bbs software
Michael Paull
Are there any ftp sites with copies of the old c64 BBS software ?? I
remember such names as Comboard, KBBS, ColourBBS, Tower BBS, ARB and so on..
Any of these ( or others ) available to download?
mike
Patrick/RPG
There is a site with the Colour64 BBS. I _think_ it was linked to from
the Centipede BBS site, which is an offshoot of Colour64 in look and
feel. :)
Never heard of KBBS, Tower, or ARB though. What were they?
I have copies of the following in my collection:
1541 BBS
Ivory
UCBBS
DarkStar 3.0 and 3.1
RAD BBS
Colour64
DMBBS
DataQuick BBS
EBBS 64
Spence-XP
Midgard (! My personal favorite, because it was the first BBS program I
bought, and ran my only BBS off of it! :) !)
AABBS
Anybody care to elaborate on the current BBS systems? I know Centipede
is rather popular, is there anything else?
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Larry Anderson
>
> Hi,
>
> Are there any ftp sites with copies of the old c64 BBS software ?? I
> remember such names as Comboard, KBBS, ColourBBS, Tower BBS, ARB and so on..
> Any of these ( or others ) available to download?
>
> mike
C-Net 128 went shareware about a year ago...
see: http://www.ij.net/rmscomp/CNET/index.html
Image BBS (page under construction):
see: http://people.tamu.edu/~jlf8419/c64index.htm
Dang! There is a page that lists LOTs of the commodore boards, but I can't
find it in my bookmarks... It's out there... :)
I remember also HAL BBS, RPG BBS, 6480 BBS, and All American BBS.
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GramPa1944
>There is a site with the Colour64 BBS. I _think_ it was linked to from
>the Centipede BBS site, which is an offshoot of Colour64 in look and
>feel. :)
>
>is rather popular, is there anything else?
>
>--
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>PLUR- Peace Love Unity Respect -Live It, Love It, Be It, BELIEVE!
>RENEGADE PROGRAMMING GROUP IN 1999 -- Taking It To The Next Level
To bad Nature Reserve (home of CENTIPEDE and
COMLINK) are down and (acording to OWL) are
no longer. The comlink hub may goto The Inner Circle
BBS but in my opinoin if that happens it will be the end of
Color64 type BBS.
Michael Paull
>Never heard of KBBS, Tower, or ARB though. What were they?
KBBS was (from memory) just a fairly standard BBS package, something more
in-line with the typical BBS styles of the day, rather than the more
individual styles of most C64 BBS software. Features i remember were online
games (written in basic I think) and a few other minor things.
A few BBS's here in Australia used the package, mainly the larger ones.
I never saw Tower running over here, I had a copy that I toyed with, and it
looked pretty standard fair, no features to make it unique, and I don't
recall it even being able to run external programs. Not sure if we had all
the files for it though.
ARB was run by alot of the BBSs that used to run KBBS (and formerly
COMBoard). It (from memory) was extreemly configurable with all menu's being
customisable, online games (and any other external basic programs you
wanted) and, as was the ibm bbs feature of the day, "echo" message areas. It
was quick and worked with IEEE devices and hayes 2400 baud modems.
>I have copies of the following in my collection:
>
>1541 BBS
Never seen
>Ivory
I'll have to check the archives
>UCBBS
>DarkStar 3.0 and 3.1
>RAD BBS
Never seen
>Colour64
Got a copy.. The first ever C64 BBSs I saw were running Colour, however they
eventually went the route I mentioned above.
>DMBBS
>DataQuick BBS
>EBBS 64
>Spence-XP
>Midgard (! My personal favorite, because it was the first BBS program I
>bought, and ran my only BBS off of it! :) !)
>AABBS
Never seen
>Anybody care to elaborate on the current BBS systems? I know Centipede
>is rather popular, is there anything else?
The last known C64 BBS systems I saw over here used ARB-BBS and I think
C-Net V12 for the C128. For a while we had about five BBSs running C-Net on
the C64 and I used to supply them with mods to the code, like for non
standard baud rates ( remember 450 or 500 baud from a 300baud modem ),
online games and other changes or enhancements. The last thing I worked on
for it was an echoed message base idea, which was killed when ARB came out
with it standard, and was a better BBS (speed and ease of use wise), even if
less "hackable".
If we can convince one of the c64 ftp site admins to give us space for a c64
bbs software directory, would you be interested in converting the disks of
the bbs software into D64 format and uploading them?
I'm going to go through my disks and see what i've still got, and what still
works.
mike
Golan Klinger
up here in Canada but I've never seen it mentioned online. I also remember
eBBS and eBBS 128 and I haven't seen those in years either...
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I ran a EBBS128 board for close to 5 years. The software rights to both
EBBS64 and EBBS128 are owned by Barry Boughen of Canada unless he has sold
them.
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Patrick/RPG
> >1541 BBS
>
> Never seen
1541 BBS was a lookalike of PunterNet based boards (I forget the name of
the CBM version of the PC-Punternet software off hand). The system was
designed to run off of one 1541, hence the name 1541. It wasn't bad,
for what it did.
It was written in Toronto, so pretty popular there.
> >Ivory
>
> I'll have to check the archives
>
> >UCBBS
UCBBS is a spin of Ivory I think, completely rewritten but very much
look and feel. It was _the_ defacto "warez board program" for quite a
while, due to it's speed, simplicity, and relative simple command
structure.
>
> >DarkStar 3.0 and 3.1
DarkStar BBS was an excellent system. It handled a different type of
multi-Punter C1 protocol, which was more akin to Y-Modem or Y-Modem G.
The BBS program and companion terminal program DarkTerm were completely
written in ML, which made it fast when compared to it's slower BASIC
based rivals such as Colour64, or even BLITZ!ed Ivory.
It was _the_ defacto BBS program for quite a while, in Canada at least.
I loved the system, and actually bought a legal copy. Back in the day,
you had two choices: Colour64 or DarkStar, and the two crowds were very
different. One problem was that the DarkStar system had it's own
embedded commands. For example, CTRL-V and two values would plot the
cursor to the screen at a specified position, but CTRL-V in CCGMS
(standard for Colour64 boards) would cause that very loud "BONG!".
Other features. The message editor was a full-recording editor, meaning
it recorded _every_ keystroke. While this sounds like a disadvantage
(the DEL key moved the cursor backwards, to get a real delete you had to
press CTRL-D I believe), I saw some beautiful animations accomplished
with the editor. You could also change screen colours with another
CTRL-combination.
AFAIK, DarkStar 3.0/3.1 brought colour to the DarkStar world, and
DarkStar'88 was the final chapter. The HQ/owners were Captain Colgate,
the actual programmer's name escapes memory. Captain Colgate ran TSE --
Toronto SuperSoft Express, huge pirate group in the early 80's, for
Toronto! :) Intros written in BASIC!
> >DMBBS
C*Base was a spin off of DMBBS, and CNet was a spinoff of C*Base I
believe.
> >DataQuick BBS
Commerical system I think. Never actually saw any boards running it.
> >EBBS 64
Ed Parry BBS program I think. The C128 version was MUCH superior.
> >Spence-XP
Very powerful package. True ANSI. I beleive true full-screen editor.
Dynamic screen widths and lengths, etc., etc., etc.
> >Midgard (! My personal favorite, because it was the first BBS program I
> >bought, and ran my only BBS off of it! :) !)
Midgard was nice, because you could have active overlays starting at
line 60000 (written in BASIC, I know). This made modular code very
nice, and with a fastloader, or even JiffyDOS loading links was
practically transparent to the user since the links themselves were so
small. (How much code can you cram from line 60000?? :) ).
> >AABBS
AKA All American BBS.
> If we can convince one of the c64 ftp site admins to give us space for a c64
> bbs software directory, would you be interested in converting the disks of
> the bbs software into D64 format and uploading them?
>
I'm up for it. I want to contact the author of Midgard and get
permission to release the BBS program to the public as well. Smarry,
the person who coded all of the ML routines gave me permission to hack
the code to bits at my liesure, so technically the ML is already in the
public domain I _think_.
> I'm going to go through my disks and see what i've still got, and what still
> works.
Pls do.
Patrick/RPG
> Has anyone heard of Darkstar? That BBS software was quite popular
> up here in Canada but I've never seen it mentioned online. I also remember
> eBBS and eBBS 128 and I haven't seen those in years either...
See my other thread.
I would love to get a legal copy of DarkStar'88, and the DOCS for
DarkStar 3.0. While I own legal copies of 3.1, the docs are really an
extension off of 3.0, so you really need the 3.0 docs to understand the
system.
Jason Compton
: C*Base was a spin off of DMBBS, and CNet was a spinoff of C*Base I
: believe.
No, no, no. C-Net was a very professionally developed BBS, and Image BBS
was a splinter of it. C*Base has no relation to either.
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nospam Iceman/ICE
How about a fairly new... and the best BBS program ever for the Commodore? And
the fact that it is NOW FREE. Yes FREE. www.bugsoftware.com GO CHECK IT OUT.
Yes I'M YELLING hehe
In article <7a181j$117$2...@news1.mpx.com.au>, mpa...@mpx.com.au says...
>
>Hi,
>
> Are there any ftp sites with copies of the old c64 BBS software ?? I
>remember such names as Comboard, KBBS, ColourBBS, Tower BBS, ARB and so on..
>Any of these ( or others ) available to download?
>
>mike
>
>
>
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4+ GIGAbytes / Centipede 128 SCPU + Hardware Tech/SysOp/CBM/Support
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No Gramps, Not the end of it.. Just then end of listening to whiners.
By the way folks, Centipede 128 Is now FREEWARE. Adam was so disgusted with
the loss of so much work when his LTK crashed that he says that he has released
Centipede and Color 64 v128 into the Public Domain.
That means you can run the best bbs program for nadda. You can Link for
Nadda. No matter where it is hosted at for a hub. Whether is is in Cypress
Ca or on The Inner Circle... It will STILL be going.
Go get your copy today.... www.bugsoftware.com
In article <19990212203205...@ng39.aol.com>, gramp...@aol.com says...
>
>>
>>There is a site with the Colour64 BBS. I _think_ it was linked to from
>>the Centipede BBS site, which is an offshoot of Colour64 in look and
>>feel. :)
>>
>>Anybody care to elaborate on the current BBS systems? I know Centipede
>>is rather popular, is there anything else?
>>
>>--
>>Cyberad/RPG aka Patrick M Pritchard * http://www.interlog.com/~cr
>>PLUR- Peace Love Unity Respect -Live It, Love It, Be It, BELIEVE!
>>RENEGADE PROGRAMMING GROUP IN 1999 -- Taking It To The Next Level
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>
>To bad Nature Reserve (home of CENTIPEDE and
>COMLINK) are down and (acording to OWL) are
>no longer. The comlink hub may goto The Inner Circle
>BBS but in my opinoin if that happens it will be the end of
>Color64 type BBS.
>
>
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