Re: Re: Merry Christmas!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Tue Dec 30 2025 07:54:48

I have a Boker folding knife that goes through boxes like butter.

I go for the carnage approach. First, I RIIIIIP the top the bottom flaps off, then I RIIIIP open the sides at the seam. Finally, I RIIIIP the four sides into seperate pieces and...PHOOM!...slam dunk into the bin. Then I plop down into a chair, sweaty, feeling like real man...YEAH!
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|11MM|09> |10 By: niter3 to Mortar M. on Sun Dec 28 2025 09:22:07|07
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|11MM|09> |10> Let us know what you think of it.|07
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|11MM|09> |10I'm glad you asked!|07
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Im wondering can you run a bbs with it?


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Re: Merry Christmas!
By: niter3 to Mortar M. on Sun Dec 28 2025 09:22:07

Let us know what you think of it.

I'm glad you asked!

Im wondering can you run a bbs with it?

After some research of my own (not owning one) it very much should be able to.

Image BBS is an easy one to setup under Vice at least. I'm sure bucko or one of the other guys could help or provide documentation?

Which I should look into? Is there documentation for Image BBS base install... Must be...

Are you planning to buy a c64u?

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I have a Boker folding knife that goes through boxes like butter.

I go for the carnage approach. First, I RIIIIIP the top the bottom
flaps off, then I RIIIIP open the sides at the seam. Finally, I RIIIIP the four sides into seperate pieces and...PHOOM!...slam dunk into the
bin. Then I plop down into a chair, sweaty, feeling like real
man...YEAH! --- SBBSecho 3.31-Linux

This made me laugh. I'd probably go out and buy a beer just to be able to offer you one, after that.

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BY: niter3 (21:1/199)

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I was thinking of Amiga since you can do more things with those.


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Are you planning to buy a c64u?

I was thinking of Amiga since you can do more things with those.

Right! That's basically what I did. I had the c64u on purchase and cancelled it and bought an a1200 case, and will be getting a keyboard in the new years.

As of today, I've been building out my dedicate PC I think that will be going in the case. I'll have to pull it from this mini pc case and see if it's possible. If not, I'll have to pickup a pi.

Are you looking for a real Amiga or something else?

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On 31 Dec 2025, niter3 said the following...

I'm glad you asked!

Im wondering can you run a bbs with it?

After some research of my own (not owning one) it very much should be
able to.

Image BBS is an easy one to setup under Vice at least. I'm sure bucko or one of the other guys could help or provide documentation?

Which I should look into? Is there documentation for Image BBS base install... Must be...

Are you planning to buy a c64u?

You can run Image on the new 64u, the only thing that hasn't been tested well is the built in Swiftlink, I used to run one of my boards on a Ultimate 64 (the precursor of the new 64u) but I used a real swiftlink with a PC to run BBS Server as the telnet connector. My personal opinion is why use a 50 year old computer or for that matter a computer you just spent $400 on to run a BBS???? Run it is Vice and use an old PC or buy a off lease PC on eBay for $30! I run my boards in VM's on Proxmoxx.. My BBS on a Stick project makes it very simple to install and run in either Windows or Linux.

I guess it's time to start playing with my U64 and update it to see about getting it working fine with Image..


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Re: Re: The Flat Box Society
By: Adept to Mortar M. on Wed Dec 31 2025 18:24:13

This made me laugh. I'd probably go out and buy a beer just to be able to offer you one, after that.

Make it a Dew and yor're on. :)
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You can run Image on the new 64u, the only thing that hasn't been tested well is the built in Swiftlink, I used to run one of my boards on a Ultimate 64 (the precursor of the new 64u) but I used a real swiftlink with a PC to run BBS Server as the telnet connector. My personal opinion is why use a 50 year old computer or for that matter a computer you just spent $400 on to run a BBS???? Run it is Vice and use an old PC or buy a off lease PC on eBay for $30! I run my boards in VM's on Proxmoxx.. My
BBS on a Stick project makes it very simple to install and run in either Windows or Linux.

You're not wrong, all that money spent to run only a BBS on...

But then again, some people like myself were not big gamers of that time and feel the c64u would just gain dust otherwise?

There is something to be said about a physical computer sitting there with the WFC up on the screen and somebody dialing in....

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On 01 Jan 2026, niter3 said the following...

You're not wrong, all that money spent to run only a BBS on...

But then again, some people like myself were not big gamers of that time and feel the c64u would just gain dust otherwise?

There is something to be said about a physical computer sitting there
with the WFC up on the screen and somebody dialing in....

... Press SPACEBAR once to abort, or twice to save changes

Totally agree, when I was running one on my U64, at least it was getting used. Now it just sits there, I am probably 4 or 5 updates behind also as I haven't used it in ages!! In the next few weeks I will update my U64 and see about getting the settings straight to have Image run on it fine..


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Totally agree, when I was running one on my U64, at least it was getting used. Now it just sits there, I am probably 4 or 5 updates behind also
as I haven't used it in ages!! In the next few weeks I will update my
U64 and see about getting the settings straight to have Image run on it fine..

Nice! I'll keep an eye out for updates...

Obviously I don't have a c64u at the moment...

Is there also a normal install guide from scratch?

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niter3 wrote to Bucko <=-

There is something to be said about a physical computer sitting there
with the WFC up on the screen and somebody dialing in....

My first solo apartment was a studio in downtown San Francisco. Old, art
deco building with a huge walk-in closet. I took one of my parent's
cast-off end-tables, a cast-off IBM AT clone from work, and set up my
BBS in that closet. My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned
in with the FrontDoor WFC screen.

If I left the closet door open, I'd get a bit of a green cast - enough
to get up and walk around at night.

I remember hearing the modem speaker on the lowest setting and the hard
drive chattering during the middle of the night, it amazed me that a
computer in my closet was transferring mail and accepting callers from
around the world in different time zones.



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Totally agree, when I was running one on my U64, at least it was getting used. Now it just sits there, I am probably 4 or 5 updates behind also as

I notice there isn't a C*Base Wrong Number board....


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On 01 Jan 2026, niter3 said the following...

Nice! I'll keep an eye out for updates...

Obviously I don't have a c64u at the moment...

Is there also a normal install guide from scratch?

A normal install guide for Image? If so, yes, the doc file has the installation instructions, I also have written a doc file which starts at the beginning and goes from there, Just don't know where I uploaded it to! More than likely it is on my webpage under Image support and probably in the section for Wrong Number family files..


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On 01 Jan 2026, phigan said the following...

I notice there isn't a C*Base Wrong Number board....

No, never got into C*Base, I run what I ran back in the day. Image, and C-Net Amiga, although I wish I could run Excelsior! for the Amiga because that was what I ran in the 90's but because it is not Y2K it won't run properly with FTN networks. The Centipede board I run is a ode to my Co-SysOp from back in the day he never wanted to run what everyone else ran, I put that up because he died a year and a half ago, and I just wanted to do something in his memory!


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Re: Re: C64 Reborn
By: poindexter FORTRAN to niter3 on Thu Jan 01 2026 09:39:26

My first solo apartment was a studio in downtown San Francisco. Old, art deco building with a huge walk-in closet. I took one of my parent's
cast-off end-tables, a cast-off IBM AT clone from work, and set up my
BBS in that closet.

Parallel occurance: My first apartment was on the West side of Detroit. A non-descript, three-story building. It was here I got my first PC clone which came with an internal, 1200 baud modem, hence, my first foray in BBSes. Even ran one for a short time called "Get Serious". Since the phone jack was (stupidly) in the dining area, for a time, my setup made its home on the dining table, which was fine as I didn't use it much; I liked to eat watching TV. Eventually, it ended up on in my bedroom on an old sewing desk that my Ma game me.

My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned in with the FrontDoor WFC screen.

Why didn't you shut off the monitor when not needed?
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My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned in with the FrontDo WFC screen.

Why didn't you shut off the monitor when not needed?

I don't understand; he was running a BBS, so clearly it was needed at all times.

(I kid, but only slightly. I think active sysops wanted to know what was going on with their BBS, and that includes knowing that the system is down because something odd was on the screen. And during the night, clearly the screen was functioning as a nightlight.)

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BBS in that closet. My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned
in with the FrontDoor WFC screen.

HA, I can recall this being an issue for many monitors. Good old CRT's. :)

I remember hearing the modem speaker on the lowest setting and the hard drive chattering during the middle of the night, it amazed me that a computer in my closet was transferring mail and accepting callers from around the world in different time zones.

Did you loose sleep over it?

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A normal install guide for Image? If so, yes, the doc file has the installation instructions, I also have written a doc file which starts
at the beginning and goes from there, Just don't know where I uploaded
it to! More than likely it is on my webpage under Image support and probably in the section for Wrong Number family files..

Sounds like I have some digging to do. :)

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Mortar M. wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned in with the FrontDoor WFC screen.

Why didn't you shut off the monitor when not needed?

I liked the green glow at night. :)



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Adept wrote to Mortar M. <=-

(I kid, but only slightly. I think active sysops wanted to know what
was going on with their BBS, and that includes knowing that the system
is down because something odd was on the screen. And during the night, clearly the screen was functioning as a nightlight.)

In 1991, I went to SCO for a 5-day UNIX class. I rebooted the BBS,
figured all would be OK. A day or so into it, the BBS rang no answer.
Not much I could do about it.

I got back into my apartment, and saw the problem. FrontDoor couldn't
initialize the modem, and so it gave up and the batch file looped back
to restart it. repeated over and over, about once every 45 seconds.

The problem was that each time it exited, it let out a little SOS in
morse code through the PC speaker. Every 45 seconds. 24 hours a day.
For 4 days straight. I'm glad I didn't run into my next door neighbor
after that!



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On 02 Jan 2026, niter3 said the following...

Sounds like I have some digging to do. :)

Here is the link to the install guide for installing in Vice...

https://www.wrgnbr.com/files/WNF_Files/imageinstall.pdf

If you need the docs to the whole thing let me know and I will put that on my website also...


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Here is the link to the install guide for installing in Vice...

https://www.wrgnbr.com/files/WNF_Files/imageinstall.pdf

Awesome! Thanks, bookmarked it for a later read.

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Re: C64 Reborn
By: niter3 to Bucko on Sat Jan 03 2026 07:15:42

... Origin of Life? Just check my refrigerator...

That deserves a song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH3UncRagXY
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