Official Introduce Yourself Thread

[Questman]

Hey everyone - this is the thread to introduce yourself!

I'm Rick, I was a SysOp back from early 1989 on. I found Major BBS as a user of Sierra's BBS, and was hooked. Ended up getting PCPursuit to save money, as I ended up calling all over creation looking for more Major BBS systems.. AST Research, Ashton-Tate, Medcom, Galacticomm Demo, High Society, Moonshae, etc..

I started with a little one in my bedroom, and ended up becoming the SysOp of The Forest (tm) Information Systems in Caldwell, NJ. It was a 16 line system. Then, two friends and I started Dreamline in Fairfield, NJ - 8 lines. We moved it to Florham Park and upgraded to 16 lines. It eventually ended up being called Afterimage Information Matrix (AIM) and was 24 lines - one friend and I sold to the third.

I wrote a few small add-ons for v5.x that were shareware - most famously (err) ThinkDice, which Medcom had for a while. I used the TPD name "Netcomm Software" - but I went to college in 1993, and never kept writing add-ons. When I finished college in 1997, BBSes were on the wane.

I started thinking about it again in 2004. And information was nowhere to be found - I found out eventually that Stryker committed suicide - was really sad about that. I saw gcomm.com still answered, but there were many whispers that they were not legit..

I decided to try to save what could be saved, and hence themajorbbs.com was born, and subsequently, Elwynor Technologies as an ISV.

[Tsagoth]

I worked for a while for American Banking Systems way back when. I didn't run MBBS or WG myself, except to test code. The MegaMarket, Subscribe! etc are mostly my work. We were working on a newer shopping mall with credit card support, and a separate POS dialer when ABS just seemed to disappear. I don't know what ever happened to Darren and co.

I still have all of my old code and wgserv stuff. I never had the real NT dev system, it was still beta then and I've lost the BC 5.0 compiler that you needed. Still have everything else, VB 3.0, vbx's, the BC 3.1 compiler with Phar-Lap etc, even the DOS Btrieve kit.

WG was pretty nifty, but today I would ditch the character interface and make it a native tcp/ip server with the old client.

[Questman]

I worked for a while for American Banking Systems way back when. I didn't run MBBS or WG myself, except to test code. The MegaMarket, Subscribe! etc are mostly my work. We were working on a newer shopping mall with credit card support, and a separate POS dialer when ABS just seemed to disappear. I don't know what ever happened to Darren and co.

I still have all of my old code and wgserv stuff. I never had the real NT dev system, it was still beta then and I've lost the BC 5.0 compiler that you needed. Still have everything else, VB 3.0, vbx's, the BC 3.1 compiler with Phar-Lap etc, even the DOS Btrieve kit.

WG was pretty nifty, but today I would ditch the character interface and make it a native tcp/ip server with the old client.

Welcome! I remember ABS' stuff - good business products. The world seemed to be dominated by Games, and most of the brightest minds in ISV software development focused on writing the next great RPG (and who could blame them - in the late 93 to late 95 time frame, people who had 'em were making bocoup bucks!). But that probably helped hasten the downfall...

Worldgroup could be a nice packaged web product if re-done with a total web feel... the A/A interface is pretty cool, but it doesn't much offer anything that can not be replicated in a browser nowadays.

(PS Are you Jeff W?)

[Tsagoth]

[quote](PS Are you Jeff W?)[/quote]

Yeah, that would be me. When I started with ABS there was another guy that handled the client coding, whose name escapes me atm while I did the server and ansi interface. Darren and he had some kind of falling out, so I took over doing the VB stuff as well. Near the end, a second guy came in to handle the Windows POS Dial, while I worked on the WG version.

Writing for WG was a lot of fun, but the restrictions of being under DOS, even with Pharlap, were really frustrating.

[dspain]

I worked for a while for American Banking Systems way back when. I didn't run MBBS or WG myself, except to test code. The MegaMarket, Subscribe! etc are mostly my work. We were working on a newer shopping mall with credit card support, and a separate POS dialer when ABS just seemed to disappear. I don't know what ever happened to Darren and co.

I still have all of my old code and wgserv stuff. I never had the real NT dev system, it was still beta then and I've lost the BC 5.0 compiler that you needed. Still have everything else, VB 3.0, vbx's, the BC 3.1 compiler with Phar-Lap etc, even the DOS Btrieve kit.

WG was pretty nifty, but today I would ditch the character interface and make it a native tcp/ip server with the old client.

http://arcticzone.dyndns.org/wgdev/bc501.zip
http://arcticzone.dyndns.org/wgdev/bc5dev.zip
http://arcticzone.dyndns.org/wgdev/plapdos.zip

thats for compiling, i use the wg 4.0 kit but still have the 3.3,3.2,1.00, and 1.01 kits.
contact nate@netvillage.com he'll hook ya up with a dev kit and an isv tag.

btw hello

[Toyduck]

I found this site yesterday and have lurked around here and other links. I found this site via google as I was looking to see if The Major BBS was still around.

I used to run QuickSilver MBBS in Las Vegas, switched to the Major in 1995 to get away from multiple single user nodes, ran 8 lines. Never became real big, the system was a community oriented BBS for chat, games, forums and local email. Besides, at the time Multi-comm was the big brother in Las Vegas with 24 lines.

I ran my system off donations (primarily for free... Had lots of fun. I switched to Wildcat when Worldgroup came out and the upgrade cost was beyound my means. Ran as a wildcat system until '99, when I went offline.

Been designing and running web based systems since using flash, asp, etc. I guess the only real thing I miss is a module I created for the MBBS called Space Quest, an rpg. The first large programming effort I made trying to have something unique for my users.

I still have all my 6.25 stuff and dev system floating around. Tempted to look for it.

Anyway, that's all for now, thanks for reading.

Toyduck
www.dataware.info

[dspain]

I found this site yesterday and have lurked around here and other links. I found this site via google as I was looking to see if The Major BBS was still around.

I used to run QuickSilver MBBS in Las Vegas, switched to the Major in 1995 to get away from multiple single user nodes, ran 8 lines. Never became real big, the system was a community oriented BBS for chat, games, forums and local email. Besides, at the time Multi-comm was the big brother in Las Vegas with 24 lines.

I ran my system off donations (primarily for free... Had lots of fun. I switched to Wildcat when Worldgroup came out and the upgrade cost was beyound my means. Ran as a wildcat system until '99, when I went offline.

Been designing and running web based systems since using flash, asp, etc. I guess the only real thing I miss is a module I created for the MBBS called Space Quest, an rpg. The first large programming effort I made trying to have something unique for my users.

I still have all my 6.25 stuff and dev system floating around. Tempted to look for it.

Anyway, that's all for now, thanks for reading.

Toyduck
www.dataware.info

welcome, if you wanna go back online lemme know i still got the original installers for all of em from mbbs -> wg 3.3
and rick can get your reg codes straight.

[Toyduck]

Thanks, I might take up on that offer. What's involved with connecting Internet telnet to MBBS? Can it be done? I found my copies, I have 2.0 through 6.0 and would enjoy the oppurtunity, I just don't want to go through the multiple phone line thing again..and I don't know if my digiboards even work now with the newer systems. But I stilll have several flavors of DOS, NT and Windows.

Toyduck

[dspain]

Thanks, I might take up on that offer. What's involved with connecting Internet telnet to MBBS? Can it be done? I found my copies, I have 2.0 through 6.0 and would enjoy the oppurtunity, I just don't want to go through the multiple phone line thing again..and I don't know if my digiboards even work now with the newer systems. But I stilll have several flavors of DOS, NT and Windows.

Toyduck

oh hell no, i can send you a worldgroup 2.0 installation complete with the entertainment addons and internet connectivity option and all ya need is a packet driver if runnin in dos and you're online

or

i can send ya 3.2 for nt and all ya do is run setup within a windows enviroment and boom you're online.

pick one and ill get with rick, get you a code and build you a welcome package.

[Toyduck]

Jeez, in that case I'll take 3.2. I currently have a couple of NT based systems I could use available now. If it's that easy to install, I could have a system up pretty quickly.

I'm not familier with WG3.2 requirements, but I have Win NT equipment now I could use that is available or I can build what I need.

-- I was also wondering where the hell I was going to find a 5" drive


also; If I do manage to get my source off the old 5", would you want my Space Quest mod I wrote? I will never have the time or skill to update it. I think I last used it on version 4.0.

Thanks;
Don

[dspain]

Jeez, in that case I'll take 3.2. I currently have a couple of NT based systems I could use available now. If it's that easy to install, I could have a system up pretty quickly.

I'm not familier with WG3.2 requirements, but I have Win NT equipment now I could use that is available or I can build what I need.

-- I was also wondering where the hell I was going to find a 5" drive


also; If I do manage to get my source off the old 5", would you want my Space Quest mod I wrote? I will never have the time or skill to update it. I think I last used it on version 4.0.

Thanks;
Don

sure send it on over.

[bposner]

Hi
Use to work for Gcomm during mid 90s through 2001 Ran Support Center, made lots and friends, some enemies, which I apologize for. Have tons of history in my head. Work for a software company now as a Support Center Manager, dejavu all over again

Interested in this project.

Thanks
/bill

[dspain]

Hi
Use to work for Gcomm during mid 90s through 2001 Ran Support Center, made lots and friends, some enemies, which I apologize for. Have tons of history in my head. Work for a software company now as a Support Center Manager, dejavu all over again

Interested in this project.

Thanks
/bill

welcome bill!

[Jams]

Hi guys,

Rich Smith here. Started my gcomm life as a user for many years (on PHazuul and Moonshae). Knew Stryker, Brinker, Chris Roberts, Don Pitchford, Tim Stark, and MANY MANY of the Gcom team personally. After a while, got hooked up with the Futuretron BBS and actually began working on actual software for the BBS (circa v4.0).

Several years later, ended up working for BSI Technologies, selling software, writing custom and BSI branded modules. That gig didnt last too long, and I ended up leaving the scene altogether (although I did have a job offer from Brinker when I left BSI).

Anyways, long story short, Im a strong believer that this software was a strong contender, if it was managed properly. And no, I dont believe it was managed properly, especially at the end.

I spoke with Rick a year or so ago, and promised to look for my stuff. Ive since determined Ive lost ALL of my hardware (including a fully-stocked galactibox). Divorces suck, nuff said.

Anyways, wanted to say hullo. So hullo!

[dspain]

Hi guys,

Rich Smith here. Started my gcomm life as a user for many years (on PHazuul and Moonshae). Knew Stryker, Brinker, Chris Roberts, Don Pitchford, Tim Stark, and MANY MANY of the Gcom team personally. After a while, got hooked up with the Futuretron BBS and actually began working on actual software for the BBS (circa v4.0).

Several years later, ended up working for BSI Technologies, selling software, writing custom and BSI branded modules. That gig didnt last too long, and I ended up leaving the scene altogether (although I did have a job offer from Brinker when I left BSI).

Anyways, long story short, Im a strong believer that this software was a strong contender, if it was managed properly. And no, I dont believe it was managed properly, especially at the end.

I spoke with Rick a year or so ago, and promised to look for my stuff. Ive since determined Ive lost ALL of my hardware (including a fully-stocked galactibox). Divorces suck, nuff said.

Anyways, wanted to say hullo. So hullo!

/quote

welcome aboard Rich, im daniel from arcticzone internet solutions.
glad to see some more old-skoolers back ion the game.
anything ya need help on to get restarted lemme now ill give ya download access via my system.

/end

[Toyduck]

Hi guys,

Rich Smith here. Started my gcomm life as a user for many years (on PHazuul and Moonshae). Knew Stryker, Brinker, Chris Roberts, Don Pitchford, Tim Stark, and MANY MANY of the Gcom team personally. After a while, got hooked up with the Futuretron BBS and actually began working on actual software for the BBS (circa v4.0).

Several years later, ended up working for BSI Technologies, selling software, writing custom and BSI branded modules. That gig didnt last too long, and I ended up leaving the scene altogether (although I did have a job offer from Brinker when I left BSI).

Anyways, long story short, Im a strong believer that this software was a strong contender, if it was managed properly. And no, I dont believe it was managed properly, especially at the end.

I spoke with Rick a year or so ago, and promised to look for my stuff. Ive since determined Ive lost ALL of my hardware (including a fully-stocked galactibox). Divorces suck, nuff said.

Anyways, wanted to say hullo. So hullo!

Welcome Rich

Looking forward to future discussions.

I used to run v6.25 and just recently put my board back up using wg.3.2

http://www.quicksilvermbbs.com

Stop by for a visit some day

Toyduck/AKA Don

[Malakai]

Well, I probably should have did this a long time ago, since I was like the 4th or 5th member of these forums, but here goes.....

I started going on BBS systems in the late 80s, playing games like BRE and a few others, discovered mbbs in the early 90s. Between that and *nix, I discovered IRC, chat, internet email, lynx (text-based web) and games.

BRE, LORD, Evangelist Wars, PimpWars, Mutants, Crossroads, farwest trivia, etc were some of my favorites. I had wanted to run a BBS for a long time but couldn't find any thing descent on the mac plus I had. So, I bought 1 pc and built another and then tried out many BBS systems, until finding PCBoard was the one for me. I bought the 5 node version, set it up with quarterdeck's multitasking software in DOS, and ran 3 active nodes.

Even then, I would have loved to had an MBBS system, but even if I could have afforded the system, I wouldn't have been able to afford all of the recurring bills (phone lines), hardware, and addon modules.

In the end, there were probably 50 door games on the BBS and around 2GB worth of files.

Around 96, I just remember one day trying to log on to several bbs systems, and they had pretty much all vanished suddenly.

From then and a few years, there weren't many boards up that I'd found, but I was a member of Lost Gonzo BBS via telnet for a time, playing mostly T-LORD.

Seeing as BBSes were pretty much dead, even on the internet, I got in to herpeteculture and eventually founded Exotic Animal Conservation Efforts, a non-profit organization I ran between 1998 and 2004. We educated people, had pictures, articles, reviews, care guides, forums, interviews, etc on our web site and also offered animal rescue, rehabilitation, relocation, and adoption. At one point in time, we had as many as 150 exotic animals being cared for. Most of the funds came strcitly from my pockets alone. Thousands of dollars in aquariums and cages, huge monthly feeding bills, medical supplies, and thousands in building a temp-controlled housing for all of them. I also had appx 2 years volunteer work, documented by the conservation commission.

By 2004, I was running out of funds for Exotic Animal Conservation Efforts and started to get a lack of interest. The licensing became more expensive, thanks to jeb bush, and the laws didn't really help educate people on a local level. So, it was time to move on.

In that time period, I also got several computer technical degrees, in pc building, repair, windows 98 specialist, and network engineering, thinking I was going to start my own computer business. I still do computer work off and on today, but not really on the level that I wanted to back then.

After exotic animal conservation efforts, I volunteered for appx 2 years as a counsor for two christian communities, mainly talking to people who were in tough situations.

Three or so years later, here we are.. I found this message board, got worldgroup running on Nostalgia BBS, and hope that it goes well.

Last year, I also started a small plant nursery. My original plan was to do all palm trees. I have Canary Island Palm Trees, Jelly/Wine/Pindo Palm Trees, Pygmy Date Palms, Rio Grande Palms, Wagner's Dwarf Windmill Palms, Chinese Fan Palms, Dwarf Palmetto Palms, Umbrella Palms (not a real palm) and sago palms (cycad, not a true palm) and hope to have some chilean wine palms, european fan palms, guadalupe palms, trunkless data palms, and a few other types one day. There are literally hundreds of types of palm trees in the trader's market, but probably only 1/3rd will live in northern florida's cold winters and hot, humid summers.

Now, I've got thousands of trees, shrubs, and plants, not just palms, because I suppose opportunity knocked a few more times than I expected hehe. As you may have guessed though, Palm trees usually take many years to get large. Most of mine were from seeds or seedlings. Depending on the type of palm tree, it can take as little as 30 days to germinate (chinese fan palm) or as long as 2 years (chilean wine palm) - some have close to a 100% germination rate (chinese fan palm) while others only have about a 20-40% germination rate (pindo palms) and a few others may have as little as a 5% germination rate.

So, as you can see, palm trees might be a good long-term investment, if you had 15 years before seeing any good $$$ flowing in. So, I got in to other things too.

[noonien]

Allrighty, I suppose if Malakai finally put something up here (nudge) then I'd better get off my lazy ass as well.

past: I hardly owned a computer for two weeks when a classmate in 8th grade introduced me to BBSing. A 64 line monster here in Daytona running MBBS and later worldgroup (94/95). With nothing more than Win3.11, Wolfenstein 3D, and QLink installed I found Tradewars. The addiction began. I first opened a computer in 95 to install a 14.4 modem (hell of an upgrade comming from 2400) and thus began my career in computers. Me and five or six buddies logged in faithfully to the local BBSs playing Tradewars, MajorMUD, upoading files, using the forums, etc until they all went silent in 98. Around the dark days of Galacticomm me and my little brother set up a pirate BBS so me and my buddies could play MajorMUD again. Eventually, we all moved and it was turned off and put in a closet.

present:
In 2005 me and two of the same guys from the BBS days all happened to move back to our home town We started a record label and built a massive studio in amazingly the same house that I first signed on from. I work at a bar and a computer shop, my roomate works for the Geek Squad, another at Blockbuster. I suppose your average mid 20s reformed geeks. Well, minus the record label. We've all been reminiscing about the good ole days of BBSs and happened to stumble upon the MajorBBS restoration project. Just in time, might I add. We've been in the studio nearly 24/7 latley recording an album under the name 'RPG', Rocket Propelled Geeks. Alongside the other bands on the label (mainly metal and techno and such), RPG will be our venture into the NerdCore scene. (MC Chris and the like). Basically, silly raps about geeky stuff. We've tossed around the idea of setting up a BBS for the label in the past and uploading exclusive content to it for the real hard core geeks that still owned modems but could never find a good reason to do so. However RPG nearly demands it. What could be geekier and cooler then a BBS?

future:
When the RPG album is released we plan on having a telnet address on the back of the CD. How awesome to have MajorBBS and Worldgroup in the mainstream again and back in the minds of geeks nationwide (i'd say worldwide but that may be a little too optimistic). We're just about done purchasing Worldgroup from THE company that ran the 64 line BBS back in the day and are negotiating with another local former sysop to buy his copy of MajorMUD. Progress is a little slow as afterall, we're all broke musicians, however, we're determined. I've dusted off my old servers and they still boot. I've spent the last week spray painting the cases all sorts of insane colors and clearing some room for them in our family room while we wait for the registrations. Hopefully, we'll be online within a week or so and can get on interlink and such. With RPG we plan on introducing in a whole new generation to the BBS. 'It's just words!' - 'No. It's not. Try it.'

Long live Worldgroup.


Oi! Edit edit edit. Im at said bar and this keyboard sucks.

[Malakai]

Awesome. What are you using for a multitrack? I am an on again off again musician myself. When I started messing around with the guitar, I had bought several self teaching books, and one thing that stuck in my head was a part that said to record your work often and compare then and now, to see how you've progressed, and I've been doing that ever since, learning a little bit along the way.

I think the first time I recorded some thing, I used 2 tape decks and a amplified mixer, to get three tracks. Later on, I got a Yamaha mtx-440 multitrack recorder (4 track cassette). Also messed around with the poor man's DAT and Reel to Reel, before going digital, using cakewalk sonar and I believe sony acid pro for looping.

My choice would have probably been to use an 8 track reel to reel and then 2 track reel for mastering, but reels are expensive, and hard drive software is just so much faster and easier once you get the hang of it.

The only thing I don't like about some of it is the digital effects. Stuff like the digital flanger, reverb, etc just don't sound right to me. Not all of the stomp pedals sound right either, but at least you usually get to pick your sound when buying a stomp box.

I just ran across a nice analog stereo delay pedal at a swap shop for $1. I thought there's no way it could have worked, because they are like $90+ in the stores. It had a corroded 9v battery in it, which I had to pry off with a knife, clean the contacts, and when I tried it out, it worked great.

I had also messed around with the surround sound mode and had some pretty cool stuff on it, but unfortunately, it was in some strange surround/wav format. Wish I would have had a Pro Logic or DTS plugin.

Any way, I had been working on an album for the last 2 or so years until my main computer died. I suspect I'll have it done within the next 2 or so years, but who knows..

[dspain]

Awesome. What are you using for a multitrack? I am an on again off again musician myself. When I started messing around with the guitar, I had bought several self teaching books, and one thing that stuck in my head was a part that said to record your work often and compare then and now, to see how you've progressed, and I've been doing that ever since, learning a little bit along the way.

I think the first time I recorded some thing, I used 2 tape decks and a amplified mixer, to get three tracks. Later on, I got a Yamaha mtx-440 multitrack recorder (4 track cassette). Also messed around with the poor man's DAT and Reel to Reel, before going digital, using cakewalk sonar and I believe sony acid pro for looping.

My choice would have probably been to use an 8 track reel to reel and then 2 track reel for mastering, but reels are expensive, and hard drive software is just so much faster and easier once you get the hang of it.

The only thing I don't like about some of it is the digital effects. Stuff like the digital flanger, reverb, etc just don't sound right to me. Not all of the stomp pedals sound right either, but at least you usually get to pick your sound when buying a stomp box.

I just ran across a nice analog stereo delay pedal at a swap shop for $1. I thought there's no way it could have worked, because they are like $90+ in the stores. It had a corroded 9v battery in it, which I had to pry off with a knife, clean the contacts, and when I tried it out, it worked great.

I had also messed around with the surround sound mode and had some pretty cool stuff on it, but unfortunately, it was in some strange surround/wav format. Wish I would have had a Pro Logic or DTS plugin.

Any way, I had been working on an album for the last 2 or so years until my main computer died. I suspect I'll have it done within the next 2 or so years, but who knows..

what software you'll using? i actually did the setups on 2 studios here in richmond black lab studios, and DJ impulse, giving them wireless communication and wifi hotspots in their studio, wiring all the pcs so each insrument was on a seperate monitor and mixer board giving the master board tech the ability to modify the individual sounds to their liking.

[noonien]

Hey, sometimes the crap you find at pawn shops is the best. When you get your album recorded, if you need any mastering done, let me know!


We're rercording through a range of crazy stuff. Primarily, its pretty much mic -> StudioMaster Mixdown Classic 8(24) -> MOTU 1224/24i ->Sony ACID/Vegas. (we tried ACID 6 for multitracking but it's still 1.blow.0 and crashes so we're still using vegas for anything over 2 tracks at once (mainly drums)). We make extensive use of Reason 3 with all sorts of refills and the Waves effects library, some rebirth every now and then. (just used it on the last track we did...a track about the Crimson Twins from GI Joe. Sequenced the word 'cobra' in morse code and used that for the bassline-neato! (godimadork))

I come from a techno background (used to rock out to Prodigy's Fat of the Land and Orbital 2, Mortal Kombat soundtrack while playing MajorMUD) - we have an assload of keyboards. Juno 106, Nord Lead 2, Quasimidi Raven, XP-50, D-10, Novation BassStation, W-30, JX-305 and this super old school Akai S950 that I've been trying to get working for years (SCSI problems)

Basically! All gets fed into this friggen monster computer (p4d, 640gb in raid5 with a MOTU pci324 card) and mixed and mastered in house. Should have the first album (a first for the label, too) out in December. We've got a really unfunctional website up right now for the label. The RPG website is on the way along with the BBS but I've got a few tracks going online for us to work on while we aren't all at my house, I'll put a link up if you'd like. However, let me warn ya; We suck. Just hopefully in a funny way.

[noonien]

what software you'll using? i actually did the setups on 2 studios here in richmond black lab studios, and DJ impulse, giving them wireless communication and wifi hotspots in their studio, wiring all the pcs so each insrument was on a seperate monitor and mixer board giving the master board tech the ability to modify the individual sounds to their liking.

Hah! Our label used to be called Impulse Records! We had to change it because of DJ Impuse, the already existing Impulse Records, and another band called Impulse. Enough was enough...we're now EMPulse Records.

[dspain]

what software you'll using? i actually did the setups on 2 studios here in richmond black lab studios, and DJ impulse, giving them wireless communication and wifi hotspots in their studio, wiring all the pcs so each insrument was on a seperate monitor and mixer board giving the master board tech the ability to modify the individual sounds to their liking.

Hah! Our label used to be called Impulse Records! We had to change it because of DJ Impuse, the already existing Impulse Records, and another band called Impulse. Enough was enough...we're now EMPulse Records.

no doubt? haha dewight isnt a dick i didnt think. guess when it comes to things like that never know eh?

hesn ot impulse records though, so maybe someone else?
he uses the trade name DJ Impule and ArcticZone Productions does all their cd copying, dvd burning basically all their media works.

i stay away from the other, problem is black labs does heavy metal type stuff staind,ac dc, metallica stuff like that, and dj impulse does techno rave shit, definately a diff between the two and a 3rd person a girl named Tammy Davis does country so lets just say i get my share of music culture, lol

what part of FLA you in? im moving to FLA prolly in a few months, i did some house looking in Toms River,NJ and i was happy but the lady didnt like the fact you couldnt make right hand turns in the road without going 5 miles up the street and finding a circle, LOL

and she was happy with Maryland, but i didnt like the fact it seemed like gangsterville with a bunch of hoodlums looting everywhere, i drive a 2004 cavalier trimmed out like off fast and the furious last thing i wanna do is be going to work and find my car gone, LOL

[Malakai]

I had every thing before, but got rid of the drum set, because it was taking up too much space. Right now, I have mainly fender guitars, 1 ovation, and 1 takamine, a bass, a nice retro traynor mixer amp (not tube, but it has a warm, tube-like sound), a fender mixer amp, a crate g130c Limited Edition guitar amp (suppose to be the best crate amp ever made, late 80s, $4000+), several pedals (tremelo, diode and tube distortion, phaser, envelope filter,etc), a peavey bass amp, and several other mess-around amps.

My main recording amp right now is actually an Earth Sound Research amp. This was a company that, until the 70s, actually took fender reverb and a few peavey amp schematics and built amps based on those, and let me tell you, if all of them are like the one I have, they are probably better than some of the originals. Super quiet, no hiss or hum.. You can't get that with a crate.

Now, lots of people actually did the same thing with schematics, and still some times do it, but this company was sued and went out of business by the late 70s. I suppose they didn't care if a person or company made 10 or 20 a year, but when this company started mass producing the amps, with as good of quality as they were, it was a problem.

Now, I don't have much for mics yet, just a radio shack condensor, a shure sm57, 2 other shure mics (can't remember the models, but one is a harmonica mic) a nady mic. I bought the nady mic, just to see what you get for the money. It was like $9 shipped and came with a free 10 or 15ft mic cable. It wouldn't be best for a solo mic, but I did eventually get it used in conjunction with another mic to record a sax, and it sounded pretty good. It has a heck of a sound pickup. So, I had to back it away a little from the other mic.

Right now, I've only got 1 keyboard, a Roland E-70, which is a synthesizor keyboard. I also use to have a roland electric piano and a wurlitzer electric organ. The main difference between the E-70 and the electric piano was that roland focused less on the features and more on getting a more authentic sound from the piano, while the synthesizer, which also sounds pretty good as a piano, was more focused on hundreds of thousands of effects, other instruments, drum machine, etc...

I bought the e-70 at a pawn shop several years ago like on a Christmas eve. I think it had $600 or so marked on it. So, I checked it out, and the display screen wasn't lighting up on it. I told the guy that ran the pawn shop about it, and he thought about it for a second and said "give me $250 and it's yours" So, I took a chance, and guess what? When I got home, there was a brightness knob on the back of it. Turned it up, and the lcd display came on. Nothing was wrong with it. Some one visiting the store earlier must have been turning the knobs.

[noonien]

no doubt? haha dewight isnt a dick i didnt think. guess when it comes to things like that never know eh?

Nah, Never actually spoke to him, just with the names already out there and people doing business with them, we didn't want any trouble.

We make our fair share of metal and rave shit here, nothing extreme tho. I know crap when I hear it.

I'm in Daytona. Pretty relaxed here. A couple a#$sholes here and there but , right turns galore! (hah, nascar) I drive a little acura, lowered, rims, bla bla bla, but all primer and bondo. Hah. No one would waste their time on it.

[noonien]

...there was a brightness knob on the back of it. Turned it up, and the lcd display came on.

For the win!

I don't own any nice guitars...lil bastards are expensive! I've got an el cheapo Takamine accoustic and some insane les paul ripoff my buddy built for $180. I did stumble across a pretty cool amp... Fender Princeton from the 60's, all origional, even the tubes, with a Sekova les paul knockoff for $50. The guy says 'its been in my closet for 20 years, sure its not worth much anymore'. Yay! You could get on well with my friend danny...he knows more about guitars and such then I could ever hope to. builds little tube amps and whatnot. I think if you two were in the same room and in conversation, it would sound like german to me.

As for cheap mics, give MXL a shot...they make a 'studio condensor' for about 100 bucks. Had to use a pair as drum overheads once and the lil buggers did allright.

[Questman]

Gear:
Kurzweil K2600XS
Kurzweil K2VX
Akai AX80
Roland Groovesynth JX-305
Korg T3
Fender Stratocaster (hecho en Mexico)

Just got:
Mackie Onyx 1620 w/ Firewire
MOTU Midi Express XT USB
Fake home-built "hackintosh"

I also write lyrics.

I'm having a weird problem hooking it all up to the hackintosh though.. if anyone has experience using MacOS MIDI and recording software, I'd be much obliged for some assistance getting it all to go. The OSX computer recognizes the onyx and the motu, but for some reason, won't record anything coming in from any source on the onyx board.

[noonien]

Roland Groovesynth JX-305

Woah. You're the only person I've ever heard even mention the JX before. Still got mine tho the LCD is going and all audio output is dead. Wrote an entire electronic CD with that thing!

As for the funny audio problem, I'll look into it. Work on macs at my day job.


And really...what are the chances that everyone that BBSs is a musician? For real.

Oh! What sort of Hackintosh is it? and what's it running?

[Malakai]

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm in to all kinds of stuff as a hobby. I get in the mood for awhile, and then out of the mood for awhile. I also collect LPs, 45s, coins, stamps, laserdiscs, sports and non-sports cards, comics, and retro and import video games. I have over 2000 video games. Got about every beatles, doors, and hendrix releases, including import and some bootlegs (x-rated hendrix lp, red vinyl included)

I also use to collect CED Selectivision Video Discs but ended up selling my collection on ebay to another collector a year or so ago.

I'm a movie freak. Have probably not quite 1000 movies overall (dvd, vhs, laserdisc, betamax) including the FACES set on laserdisc! I'm sure some one knows what I'm talking about. And also the Japanese imported phantom manace laserdisc. It wasn't even released in the US on ld, and was one of the only laserdiscs to have true 6.1 dolby digital surround sound. So, I've got all of that stuff too... 6.1 Surround receiver, ac-3 demodulator, the works. Laserdiscs actually used a higher audio bitrate than most dvds, although video quality varies from pressing to pressing.

Roland Groovesynth JX-305

Woah. You're the only person I've ever heard even mention the JX before. Still got mine tho the LCD is going and all audio output is dead. Wrote an entire electronic CD with that thing!

As for the funny audio problem, I'll look into it. Work on macs at my day job.


And really...what are the chances that everyone that BBSs is a musician? For real.

[noonien]

Questman, what sort of Hackintosh hardware/software you runnin?

[Questman]

I built it with the Summer 2005 developer Mac specs - used an intel motherboard, 950 GMA, etc.. it runs pretty well, but it's on a 10.4 release that's somewhat dated now.

The problem that I'm having is that the OS recognizes both devices. But when I try to load a program that records sound, it doesn't recognize anything coming through the Onyx. Dunno why.. strange. Once or twice on one of the OS utils I saw the audio levels moving, but never in the programs.

I haven't tried MIDI yet. I just got everything setup, and I'm somewhat eager to get started, but I don't know where to start, and this very early problem is a little frustrating

[noonien]

Can you play back audio thru the Onyx?

Also, maybe a quick fix, Try this:

http://www.centrance.com/products/ud/ud ... lity.shtml

[Deeter]

To get back to introductions...

My name is Joe. Started BBSing in '94 and I'm still at it. The sysop over at Cedarvalleybbs.com pointed me toward here by way of Majornet.

Back in '98 I bought a BBS in town that was shutting down, renamed and redesigned it, and brought it back up. Ran it until I moved early 2001, and got it back online in 2003 and it's still up. Well, it's up with a couple of scripts wasting CPU cycles in majormud, but hey it counts, right?

-Joe
Taciturn Seclusion BBS
foou.net

[dspain]

To get back to introductions...

My name is Joe. Started BBSing in '94 and I'm still at it. The sysop over at Cedarvalleybbs.com pointed me toward here by way of Majornet.

Back in '98 I bought a BBS in town that was shutting down, renamed and redesigned it, and brought it back up. Ran it until I moved early 2001, and got it back online in 2003 and it's still up. Well, it's up with a couple of scripts wasting CPU cycles in majormud, but hey it counts, right?

-Joe
Taciturn Seclusion BBS
foou.net

welcome aboard.

Daniel
Arcticzone Internet Solutions

[Toyduck]

To get back to introductions...

My name is Joe. Started BBSing in '94 and I'm still at it. The sysop over at Cedarvalleybbs.com pointed me toward here by way of Majornet.

Back in '98 I bought a BBS in town that was shutting down, renamed and redesigned it, and brought it back up. Ran it until I moved early 2001, and got it back online in 2003 and it's still up. Well, it's up with a couple of scripts wasting CPU cycles in majormud, but hey it counts, right?

-Joe
Taciturn Seclusion BBS
foou.net

Glad to see you here!

Toyduck

[painter]

[quote="Questman"]Hey everyone - this is the thread to introduce yourself!

Okay. I am Jeff. I run WWW. Gators-Landing.com. I used to run other systems in Jacksonville. I just started runing WG for the first time. Be easy with me. I have not ran anything over MajorBBS5.11. I have been getting up to date on the new web pages.

It has been good!
Jeff

[mmurdock]

Hello everyone and special thanks to Rick for pulling MBBS from the depths of the dumpster.

I started in BBSing in 1975 when I wrote my first BBS system (it ran on a CDC mainframe). I migrated to PCBoard (actually the predecessor that PCBoard "copied") in 1980 with my blazing fast new 300 baud modem. I ran a series of BBSes in Pinellas County Florida including Meganet, and The Black Hole on MBBS 5.x and 6.0.

I also developed several MBBS add-ons including Galactic Raiders, Galactic Empire, The Legend of Elyth Gor, and the Adventure Writers Toolkit (and a bunch of other smaller modules). I recently rescued all the code and supporting files from a toasted computers hard drives and have archived them.

Every once and a while i bump into a system still running GE and it gives me a huge kick to see the game still getting play time after all these years.

Thanks everyone for the memories.

-- Mike Murdock

[Malakai]

If possible, please provide some download links for the programs you've done. I've been looking for legend of elyth gor for several months.

Thanks for the great game (GE)

I also developed several MBBS add-ons including Galactic Raiders, Galactic Empire, The Legend of Elyth Gor, and the Adventure Writers Toolkit (and a bunch of other smaller modules). I recently rescued all the code and supporting files from a toasted computers hard drives and have archived them.

-- Mike Murdock

[Toyduck]

Hello everyone and special thanks to Rick for pulling MBBS from the depths of the dumpster.

I started in BBSing in 1975 when I wrote my first BBS system (it ran on a CDC mainframe). I migrated to PCBoard (actually the predecessor that PCBoard "copied") in 1980 with my blazing fast new 300 baud modem. I ran a series of BBSes in Pinellas County Florida including Meganet, and The Black Hole on MBBS 5.x and 6.0.

I also developed several MBBS add-ons including Galactic Raiders, Galactic Empire, The Legend of Elyth Gor, and the Adventure Writers Toolkit (and a bunch of other smaller modules). I recently rescued all the code and supporting files from a toasted computers hard drives and have archived them.

Every once and a while i bump into a system still running GE and it gives me a huge kick to see the game still getting play time after all these years.

Thanks everyone for the memories.

-- Mike Murdock

Hi! I remember you from past days, I ran a 5.11 system called QuickSilver MBBS then. I remember your modules, particulary the Adventure Writers Toolkit. You ever plan on bringing some of your mods back?

Toyduck

[frcorey]

Hello everyone and special thanks to Rick for pulling MBBS from the depths of the dumpster.

I started in BBSing in 1975 when I wrote my first BBS system (it ran on a CDC mainframe). I migrated to PCBoard (actually the predecessor that PCBoard "copied") in 1980 with my blazing fast new 300 baud modem. I ran a series of BBSes in Pinellas County Florida including Meganet, and The Black Hole on MBBS 5.x and 6.0.

I also developed several MBBS add-ons including Galactic Raiders, Galactic Empire, The Legend of Elyth Gor, and the Adventure Writers Toolkit (and a bunch of other smaller modules). I recently rescued all the code and supporting files from a toasted computers hard drives and have archived them.

Every once and a while i bump into a system still running GE and it gives me a huge kick to see the game still getting play time after all these years.

Thanks everyone for the memories.

-- Mike Murdock

Hi! I remember you from past days, I ran a 5.11 system called QuickSilver MBBS then. I remember your modules, particulary the Adventure Writers Toolkit. You ever plan on bringing some of your mods back?

Toyduck

Rick Hadsall said he bought all his mbbs software.

[Questman]

Rick Hadsall said he bought all his mbbs software.

Buying. Mike had to do a lot of work to get the code off a bunch of old computers and hard drives. Missing parts, etc.

Hopefully soon.

Rick

[WndrBr3d]

Obligatory Hey Everyone!

I started BBSing late in the game, around 1994... I was in 6th grade at the time.

My local BBS ran MajorBBS 6.25 and had Tele-Area. I remember playing Tele-Arena until my eyes bled. When I ran out of credits, I'd stay up until 3AM so I could play before the board went offline for cleanup and then play for another 15 minutes. This way I could get a good 30 minutes of play time in.

Ahhh, those were the days. Long summers with nothing to do

I ran my own telnet MajorBBS for a while (2003ish) (bbs.poundl.com), but it became too much of a hassle. I think when a hobby starts requiring your time and becomes a responsibility, it'd lose its fun.

While running the BBS I found some great modules that I couldn't find an activation code for, and the ISV had gone under with no way of obtaining a valid license.

SO, being a developer for the past 12 years, I decided to actually put my skills to work. I studied the disassemblies of MajorBBS modules and was ble to figure out how they worked once compiled. Using this knowledge, I was able to generate my own cracks for several doors allowing me to play the fully unlocked versions.

I have an in depth knowledge of disassembly (IDA, Win32DASM, Ollydbg) and x86 Assembly.

I look forward to contributing to the community!

CHEERS!

[dspain]

Obligatory Hey Everyone!

I started BBSing late in the game, around 1994... I was in 6th grade at the time.

My local BBS ran MajorBBS 6.25 and had Tele-Area. I remember playing Tele-Arena until my eyes bled. When I ran out of credits, I'd stay up until 3AM so I could play before the board went offline for cleanup and then play for another 15 minutes. This way I could get a good 30 minutes of play time in.

Ahhh, those were the days. Long summers with nothing to do

I ran my own telnet MajorBBS for a while (2003ish) (bbs.poundl.com), but it became too much of a hassle. I think when a hobby starts requiring your time and becomes a responsibility, it'd lose its fun.

While running the BBS I found some great modules that I couldn't find an activation code for, and the ISV had gone under with no way of obtaining a valid license.

SO, being a developer for the past 12 years, I decided to actually put my skills to work. I studied the disassemblies of MajorBBS modules and was ble to figure out how they worked once compiled. Using this knowledge, I was able to generate my own cracks for several doors allowing me to play the fully unlocked versions.

I have an in depth knowledge of disassembly (IDA, Win32DASM, Ollydbg) and x86 Assembly.

I look forward to contributing to the community!

CHEERS!

welcome, if you're still interested in tele-arena i have a fully customized game from the ground up going online soon at telearenabbs.com

[Malakai]

Well, if you're up for a challenge, there are several mods that we need a crack for. Mutants 3.5x for DOS, a working Crossroads crack (there is a crack out there, but it doesn't work correctly), and it'd be awesome if some one could crack the tcp/ip dma server. Again, there is a crack that claims it does the dma but it doesn't work.

Cracking the DMA server would help many many sysops either run their own gamenet servers, or network their mbbs dos and worldgroup nt systems together.

Obligatory Hey Everyone!
While running the BBS I found some great modules that I couldn't find an activation code for, and the ISV had gone under with no way of obtaining a valid license.

SO, being a developer for the past 12 years, I decided to actually put my skills to work. I studied the disassemblies of MajorBBS modules and was ble to figure out how they worked once compiled. Using this knowledge, I was able to generate my own cracks for several doors allowing me to play the fully unlocked versions.

I have an in depth knowledge of disassembly (IDA, Win32DASM, Ollydbg) and x86 Assembly.

I look forward to contributing to the community!

CHEERS!

[dspain]

Well, if you're up for a challenge, there are several mods that we need a crack for. Mutants 3.5x for DOS, a working Crossroads crack (there is a crack out there, but it doesn't work correctly), and it'd be awesome if some one could crack the tcp/ip dma server. Again, there is a crack that claims it does the dma but it doesn't work.

Cracking the DMA server would help many many sysops either run their own gamenet servers, or network their mbbs dos and worldgroup nt systems together.

Obligatory Hey Everyone!
While running the BBS I found some great modules that I couldn't find an activation code for, and the ISV had gone under with no way of obtaining a valid license.

SO, being a developer for the past 12 years, I decided to actually put my skills to work. I studied the disassemblies of MajorBBS modules and was ble to figure out how they worked once compiled. Using this knowledge, I was able to generate my own cracks for several doors allowing me to play the fully unlocked versions.

I have an in depth knowledge of disassembly (IDA, Win32DASM, Ollydbg) and x86 Assembly.

I look forward to contributing to the community!

CHEERS!

majorTCP/IP is still commercial software.
while all of us wish they'd get over themselves for one minute to come up with an inexpensive way to release it, they still believe in the concept of its power and prestige and the ability to do what it does they still feel is worth $499 so i'd be careful going after that one.

and sylvain duracher himself will sell you a code if you produce the 499 USD

and look at it from his point of view, its still one of the most sought after modules to date, so if its still gaining that much popularity noway in hell hes gonna break.

i got him down to $349 when i bought it last january but thats after an hour of conversation about the 'infamous' ta97 and a goodfriend that worked for vircom that died.

i know it seems expensive but look at what it can do, allow you to run a wgdos bbs and offer those unavailable modules right from your wgnt bbs w/o having to log in again and linking directly into the module.

[frcorey]

hmm, I have a license code that was given to my church for mutants dos but it's keyed to my bbs's serial number.

[WndrBr3d]

I've cracked the following modules for MajorBBS 6.25:

Distant Places 1.20 T-LORD (T-LORD IGM Module)
Dialsoft DS-DOS v3.8 (MBBS Utility Module)
Archery v1.4 (MBBS Game Module)
Oltima 2000 (MBBS Game Module)
The Casino v5.10 (MBBS Game Module)

I can upload the cracks somewhere if needed.

[frcorey]

I've cracked the following modules for MajorBBS 6.25:

Distant Places 1.20 T-LORD (T-LORD IGM Module)
Dialsoft DS-DOS v3.8 (MBBS Utility Module)
Archery v1.4 (MBBS Game Module)
Oltima 2000 (MBBS Game Module)
The Casino v5.10 (MBBS Game Module)

I can upload the cracks somewhere if needed.

be carefull you don't upload cracks for moduals where thier owner is still around. I used to have a lot of cracks and stuff, but as Rick Hadsall was buying up modual rights I took them offline.

Hey, Rick, do you own any of these yet?

[Toyduck]

I've cracked the following modules for MajorBBS 6.25:

Distant Places 1.20 T-LORD (T-LORD IGM Module)
Dialsoft DS-DOS v3.8 (MBBS Utility Module)
Archery v1.4 (MBBS Game Module)
Oltima 2000 (MBBS Game Module)
The Casino v5.10 (MBBS Game Module)

I can upload the cracks somewhere if needed.

be carefull you don't upload cracks for moduals where thier owner is still around. I used to have a lot of cracks and stuff, but as Rick Hadsall was buying up modual rights I took them offline.

Hey, Rick, do you own any of these yet?

Dialsoft is still in business, I just registered a module of theirs that I thought might be out of development...but they dug it out and sold me an activation code.

Toyduck

[Malakai]

Sylvain can kiss my ass. If I had a crack for the DMA server, I'd email him personally and invite him to come play on the board. He doesn't have the original records of who bought the DMA server any more.