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**revil** · 07-20-2003, 08:42 PM

Anyone miss the days of the old BBS systems? I remember the day a few BBS's started connected to each other for mail and such. now that was sweet.

**Nija** · 07-20-2003, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by revil
Anyone miss the days of the old BBS systems? I remember the day a few BBS's started connected to each other for mail and such. now that was sweet.

there are a bunch of old BBS' (And some new ones) if you are willing to look. I was obsessed with the old LoRD and Usurper and Trade Wars 2002 games, so I started doing some google searchs and found that there are a bunch of telnet bbs' out there that still have these games.

**Kevster** · 07-20-2003, 09:36 PM

Believe it or not, but I still have an old version of Wildcat! BBS in my archives (I once was a SYSOP for a local community board in the Sacramento area).

**brain** · 07-21-2003, 01:03 AM

I have a few copies of Major BBS and some Digiboards lying around here somwhere.

**Thesifer** · 07-21-2003, 05:28 AM

I still kinda wanna start my own MajorBBS... and run MajorMUD on it .. but its rather expensive to get all the software.. and no one is really selling it (licensed - legal).. So.. I will wait a bit.. and get a place.. there is still a pretty good player base for MajorMUD.. I was obsessed with it forever... and still play it when I can (as in not underway) ...

**Memo** · 07-21-2003, 06:08 AM

Originally posted by Nija

there are a bunch of old BBS' (And some new ones) if you are willing to look. I was obsessed with the old LoRD and Usurper and Trade Wars 2002 games, so I started doing some google searchs and found that there are a bunch of telnet bbs' out there that still have these games.

I loved LORD and Usurpers as well. I posted this link in the GAmes forums a while ago and no one seemed to care...but here it goes again: http://lotgd.sourceforge.net/ , it's a web-based ersion of LoRD that is quite true to the original

**kain9i6** · 07-21-2003, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by Kevster
Believe it or not, but I still have an old version of Wildcat! BBS in my archives (I once was a SYSOP for a local community board in the Sacramento area).

Which one?? i'm still on a board in Sacramento called TEA (The Executive Arcade) teabbs.com if anyone wants to play LoRD.. That's what I do..

I used to run a BBS in the So. Cal (30 miles north of Mexico) area and i was suprised to see that I had over 400 users.. That is until my step dad found out his 13 year old son was running an "adult" bbs and charged people 20 bux for 30 months...

**kain9i6** · 07-21-2003, 11:12 AM

Originally posted by Thesifer
I still kinda wanna start my own MajorBBS... and run MajorMUD on it .. but its rather expensive to get all the software.. and no one is really selling it (licensed - legal).. So.. I will wait a bit.. and get a place.. there is still a pretty good player base for MajorMUD.. I was obsessed with it forever... and still play it when I can (as in not underway) ...

ooh Major BBS/WorldGroup

I remember playing alot of MajorMUD and TeleArena.. had so much fun back then.. and as for Major bbs, yeah the company that made it is no longer in business or something.. I know the old owner/sysop for a board that was located here in sac, and I think he said he still owns the licenses for his board, but can't find his software... I think he needs to get on the ball and get that board back up.. all of the oldskooler's would pay to go back I would think.. and with telnet now widely available, you can have many many users...

**Nija** · 07-21-2003, 07:16 PM

until i got unplugged...

**Thesifer** · 07-22-2003, 01:38 AM

Originally posted by kain9i6

ooh Major BBS/WorldGroup

I remember playing alot of MajorMUD and TeleArena.. had so much fun back then.. and as for Major bbs, yeah the company that made it is no longer in business or something.. I know the old owner/sysop for a board that was located here in sac, and I think he said he still owns the licenses for his board, but can't find his software... I think he needs to get on the ball and get that board back up.. all of the oldskooler's would pay to go back I would think.. and with telnet now widely available, you can have many many users...

Im not sure Who the Original Creators Are.. but I know Gary and MaryAnn where some of the ORiginal OPS for it .. (maybe even creators) .. but the MajorBBS License is Owned my Metropolis Inc. A Subsidiary of Gameport... They also Own the MajorMUD License.. the LoRD license.. Tradewars for BBS License.. RoSE License.. and just about any other license they thought was worth buying

.. they bought MajorMUD from The Canadians that Originally Created it..

They have like 5 or more BBS's running.. telnet.big12.com I think is the telnet address.. There is another one running out of Somewhere between LA and SD .. Called COFFEEBBS.. they have a lot of users that on.. something like 50-70 At a Time.. coffeebbs.com ...

I used to play there.. before Westpac... and There is still a userbase for BBS's if you go and check em out .. Although a lot of them arent really THERE .. they script mud.. to level their characters.. and play a few times a week or so..

**Kevster** · 07-25-2003, 04:38 PM

Originally posted by kain9i6

Which one?? i'm still on a board in Sacramento called TEA (The Executive Arcade) teabbs.com if anyone wants to play LoRD.. That's what I do..

I was a co-sysop for Kingmont Observatory and a part-timer for Gold Country. Kingmont was an old-style DIAL-IN website. He had 2 HST 9.6k then later 14.4 and even later 28.8k modems before he took it down and went onto the web. He doesn't have anything on right now, but has a huge amount of space and aviation-related programs and images.

I also had my own for a while, but my parents got tired of paying for the phone line and I had to bring it down (ran on my Commodore 128!

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