Remembering BBS's and your favorite ones

[amigakid]

Just thought i would start a post a little different than what we normally have.  Remember dialing into the old BBS's?  I remember them.  I was using my Amiga 500 with a 4MB baseboard expansion in it and JRcomm was the software.  Thinking about them brought back some good memories playing those ASCII games like LORDs (Legend of the Red Dragon), LORDs 2 and Kyrindia.  Anyone else here remember them and have any fun memories to share?  Cheers!!!

[McVenco]

There were 2 BBSes that I loved best: Amiga Magazine BBS and Foxhunt BBS, both in the Netherlands. I got to know a lot of people there and we even had 2 Amiga Magazine BBS user parties back in the day.

I don't remember which terminal software I used, but for the messageboards I used Spot and AmyBW.

I also had my own BBS, called The Missing Channel (running on the TronBBS package), it ran only locally (offline) on my A500 with 2.5MB FastRAM, and later it was online a few months on my factory standard A3000.

And today I received a genuine Amiga branded 14k4 modem which I won on Ebay recently, so now it's a small step to start up my BBS again (I only need to completely re-design all my ANSI art since that has been LONG gone...).


Man, those were the days. The Internet was still stumbling around in diapers and SysOps were the coolest people around! :-D

[pVC]

Yeah, I remember playing LORD and some other games on-line back then in beginning of the 90's. It was nice.. first touches to multiplayer games and online communities

Started with loaned 2400bps modem and then finally bought new ultra fast 14400bps modem myself First started with JRcomm, but then moved to the great NComm... hmm.. in the middle I used Term too.. IIRC

Whole new world with BBS:es opened for me in the end of 90's when I got fast connection to internet. There have been hundreds of Amiga telnet boards around the world and now you got easy and fast access to them. DCTelnet's addressbook got pretty big quickly That fun lasted for some years, but then it started to go quiet. Couple of years ago there was last dramatical drop and now there's only few boards left.