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Legends of the Red Dragon Poster - 1996 Robinson Technologies

Really excited to have picked up a LORD poster of fb marketplace today! BBSes and Legends of The Red Dragon was a big part of getting me interested in computers and eventually IT networking in which I have made my career.

I believe these were sent to BBS owners who had licensed the full version of the game. The gentleman I bought it from said he got it when he ran a BBS in the 90s here in TN. I believe he called it the White Castle BBS?

This is going to go in my game room / computer museum / shrine of half-dead beige beauties.

u/VandyMarine — 8 hours ago

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ENiGMA½ v0.1.0-beta

I have bumped ENiGMA½ BBS software in the master branch to 0.1.0-beta, and will be bumping up to version 1.0 over the next while now that I can work on it again, get PRs merged in, etc. Just a few recent highlights:

FSE re-worked to support live pipe code (colors), search/find, better handling of ANSI, upload support, and many more CTRL-n hot keys.
Native x86 (read: DOS) emulation via v86.js including tooling to make life easy. No need for DOSBOX, DOSEMU, QEMU, etc... it "Just Works!"
New TickerView and StatusBarView views & MCI codes
Updated MRC by MeaTLoTioN!
Tons of bug fixes, optimizations, documentation improvements, etc.

https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/

u/NuSkooler — 7 hours ago

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Are there any BBS message boards you can browse that are frozen in time from the 80s?

Anyone know are there any "preserved" BBSes from back then that you can still browse today as read-only?

I just watched the BBS documentary and would love to browse some of these old message boards just to see what people talked about back then

Tried a few I found on google but couldn't seem to connect

reddit.com

u/DirtInfographics — 9 hours ago

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CD-ROM Magic '95 disc 1

https://archive.org/details/cdm-5 is an upload of various door and BBS softwares that I never truly understood but had a great time playing around with when I was a kid.

I'm assuming most of it is archived elsewhere, but there's always the possibility that somebody might be able to dig out a gem or two. I appear to be the only person with a copy of the CD, as there is not a trace of it mentioned anywhere.

THIS is where I first played Legend of the Red Dragon, long before I ever saw the internet with my own eyes.

u/IceFurnace83 — 22 hours ago

▲ 6 r/wargaming+1 crossposts

Esterian Conquest

Esterian Conquest was my favorite game of all time. We are a long way from 1992, but I fondly remember many months battling with my friends and family via my trusty 2400 baud modem over local BBS lines. The memories were epic and they don't make games like that anymore.

Log in, read reports, make your moves, log out, and carry on with your life. Touch grass. Most of the action took place in your imagination offline, studying paper maps and plotting you next move.

One can still play EC via DOSBox-x on modern systems, but the drop files right are a PIA. The combat results were always opaque. I wish EC had lived on past the DOS era.

For some reason I decided to write the entire game from scratch in Rust. Maybe it will introduce EC to the next generation and make it accessible again.

I'm calling my version Nostrian Conquest.

There are three ways to play: classic Telnet hosted BBS, localhost hot-seat, or on an SSH server where player ID's are authenticated via the Nostr protocol (no web stuff).

I've tested Syncronet, Mysic, Enigma, and WWIV on Linux. On the Windows side (Win11) I've verified Syncronet, Mystic, Enigma. I could not get WWIV working in my Win11 machine.

I've posted x64, x32, and x32-Win7 binaries on my github page. Also Linux x64.

For SSH play, players can join a server with "nc-connect." I've posted Linux, Mac, and Win64 binaries. No command line required. The Sysop sends you an invite code, you paste it in, and off you go.

Github repo: https://github.com/greenm01/nostrian-conquest

Screenshots: https://www.nostrian-conquest.com/screenshots.html

I've been working in a silo for awhile and could use some help play-testing. It's not perfect, but it could be good.

https://preview.redd.it/qa4g6dhzizsg1.jpg?width=1376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b195418229913857c43a3ee59b4b5698b3fc9bc

https://preview.redd.it/0su4uod1jzsg1.png?width=795&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5eef0e68661d24c54ef9614e172da9d05f3ddf3

https://preview.redd.it/d9lxiod1jzsg1.png?width=752&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd76a53a1831150163ce0c4cfcd4ab7697b19e13

https://preview.redd.it/1azbmvd1jzsg1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=3befb81afdc5109bdc1c2de4dc891a8b51e84514

https://preview.redd.it/zt2nrqd1jzsg1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=4224f336c2956fe078fcf5ce61a756d582c54a9d

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u/greenm01 — 1 day ago