Re: Age of Reason BBS

[Moose <moose@move.to>]

On Friday, 3 August 2012 07:30:22 UTC+10, Gene Buckle  wrote:
> Sorry folks, I finally pulled the plug on it and turned the hardware over to
> a friend of mine.  I didn't have the time that the board really needed.
> 
> I'll get something online to replace it eventually, but it won't be on an
> Apple II.

Perfectly understandable Gene.  :)  Thank you for keeping the dream alive as long as possible.  :)  Look forward to your next BBS.  :)

Jason Scott's BBS Documentary has really re-lit the BBS fire inside me and the Get Lamp text adventure documentary has relit the text adventure fire inside me ....  These documentaries are really incredibly dangerous !  All of a sudden you are back to 20+ years ago, and you start thinking of resurrecting / re-living things ....  Any free time you had can quickly be soaked up ... ;)

If anyone else is interested in BBS's (and there's quite a few here ;), and is thinking of setting up a BBS, Synchronet is great and free web BBS software that is telnet-able: 

http://www.synchro.net/
http://wiki.synchro.net/resource:doors

And here's a terrific BBS using Synchronet (stacks of doors, etc)
telnet://convolution.us

I played quite a lot of Axe & Fang (text adventure) on Convolution the other day, and this together with Jason Scott's Get Lamp documentary have inspired me to resurrect my old Text Adventure engine / code and I am now updating it (adding lots of extra functionality) and starting to develop some text adventures (all done in Pascal, so I should be able to transfer these to pascal on the Apple ][).

Moose