I miss BBS's!!!

[Gary McCulloch]

We're still running our Amiga Board, although we've moved from Modem dialup to Telnet connection. You can read out our BBS on http://silverhawk.ath.cx where the story of the BBS is told. Our board is reachable via your favourite telnet client. We prefer Putty, and you can download a preconfigured copy from our webside at http://silverhawh.ath.cx
where there is also some info on how to set up putty for best compatibilty.
 
 
 
Espen Skog
CoSys SilverHawk BBS

That site doesn't seem to load for me.

[Gary McCulloch]

I sure miss the good old BBS scene. I miss the local presence of the BBS community. If you had a problem you could meet most member in person. The Internet is too impersonal. Yes you can find everything on the web, once you filter the junk, it doesn't amount to that much though.
 
BBS via Telnet isn't the same thing.

Your right, its not the same.  A good BBS would get many calls a day, but now everyone surfs the web.  If I could just get everyone here to call my BBS as much as they visit this site, it could spark the good old days.  Then again, visiting it via Telnet is just not the same.

[Gary McCulloch]

Thats cool... its up and ready for callers! Thank goodness to Telnet, I do have multiple ports open!  

[Gary McCulloch]

I placed the latest CNet up for download on RoF, but your still needing a BBSLICENSE to run it.  Now on another note...  Sharing software was the thing to do when you owned a Commodore.  Hacking them and getting them to work for all was our code.

[Gary McCulloch]

Now with WiFi modems for the C64/128 and Amiga, Calling a BBS and leaving the web behind is better now than ever.  Let me list the terms, and please add any you use...

Amiga...

Term v4.8
DCTelnet
JR-Comm

C64/128..

CCGMS
DesTerm
NovaTerm

PC...

SyncTerm
Netrunner
CGTerm
CBMTerm

[Gary McCulloch]

There are still many sites making WiFi modems for the retro systems.  I am sure there is one out there for yours.