Reaper82 posted on Nov 22nd 2024 at 11:19pm

Where Are You All From?

I thought it would be fun to see where everyone is calling from! In the old
days we were all within our local dialing zone.

I'll start, dialing in from Burlington, Ontario!

Comments:

By Dravenheart on Nov 23rd 2024 at 3:26pm

I'm dialing in from the Great Northwoods of Northern Wisconsin! Hayward,
Wisconsin. We have trees, and a big fish.

By Graehaus on Nov 24th 2024 at 9:18am

Hi I am from Halifax NS. Glad to meet ya.

By Fevermario on Nov 25th 2024 at 10:32pm

Clarksville TN, a small town near the Kentucky Tennesee border.

Not a whole lot happens around here, but we do have some nice walking trails.

By Dr.Immeme on Nov 26th 2024 at 1:25pm

Connecting from a small town in North Ohio just East of Cleveland. I'm not an
Arch user just a Debian user. G'day to you all!

By Penguinberry on Nov 26th 2024 at 2:16pm

Toronto, Ontario here! Wild to be back on a BBS!

By Sumerian on Nov 27th 2024 at 12:21am

I'm dialing from Alvorada/RS, a small city from Brazil. :)

By Ash Vesuvius on Nov 28th 2024 at 12:20am

Hailing from Columbus Ohio

By Lime on Nov 28th 2024 at 1:45am

From a small town called Brisbane, Australia.

By Locaste on Nov 28th 2024 at 5:50pm

I'm calling from Pearl, Mississippi!

By Mantis on Nov 29th 2024 at 9:18am

Calling from Edmonton, Alberta (Go Oilers!)

Quite a few fellow Canucks in here, wooooot!

By Angus on Nov 29th 2024 at 6:00pm

Edmonton also.. seems for some reason there are few people from here

By Digitalwalkout on Nov 29th 2024 at 9:16pm

Hailing from Portland Oregon

By Z80robot on Nov 30th 2024 at 3:36am

Im from the other side, Madrid, Spain

By Booch on Dec 1st 2024 at 7:08pm

Duluth, Minnesota! We're close enough to Canada and my accent has been guessed
as such! Go Vikings!

By Dravenheart on Dec 1st 2024 at 10:10pm

Dang Booch! You're a hop skip and a jump away from me!

I head up to Duluth on a somewhat regular basis for medical appointments for my
kiddo.

By Soulburn on Dec 2nd 2024 at 10:18am

Itatiba, Sao Paulo, Brazil

By The_Inventer on Dec 2nd 2024 at 12:55pm

Hailing from St. Gallen Switzerland!
Guten Tag und Hallo allerseits!

By Sphere on Dec 2nd 2024 at 11:48pm

Right now, I'm logged in from Ko Samui in Thailand.
But normally, Melbourne, Australia.

By Alys on Dec 5th 2024 at 1:10pm

Northern California!

By Aguest on Dec 11th 2024 at 4:05am

Rural Southern Ontario, we haven't had snow this early in November for some
years now.

By Gromas on Dec 11th 2024 at 1:41pm

South Georgia, USA

By Apophis on Dec 12th 2024 at 10:17am

calling in from ontario canada

By Joshooaj on Dec 12th 2024 at 1:01pm

Another one dialing in from Oregon. Small town of Condon, OR. My dad ran a BBS back in ~1996 called Restless Venturestu
tures and I was abig fan of L.O.R.D. as a teenager :)

By Mistermoo on Dec 17th 2024 at 9:29pm

Dialing from Irvine, CA USA. Decent weather most of the year round although
sometimes I miss snow (we lived in Pittsburgh for a couple of years). Looking
forward to Christmas and some time off from work!

By Damned Angel on Dec 22nd 2024 at 7:36pm

Typing with an MSX, from Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

By Alsalahad on Dec 27th 2024 at 9:56am

Hola! I'm from Indonesia, BSS is the funny things you must have on your system. Terima kasih

By Dancelot on Dec 28th 2024 at 4:04pm

hi, i'm from turkey nice to meet ya all. i heard BBS from nostalgia youtubers
and weird artists, i'm new here but i like it so far.

By Techrival on Jan 4th 2025 at 9:59pm

Dialing in from Yokosuka, Japan! Born and raised in California though. i was
looking up Exitilus on reddit and found a thread talking about Ambrosia being a
spiritual successor to it and this BBS was suggested. Happy to be here!

By Meek0ne on Jan 6th 2025 at 10:23pm

Toronto here!

By Vaxildan on Jan 7th 2025 at 10:48am

Calling from the far and dangeroud land known as France. Also, just entered the
world of BBS, so I'll probably take some time to accommodate.

By Gallos on Jan 11th 2025 at 8:35pm

Orillia, ON!

By Samika on Jan 14th 2025 at 12:31pm

Calling from Spain today, but usually from Finland. I used to call lot of BBS
back in 90sh and SysOp one pcboard back in days. I still miss times when
information/bytes rate did count something. Maybe nostalgy, or maybe
common-sense :) I'm glad this board exists <3

By Krysty on Jan 14th 2025 at 8:22pm

I'm from the frozen realm of Indianapolis!

By Desmond on Jan 16th 2025 at 2:09am

Kansas City

By The Mage Of Darkness on Jan 21st 2025 at 9:46am

Hello? Anyone online in the realm of serion?
Hope So!

By Maniac on Jan 23rd 2025 at 2:30am

"Calling" in from the Netherlands here. Can't connect with my Amiga for some
reason so I'm using Telnet. Still pretty awesome though.

By Tylerburke on Feb 10th 2025 at 10:15am

Dialling in from South Germany.

By Wolfman on Feb 13th 2025 at 4:16am

Hi, dialing in from Belgium!

By Vinnep1nne on Feb 14th 2025 at 1:13pm

Saltsj'o'-Boo, Sweden, here! Is there any way to type the Swedish letter 'o' on here? Just pressing the key for it
doesn't appear to work.

By Leapship on Feb 14th 2025 at 5:05pm

Greetings from the middle of California. Here for College. The heat sucks
here!!

By Pjf on Feb 14th 2025 at 8:03pm

Louisville, KY

By Damage Control on Feb 14th 2025 at 11:57pm

Greetings from Detroit, the motor city!

By Marcos on Feb 15th 2025 at 1:11pm

BarnuM MN, just south of the Realm

By Thaweazl on Feb 18th 2025 at 8:49am

Manchester NH
:q

By Rathgar on Feb 18th 2025 at 8:23pm

Carrollton, TX which is a northern suburb of Dallas, TX. "dialing" in from a
Commander X16 which is a "modern" retro computer meant to mimic the old 8 bit
systems of the 80's!

By Myekaan on Feb 19th 2025 at 3:34pm

Dialing in from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA! Running RIPTerm from Dosbox-x in
original EGA graphics. Nice to meet all of you!

By Asterisk on Feb 22nd 2025 at 11:53pm

West Palm Beach, FL. Using the latest version of SyncTerm, with RIP support!

By Zoolander on Feb 23rd 2025 at 7:53am

California

By Limping Ninja on Feb 23rd 2025 at 2:57pm

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada!

By Zeroflag on Feb 24th 2025 at 9:14am

I'm currently in Hungary.

By Wasawhale on Feb 27th 2025 at 11:04pm

Telnetting from Finland! Used to run a demoscene oriented BBS back in 93-98
called Batcave. Used a Finnish software called BBBS to run it under OS/2 and a
blazing 100 Mhz Pentium.

By Retrofire on Feb 28th 2025 at 3:47pm

! I'm telnetting in from Southeast Georgia, USA! Hello to Hayward,
Wisconsin, from a native Wisconsinite!

Here's to hoping I'm next able to connect from my "new" Panasonic Sr Partner
luggable PC, with a blazing fast Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz and 640 KB of RAM, a
boot floppy, and running DOS 3.3!

By Doomii_Blue on Mar 1st 2025 at 7:32am

Hello!, im calling from the Britian!

By Spaceman Spiff on Mar 2nd 2025 at 5:58pm

Dialing in from Chico, CA USA. Glad to be here. Being able to connect with the
world on my 1970's Apple IIe makes me very happy. Wish I had this when I was a
kid.Hope you're all doing well.

By San Andreas on Mar 7th 2025 at 8:06am

I'm from Mesa, AZ. Used to be into the BBS scene in the 90s.

By Jane Bingum The Just on Mar 8th 2025 at 1:47am

Utica, NY, at the moment. Otherwise, Roanoke, VA.

By Syrinx on Mar 8th 2025 at 9:51am

, VA - used to be part of the BBS scene here in the 90s.

By Ninja Nick on Mar 25th 2025 at 6:47pm

w00t! I am Ninja Nick from Dayton, OH. I am from the BBS days and dawn of
everything, and I enjoy some LORD (Red Dragon) deathmatch and so forth. I
rigged Serion BBS to big TV at my dads the other day and it was super lol.
Worked perfect and we all had fun. Thank you and nice to meet you.

- Nick

By Jcole on Apr 1st 2025 at 2:39pm

Charlotte, NC

By Silas on Apr 3rd 2025 at 6:57am

Hailing from the ever mysterious land of Vietnam, where even the nature themselves speak the language of man.

By Nexuss on Apr 8th 2025 at 5:10pm

Alberta, Canada!

By Cru81 on Apr 9th 2025 at 3:52pm

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

By Hexa on Apr 9th 2025 at 4:18pm

Sao Paulo, Brazil

By Towel on Apr 22nd 2025 at 1:56am

Round Rock, TX

By Kaunis on May 1st 2025 at 6:51pm

Russian Federation

By Vallidor on May 7th 2025 at 5:34am

Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. I'm pretty surprised how many Canadians are on
here!

By Kagar on May 9th 2025 at 9:25pm

Connecting from Colorado Springs, CO!

By Spinash on May 26th 2025 at 3:53pm

From Kerala, India. I was so interested in bbs that I started exploring and now
I'm here

By Rotorek on May 28th 2025 at 3:00pm

Greetings from the Czech republic.

The_Inventer posted on Nov 9th 2024 at 7:08am

What Systems Do You Use?

I am curious to know what systems you to access this BBS. I don't have anything
special, just WIN11 with SYNCTERM running the BBS on a spare 14" B&W CRT I
rarely used. It's sole purpose now will be to display BBS stuff, because I
can't find any better use for it.
By the way:
I visited several BBS's and this one is by far the best with its theming,
content and simplicity.

Comments:

By The_Inventer on Nov 9th 2024 at 7:20am

forgot to mention that the computer is a thinkpad t14

By Mantis on Nov 9th 2024 at 9:47am

I access the various BBSes I frequent using NetRunner as my terminal program.
It's pretty good!

As for running boards, we have Medusa BBS running on a VM on a Dell R820.

By Z80robot on Nov 22nd 2024 at 9:16am

Im using a MSX computer: z80 CPU, 128k RAM and WIFI BaDCaT interface. I have a
14" PVM for gfx games but for BBS I use a small Sony Bravia TFT.

By Dravenheart on Nov 22nd 2024 at 1:22pm

I just use my my WIN 11 desktop and connect with NetRunner as my terminal.

I was working on a BBS over a decade ago on an old laptop, but I don't know
where that went off to.

I'd really love to get a Raspberry Pi as I hear that they can be set up on one.

By Graehaus on Nov 24th 2024 at 9:21am

I use an old computer, anduse Netrunner and the Site's connection. Netrunner
reminds me of my days connecting to BBSes locally with my C64 and 1200 baud
modem.. Yea I am that old.

By Vlw on Nov 26th 2024 at 3:49am

Spun up a Debian VM to try out a few BBSes. I didn't know these awesome things
were still around! Oh and my terminal is just the defaut xfce4-terminal for now
:)

By Joao N. on Nov 26th 2024 at 11:02am

I am using Manjaro Linux with SyncTERM.

By Digitalwalkout on Nov 29th 2024 at 9:18pm

Currently running Arch on a Thinkpad T14. Want to one day hook up an old dumb
terminal to SSH into a Raspberry Pi or other SBC to look at BBS with

By Raptornet on Nov 30th 2024 at 11:27am

I've only just joined the BBS after recenlty digging out my RS232 wifi modem.
The system I'm using to connect up with, is an Amstrad PPC512 running dos 5.0
from floppy disk, it has no hard drive, so everything is run of disk. In my
case, I swapped out one of it's two 720kb floppy drives with a Gotek floppy
emulator. It makes life way easier, especially when it comes to transferring
files to and from a modern computer. The only issue I have, is the display is
damn awefull, google Amstrad PPC512 and you will see what I mean. Mine has a
backlite, but even still its not great

By Mistermoo on Dec 18th 2024 at 5:52pm

I connect from a Mac or iPad using a program called Muffinterm. If you have one
of these devices, I highly recommend it. Pretty intuitive and does a good job
of emulating/imitating an authentic DOS-looking environment, and you also have
options to switch to VIC styles and others.

By Nickless on Dec 19th 2024 at 2:02pm

bdebian 12 0n a toufgbook cf33
/q

By Damned Angel on Dec 22nd 2024 at 7:39pm

I am using an SMX-HB EX, a modern FPGA implementation of an MSX computer. If
has WiFi and a newly developed ANSI telnet terminal. Great stuff!

By Alsalahad on Dec 27th 2024 at 10:23am

1. System : Fedora 41 minimal server
2. Hadrware : Thinkpad x260 w/ 8gb RAM
3. Router : TP-Link WR1043ND w/ Openwrt installed

By Gallos on Jan 11th 2025 at 8:37pm

ASUS Zenbook OLED running Kubuntu.
Accessing the BBS VIA Netrunner
Custom PFSense router, Dell Opti with a few added NICs.

Got a Ryzen desktop build for games & Solidworks too

By Boomph on Jan 12th 2025 at 4:04pm

I am using ROMTerm on a Commander X16. Works great with this BBS!

By Desmond on Jan 16th 2025 at 2:13am

Linux Mint. I'm just using the command line interface along with the telnet command.

By The Mage Of Darkness on Jan 21st 2025 at 9:50am

As for me, I just use an avarage chromebook from my collage! lol.

By Tranfem on Jan 28th 2025 at 9:10am

i use a ideapad 100s and netnunner

By Exy11 on Jan 28th 2025 at 12:42pm

pop os on a laptop dual booting with win11 with the default gnome terminal

By Simvu on Feb 8th 2025 at 3:20pm

Riptel64 on Windows 11 Pro. Typical modern gaming PC with x2 monitors. Running
RIPtel64 client in the second window.

By Zeroflag on Feb 13th 2025 at 10:28am

I use AntiX Linux on a T480s Thinkad, with syncterm.

By Leapship on Feb 14th 2025 at 5:10pm

Currently On Syncterm. I have a C64 which I usually BBS With, not sure if this
place supports Commodore GFX..

By Rathgar on Feb 18th 2025 at 8:26pm

I BBS with a variety of "old school" systems. Currently using a Commander X16
but sometimes use an old school dumb serial terminal with a RS232 WiFi MODEM
attached. I just "feels" better to use something similar to what I used "back
in the day"

By Spaceman Spiff on Mar 2nd 2025 at 5:37pm

i;m using an Apple IIe running Proterm 3.1 connected using WiModem232. This is
by far the best BBS I've used so far.

By St3ph3n on Mar 18th 2025 at 8:14pm

Just using a Thinkpad T14 gen 2 running Fedora 41 with basic-bitch telnet client. This is my first foray into any kind of BBS in like 25 years.

By Wasawhale on Mar 19th 2025 at 1:22am

I'd prefer to have my turboed Amiga 1200 be able to telnet out, but that needs
some work. So currently HP Elitebook running Ubuntu.

By Nexuss on Apr 8th 2025 at 5:09pm

Hey guys!

First post here! I am running SyncTERM on Linux Mint Cinnamon. I am considering
getting some real hardware to enhance the experience however. I was looking for
active BBS's today and was getting discouraged as most seem fairly inactive,
glad I came here!

By Alys on Apr 10th 2025 at 7:51am

Netrunner through Linux Mint!

By Flux1270 on Apr 29th 2025 at 11:48am

Connected via Telnet on my Dell XPS T500 running Windows 2000.

By Vallidor on May 7th 2025 at 5:33am

12-core Intel system with 64GB RAM and SLI RTX 4090 to maximize my LORD
gameplay experience. (Gentoo Linux SyncTerm 1.6)

By Djinnandtonic on May 18th 2025 at 11:50am

Currently been using a Thinkpad T440p spun up with a very well updated Kali
linux for a few years. I use SyncTERM for most of the BBS's I dial into. I also
use a smaller netbook with AntiX on it.

By Kaunis_Kaunis on May 23rd 2025 at 8:01pm

Hello, I am new here and I am using MS-DOS 6.22 on my retro PC with Pentium MMX
200, 32 MB RAM and Intel Pro/100 with packet driver and telnet client.

By Spinash on May 26th 2025 at 4:14pm

Iam on Ubuntu Linux in my Acer aspire lite 8gb RAM 512gb SSD with an intel i5
11th gen. Iam connecting through syncterm btw

By Rotorek on May 28th 2025 at 3:06pm

Mostly SuSE Tumbleweed with SyncTerm, Hatari with AnsiTerm or MuffinTerm on iOS
with external keyboard.

Spinash posted on May 26th 2025 at 4:19pm

How Did You All Know About Bbs

Did you used to use these back in the days or discovered it after it's era like
me?

Comments:

By Booch on May 28th 2025 at 9:05am

I was a teenager in the 90's and learned about BBSes then before the Internet
became available. I believe my friend showed me a BBS for the first time from
his home. It was very exciting to be able to connect to another system and post
a message, chat, play games and download files.

By The_Inventer on May 30th 2025 at 2:47am

I discovered them WAAAY after their heyday in the 80s and early 90s, something
like a year ago.
I don't know how or why I got interested in them. Probably was googling a way
to browse the internet on older machines and discovered the concept of BBSs. I
knew about them for a few years by then, but I somehow couldn't fathom that
they are still in active use or accessible by almost any computer ever made,
even an HP 48G pocket calculator. This accessibility really made me interested
in BBS's and without BBS's I wouldn't know what to do with some of my machines
now, they give them somewhat a reason to exist in this day and age of
communication.
Though this journey took a few weeks or even months, since I had no previous
knowledge about them and it was daunting to learn all this new stuff. Telnet,
SSH, terminal programs, how datatransmission with Z or Y modems works, how
ASCII code works, transmitting text data via serial, ...
It's fun to think now how modern web browsers are just more sophisticated
terminals. I would've never made that connection if it weren't for BBSs!

Dancelot posted on May 3rd 2025 at 8:35am

What Is Your Favrouite Metal Band

i recently got into metal music i listen to things like metallica and
dissection (yes i listen to some degree of black metal despite how somber they
sound but that's beside the point) and a little twisted sister (does that count
as metal idk) what do you guys listen in terms of metal music?

Comments:

By Booch on May 5th 2025 at 10:08am

I'm not a huge metal fan, but I did go to a show a couple years ago with
Metallica in Atlanta. That was a lot of fun!

By Maniac on May 12th 2025 at 12:53pm

Megadeth

By Tarot on May 16th 2025 at 1:06am

Has to be Slayer. I've been a fan since 2019. Saw them live awhile ago. Definitely in my top 5 favorite bands.

By Lazy on May 23rd 2025 at 3:35pm

Andy James ;)

By Carcaussa on May 24th 2025 at 1:53pm

Dark Tranquillity, Insomnium, Dissection, Iced Earth, Tristania, Samael,
Agathodaimon

agster posted on May 11th 2025 at 1:34pm

I Just Started A New Global War Game! Go Sign Up!

Hey just started a new game. Would love to get 4 players!

-Ag

Glabrezuius posted on May 10th 2025 at 4:24pm

Usurper Reset

It's hung when you choose option 3 from the warrior menu. Stuck on loading?

Vallidor posted on May 7th 2025 at 5:48am

Syncterm And Ripscrip Not Working?

I'm using Syncterm 1.6 on Linux and followed the instructions on the website to
enable RIP support (v1), but I get nothing when trying to login or in LORD.

Is there another trick to it?

Comments:

By Booch on May 7th 2025 at 9:55am

Hmm, that's strange. It works for me, though I'm using Windows. It might not
hurt to reach out to the author, Deuce, and see if he has any recommendations.
Might be a Linux quirk, might not be.

Kernelpanic posted on Mar 26th 2025 at 8:12pm

Usurper Reset

Hello its time to reset Usurper, it needs it about every year or so and the
current game is well over 12 months. I'm planning to do this at the end of the
week so plan to start new characters Saturday!

-KP

Comments:

By Glabrezuius on Apr 25th 2025 at 2:44pm

A1!

Alys posted on Apr 12th 2025 at 6:17pm

Differences Of Lord Games?

what are the main differences between the different versions of LORD?

Comments:

By Booch on Apr 16th 2025 at 1:40pm

LORD Tournament has no IGMs and settings tuned for fair play and offers prizes
to the one who can win the tournament!

Extreme LORD has many IGMs and less restrictive settings for more free and
rapid play, such as advancing stats, gold and levels much more quickly than the
tournament. Also, the tournament is 3 heroic deeds (dragon kills). Extreme is
20, I believe.

By Alys on Apr 16th 2025 at 6:57pm

What are IGMs?

By Booch on Apr 18th 2025 at 8:17am

IGMs (In Game Modules) are kind of mini games inside of LORD. In Extreme LORD,
from the main menu, select 'O' for Other Places to see a list of IGMs. They are
known for boosting stats and provide some spice a variety to LORD. Check them
out!

Booch posted on Mar 27th 2025 at 11:43am

Extreme Lord Has Been Won! Congratulsations Jleap! Now Reset

Congratulations to Jleap for winning Extreme LORD!

20 dragons, wow. I would think that if any other dragons catch sight of Jleap,
they will tuck tail and run.

Extreme LORD has been reset! Good luck everyone that joins!

Comments:

By Jleap on Mar 28th 2025 at 2:28am

Thanks Booch! I had a blast playing this round! :)

Might posted on Mar 2nd 2025 at 10:46pm

Usurper Needs A Kick Again

As the title says, frozen on load again. Lorum Ipsum, 100 characters.

Comments:

By Booch on Mar 3rd 2025 at 8:22am

Thanks for the heads up. Usurper is up and running again.

By Might on Mar 19th 2025 at 5:22am

Annnnd again :-)
Thanks :)

Booch posted on Mar 9th 2025 at 6:39pm

Lord Tournament Won! New Tournament Starts March 12th!

Congratulations to Lupin for completing 3 heroic deeds and winning the LORD
Tournament! Well done!

Also, congratulations to Hera for achieving Veteran rank!

This tournament was a close one with some others right there at the end.

The next LORD Tournament begins Wednesday, March 12th!

Comments:

By Penguinberry on Mar 10th 2025 at 12:13pm

Congrats Lupin!

By Lime on Mar 11th 2025 at 4:11am

Congrazzzz

By Lupin on Mar 11th 2025 at 9:56am

Thank you. Ill rest a little and in the future ill come back to kill this
dragon again.

By Booch on Mar 12th 2025 at 8:35am

The LORD Tournament has started! Good luck everyone!

Doomii_Blue posted on Mar 2nd 2025 at 3:14am

Can't Connect to Tokerz Hut BBS

For some unknown reason, i can not connect to the t0kerz hut BBS, is it
shutdown? or am i having a connection problem, i can connect to any other BBS
just fine

Comments:

By Booch on Mar 3rd 2025 at 10:23am

I also tried connecting to the BBS and do not get through.

By Doomii_Blue on Mar 5th 2025 at 11:31am

Strange

By Booch on Mar 7th 2025 at 3:06pm

I tried it again and the BBS is back up.

By Doomii_Blue on Mar 8th 2025 at 3:21am

Yes i have also seen it has back.

Zeroflag posted on Feb 25th 2025 at 7:05am

Lord In Syncterm With Rip Graphics

Hi,

When I start LORD using SyncTERM with RIP enabled, it says I need to download
an icon pack first. But pressing the download button doesn't work.

I found a LORDICON.ZIP file on the internet, and put it under .syncterm/icons
but I still got the same error when starting the game.

Has anyone managed to make this work?

Comments:

By Booch on Feb 25th 2025 at 9:47am

It's awesome you're checking out the BBS in RIP! I recommend getting in contact
with the author of Syncterm to find out where to put the RIP icons. It's not an
intuitive location at all... something like
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\SyncTERM\???

An alternative you could consider is using a ready packed RIPterm setup instead
that uses DOSbox. It comes with the LORD icons, so LORD RIP will
work right out of the box. Info is here: https://serionbbs.com/rip-bbs

By Zeroflag on Feb 25th 2025 at 10:48am

Thanks for the answer. I managed to find out the correct directory.

I use Linux and my Syncterm looks for the rip graphics under:

~/.cache/syncterm/Serion/RIP/

I put it there, and now it all works.

By Booch on Feb 27th 2025 at 11:44am

Good to hear it's working now!

Booch posted on Feb 24th 2025 at 11:38am

Planets Reset

Soulburn has dominated Planets: The Exploration of Space.

I would like to reset the game and start fresh. Would that be ok?

Comments:

By Gromas on Feb 25th 2025 at 8:37pm

yes please

By Booch on Feb 26th 2025 at 2:59pm

Ok! Planets has been reset! Good luck everyone!

By Soulburn on Feb 26th 2025 at 9:48pm

Tanks for all!

Booch posted on Jan 28th 2025 at 11:33am

Exitilus 3.17 Reset

After years of running, unfortunately Exitilus 3.17 needed to be reset due to
unrecoverable player data corruption.

Enjoy the fresh reset and good luck everyone that joins!

Comments:

By The1sttk on Jan 28th 2025 at 10:06pm

crap

By Miles Teg on Feb 21st 2025 at 7:35pm

I cant count the times exitilus 3.17 ate my character. Is the code still
maintained ?

Booch posted on Oct 28th 2024 at 7:56pm

The Pit Upgrade From 3.6 To 4.17

I plan on upgrading The Pit from version 3.6 to 4.17. This last release
contains more features, bug fixes, and more items. I don't have a specific date
set for this and wanted to open up the floor if anyone had a preference. The
upgrade will completely reset the game, so all game progress will be lost.

I'm excited for The Pit to be upgraded as this BBS has been running 3.6 for
many years. If no one has a preference, I will probably upgrade within the next
two days.

Comments:

By Might on Jan 10th 2025 at 2:20am

Any progress on this?

By Booch on Jan 28th 2025 at 11:57am

The Pit is now upgraded to 4.17. It looks like there is a bug during the player
creation process when it autopopulates the username from the door file. It
seems to be reading the wrong entry from the door file. You will need to remove
what's there and enter the desired name. When I tested this, I needed to play
around with the name until I could get it to accept it.

I looked through the settings and didn't see any way to disable or configure
this.

Good luck everyone that joins!

By Booch on Jan 31st 2025 at 3:22pm

I'm having issues with The Pit 4.17. It didn't recognize my user and had to
create a new one based on the bugged issue with incorrectly reading the BBS
drop file. If anyone else can confirm, I'd appreciate it. I ended up having to
create a new user even though I already went through that process. We may need
to roll back to 3.6, which does not have this issue.

By Might on Feb 7th 2025 at 12:40am

I'm also having this problem

/~.~.

s

By Booch on Feb 8th 2025 at 6:01pm

This should be fixed. Reverted to 3.6. Please let me know if there are further
issues.

By Might on Feb 10th 2025 at 12:48am

It's still logging us all into the same user on 3.6
Which hopefully suggests a general configuration problem rather than a 4.17 problem
Would definitely appreciate if we could get 4.17 going, it seemed better than 3.6

By Booch on Feb 10th 2025 at 2:01pm

I was able to do more troubleshooting and found the issue, I think! Did a bunch
of testing and looks like it's working well now.
A couple things: 1. We're back on 4.17! 2. The game needed a full reset.

Graehaus posted on Feb 1st 2025 at 10:20am

Something Happened In Lord(extreme) To Me

Hi, Something weird has hapopened to my Character (Graehaus), I went and did
Other Places with The Changling. A Debug screen showed up, and I tried to get
out of it, And I messed up my character. Not to cheat, just to get out of it,
in fear of screwing the whole thing up. My character has a Negative hitpoints.
I can not play the game. A shame I had a couple 100 million build up in the
Bank. I just want to get back to play.

Comments:

By Jleap on Feb 2nd 2025 at 7:47pm

Hey Graehaus, this is one of the 'Bad Things' that can happen when you
encounter the Changeling in the forest. If your Hit Points are still negative,
you can fix them by visiting the Counselling Services in 'Lord Life'. I have
sent you a little gold to help you get back in the game! :)

By Graehaus on Feb 3rd 2025 at 5:28am

Thank you, I'll try that.

By Graehaus on Feb 3rd 2025 at 6:02am

Just tried Lord Life and it freezes up nd freeze til I disconnect. Might be a conection issue. I use Netrunner and the website
telnet I guess. hmm, will work at it some more.

By Penguinberry on Feb 3rd 2025 at 6:12am

Hi! Just a note that I can't access Lord Life either, not sure what the issue
is. Same thing happens, it just hangs until I disconnect.

By Jleap on Feb 4th 2025 at 6:15am

Hmm...weird. Everything is working fine for me. Not too sure what the problem
could be.

By Graehaus on Feb 5th 2025 at 4:05am

That is odd, hmm. I'll keep on it.

By Booch on Feb 5th 2025 at 10:21am

I have restored Lord Life from an old backup. Hopefully this fixes the issue.

By Graehaus on Feb 5th 2025 at 1:26pm

It worked, thank you very much to all involved. See you in the game :)

By Booch on Feb 5th 2025 at 2:45pm

That's great news! I'm sorry to everyone that made progress in Lord Life as
that progress has been wiped out. These old 16 bit programs have issues from
time to time. Sometimes, the only way to fix them is to restore from backup and
start clean.

By Penguinberry on Feb 6th 2025 at 8:00am

Worked for me too! Thanks so much!

Booch posted on Jan 4th 2025 at 12:12am

Lord Tournament Reset! Good Luck Everyone!

As previously mentioned, the LORD Tournament game was accidentally reset a day
earlier. It has now been reset again when it was supposed to on the 4th. I hope
this isn't confusing to anyone. Good luck to everyone in the Tournament!

Booch posted on Jan 2nd 2025 at 9:22am

Congratulations To Dimmib For Winning The Lord Tournament!

Dimmib bested every red dragon the LORD tournament could throw at him and won!
Congratulations!

The next Legend of the Red Dragon tournament will begin on Saturday, February
4th. Good luck all who join!

Comments:

By Booch on Jan 3rd 2025 at 8:23am

The LORD Tournament game was reset by mistake. Anyone that begins playing can,
but will be reset again on Saturday the 4th.

By Booch on Jan 3rd 2025 at 3:44pm

Also, congratulations to Ecupirate2005 for making Champion rank on the BBS!

Additionally, great work making Veteran rank to the following:
Lime
Nemesis
Tenticle

Rune posted on Dec 27th 2024 at 10:30pm

Can We Reset Land Of Devastation?

Same as title, can we reset Land of Devastation? Thank you!

Rune

Comments:

By Booch on Dec 31st 2024 at 8:38am

Hi there! I sent a message to the admin to get the game reset. Hopefully, we
can have it reset soon.

By Rune on Dec 31st 2024 at 5:07pm

Thank you!

Temporary posted on Dec 22nd 2024 at 6:19pm

How To Reset My Password On Main Account?

how do I go about resetting the password on my main account?

Comments:

By Booch on Dec 22nd 2024 at 7:17pm

The BBS doesn't ask for an email address. So, please contact us through
Facebook to have your password reset.

By Temporary on Dec 26th 2024 at 7:39pm

I don't have Facebook. For Heaven's say bro clearly I am a Ludite! I am on a
BBS!

By Temporary on Dec 27th 2024 at 8:30pm

*sake

By Booch on Dec 31st 2024 at 8:29am

I was just going to ask you to shoot me a mail through the BBS, but see that
you did! Perfect. We'll get this sorted out.

Dravenheart posted on Dec 25th 2024 at 10:01am

Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays 2024!

Just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy
Holidays to everyone today on the BBS!

If you aren't celebrating a winter-ish holiday today, then Happy Wednesday and
I hope its fabulous! :)

Comments:

By Mistermoo on Dec 25th 2024 at 11:07am

Merry Christmas to all! I hope everyone can find some joy, peace, and extra
big-heartedness on this special day.

By Nighthawk on Dec 25th 2024 at 9:37pm

Woot woot!!

By Alsalahad on Dec 27th 2024 at 9:58am

I'm a shia muslim and marry christmas for all my brother here.

Have a good time and enjoy!

Alma posted on Sep 14th 2024 at 2:58pm

Hello!

I never got the chance to try BBS games growing up so I am now giving it a
shot. Hello everyone!

Comments:

By Booch on Sep 15th 2024 at 8:17pm

Welcome! I hope you enjoy the BBS. Feel free to message me if you have any
questions.

By Doomii_Blue on Sep 17th 2024 at 12:32pm

Hello, and welcome!

By Robin on Sep 23rd 2024 at 4:16pm

hello!

By Jorge Floyd Negroid on Oct 2nd 2024 at 7:39am

Hello my friends

By Z80robot on Oct 3rd 2024 at 9:39am

Hello all!

By Mistermoo on Dec 18th 2024 at 6:38pm

A bit late, but hello anyway!

Dravenheart posted on Nov 28th 2024 at 2:35pm

Happy Thanksgiving 2024!

Just wanted to take a moment and wish everyone on here in the US a Happy
Thanksgiving if you're celebrating and eating turkey today! Otherwise Happy
Thursday to everyone else worldwide and a Happy Belated Thanksgiving to our
Canadian Friends (I know it was last month, as several of my Twitch teammates
are in Canada).

Lets start a trend and say one thing we are thankful for!

I am thankful I found this amazing place and we can come together to play games
of the past. :)

Comments:

By Locaste on Nov 28th 2024 at 5:52pm

I'm thankful for my career, my family, and all the amazing people I've met in
the recent communities I've joined online.

By Ash Vesuvius on Nov 30th 2024 at 2:04am

I'm thankful for the friends I've met in online communities like this and
cytu.be/r/eclectic

By Booch on Dec 1st 2024 at 7:10pm

Awesome post! I'm so thankful for the people that have been this BBS over the
years. I've had the pleasure of hanging out with and chatting with the people
here. I love it. Thank you!

By Mistermoo on Dec 18th 2024 at 5:50pm

Great post. I'm thankful for my job and my health. And it's now mid-December
which means I'm thankful for the upcoming Christmas holiday and some time off
from the aforesaid job... and doing a little harm to my health with some
consumption!

Kernelpanic posted on Dec 18th 2024 at 10:21pm

New Chat Client!

Hello!

Today Booch and I rolled out our new chat client. We've been limping along for
years with my really ugly patches to the official synchronet client but its
finally time to move on to something more maintainable.

We hope to see you online!

Peace out
-KP

Dravenheart posted on Dec 1st 2024 at 12:20pm

Anyone Into Retro Gaming Besides Door Games?

Hey ya'll! Just trying to ignite some conversation, and would love to see if
theres anyone into retro gaming in general?

I definitely have a soft spot for NES/SNES/Gameboy games and retro consoles and
retro import consoles and when I get a chance to stream to twitch, a lot of it
is SNES games. :)

Also totally amazed that people out there in the interwebs are still making
games for these old systems to this day. I plan on checking out this game on
Steam that was also made for the Gameboy called Marron's Day. It looks pretty
cute and the dev definitely put a lot of love into it, especially with making
the Gameboy version and it being able to work on a Super Gameboy/Super Gameboy
2. :)

Comments:

By Fevermario on Dec 3rd 2024 at 7:51am

I have a sizeable collection of N64, SNES, and Gameboy games, even a few NES
games, and the hardware to run them on. The thing I'm most proud of in my
collection is the atomic purple game boy color, that was and still is a thing
of beauty.

Of course, they all get taken out and played on a regular basis, becuase games
were meant to be PLAYED, not to sit on a shelf and look pretty.

Some of it was hand-me-downs from my older sister (My family had fallen on hard
times when I was a kid) and the rest of it I started collecting when I was
older.

By Booch on Dec 3rd 2024 at 1:40pm

I had a nintendo for a little while as a kid. We didn't own many games, but we
certainly had Mario. Fast forward to the early 2000's, there's the original
Xbox. An acquiantance of mine was able to mod the Xbox with custom firmware and
load emulators for NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, etc.

During college and for years afterwards, I enjoyed playing all of these old
games on the Xbox. It worked very well, except for N64. The Xbox has been
collecting dust for years now. It probably still works :)

There were the classic DOS games I came back to frequently like Doom, Quake,
Wolfenstein, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, etc. and set up an old laptop just
for playing these DOS games.

My most recent classic play has been Raptor: Call of the Shadows. It's
available on GoG. Back in the day, I was only able to play the shareware
version. Now, it's pretty low cost to pick up the full title. I purchased it
years ago on GoG. A few months ago, I ran through the entire campaign set on
Elite difficulty :)

By Graehaus on Dec 7th 2024 at 4:11pm

I enjoy 8/16 bit gaming, many NES and SNES, a little Genesis ( we were a
Nintendo home), I go backto the Atari 2600 as well, I loved having a C64 system
as well.

By Powerham5000 on Dec 10th 2024 at 8:16pm

We were not allowed to have Nintendo, but my dad was in tech so we had a 386
and a 28.8k dialup back in '92. So I grew up on Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of
Destiny, all the Commander Keen games, Doom, Doom 2, and of course LORD. Then
we got a Pentium and that unlocked Hexen, Quake, Quake 2, Duke Nukem 3D, etc.
Lots of other weird games in between that I can remember. Weirdly I've never
really gone back to any of these titles in my adulthood, except LORD of course.
I also played a ton of SNES games on emulators back in the early 2000s, but
never really since.

I'm gonna get back into playing them just so I can show my 3 year old when the
time comes. Thinking I'll start her off with Mario Brothers on the NE

By Mistermoo on Dec 18th 2024 at 5:40pm

Bigtime retro game fan here. I like to split my gaming time and attention
between newer games and retro ones. Currently on a kick of playing Dead Space 1
and comparing the remake to the original. It's a mixed bag. I think I overall
like the look of the original DS1 better than the remake but there's no doubt
that the new game is technically accomplished and faithful to the original. And
yet the remake gives Isaac full voice lines instead of being a silent
protagonist, and that's a huge improvement.

I'm a little sheepish to define the 2008 Dead Space game as "retro." I know
that's not quite what we mean here. Other retro plays for me this year include
Metal Gear Solid (PS1), The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (GBC), Super
Metroid (SNES), Silent Hill 2 (PS2), Sonic Adventure (DC), Ico (PS2), Quake II
(PC), Clock Tower 3 (PS2), Legaia 2: Duel Saga (PS2), and Crash Bandicoot (PS1)
That list is ordered by how much I liked each one, from most to least.

Booch really got me with that mention of Raptor: Call of the Shadows. That was
such a great shareware game. Played it when I was a kid and I just remember how
much I was able to get locked into it and fall into a groove. You'd think I'd
have become a big fan of shoot-'em-ups but I never really did.

Good topic, nice to rant on and check in with people on it.

Booch posted on Dec 17th 2024 at 9:32am

Extreme Lord Reset! Congratulations, Nevarro!

Extreme LORD has been won! That's a lot of dead dragons!

The game has now been reset and a fresh brood of red dragons are already
wreaking havoc on the town.

This version of LORD has some fun IGMs that can help quite a bit with stat
boosts and leveling quickly.

Good luck everyone!

Comments:

By Z80robot on Dec 17th 2024 at 12:55pm

Congratulations Nevarro! :D

Booch posted on Dec 1st 2024 at 7:24pm

Planets Reset! Good Luck To All Space Adventurers!

Planets: The Exploration of Space has been completely reset!

Congratulations for a complete takeover!

Start out in a tiny trader vessel and navigate from one planet to the other
dealing goods. Make some serious bank, upgrade your shields, weapons and
fighters. Buy a new space ship and become a serious thug: making large money
deals, destroying opponent's ships and even taking over entire planets to
manufacture more profit. Upgrade and defend the planets you take over.
Ally with other players and create an interstellar cartel.

Created by Seth Able!

Join in the fun in the Mage's Guild.

Booch posted on Nov 18th 2024 at 11:17am

Multinode Chat Is Down

Just wanted to let everyone know that multinode chat is down. We'll get it
fixed as soon as we can.

Comments:

By Kernelpanic on Nov 26th 2024 at 3:35pm

Chat is fixed but may not be as reliable as it once was. We will likely move the irc
server in the next couple of weeks over to another host.
-KP

By Kernelpanic on Nov 27th 2024 at 9:42pm

We moved the IRC server to a new host! Should be smooth sailing from here out
with the BBS chat.
-KP

Dravenheart posted on Oct 24th 2024 at 11:12pm

Re-Living These Gems From The Past

Found this place via a google search the other day while thinking about BBS's.
My dad used to run one in the early 90s and I remember playing lots of LORD and
Planets. Thank you for running the BBS in this day and age!

Comments:

By Z80robot on Oct 25th 2024 at 7:54am

Oh hi! :)

By Booch on Oct 28th 2024 at 7:15pm

Awesome! Welcome to the Realm of Serion BBS!

By Ash Vesuvius on Nov 6th 2024 at 8:26pm

Same here. I checked out a few other BBSs and this one seems the BEST for LORD.
Thanks, Sysop!

By Mrze on Nov 13th 2024 at 6:26am

This is SPARTAAAAAAAA!

By Reaper82 on Nov 16th 2024 at 9:56am

Also love the client built into the site, it's one of the reasons I chose this
BBS so I can play on a web browser even from a Chromebook

By Spamtla on Nov 21st 2024 at 1:24am

I'm using syncterm to play the game, is the web client that good?

By Ash Vesuvius on Nov 21st 2024 at 11:23pm

I actually kinda like the web version better cuz the fonts are easier to read
on my display and it can be fullscreen.

Flare posted on Nov 1st 2024 at 1:44pm

Bbs Slow/not Fully Showing For Anyone Else?

Logging into Serion takes a bit of time, and the first few times it did't work
because only half the page would show. I don't believe it's my internet or
Syncterm, is this happening for anyone else? As well, most actions take a few
seconds to process where it's usually instant.

Comments:

By Gromas on Nov 1st 2024 at 3:40pm

Yes, same issues.

By Kernelpanic on Nov 1st 2024 at 5:38pm

yup, ill check it out

By Kernelpanic on Nov 1st 2024 at 8:32pm

so far we havent been able to fix the issue

By Z80robot on Nov 2nd 2024 at 3:18am

yes, very slow :(

By Sphere on Nov 2nd 2024 at 6:45am

Seems a little bit sluggish for me today as well. Hope it gets fixed soon.
Maybe some dodgy ISP business?

By Samika on Nov 2nd 2024 at 10:21am

Looks network problem indeed, lot of retransmissions - a bit better if you disable sack.

By Jessrond on Nov 3rd 2024 at 7:15pm

my fault guyths

By Z80robot on Nov 4th 2024 at 1:26pm

its working fine again, thanks!

By Kernelpanic on Nov 4th 2024 at 7:59pm

looks like Booch's isp got it straightened out earlier today :)

Booch posted on Nov 7th 2024 at 9:26pm

Oracle Weather Forecast

I happened to notice that the current weather / weather forecast ability with
the Oracle was broken. I ended up rebuilding the API side of things from
scratch and changing weather forecasting services.

Now it's working again!

Tarot posted on Oct 30th 2024 at 1:09pm

Smuggling A Cart In Class?

Alright, so I'm in a bit of a pickle.

I've been having the worst back pain (from scoliosis) these last few days, and my temporary remedy while I wait
for physical therapy has been the good herb, mostly in carts. I have occasionally tried smoking it before, and while
the aroma wasn't as bad as I thought, it was the stench I carried after that I had a problem with.

Meanwhile, my next semester of college is coming at lightning speed, and all of my classes are in-person. The ideal
outcome was that I would have started physical therapy before it comes around. If this isn't the case, I'll have to
keep sticking with settling the pain with anti-inflamatories and cannabis.

So let me just get straight to the question:
What are some creative ways to wind down before/during class in secret?

Comments:

By Dravenheart on Oct 30th 2024 at 3:03pm

I guess it all really depends on where you live and where it is legal. I'm
from a state where its not, but i'm surrounded by states where it is legalized.

With that being said, I've seen products online where you can discreetly hide
your cart. I believe Smyle Labs has one that you can hide in a pen and the pen
is functional as well.

Otherwise I'd consider edibles an option if you know your tolerance and how you
react under them.

By Powerham5000 on Oct 30th 2024 at 4:46pm

definitely edibles

By Tarot on Nov 4th 2024 at 1:03pm

Alright, will do. Thanks for the advice.

By Tarot on Nov 4th 2024 at 1:05pm

I would also like to clarify that I am based in California, where recreational and medical use of cannabis is legal
with a California medical cannabis card.

Fuquois posted on Oct 19th 2024 at 9:37am

Exitilus 2.05 Reset?

I left a comment on the graffiti wall in game, but wanted to mention it here,
too. Does everyone want to reset Exitilus 2.05, with the amount of corruption
it has gotten to? Or do folks want to carry on as is?

Comments:

By Booch on Oct 21st 2024 at 10:24pm

If there is corruption in the game, yeah, let's totally reset it.
Unfortunately, this version of Exlitilus suffers from a critical bug that can
rear its ugly head from time to time corrupting data.

Let me know any thoughts. Otherwise, I will reset soon to fix the corruption
problem.

By Booch on Oct 23rd 2024 at 8:35pm

Exitilus 2.05 has been reset! Good luck everyone!

Booch posted on Oct 4th 2024 at 3:59pm

Ambroshia Reset. Good Luck To Everyone That Joins!

Ambroshia has been completely reset. Unfortunately, this was due to data
corruption, causing nightly maintenance to fail to run. The reset has fixed
this.

Ambroshia is most similar to Exitilus with owning property or a kingdom and
building on that by fighting monsters, earning gold, upgrading weapons, armor,
properties, armies, etc.

Comments:

By Smilz on Oct 15th 2024 at 2:58am

someone else join me and my.... friends...

By Jessrond on Oct 15th 2024 at 3:04am

JOIN US FATHER.....

By Booch on Oct 21st 2024 at 10:27pm

It turns out that Ambroshia was corrupted. I have restored the game from backup
and reset again. I apologize to anyone for any frustration. These old games
have their issues and quirks. Thanks everyone for letting me know about the
issue. If there are any further issues, please reply to this post or mail
Booch.

Thanks!
- Booch

Booch posted on Oct 14th 2024 at 12:36pm

Lord Tournament Won! Congratulations, Demdashes!

Demdashes has quite a talent for dragon slaying. The Realm of Serion now has 3
less dragons to deal with. The townsfolk rejoice!

The next LORD tournament will begin on Thursday, October 17th. In the mean
time, rankings will be adjusted and prizes processed.

This was a great tournament and good luck on the next one beginning soon!

Comments:

By Jessrond on Oct 15th 2024 at 3:20am

congrats!!

By Booch on Oct 15th 2024 at 9:30am

Also, Zuul reached Champion status! Well done!

By Booch on Oct 16th 2024 at 5:01pm

The new prizes have been selected! The BBS'es Faceboook page has the details
along with the BBS website https://serionbbs.com.

Good luck everyone!

By Demdashes on Oct 16th 2024 at 8:57pm

Nice options, How do I claim?

By Booch on Oct 17th 2024 at 8:00am

Dem dashes, I sent you a message on how to claim.

Billy posted on Aug 31st 2024 at 12:58am

New To Bbses Wondering What To Do Here?

Hello I just joined this BBS because I'm really interested in retro computing
and hope to one day get on with my commodore 64. I have never gotten on a BBS
before and am wondering what all the possibilities are, and if there are any
more that are recommended?

Comments:

By Mantis on Sep 1st 2024 at 1:54am

Explore all the Door Games! That's what most of us are here for! Global War,
BRE and LORD are the most popular ones!

By Veddev on Sep 9th 2024 at 6:11pm

explore the DOORS!! :)

By Apishion on Sep 10th 2024 at 2:31pm

The games (doors). Play The Pit!

By Z80robot on Oct 3rd 2024 at 9:24am

LORD and The Pit are my favs!

By Savageposter on Oct 8th 2024 at 1:12pm

Depends what you like.

I recommend The Pit, LORD is boring!

Booch posted on Sep 27th 2024 at 11:36am

Extreme Lord Won And Is Now Reset!

Congratulations for beating Extreme LORD!

The game is reset. Good luck everyone that plays this extreme version of Legend
of the Red Dragon!

Comments:

By Damage Control on Sep 27th 2024 at 9:42pm

Congrats Jason Bourne! Way to go!!

Doomii_Blue posted on Jun 14th 2024 at 1:21pm

Vga Planets

Anyone know any Bulletin Boards that host VGA planets? im looking to play some
games but so far i have only found 2 that i can't join. Thank you if you have
any knowledge of any other BBS with VGA planets.

Comments:

By Doomii_Blue on Jun 14th 2024 at 1:22pm

First BBS i found was t0kerz Hut, it's full, second one i found is broken
(Danger bay BBS)

By Eduardo Pantalones on Jul 23rd 2024 at 9:58pm

also interested!

By Eduardo Pantalones on Aug 3rd 2024 at 10:00am

Any updates? I loved this game as a youth, definitely wanna try again
(I think it was one of the very first batches of 4x games, or what would
eventually be 4x games, yes?)

By Doomii_Blue on Aug 11th 2024 at 11:14am

I still have not found any BBSES that run VGA planets, sadly

By Eduardo Pantalones on Aug 12th 2024 at 10:16am

I wonder if it could run on Synchronet, I could literally put my test one up
and find out.. with a little elbow grease of course.. Well... I will see
what I shall see, no promises lol

By Doomii_Blue on Aug 12th 2024 at 11:45am

Hopefully it work's as i don't know about dos programs on 64 bit windows, i
think you need a program called Ciontrx to get the 16 bit bbs programs works,
goodluck getting your BBS up!

By Booch on Aug 12th 2024 at 4:44pm

I looked into VGA Planets and this is a game that will not be able to run
natively on the BBS since it uses VGA graphics, not ANSI.

It sounded like there was some way to use a BBS to somehow facilitate taking
turns in the game with multiple people playing. I couldn't find any information
on how that worked.

Give Tokerz Hut a try. From what I found online, it sounds like that BBS has
VGA Planets.
t0kerZ.ddns.net

By Eduardo Pantalones on Aug 12th 2024 at 8:14pm

Thanks, will check it out!

By Doomii_Blue on Aug 13th 2024 at 3:45am

I will also check it out, thank you for the info Booch!

By Doomii_Blue on Aug 13th 2024 at 4:55am

Got my first turn done! , playing as the robots

By Eduardo Pantalones on Aug 13th 2024 at 11:30pm

Windows 11 64bit, haven't figured it out yet, gonna take a break and try again
tomorrow lol arg!

By Crushed on Aug 14th 2024 at 7:34am

Eduardo - you can play via DOSBOX and the original VGA Clients game, OR you can
play with a modern client that runs under Windows. Both work fine, but on
t0kerZ hUt most use the modern client (Planets Command Center 2). Google for
more info, or check out these two videos that show exactly what to do on t0kerZ
hUt for either option. Enjoy the game, and any issues let me know!
DOS Option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvOoReemAE
Win Option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQW-mlPpmA
-crUshed

By Booch on Aug 14th 2024 at 9:27am

Thanks Crushed!

By Eduardo Pantalones on Aug 14th 2024 at 1:39pm

Thanks Crushed!

By Crushed on Aug 14th 2024 at 5:22pm

Thanks for pointing the guys to t0kerZ Booch! The guys are always looking for
more players to help fill a game.
Doomii/Eduardo - since the game you guys joined is already on turn 13, let me
know if you want me to start a new game for you guys (with or without computer
players). I can set it to whatever game settings you guys want.
Thanks again Booch, great BBS you have here!

Jessrond posted on Aug 14th 2024 at 12:17am

How To Get Arrowbridge 2 Characters

Knight - Easiest. Just get 100 courage. This can be done in random battles on
the world map or in dungeons. You get extra courage for fighting tougher
enemies starting at two levels above your own. Anything one level above or down
to level one even gives one courage. Yes, even killing locusts or bees gives
courage, so this is very easy.

Cleric - Can take some time. You need 100 alignment. This is done by spending
your turns praying or donating gold to the church. The lower your level, the
more alignment you get per gold donated. The alignment gains range from 1 to 1.
If a wild fryar approaches you, you can spend 100 gold for one alignment gain.
DO NOT ATTACK A FRYAR. You will plunge 50 alignment.

Archer - One of the more annoying ones. You have to win five jousts against
other players, which requires two things: Other players in the game (or you
making alternate accounts...) and them being not too low of a level compared to
you.

Ranger - No special requirements, but you have to either traverse a bunch of
hills/mountains or get a ship and go through the rivers, which is easier but
means you'll miss out on the ranger until later in the game.

Wizard - I have trouble with this one, I think it's to the northwest of Axbury,
the main town in the game/where you start. I also believe you'll need some sort
of ship to get there. No special requirements.

Thief - You for sure need a boat. The thief is on an island in the middle of a
lake. No special requirements to get them once you finally get there.

Tips: Thieves can be annoying and snipe XP from other party members because
they get two turns consecutively/strike twice. They can move into a position
and shoot a bow, which works well with fleeing enemies.

Another issue with this game is that XP ONLY goes to the character who got the
killing blow. So, your cleric drops three Earthquakes and then the thief shoots
down all the enemies and kills them. Your cleric doesn't get any experience,
but the thief gets it all. You can use this to your advantage, power-leveling
your newbie characters (everyone starts at Level 1, no matter what.)

You can drop a character from your party if you wish, but then you have to go
back to where you found them to recruit them again. This makes ditching the
knight easier because you'll often find yourself back in Axbury... after you
die, of course....

Hopefully this helps others play ABII and get further.

Booch posted on Jul 29th 2024 at 9:53am

Congratulations To Dimmib! New Lord Tournament Begins Aug 1

This was a great tournament! Well done, Dimmib!

The next LORD Tournament will begin on Thursday, August 1st!

Comments:

By Booch on Jul 30th 2024 at 3:45pm

Also, great work to the following warriors who increased their ranks in the
Realm of Serion!

Rochede - Rank: Champion
Lunchwinner - Rank: Veteran

By Dimmi on Jul 31st 2024 at 2:30pm

Thanks to all warriors! It was a nice even round!

By Booch on Jul 31st 2024 at 7:31pm

The new prizes have been posted on the BBS website and the Facebook page!
There's a new one in there just for fun :)

By Booch on Aug 2nd 2024 at 9:22am

Also, when calculating ranks, I overlooked Jessrond.
Congratulations Jessrond for making Champion rank!

By Lunchwinner on Aug 2nd 2024 at 12:08pm

Ayyy! Congrats Dimmib!

By Jessrond on Aug 2nd 2024 at 1:10pm

Thank you, it was a tough battle! :)

Mantis posted on Jul 27th 2024 at 10:30am

Globar War Won! Congrats To Mantis! Lol :)

Thanks for all the excellent games along the way gentlemen!

Good luck to everyone in the new rounds!

Cheers!

Comments:

By Eduardo Pantalones on Jul 27th 2024 at 9:33pm

Great teamwork!

By Nighthawk on Jul 27th 2024 at 9:45pm

Some great battles!

By Booch on Jul 31st 2024 at 7:34pm

Nice job, Mantis!

Booch posted on Jul 31st 2024 at 8:25am

Congratulations Brrshup For Winning Extreme Lord!

Well, those TWENTY dragons are toast. Sheesh. Brrshup must have had a chip on
the shoulder because they didn't stand a chance in the bloodbath.

I will be resetting Extreme LORD right away here. I'll also increase the heroic
deeds (dragon kills) to 30. That'll extend gameplay just a bit.

Good luck all who join!

Booch posted on Jul 22nd 2024 at 8:48am

Extreme Lord Number Of Dragon Kills

What does everyone think about the current number of dragon kills in Extreme
Lord? Right now, it's set to 20. That was increased from 10 a while back.

Should we increase, decrease or let 20 dragon kills continue to be the setting?

Comments:

By James on Jul 22nd 2024 at 3:27pm

I am good with increasing to the maximum to allow for more time in the game.

By Mariposa on Jul 24th 2024 at 11:31pm

I'm not sure what increasing the number of kills will really do. It's just
going to make the amount of time before reset the current number plus the
number of dragon kills you add. Even now the current game has someone sitting
at 19 kills just not pushing the final kill.

My suggestion would be around Sandtiger's Bar. I'm not saying get rid of it
altogether, but maybe limit the number of times you can go in in a day if
that's a configurable option.

I love Extreme LORD, but it's really not competitive unless everyone knows all
the tricks or the tricks are limited.

By James on Jul 25th 2024 at 9:04am

Taking away the strategy takes away the extreme aspect of it. Either learn the
strategy or don't play the extreme version. Multiple players know how to use
the strategy so why limit it. If you can kill the dragon in one day then do it.
If multiple people know how to do it then it is a race to the finish. Upping
the dragon kills to say 99 would still make it extreme and add the element of
logging on daily to kill the dragon but it would just last longer so it doesn't
have to be reset often. I enjoy the other IGM's side games such as Lord Life
which gets reset as well. I would like to enjoy the IGM's a little longer than
20 days thats all.

Booch posted on Jun 12th 2024 at 2:54pm

Exitilus 2.05 Reset

Unfortunately, the game data in Exitilus 2.05 has become corrupted. This is a
known bug in this game and happens from time to time.

The only way to fix this is to completely reset the game. Is anyone opposed to
a reset?

Otherwise, I'll plan on resetting the game soon.

Comments:

By Booch on Jun 17th 2024 at 8:55am

Exitilus 2.05 has been reset! Good luck!

By Booch on Jun 28th 2024 at 11:53am

Well, that didn't last long. The data corruption bug in Exitilus 2.05 reared
its ugly head again.

I have reset the game. Hopefully it will be a while before this happens
again.

Alys posted on Jun 24th 2024 at 9:14pm

Classic Dr Who Fans?

Ayyy Any Classic Dr Who fans around? I recently found an almost complete
collection of all classic on archive.org, including modern animations of the
infamous "lost" episodes such as "Power of the Daleks" and the missing parts of
"The Tenth Planet" !!

Comments:

By Sphere on Jun 28th 2024 at 7:32am

Sure, but I didn't see them just by searching for "Dr. Who"...

I suppose it isn't a great idea to post full instructions here either :)

By Alys on Jun 28th 2024 at 8:26am

Well if you're really good at using Archive.org, you can find em. Its really
all about effective use of the filters to narrow things down whenever you look
for something specific on there because they have sooo many things on any given
topic. Especially multimedia. Searching any kinda TV show or movie *that is
public domain* and you will find tons of reviews and podcasts of it, just
backed up onto Archive. Filters that have smaller numbers of results are always
good. *public domain* shows, for example, old time radio shows, can be hard to
find the FULL COLLECTION. And that is what you really want. The entire
collection of the OTR. Total views is also an important factor for finding the
"correct" media you're looking for. Whether it's a book, OTR, old af movie,
whatever. I spend a lot of time on Archive.org enjoying media that is crazy
hard to find these days, and I've become an expert at it's filtering system :)

Booch posted on May 31st 2024 at 2:50pm

Extreme Lord Won! Congrats Mariposa! Reset Midnight.

Extreme LORD has been won! Mariposa has a knack for lopping of red dragon
heads. That's 20 dragons! Well done!

We'll reset Extreme at midnight. Good luck everyone that joins!