ViSiON/3: A New Take on BBS Networking

Art by Randers — ADFA / DiE / Shiver / Blocktronics / Lazarus

Where Networking Gets Interesting

A thing that made the scene feel like a scene, was message networks. FidoNet, in particular: a worldwide store-and-forward email system that ran on a combination of dial-up polling, ARC/ZIP compression, and the collective good faith of thousands of volunteer sysops who kept their machines on overnight so the mail could move.

Retro Return: Spinning Up a DOS BBS in the Cloud Era

Let’s crack open the proverbial time capsule, shall we? We’re going to to get our DOS 16-bit multi-node BBS software humming along under dosemu2.

BBS Door Development (Part 1)

Part 1: I’ll document (loosely 😅) how I set up the development environments to compile a BBS door game for DOS, Windows, Linux and OS/2 with old school tools. Links to all the software i used are included down below under “Downloads.”

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