FOFC BBS

[Philliesfan980]

With all the talk on here about BBS's, Wrestling Sims, and general old school nostalga. Would anyone here be interested in a Telnet (internet) BBS which had old school BBS Door Games (L.O.R.D, Bre, foodfight, etc). I wouldn't mind hosting it, but only if people were interested.

[Groundhog]

An Internet BBS, yeah I'd be up for that.

[Suicane75]

With all the talk on here about BBS's, Wrestling Sims, and general old school nostalga. Would anyone here be interested in a Telnet (internet) BBS which had old school BBS Door Games (L.O.R.D, Bre, foodfight, etc). I wouldn't mind hosting it, but only if people were interested.


I have no idea how these games work, but I'd be interested in checking it out, sure.

[Philliesfan980]

I have no idea how these games work, but I'd be interested in checking it out, sure.

They are big multiplayer, turned base games esentially. You don't play "head to head" live, but rather you make moves and then someone logs on later and they make moves, etc. It was fun in its day, I'd still be up for some doors, but I'm not sure if they are just too simple for this crowd.

[hukarez]

How about including 'Trade Wars' or something too?

[MikeVic]

Kind of like a play-by-email thing? If someone told me how to login and stuff... I'd try it out.

[Philliesfan980]

How about including 'Trade Wars' or something too?

Wow, Totally forgot about Trade Wars. What a great game.

[Philliesfan980]

Kind of like a play-by-email thing? If someone told me how to login and stuff... I'd try it out.

Not really play by email. You login to a server, chose what game you want to play, then you play. Score some points , etc. Then others login later in the day or whatever and make their moves.

BBS's in the day were great, Message boards, file sharing, and multiplayer games all built into one. Plus the feeling of running a bbs was GODlike.

[hukarez]

I remember hearing about some BBS boards accessible now via the Internet. How it works and all, I'm guessing via Telnet, well...I'm not too familiar with. I used to go on a whole lot of BBS' back in the day on my spiffy 2400 baud modem...

What was it, WWIV was the most popular version out there? Then they had what...WildCat or what not? Those were the days I discovered about various "zone charges" for local calls. Heh.

Trade Wars was a game a lot of folks modified out htere, I think. There was another one...Operation Overkill or something, or what was it...Barren Realms? Castles and Catapults? :D

[Philliesfan980]

I remember hearing about some BBS boards accessible now via the Internet. How it works and all, I'm guessing via Telnet, well...I'm not too familiar with. I used to go on a whole lot of BBS' back in the day on my spiffy 2400 baud modem...

What was it, WWIV was the most popular version out there? Then they had what...WildCat or what not? Those were the days I discovered about various "zone charges" for local calls. Heh.

Trade Wars was a game a lot of folks modified out htere, I think. There was another one...Operation Overkill or something, or what was it...Barren Realms? Castles and Catapults? :D


WWIV was common, but I was a renegade man myself! I used to run a 2 node BBS which avg about 100 calls a day. BRE was my favorite door game of them all. Basically, you bought stuff to farm, etc (I think, its been awhile) and you tried to get your "planet" to do better than the others. I think you could attack other planets and stuff too. GREAT multiplayer game.

[DanGarion]

Wow, Totally forgot about Trade Wars. What a great game.

Tradewars was great. I was a fan of Swords of Chaos myself.

[DanGarion]

I'm didn't like WWIV, isn't that the company that bought out MajorBBS? And then tried to make it all windows like? I liked MajorBBS we had a 48 line BBS that spanned across all of California went we finally went under.

[Philliesfan980]

I'm didn't like WWIV, isn't that the company that bought out MajorBBS? And then tried to make it all windows like? I liked MajorBBS we had a 48 line BBS that spanned across all of California went we finally went under.


WWIV did suck. I think it gained alot of notoriety because if you registered it, you got the source code for it (C++). If you knew C++ you could make alot of nice mods for it. Wildcat was popular on all the clean "family" style boards. Renegade was nice because it was free. Major BBS was really good if you wanted to run a large (48 lines is large) BBS. I think it had its own multitasking built in, which was nice.