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[WoobMonkey]

Is there anyone else out there old enough to remember them?

Whenever I play DF Adventurer mode, I'm reminded of nothing as much as Arrowbridge, and the cleverly-named sequel, Arrowbridge ][.

Is anyone here involved in an active game of AB?  If so, on what BBS(es)? 

Side note: if anyone is aware of a particularly active game of BRE (the absolute best strategy game ever, IMO), I'd be keen to know of it.

[miauw62]

BBSs still exist?

[WoobMonkey]

Yes, yes they do.  As does FidoNet.  They're just not particularly active, that I'm aware of, these days.

I figured this to be the right community to ask around in, though, for any info on which boards are running competitive games.

[LordBucket]

I played tradewars extensively. Hosted a couple games personally. Land of the red dragon a bit and some other game I don't recall the name of set in an apocalyptic wasteland with a topview map, and a clone game save system such that if you died your character reverted to the state of your last clone.

I've not played any of these in years, but there was a remake of tradewars sometime in the mid 2000s that nobody really liked, and it was eventually ported to flash with graphics and some conceptual changes. Though a quick check...that looks to be dead.

[Levi]

I mostly remember Legend of the Red Dragon, good times.   

Oh and Exitilus.  I remember there was a way to glitch the game out so your stats were always semi-random and glitched, and everybody on the bbs I played on only played with glitched characters. 

[WoobMonkey]

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

I humbly suggest, to all interested parties, that we choose a bbs and descend upon in like a pack of baying dire wolves.  Telnet isn't hard to use, after all, and it'd be kinda neat to join up in a multiplayer game or two, old-skool style.

After all, LoRD, BRE, FE, ArrowBridge, TW, Exitilus, etc. are great games, and not likely to be populated by the usual jerks one finds on AAA servers!

Who's in?

[Vanel]

   Ah the bbs. We have sure come a long way from those. I use to have one on my computer I ran in the early 90's. I loved trade wars. I used to have tournaments quite often. I wasn't aware that there was still any way to play those games... Lol.

[LordBucket]

Who's in?

Willing to consider participating, but which game did you have in mind? It's fairly pointless joining an established tradewars game regardless of how many of us there are. Early starters have too much of an advantage. And LORD isn't a game that particularly benefits from having large numbers of cooperative players.

[WoobMonkey]

Who's in?

Willing to consider participating, but which game did you have in mind? It's fairly pointless joining an established tradewars game regardless of how many of us there are. Early starters have too much of an advantage. And LORD isn't a game that particularly benefits from having large numbers of cooperative players.

I was mainly thinking of Baron Realms Elite, and Falcon's Eye, just 'cause they're my favourites.  Arrowbridge ][ is likely to appeal most to any DF Adventurer mode players; Exitlius for the D&D nerds among us.

Really, I'd be down for just about any of the old multiplayer door games, so long as there're enough of us to keep it alive and interesting.

[quinnr]

Watching this thread
It might even be possible to host a BBS with door games, I believe I've seen the software around on the internet somewhere before...

But BBS are so cool >_< It's one of those retro things that I'm a bit sad I missed out on.

[WoobMonkey]

Watching this thread
It might even be possible to host a BBS with door games, I believe I've seen the software around on the internet somewhere before...

But BBS are so cool >_< It's one of those retro things that I'm a bit sad I missed out on.

If you're game, here's a place to start: http://www.bbscorner.com/startabbs/

IIRC, WildCat tends to be the most user-friendly system.  Be aware, however, that there are some minor risks involved, as your host machine will be, essentially, a server.

However, + several million cool points if you want to run the (quasi) official B12 BBS!

[puke]

I was a big fan of TW:2002 and OOII.

I never encountered an Operation Overkill part I, not sure if it ever really existed.

[quinnr]

Watching this thread
It might even be possible to host a BBS with door games, I believe I've seen the software around on the internet somewhere before...

But BBS are so cool >_< It's one of those retro things that I'm a bit sad I missed out on.

If you're game, here's a place to start: http://www.bbscorner.com/startabbs/

IIRC, WildCat tends to be the most user-friendly system.  Be aware, however, that there are some minor risks involved, as your host machine will be, essentially, a server.

However, + several million cool points if you want to run the (quasi) official B12 BBS!

I have a Raspberry Pi that might be able to run as a server, but the SD card port on it is having issues so I'm not sure I'll be able to get it to run. I shall attack it with tape in the near future!

[puke]

The easiest thing to do would be to spin up a EC2 micro-instance or something. 

Actually, the easist thing is to do even less work than that.  It looks like there are plenty of existing boards that would love our traffic.  We should just pick one:

http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbslist.asp?level=2

What do we really want?  We don't need the actual Bulletin Board or "Room" features of a BBS, as we have this board.  We don't need the Chat features, as we have an IRC channel.  and if we just want to play some Door games, there are already people running them that we could jump in on.

What else did a BBS do?  If you want to share files you can use peer-to-peer communities larger than what we can create here (and legit DF related files can go on the DFFD), if you want access to the Internet, you dont need to dial someone up to have your email relayed out to the international Internet for you.  There are better ways to get USENET access... What else?  I don't mean to be a downer here, but I'm really not seeing the use case.

[RedKing]

Whoa.....getting flashbacks like a hippie at Woodstock here.

I was mondo active in our local BBS scene in the early 90's. Very active on FIDONET and some of the various sub-nets like PaganNet. And yeah, Tradewars, LORD, Falcon's Eye, all that jazz.

Ahh, I remember when RIP graphics were state-of-the-art....