Hi all!

After about 20 years of not having a BBS (or calling one), I figured it was about time to get one back online.

Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes, you know those?) on one dialup line. Being from Norway, we didn't have free local calls, so people used offliners and scripts to spend as little time online as possible. Good for discussion, not so good for door-games :)

Anyway, I've been having a retro-kick lately, bought myself a Commodore 64, floppy drives, the whole shebang. And, I have to admit.. The Last Ninja is still as hard as I remembered it to be :)

I've never used Synchronet bbs-software before this, but it seems rather intuitive, even if I struggle to find a function to "mark all posts in this gorup as read", or even just "only list subjects of posts", but I'm sure it's just a matter of reading a bit more. After all, I did manage to get Dove-NET working quite nicely (and without asking anyone for help..)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to slowly becoming a part of the community, and hopefully also adding fidonet when I feel confident that the bbs will stay online.

Have a good one!

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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Christian Langeland to All on Sat May 24 2014 12:01 am

intuitive, even if I struggle to find a function to "mark all posts in this gorup as read", or even just "only list subjects of posts", but I'm sure

you can set your msg pointers.

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[2] DOVE-Net
[3] FidoNet
[4] USENET Newsgroups

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Enter number of messages from end, Date, Quit, or [Last Message]: D

Current New-Scan date/time: Sat May 24 2014 01:14 pm
Year: 2014
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Christian Langeland wrote to All <=-

After about 20 years of not having a BBS (or calling one), I figured it was about time to get one back online.

Some may say that is a regretful decision... ;)

Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes, you know
those?) on one dialup line. Being from Norway, we didn't have free
local calls, so people used offliners and scripts to spend as little
time online as possible. Good for discussion, not so good for
door-games :)

TelComm's and they scheming ways of making $$..

Anyway, I've been having a retro-kick lately, bought myself a Commodore 64, floppy drives, the whole shebang. And, I have to admit.. The Last Ninja is still as hard as I remembered it to be :)

Never played that...

I've never used Synchronet bbs-software before this, but it seems
rather intuitive, even if I struggle to find a function to "mark all
posts in this gorup as read", or even just "only list subjects of
posts", but I'm sure it's just a matter of reading a bit more. After
all, I did manage to get Dove-NET working quite nicely (and without
asking anyone for help..)

Sync is exceptional software... all members of the team are cordial, very understanding and work their proverbial asses off when there is an issue.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to slowly becoming a part of the community, and hopefully also adding fidonet when I feel confident that the bbs
will stay online.

Welcome to the insanity!!! :)




Bill

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Web: bbs.tequilamockingbirdonline.net
IRC: irc.tequilamockingbirdonline.net Ports: 6661-6670 SSL: +6697
Radio: radio.tequilamockingbirdonline.net:8010/live


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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Christian Langeland to All on Sat May 24 2014 12:01 am

After about 20 years of not having a BBS (or calling one), I figured
it was about time to get one back online.

Welcome back Christian. I came back around a year ago after a 30 year
haitas. I was shocked to find BBS's were still alive and well. Keep them
posts comming.

CL> Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes,
you Being from Norway, we didn't have

My Amiga 500 was my favorite PC besides my C64 ;-)

CL> Anyway, I've been having a retro-kick lately, bought myself a

Commodore 64, floppy drives, the whole shebang. And, I have to
Anyway, I'm looking forward to slowly becoming a part of the
community, and hopefully also adding fidonet when I feel confident
that the bbs will stay online.

Hope to see you in the message bases more often.

Steve AKA HusTler

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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Heliarc to Christian Langeland on Sun May 25 2014 12:38 pm

Welcome back Christian. I came back around a year ago after a 30 year haitas. I was shocked to find BBS's were still alive and well. Keep them

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Heliarc wrote to Christian Langeland <=-

CL> Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes,

you Being from Norway, we didn't have

My Amiga 500 was my favorite PC besides my C64 ;-)

I just wanted to add, C64 was my first favorite computer. The good ol 1541 drives! I remember these drives getting real old and the header on them had problems after insertion so many times that I used different things on it to temporarily fix it. Those were the days as a kid when I loved to fix things!

Sincerely,
Jon Justvig

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Re: Hi all, former sysop tryi
By: Mro to Heliarc on Sun May 25 2014 02:44 pm

some are alive. i'm not sure if the entire bbs community is 'well', though.

Speaking of BBS and sysops being alive, Crystal Aerie will be off line for about a week because I don't trust the old rattling computer while I'm away in the hospital. I think this is the first extended outage since about 1988.

Spencer (aka Tempo Rubato)

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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Heliarc to Christian Langeland on Sun May 25 2014 12:38:02

After about 20 years of not having a BBS (or calling one), I figured
it was about time to get one back online.

Welcome back Christian. I came back around a year ago after a 30 year haitas. I was shocked to find BBS's were still alive and well. Keep them posts comming.

Thanks, I know all about the "Whaaaat, are BBS'es still out there?"-feeling :) I thought I kept up with old-school stuff quite well, but I completely missed the whole BBS-scene it seems.


He CL> Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes,

My Amiga 500 was my favorite PC besides my C64 ;-)

Same here, I've spent quite a lot of money on computers up through the years, and spent quite a lot of sunny days inside infront of the computerscreen, much to my parents dismay ;)

Hope to see you in the message bases more often.

Thanks again, I'm fiddling around here and still learning stuff here, so I'll probably do replies every now and then :)

Best,
Christian AKA Dozer

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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Mro to Christian Langeland on Sat May 24 2014 15:14:10

intuitive, even if I struggle to find a function to "mark all posts in
this gorup as read", or even just "only list subjects of posts", but
I'm sure

you can set your msg pointers.

<explanation>

Ah, thanks man, it just got a lot easier :)

Best,
Christian

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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Bill McGarrity to Christian Langeland on Sat May 24 2014 17:06:00

After about 20 years of not having a BBS (or calling one), I figured
it was about time to get one back online.

Some may say that is a regretful decision... ;)

Time will show if that will be the case :)

Anyway, I've been having a retro-kick lately, bought myself a
Commodore 64, floppy drives, the whole shebang. And, I have to
admit.. The Last Ninja is still as hard as I remembered it to be :)

Never played that...

Then I suggest you visit this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmqoEdjKR4

The music is exceptional and the gameplay is fantastic.

Sync is exceptional software... all members of the team are cordial, very understanding and work their proverbial asses off when there is an issue.

It really does seem like very good piece of software. :)

Welcome to the insanity!!! :)

Thankyou :)

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Re: Hi all, former sysop tryi
By: Jon Justvig to Heliarc on Sun May 25 2014 21:43:00

My Amiga 500 was my favorite PC besides my C64 ;-)

I just wanted to add, C64 was my first favorite computer. The good ol 1541 drives! I remember these drives getting real old and the header on them had problems after insertion so many times that I used different things on it to temporarily fix it. Those were the days as a kid when I loved to fix things!

Most definitely, cleaning that head must have been what I've done most in "fixing" floppydrives :)

Best,
Christian

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Re: Hi all, former sysop tryi
By: Jon Justvig to Heliarc on Sun May 25 2014 21:43:00

I just wanted to add, C64 was my first favorite computer. The good ol 1541 drives! I remember these drives getting real old and the header on them had problems after insertion so many times that I used different things on it to temporarily fix it. Those were the days as a kid when I loved to fix things!

I always enjoyed taking things apart and fixing them when I was a kid too. These days, it's harder to figure out how something works by taking it apart, because all you're likely to see is solid-state parts - So it can still be somewhat of a mystery how something works. However, computers have become more reliable over the years due to fewer moving parts. I haven't had to clean a mouse ball in about 10 years, and now I don't have to worry about floppy drives failing because I now use USB flash drives. Also, my boot drive now is a solid-state drive, which doesn't have a motor to wear out and won't get damaged if I drop it (although solid-state drives will still eventually fail because they can only be written to a limited number of times). I still use a traditional hard drive as a secondary drive for storage though, since solid-state drives are still fairly expensive.

I think the total elimination of moving parts would greatly help improve the reliability of PCs and electronics in general. PCs still use fans for cooling, and fans still use moving parts that will eventually fail. I'm not sure what technology could eliminate moving parts from a fan though.
I remember when CPUs for PCs didn't get hot enough to need a fan or even a heat sink - and back then, pretty much the only fan in most PCs was the one in the power supply. My first PC had a 286 processor, which looked a lot like many other chips and didn't require a fan or heat sink. Even most of the 386 processors didn't require a cooler, although they got warm. I'm sure the processors used in other computers back then such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, etc. probably didn't need coolers either. At one point, when I had upgraded to a 486-based PC, I remember going through a few CPU coolers with fans that would start buzzing/vibrating after a while, and I really got annoyed when that happened.

Nightfox

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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Christian Langeland to All on Sat May 24 2014 12:01 am

Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes, you know those?) on one dialup line. Being from Norway, we didn't have free local calls, so

Amigas are still big in Scandinavia, no? At least that's the impression I get from all the demosceners.

Anyway, I've been having a retro-kick lately, bought myself a Commodore 64, floppy drives, the whole shebang. And, I have to admit.. The Last Ninja is still as hard as I remembered it to be :)

Last Ninja!

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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Bill McGarrity to Christian Langeland on Sat May 24 2014 05:06 pm

Anyway, I've been having a retro-kick lately, bought myself a
Commodore 64, floppy drives, the whole shebang. And, I have to
admit.. The Last Ninja is still as hard as I remembered it to be :)

Never played that...

Oh no! You must try it today.

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Re: Fixing things
By: Nightfox to Jon Justvig on Mon May 26 2014 07:30 pm

I remember when CPUs for PCs didn't get hot enough to need a fan or even a heat sink - and back then, pretty much the only fan in most PCs was the one in the power supply. My first PC had a 286 processor, which looked a lot like many other chips and didn't require a fan or heat sink. Even

...

the Commodore 64, Apple II, etc. probably didn't need coolers either. At

Back then, the voltage regulators created more heat than the CPU! For example, in the ZX81, the Z80 is just another IC, but the 5V regulator has a heatsink screwed on. It's just a flat piece of metal.

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Re: Hi all, former sysop tryi
By: Tempo Rubato to Mro on Mon May 26 2014 07:59:00

Speaking of BBS and sysops being alive, Crystal Aerie will be off line for about a week because I don't trust the old rattling computer while I'm away the hospital. I think this is the first extended outage since about 1988.

All the best with your hospital trip, get the board back online once you're safely back online :-)

Lab Rat


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Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish years
By: Froggyme to Christian Langeland on Mon May 26 2014 23:34:48

Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes, you know
those?) on one dialup line. Being from Norway, we didn't have free
local calls, so

Amigas are still big in Scandinavia, no? At least that's the impression I get from all the demosceners.

Well, the demoscene is still active here (I should know, I'm actually a part of it ;), but I wouldn't say that Amiga's are a big part of it anymore.
We do get a few good demos every now and then, and people are getting into "retro"-stuff nowadays, so it's not completely forgotten atleast.

Regarding the demoscene-thing, I'm a co-organizer of Solskogen (http://www.solskogen.no) and Kindergarden (http://kindergarden.untergrund.net/2014/), both parties in Norway. I used to be a crewmember at The Gathering (http://www.gathering.org), but that became too much fuzz about anything BUT the demoscene, so I left that.

So, yeah.. "hi" :)

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Welcome to the mad hope.

I'm a big Amiga fan. Owned a A1000, A500 and still play games for this
platform from time to time. Battle Squadron is probably my favourite :-)


"Christian Langeland" <christian.langeland@VERT/UKRYPT> wrote:

Hi all!

After about 20 years of not having a BBS (or calling one), I figured it was about time to get one back online.

Back in the "good days", I used to run an Amiga BBS (Yes, you know those?) on one dialup line. Being from Norway, we didn't have free local calls, so people
used offliners and scripts to spend as little time online as possible. Good for
discussion, not so good for door-games :)

Anyway, I've been having a retro-kick lately, bought myself a Commodore 64, floppy drives, the whole shebang. And, I have to admit.. The Last Ninja is still as hard as I remembered it to be :)

I've never used Synchronet bbs-software before this, but it seems rather intuitive, even if I struggle to find a function to "mark all posts in this gorup as read", or even just "only list subjects of posts", but I'm sure it's just a matter of reading a bit more. After all, I did manage to get Dove-NET working quite nicely (and without asking anyone for help..)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to slowly becoming a part of the community, and hopefully also adding fidonet when I feel confident that the bbs will stay online.

Have a good one!

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some are alive. i'm not sure if the entire bbs community is 'well', though.

As long as somebody keeps the lights on :-)

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Re: Re: Hi all, former sysop trying to get back into things after 20-ish y
By: Ennev to Christian Langeland on Sun May 25 2014 10:27:47

Welcome to the mad hope.

A mad hope is still better than no home imho ;)

I'm a big Amiga fan. Owned a A1000, A500 and still play games for this platform from time to time. Battle Squadron is probably my favourite :-)

Oh, wow.. I can't believe that game actually went under my radar. It looks fantastic. And is even available on several "new" platforms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Squadron

I just might have to look into that one :)

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A mad hope is still better than no home imho ;)

Actually I mean "Mad House" but I was writing this in bed with my iPad and
it introduced a typo :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Squadron

I just might have to look into that one :)

You should :-)

True that it's now available on android and iOS and I must admit that the
ports are well made and true to the original. But it's not easy on
touchscreen :-)

I need to get an iOS gamepad. But they still look so expensive

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