I am working on a fairly new BBS and I have been looking around for some doo programs and utilities I could use. I used to have tons of BBS software on CD-ROMs but that stuff is long gone.
I have 152 CD-ROMs ONLINE over my way, as well as 450+ LOCAL Doors. Telnet over sometime.
But then I thought to look on the archive.org web site. Well BINGO!! If you are looking for some old door programs or utilities or even books about bulletin boards, you should take a look. There are .ISO images of
On 28 Feb 2023, Alonzo said the following...
But then I thought to look on the archive.org web site. Well BINGO!! you are looking for some old door programs or utilities or even books about bulletin boards, you should take a look. There are .ISO images
Thanks! Yep, I have been thinking of getting some of those CDs as they were a common base for file areas back in the day... I remember
requesting disc changes. :-D
If you download anything from archive.org, be sure to scan it for viruses before you use it. I found that some of it is questionable.
Ahh yes, the good ole NightOwl CD's. Great archives of freeware/shareware/demoware.
Geri Atricks wrote to Zip <=-
Ahh yes, the good ole NightOwl CD's. Great archives of freeware/shareware/demoware.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Geri Atricks <=-
Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.
Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in
order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.
Back in the day I had two of those 4x4 CD-ROM Changers, as well as 4 Panasonic CD-ROM Drives daisy chained so I had 12 CD's online .... now I have 152 CDs online. :)
That's awesome. How are you hosting them? Do you have the ISOs or are they a unzipped somewhere or...? I'd love to do the same, BBSes are such a great wa to index these things in my opinion.
All on the Hard Drive via a CD-ROM Door. I have over 80 GIGS of files
up for download.
I would love to do something different with the setup, but there are too many formats for the CDs to get descriptions and EZ-ROM door was the easiest to do.
Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.
Geri Atricks wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.
Most of the systems around here that had multiple CD's like that just
set up a SCSI array of multiple CD drives. The multidisk changer would have probably been a whole lot simpler, and use less power. :)
Man, I hateed SCSI! I worked at a Mac software company in the '90s, and
Man, I hateed SCSI! I worked at a Mac software company in the '90s, aI still hate SCSI :P and unfortunately so many old computers used it, so we have to use these jank adapters. My Amigas are the worst, I have all these scsi->CF adapters and things like that which always have their own problems. It's just a mess.
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