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Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet.
oldbitcollector writes "Several Commodore 64 enthusiasts have developed a method for putting Commodore BBS sytems on the Internet. Users can "dial" using a standard 64 connected to the Internet or by using a "CG Term" for the PC. Details can be found here."
No VIC-20 support? Darn, and I've even got a tape drive.
Just what the world needs-- more underpowered computers connected to the internet so that we can all DoS *ahem* I mean Slashdot them.
Hip hip Horray!
What's with that period? It makes the headline seem so...threatening, ominous.
I belong to the ______ generation.
One has to wonder about an implimentation for "fringe" computers when the website (http://www.petscii.com/) supports IE but only gives a blank page if opened in Netscape.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
HAH! my 28.8 modem days finally pay off! now I actually can do something that people with broadband can't do. there is nothing like a carrier signal to lift the sprits.
are they "secure" like the old bbs' were?
everyone knows that a bbs attracts conspiratist theorists like flies to fido spread over 5km of freewaysomewhere, on a Big Red Sign:
if(color==blue){speed--;}
And just in case there was any lingering doubt that Slashdot editors might not derive some sort of malignant glee from watching servers go down, now we are posting links to COMMODORE 64s! C'mon, let's be more forthcoming - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, Harnessing the Power of Geeks to Set Protozoan Servers on Fire. BOO-YAH!
A Commodore 64 BBS is not the same over a high speed connection. I long for the days of my 300 baud modem when I could read the text in real time as it came across my TV screen. It was all down hill after the 1200 baud modems came out.
Remember... ZG9uJ3QgZm9yZ2V0IHRvIGRyaW5rIHlvdXIgb3ZhbHRpbmU=
Soon to come: an internet morse code interface for the internet C64 BBS systems, for those of us who really think those 40 columns by 25 lines and 16 colors are a disgraceful novelty item, not worthy of true purists!!
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Well, I suppose the safest stuff to trade without recourse for the moment is C64 Warez
:)
When you log on, check out the Uploads/New!!0-3Decades/ folder for all the latest stuff
the amount of time people are willing to waste on totally useless crap is amazing
10 PRINT "FUCK"
20 PRINT "YOU"
30 GOTO 10
END
What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.-Edward Abbey
It's really kinda sad.
I'm all for nostalgia in some minor way but when do you let it rest? I wonder how many guys are out there praising this move who, the day after they got their x86, were trashing the C=64?
I still own a working Amiga but even I've come to the point that I'm asking myself; what for? It was great in the day but the day's over. Stop playing Trade Wars and play some MOH so I have another newb I can kick in the nuts...
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
How can this be very useful? The C64 has about 32K of useable RAM
Actually, it's a very secure system to go on the internet with, for one thing: even the smallest Windows virus won't fit in 32K.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
YOU SEE A RED DOOR TO THE NORTH
(I called my character A RED DOOR TO THE NORTH)
> Open red door
I DO NOT SEE A RED DOOR HERE.
A RED DOOR TO THE NORTH STRIKES YOU, INFLICTING 30 DAMAGE.
(I also liked to call my character "1l1l1lll11")
READY
LOAD "HTTP://WWW./PETSCII.COM/",8,1
HTTP 404 SITE NOT FOUND
READY
so anyway, I just had to add this little bit to get aroung the lameness filter. So, how's that Internet thing doing?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
I've got the Assembler cartridge! But I can't remember the entry point to run it. Back to read data, poke data looping. :(
>> a national BBS I think called Q-Link(?).
They later moved to the PC market and changed their name to America On-Line. I hear they might still be in business.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.