Too Funny! And WAY too much time on his hands. I remember how much time it took me to do just 1 picture! Telenet to: towel.blinkenlights.nl Done by Simon...
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waldieb2
Dec 29, 2006 12:28 am
Last week I posted a message about the ASCII art of Star Wars IV that is posted over telnet at towels.blinkenlights.nl There have been posts here before about...
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ACTION
action_sysop
Dec 29, 2006 3:58 am
Definitely a lot of work behind that one. Been around for awhile. Hrm, wonder if there is a sequel in the works to complete the story. :D ACTION ...
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waldieb2
Dec 30, 2006 12:37 am
Apparently yes, he is still working on it and intends to finish the Episode IV. Bruce ... Hrm, ... that ... posts...
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T. B.
krell1215
Dec 30, 2006 5:39 am
Thinking back to the "Golden Age of Dial-Up", does anyone have a Christmas gift that they were ecstatic about getting? A 9600 modem? New terminal or BBS ...
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devlshone2003
Dec 30, 2006 4:45 pm
I can recall a Christmas in the early 80s that definitely sticks out as one of the best when I received enough cash to buy TWO dual floppy drives for my C-64...
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devlshone2003
Dec 30, 2006 4:46 pm
Hi to all, Just thought I would pop in and leave a brief blurb about myself. In the late 70s and early 80s, I ran a Searchlight BBS called "The Control Tower"...
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Quag7
jcentury
Dec 30, 2006 10:35 pm
... You know, we had a similar conversation about A Christmas Story -- what was your Red Ryder BB gun? I actually had two of these. The first was the Atari...
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T. B.
krell1215
Dec 31, 2006 6:45 am
I'm a little older than some of the others on this group, so my *actual* "Red Ryder" gift was probably a foosball table and a pair of roller skates. It was the...
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Tony
tonyokc
Jan 1, 2007 10:09 pm
To all from the old Fidonet Days... May this season find you, and all your family well... Tony Davis Back then it was Tony, TonyOKC or Tonto Z1EC, RC19, REC19,...
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Lisa Clarke
polkadotcrea...
Jan 1, 2007 11:43 pm
Quag7 wrote: I hooked the 64 up to our only television, the big one in the wooden cabinet, 70s style, in our living room. I guess my father expected me to load...
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Quag7
jcentury
Jan 2, 2007 5:02 am
... Where was Polka Dot Palace located? It sounds familiar. Also about when was it up? -Quag7...
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kevin
keshri_98
Jan 2, 2007 5:06 am
Hey Tony, Nice to see your name again as I was in RC19 as well as an independent for years until I was put back in net382. I sometimes miss the old fidonet...
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Lisa Clarke
polkadotcrea...
Jan 2, 2007 5:07 pm
The Polka Dot Palace was in Madison, NJ and ran from 1993 until 1997. It was a pretty small operation and not connected to Fidonet or anything like that. Lisa ...
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Jim Harrison
jiminjville
Jan 3, 2007 1:37 am
Yes, they were extremely well written - something I don't think we'll ever see again. I remember spending hour upon hour going through my Vic-20 manuals...
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K. Brian Kelley
arakakisudaki
Jan 3, 2007 1:44 am
I think my greatest Christmas present related to BBSes/IT was when my dad bought me an XP desktop for a Christmas/birthday present. I used that to develop...
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The Shrink
theshrink908
Jan 3, 2007 4:20 pm
I had a similar experience.. My first game system was Mattel's Intelivision (got it in 1980 for christmas) and then a C64 with 1541 and a few games in 86.. I...
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The Shrink
theshrink908
Jan 3, 2007 4:22 pm
The C64 manual was excellent. In my archives I still have original C64 owners manual and the programmers reference, as well as the C128 equivelants.. 65XX...
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Quag7
jcentury
Jan 4, 2007 12:27 am
About 6 months ago I took a tour of approximately 40 modern BBSes. I had a nice HTML article I was writing up but then I didn't really know where to publish...
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Bruce Landwaster
pyster
Jan 4, 2007 12:34 am
I disagree. The original c64 manual was a POS. I just looked at it again just to make sure it wasnt just me, and no, it is crap. The chapters on graphics and...
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Quag7
jcentury
Jan 4, 2007 1:52 am
... I wasn't; it got me started. Actually, what I learned from that, and then on my own from looking at other code, got me through every programming ...
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K. Brian Kelley
arakakisudaki
Jan 4, 2007 3:59 am
My thoughts are that we'll never really be able to recapture that age, just like we'll never be able to capture the days when web sites were primarily...
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devlshone2003
Jan 4, 2007 2:12 pm
A brief note, as compared to that very large soliloquy about the state of BBS' and how they can be resurrected: I noticed a small blurb on the bottom of that...
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Chas
corvair_tw
Jan 4, 2007 2:51 pm
Are you speaking of Trade Wars??...
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Bruce Landwaster
pyster
Jan 4, 2007 10:46 pm
No, he is speaking of drug wars. I remember it. I know lots of ppl loved it, but I wasnt a fan. I spend alot of time in 87 on a p-v-p D&D type door for c-net...
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devlshone2003
Jan 4, 2007 10:58 pm
Yes to both... Trade Wars was the original code that I modified to create Drug Wars. Amazing how things like this stay with us... I still write custom modules...
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Macross Actual
macross@...
Jan 4, 2007 11:21 pm
Cnet Pro V5.10 was officially released December 31st. http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3556 Talk about nostalgia. I'm re-assembling my...
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T. B.
krell1215
Jan 9, 2007 2:26 am
Wow! There's a lot of interesting things in this rant (for want of a better word) and most of them I agree with. In my area, the peak of the BBS era was about ...
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Tom Jackson
action_sysop
Jan 12, 2007 2:12 am
Ah heck.....BBSing today, as much as it ever was, is a hobby. If it has no value to the SysOp it has no value at all, much like collecting old stamps. Value...
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textfilesdotcom
Jan 24, 2007 8:09 pm
Before I spend a little time chit-chatting about Quag's excellent post, let me drop some information with regards to the sidetracking "Drug Wars" posts that...
