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Malakai

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Did a complete restoration on the central control computer and changed out the data sentry memorec battery with a dual AAA slot and two 1.2v (non-standard) AAA rechargeable batteries. Easy to change out and no more ...

Malakai

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New OBA Bill Acceptor computer installed

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OBA bill stacker unit - not installed yet. I'm still in need of the ...

Malakai

The opto switch and some #73 bulbs came in today, installed and calibrated the opto switch, and I was able to get everything up and running. It's been a really cool journey, going from someone that didn't know shit about jukeboxes to being basically a jukebox 'tech' over the period of two weeks or ...

Malakai

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New needle just came in today. The shure brand needles are super expensive, but thankfully, third-parties make cheaper ones that are compatible. If I had to pay $60+ for a needle, I wouldn't be messing with this ...

Malakai

The technicians manual came in today for the jukebox. I've got several parts ordered: new opto switch, a piston support system (for the gas springs) a new stylus,

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Wallbox interface kit, - this is basically a hub for ...

Malakai

Yeah, there's a 16mm scope release of conan the destroyer on ebay right now I think.

How do you get your hands on a 6000' 16mm reel? Are they 6,000' 35mm reels that have the width cut to half their size and welded back together, for a custom rig?

Malakai

I have seen a few portable 35mm projection systems, with everything built in, and I've even seen some people do 110v conversions on a few setups that use to be in big theaters. I personally don't see why you would run dual 110v lines vs running a single 220v line.

With the conversion to digital in ...

Malakai

Yeah, everything is turning to computers now days. We're probably coming to a point now where legit arcade machines will be using roms downloaded off of a game server or something, just like jukeboxes are doing with music. Not having physical media is what most companies are pushing for anyway ...

Malakai

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Project #3:

Restoring this old Fostex 8 track Reel to Reel system. Waiting for some parts to come in. This is probably going to be my re-sale project. These are worth around $500-$650 now days. It uses 1 ...

Malakai

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Another passion of mine is film and movies. The above picture is actually the drive-in I use to go to as a child. While you didn't really get high fidelity with those window hanging mono speakers and were at the mercy ...

Malakai

Even if Nostalgia BBS is not running any more, I still feel nostalgic most of the time, not just for BBSes but many things. Hell, I even feel nostalgic for the days when people actually knew what to do without a cell phone, because they were usually out of the reach of affordability for most people ...

Malakai

DMA servers required a static ip address. Other than that, I really don't see why someone hasn't created a synchronet 'DMA' server which doesn't require a static IP. After all, the synchronet source code is freeware, and other than creating a unique member/bbs ID in synchronet, it needs to allow a ...

Malakai

OS/2 could definitely be an option. In fact, it would probably be the easiest way to stay true to PCBoard. With DOS, there's absolutely no way of getting around some type of terminal server to push connections through a physical comport or multi serial card. I do have a 32? port terminal server, but ...

Malakai

I'm glad to see that there is still some activity on these boards. I know this isn't a PCBoard site, but there really aren't any PCBoard sites left. Since I don't really plan to bring back Nostalgia BBS but still am interested in bringing a door game board on-line, something different than ...

Malakai

It's been awhile since I've been here, probably longer since I've logged on to a BBS at all. I've been spending a lot of time in Texas, as well as fighting for causes. Every once in awhile, I look back and reminisce about the good ol' BBS days, as well as both the good and bad of running Nostalgia ...

Malakai

Well, it's been awhile since I've been on here. I recently gave Mr Brad of Lost-Gonzo BBS Nostalgia BBS's hard drives. Unfortunately, one was damaged during shipping, but I will be sending him a new control board soon and hope for the best.

For awhile, I was wondering if I did the right thing by ...

Malakai

i don't have access to my old server at the moment, but it may have something to do with the consecutive amount of commands you can enter at one time. Each parameter you pass on to the rlogin server will be included as a command. There is an option for that but not sure where it's at. I remember ...

Malakai

If I would have had one or two people that would have ran the board, I would have gladly let it stay online. I've come to a point in my life where everything is hectic, and there isn't a lot of time to do anything.

The more servers and games I added to the mix, the more maintenance had to be done ...

Malakai

This was always a hobby for me. I hadn't expected to make money on it. I don't have money to keep pouring in to it either. The choices were #1: let it sit, running until something goes out, not having backups of anything or #2: pass the helm over to someone else that just may actually do something ...

Malakai

I've officially made the decision to pass the helm. The board will be going down on January 1st, 2010.

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Malakai

Well, in the last month or so, I've lost about 90+ percent of my loggers, with no e-mails or anything explaining why. I check my BBS e-mail at least three times a day, get the servers up and fixed as soon as there is a problem, and I believe I have the largest BBS in existence currently, as far as ...

Malakai

It seems to come online for 2 or 3 days and then go offline for 2 or 3 days or more... what's up with this?

Malakai

Just in case anyone doesn't know, worldlink seems to be down again, for at least two days.

Malakai

Mutants NT is not fixable without some one getting the bugs worked out. Here is an old version of my mutants game setup info:

http://nostalgiabbs.servebbs.net/games/Mutants.htm

The above tells all of the spells that causes crashes, but after over a year of it not crashing, some people just managed ...

Malakai

you must be on don's worldlink server, which I thought was completely down. try connecting to worldlink.themajorbbs.com

Malakai

Well, it did come back online for a day or two, but I don't think it's been online for several weeks again.

Malakai

Well, my grandmother passed away this morning. When they linger on, I believe it's the families that care for them that really suffer the most. We don't want our family members to die, but it kills us to see them like that, and we know that it's sometimes for the best.

Malakai

Man, I'm so sorry to hear about that. My grandmother is under hospice home care now from stomach and uterus cancer, and we've had some sleepless nights at hospitals, even took over the 2nd floor one night camping out at the hospital before hospice took over her care.

Every day, she gets a little ...

Malakai

I know what you mean about being out of the loop. I'm still out of the loop, due to some family emergencies, but I try my best to get online a couple times a day, if nothing more than to just make sure all of the servers are still online.

All of the updates have been put on hold for awhile, but ...

Malakai

Looks like it's been a month or more since worldlink has been online. Every time I check the board, it's always down, and when I try to manually connect to worldlink, it just never connects.

Newport get tired of running it already?

Malakai

Looks like it went back down again for 2 more days

Malakai

I'm setting up a multi-node ghost server on OS/2. Got the multinode stuff down, as well as the daily maintenance stuff working.. Just need to find some compatible multiport hardware, and rocketport doesn't seem to be it.

Malakai

Well, I've currently tried a rocketport ISA 8-Port card, and GHOST just won't let me use it. Apparently, it supports com1-8 as well as some type(s) of digiboard, 1-32.

Is there anything in any of the developer's documents or anything that says exactly which cards are supported in GHOST? What about ...

Malakai

I've also got an Equinox/IBM SST-4/8P PCI card, brand new in the box - no fanout cable included. Make $$$/Trade offer!

Malakai

They lowered the price by $20! I can't believe no one here has bought this, even for just nostalgia sake!

Malakai

Damn, I think this was based on the door game with the same name. Has the same exact description, same creator... here are two door game versions i have:

http://nostalgiabbs.servebbs.net/library/download/DOORS/xcal354b.zip

http://nostalgiabbs.servebbs.net/library/download/DOORS/excal37.zip ...

Malakai

Actually, the latest version is probably v1.76. So, if you have 1.10, you probably have a very old game nothing like the newest one. If you can generate activation codes off of the already compiled versions, you can download the MBBS version here:

http://nostalgiabbs.servebbs.net/library/download ...

Malakai

I know you mentioned something about getting Excalibur ready for worldgroup. Since there are working versions of it for mbbs/worldgroup DOS, how much is it going to cost, and how soon can you offer it?

Hell, Brad may even have the darn thing registered twice over, with his 30-50 MBBS 5-WG3.XNT ...

Malakai

Slim, that's an easy one.. Just get a lawyer, have them subpoena the records from both people, and then post those records online for the world to see. Tell the lawyer that you have a vested interest in the owners because you are considering making a substantial business investment and don't know ...

Malakai

I'm just wondering which files the user accounts are stored in, in wg 3.xnt, wg 1/2, and mbbs 6.x? Need this info, because I'm only going to start daily backups of certain files, to save space.

Malakai

MajorMud has now been put on its own dedicated NT server, and I'm currently working on another small dedicated server, as well as the os/2 multinode ghost server, and hopefully soon working on bringing back up lost gonzo bbs.

I would have just used the mmud/nt server, but Brad didn't have an ICO ...

Malakai

thanks.. everything is pretty much at a standstill with the project now, because I've run out of hardware to test on. I've tested a few other hardware pieces that isn't listed, but after seeing the integrated video chipsets wouldn't even work on dos, I didn't even attempt to install OS/2 and try ...

Malakai

Not sure if Rick or Newport or whoever that's running worldlink knows, but it's been down all day today Just a heads up

Malakai

Well, I've pretty much gotten 99% of everything playable in OS/2 and Ecomstation. Only around 80% of everything playable through DOS and a terminal server, due to in-game downloads.

As far as Win2k, I gotten Li-Term to work with windows 2000, netserial, and netfoss, but when it goes in to GUI mode ...

Malakai

I've made a HUGE amount of progress today. My new theory of it
being a hardware/video chipset thing vs an NT thing is correct. I took
out the old ati rage card from my win2k machine and put in an even
older Trident PCI video card, the same card that was in my OS/2 test
system, and it loaded ...

Malakai

Well, I've definitely made some progress, ended up getting the doors themselves to work on synchronet on the win2k machine.

As for the terminal, it's beginning to look like it won't run on on an NT-based system, due to it not finding an svga card. Of course, my computers have svga cards, but it's ...

Malakai

btw, i did finally get this to work with synchronet.. you have to click the "open on shell" option... i usually test out every option when trying a door, but I believe I thought the door was working when I put a test version online but was just checking for a terminal. At the time, I didn't know ...

Malakai

Li-Term does seem to randomly crash the OS/2 system when it's in use.. There may need to be special DOS settings for it to work correctly, but I know about nothing in os/2... any warpheads here?

Malakai

HAHAHA... I Guess the Joke's on me, almost the only DOS MajorMud sysop in the world.....

You know how on the file_id.diz of the majormud games, it says limited testing has been done? Metro/Gameport/Shannon left out some critical files that would make it impossible to run these so-called full ...

Malakai

just another little note.. i tried to get literm to run in DOSBOX for windows, and it installed but would actually freeze when trying to run the program. DOSBOX is usually really slow anyway, but it'd keep some connection options open..

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