over
the y2k hump.  Turns out yes and mostly.

I have it and vision-x running in that excellent docker bbs container
- but have enjoyed it a lot more running it in a xp virtual machine -
playing around with the entire nostalgic ecosystem of software that’s
still available for download.

If people are interested I could make it available - but I’d really
like to find the original author - anyone know crim?

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dikkiesmalls · 2022-01-22 06:58

I would LOVE to have a working vision/2 copy! Please and thank you!

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PraiseBobSlackOff · 2022-01-22 10:02

Yes, please. Would definitely like to see this working again. Tschüss!

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TheLimpingNinja · 2022-01-22 14:52

I would love to see it too but I would definitely love to see these
old software in working versions on GitHub; a lot of the /2 stuff is
vanishing or requires immense work to get started.

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stlalphanerd · 2022-01-22 15:20

Yep that would be cool - let me see what I can do stay tuned

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skunkytuna · 2022-01-22 18:09

Awesome! Can't wait to see this!

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ShooterJennings · 2022-01-22 20:20

Would be so into playing with vision again!

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xtermdoom · 2022-01-22 23:48

I'd love to see the source too. :)

(BTW I wrote qodem.  Been wandering around for a while...  Hello again
/r/bbs. )

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nolageek · 2022-01-24 22:49

Yes Please! :)

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kbuzz99 · 2022-01-26 17:14

I used to run a ViSiON-X board back in the mid-90's. I loved that
software. FelonyNet was awesome as well.

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stlalphanerd · 2022-01-31 19:06

Thanks for all the interest - It’s available now here :

[vision/2 source repo, binary and docker
repos](https://github.com/stlalpha/vision-2-bbs)

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stlalphanerd · 2022-01-31 19:14

I did too and it really was! Going to attempt to get something akin up
and online (more like cci?) - lmk if you have any interest.  Love the
show!

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kbuzz99 · 2022-01-31 20:17

I remember CCi. Midnight Sorrow (RIP) was a cool guy and I was a
caller on his board back in the day. Zeronet is around still (I
think). I co-created it back in 1999 and Jack Phlash kept it running.
Not sure how active it is now though. It’s been ages since I’ve
checked.

Thanks for listening to the show!

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De_Oppresso-Liber · 2022-10-09 00:18

I resurrected my old Vision/2 BBS (.72b) in DOS virtual machine.
Everything seems to work fine, other than I can not get to the WFC
screen.  When I launch (even if I manually run vision.exe -L) it
starts autodetecting baud and brings me right to the pre-login menu.

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stlalphanerd · 2023-11-11 20:58

You have to run it from the batch file if I recall correctly i also
used to know why