You know... I have yet to find an Internet e-mail program (except maybe Pegasus Mail) that does thing like the BBS/QWK mailers did with TagLines. These where the best. Another great idea, basically lost...:(
I remember putting up a Wildcat BBS in North Chicago and being one of the first Programmer BBS in the Chicago area. I remember moving that BBS (as I was moved) to Ca., and being one of the first Programmer BBSes in Southern Ca.
I remember helping being in a local meeting group witht he author of the Door game... Gopher Hunt. I remember helping to Beta test it.
I remember hacking together a few utilities to patch the wholes between a Wildcat, FidoNet, and
TranScan.
I miss the Fidonet message groups (especially TOTT, Turned on To Teens).
The web is cool, but it's just not the same as BBSs. I don't get the same 'community' feeling from the Web, etc... that I did when I was the Sysop of my own Wildcat BBS.
I loved the BBS door (don't remember the name) that was post-nuclear war, and has 'wastelands' that you went-out a fought in, etc. I spent every possible moment playing that. Trade Wars was cool too.
Man... I'm thinking of taking this 1.2 gig HD, and 486 machine here and putting my Wildcat! DB up locally just so the wife and I can play....;) I got a registered version of TradeWars around here somewhere...
And for the record.... I was born in 1977, and would trade my Web-site and 'web forums' and internet newsgroups for a Wildcat! BBS, FidoNet, and Door games in heart-beat.
Thanks to the original poster and all those that wrote in.
If you where the Sysop of 'Three Sheets in The Wind', 'Hiawaths Jolly Wigwam', or numerous other in the Chicago & SD, Ca area. Feel free to contact me...
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You know... I have yet to find an Internet e-mail program (except maybe Pegasus Mail) that does thing like the BBS/QWK mailers did with TagLines. These where the best. Another great idea, basically lost... :(
I remember putting up a Wildcat BBS in North Chicago and being one of the first Programmer BBS in the Chicago area. I remember moving that BBS (as I was moved) to Ca., and being one of the first Programmer BBSes in Southern Ca.
;) I got a registered version of TradeWars around here somewhere...
I remember helping being in a local meeting group witht he author of the Door game... Gopher Hunt. I remember helping to Beta test it.
I remember hacking together a few utilities to patch the wholes between a Wildcat, FidoNet, and
TranScan.
I miss the Fidonet message groups (especially TOTT, Turned on To Teens).
The web is cool, but it's just not the same as BBSs. I don't get the same 'community' feeling from the Web, etc... that I did when I was the Sysop of my own Wildcat BBS.
I loved the BBS door (don't remember the name) that was post-nuclear war, and has 'wastelands' that you went-out a fought in, etc. I spent every possible moment playing that. Trade Wars was cool too.
Man... I'm thinking of taking this 1.2 gig HD, and 486 machine here and putting my Wildcat! DB up locally just so the wife and I can play....
And for the record.... I was born in 1977, and would trade my Web-site and 'web forums' and internet newsgroups for a Wildcat! BBS, FidoNet, and Door games in heart-beat.
Thanks to the original poster and all those that wrote in.
If you where the Sysop of 'Three Sheets in The Wind', 'Hiawaths Jolly Wigwam', or numerous other in the Chicago & SD, Ca area. Feel free to contact me...
Former Sysop,
GCG Programming BBS