Amiga-Z BBS to Re-launch

[MobbyG]

After too long of a downtime, the Amiga-Z BBS is coming back. We offically relaunch on November 27, 2008!

The original Amiga-Z BBS went live in February of 1995 on an Amiga 500 with a Bodega Bay, external CD-ROM and 2 HDDs (40MB & 80MB) and had about 1300 files online by the time the BBS was shutdown in 1997, due to a failure on the DataFlyer500 HD controller.

After about 8 years, the BBS was resurrected while I lived in South Dakota. Mostly out of a mix of boredom and nostalgia. Since I didn't have my Amiga 3000 with me in the Mid-West, I opted to use an old P2 233MHz machine with Windows 98 and WinUAE to bring the BBS back. It ran for 2 more years till I moved back to New York. Now, 3 years later, it's coming back, somewhat intact.

I will be erasing just about all the old messages in the message bases, as well and doing some reworking of features, as well as some experimenting . For anyone that enjoys BBSing, I invite you to get a telnet client and be ready to log on when we go live.

If you would like to keep up to date on info for the BBS, you can go to the BBS' website or subscribe to the RSS feed.

[weirdami]

do any of the old messages have good info that would be lost if deleted?  :boohoo:

[ptek]

Man, I congratulate you and your fellows for the most enjoyable podcast of all times! Really fun to listen! It's a really joy when another episode is available.

Sorry for being offtopic but I definitely seem to have a problem with wordpress and I cannot figure how to post any comments on your blog :S

[itix]

Those were the times.

[mikrucio]

"were" being the operative word here.

[pedro7]

Aww don't delete the old messages, would be cool to see  what people were chatting about back in the heady days of the early intertubes.

[MobbyG]

Well basically the messages are from when I was out in South Dakota. Now I think I still have the original BBS from the later 90's on my old 80MB drive. But the problem is, I think the control card on the HD is dead. It's been a long time, and I don't have a SCSI card for my PC, and my 4000 is IDE.

If anyone has any experience with getting data off a dead drive like this, I would gladly post those public messages either on the website or on the BBS.

ptek said to me:

Man, I congratulate you and your fellows for the most enjoyable podcast of all times! Really fun to listen! It's a really joy when another episode is available.  Sorry for being offtopic but I definitely seem to have a problem with wordpress and I cannot figure how to post any comments on your blog :S

Do you have an IM like Yahoo or AOL or MSN? I'd be happy to help you out.