Comment by alfiedotwtf
12 years ago
Nice! Although BBS doors in C could have been risky cough.
> it's super gratifying to read about kids being inspired by BBS software
Inspired? Man... I remember one time I was online and the SysOp initiated chat mode. After a while he told me he wrote some of the doors for his BBS. At first I didn't believe him because he was one person and not a giant company with fancy computers, but he convinced me and I was completely blown away. Programmers were my heroes growing up.
No..it wasn't doors.
This was the MajorBBS, by a company called Galacticomm, which was the only BBS system that allowed realtime interactions and gave developers the ability to access shared memory that stored game state and player information.
Hang on... you worked on MajorBBS? Wow that's cool!
I was fond of PCBoard though because most of the local l33t boards used it and they had PPEs :)
Edit: sorry can't concentrate as I'm minding the kids and being distracted... you STARTED Galacticomm? That's awesome. I'm so happy my post has brought in the big guns to comment :)
No..I didn't start Galacticomm :)
That would be Tim Stryker, a true genius and a friend of mine, who sadly succumbed to deep mental illness in the 90's.
My company, Magicomm, built add-ons and did deep custom modifications of the GC codebase.