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Nice! Although BBS doors in C could have been risky cough. > it's super gratifying to read about kids being inspired by BBS software Inspired? Man... I rememb
by alfiedotwtf 12y ago
Nice! Although BBS doors in C could have been risky cough.
> it's super gratifying to read about kids being inspired by BBS software
Inspired? Man... I remember one time I was online and the SysOp initiated chat mode. After a while he told me he wrote some of the doors for his BBS. At first I didn't believe him because he was one person and not a giant company with fancy computers, but he convinced me and I was completely blown away. Programmers were my heroes growing up.
- cubano 12y agoNo..it wasn't doors. This was the MajorBBS, by a company called Galacticomm, which was the only BBS system that allowed realtime interactions and gave developers the ability to access shared memory that stored game state and player information.
- alfiedotwtf 12y agoHang on... you worked on MajorBBS? Wow that's cool! I was fond of PCBoard though because most of the local l33t boards used it and they had PPEs :) Edit: sorry can't concentrate as I'm minding the kids and being distracted... you STARTED Galacticomm? That's awesome. I'm so happy my post has brought in the big guns to comment :)
- cubano 12y agoNo..I didn't start Galacticomm :) That would be Tim Stryker, a true genius and a friend of mine, who sadly succumbed to deep mental illness in the 90's. My company, Magicomm, built add-ons and did deep custom modifications of the GC codebase.