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This is where I used it as well. It was that, PC-MOS, or later, OS/2. So, Wildcat! or PC-Board?
by randombits0 5y ago
This is where I used it as well. It was that, PC-MOS, or later, OS/2.
So, Wildcat! or PC-Board?
- myself248 5y agoRenegade, you heathen! ;)
- a-dub 5y agowas it renegade or remote access that used to play a bleepy rendition of guns n' roses on the pc speaker?
- Firehawke 5y agoRemoteAccess used that as the default Sysop page tune. It could be replaced, though.
- VectorLock 5y agoRenegade really was the apex of the BBS era.
- nope96 5y agoBBS software was very regional and scene specific. A lot of Midwestern Warez guys loved Renegade, and Cott Lang hated that! The really cool warez guys ran PC Board (for some reason), or a Fourm hack which looked cool but seemed buggy. I think Renegade's non-warez scene competition was TAG, WWIV, Wildcat and (of course) Telegard. I kind of liked all of them for various reasons!
- randombits0 5y agoNot heathen, just old. Haha! Edit: my first BBS ran on an Atari 800XL with software written by Jeff Minter. Had to hack up a ring detector for the lame Atari 1200 baud modem. Lol!
- tibbydudeza 5y agoWe used PC-MOS/386 to run our DOS software on 386SX computers with multiple sessions but it tended to corrupt HDD's.
- tssva 5y agoThe source code for PC-MOS/386 version 5.01, the last commercial version, was released under the GPL in 2017 and is available on GitHub.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoThanks - wish we could preserve more software artifacts - the Netware source code would be interesting to look at.
- randombits0 5y agoI stole a 256 user version license from a training machine during training, it’s all in command.com. I never used it, it was just a trophy.
- Clubber 5y agoWWIV! If you registered they would give you compilable source code and I liked being able to customize it. Before that it was C-Net on the C64. Modifying BBSes is what got me into coding.
- jmspring 5y agoWas a big WWIV modder. Never really ran a board myself, but helped several in the East Bay back in the late 80s/early 90s.
- driverdan 5y agoI ran PCBoard under DESQView on a 486 laptop with an external SCSI drive for file storage. Being able to use the BBS at the same time as users was amazing the first time I did it.