You remember it… Maybe you don’t, if you grew up in the same age as I did, and you were into computers, you know what I’m talking about.

The BBS…

I spent most of my life between the ages of 14 and 18 or so playing around on BBS’s. They started out as dial-up, then telnet as technology progressed. I ran my own for a short while back then, using all pirated software, but it wasn’t like i was making money off of it. It was just a local thing, for me and my friends to hang out and play the games we loved in our own environment.

I took it offline, for a few reasons, one was the fact that i was using a few thousand dollars worth of software, publicly accessible, illegally. I wasn’t comfortable leaving it up. Plus interest faded.

Then I came across legitimate software, that an old sysop just _gave_ me. I know it’s legitimate, because It’s a board that was up and running as a business for a long time. So i got that up and running, and it’s been my board ever since. It’s been online since sometime around 2002, it was down for a few months when i moved (hard drive failure) but i got it back up and running, and it’s been The Underground BBS ever since.

Now I’m working on a custom developed copy of Tele-Arena. A BBS game that I run. The problem is, that this software is sooo old, that it’s tough to actually develop on! I dont have any computer’s that will still run the software, other than the bbs itself, and the hardware that the BBS was running on before, and that’s all in use currently. So I’m fighting with running the software under a VM. So far it’s been almost completely un-successful. Apparently WorldGroup 2 does not like being run in a virtual machine. I’ll get it going, it’s just been a hell of a headache…

-War