Shareware archive on their BBS
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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-16 04:20

I love the old shareware games that game on 5 1/4 inch floppies and
3.5 inch discs and I played them for hours and hours when I was
growing up in the &0s and 90s.  I want to know if there is someone
that has a BBS that has a huge collection of them.  I would love to
get them back and make a old school game rig and play again like the
1980s. I am aware of dos box and all that. It’s not the same. Reply
and let me know!

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threeio · 2023-05-16 05:55

The internet archive is your friend! [tons of shareware
cdroms](https://archive.org/details/cd-roms)

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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-16 06:05

I have been there before.  Some stuff worked, and some stuff did not.
Plus I think the nostalgic joy of downloading them from a BBS would
give them extra special meaning

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threeio · 2023-05-16 06:06

Ah, as an old sysop all those Nightowl shareware disks were godsends
for my file section back in the day :)

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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-16 06:32

Dude.  Nightowl!  I think those were the ones I am on the hunt for!
I could not remember the name of them at all!

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rlauzon · 2023-05-16 09:42

http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html

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[deleted] · 2023-05-16 11:55

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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-16 17:20

Yes.  I am a member there.  Seems to be quite popular. I will look
more in depth there

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AtariBBS · 2023-05-17 02:34

Southernamis.ddns.net:23 Atari 8bit warez

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WWIVPENGUIN · 2023-05-17 02:49

I have about 100,000 of the old BBS files on my BBS.
HTTP://bbs.stardoc134.com.

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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-18 03:43

For some reason when I use SyncTerm with you, it says to switch to AT
then disconnects me.  Switching to ASCII Only. Using Telnet Port 23.
Must be a setting

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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-18 03:48

>HTTP://bbs.stardoc134.com

This takes me to your tradewars server.  Cool and all. But I don't
play Tradewars.

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AtariBBS · 2023-05-18 13:38

Change the Setting to Atari Screen Mode. The BBS is atascii only.

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WWIVPENGUIN · 2023-05-18 17:53

>HTTP://bbs.stardoc134.com

There are two options on the menu.

"StarDoc134.BBS" will bring you to the BBS

"Tradewars.EXE" will shortcut you to the Tradewars Portal.

you can also telnet to
[bbs.stardoc134.com](https://bbs.stardoc134.com) 2323  if you wish to
use a BBS or telnet terminal client as well.

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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-18 19:35

That is how I go in is through Telnet.  Using sync term.  I will have
a look again.

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BigBadBart25 · 2023-05-18 19:37

I will try that!

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WWIVPENGUIN · 2023-05-18 20:22

Yeah there are several ports open for various services.

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Decent_Cartoonist · 2023-06-08 23:34

Yeah it's cool to go on archive.org but doesn't support fileid.diz so
you gotta download like a whole CD of crap and look through it.  I
like the old days when you'd log in and find something new