{"id":211,"date":"2007-06-08T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2007\/06\/pcboard-bbs-software\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T07:57:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:57:39","slug":"pcboard-bbs-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/pcboard-bbs-software\/","title":{"rendered":"PCBoard BBS Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Something else was even longer on my to-do list than the post about leveraging sites like deviantART<\/a> for online marketing.<\/p>\n

It has been on my list for over one year now and I also got finally around to do it. What am I talking about? The article to the PCBoard BBS Software<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

I extended the article significantly and also added a photo of the box of the software, which I took myself with my digital camera. You can see the picture here in the post as well. For the folks who don’t know, I used to run a BBS myself called “Closed Society”. I wrote about it<\/a> on the homepage of my RoySAC.com website.<\/p>\n

I used as BBS Software PCBoard. First via multiple PC’s under MS DOS and then all Notes on one machine running under IBM OS\/2 Warp. The BBS was up 24\/7 for over 2 years in my one bedroom studio. Did the noise of the running computers bother me when I was asleep? Actually quite the opposite.
I had a problem sleeping when the BBS was shut down and offline. <\/p>\n

PCBoard was a great software and the best thing about it was the availability of its own script language to change the look, feel and behavior of the BBS. I wrote and published a bunch of tools myself. You can download all of them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I launched the BBS shorty after SAC was founded. The existence of the BBS did cause me to create more ANSI art than I would probably have done without it. So it was kind of a good thing to have a BBS of your own and do ANSI text art. It also did not make me depend on the time and talents of other artists hehe.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Clark Development, who created the software did unfortunately go bankrupt in 1997, the year when I shut down my BBS. They saw the reign of the BBS coming before most sysops at the time (including me) and started development on a product called PCBoard Metaworks, which was the attempt of the creation of a BBS like environment on the internet. The product was not finished to save the company. It died together with the company and never saw the light of day. <\/p>\n

That’s fate I guess, but no whining will change anything and we have to move on.<\/p>\n

Cheers!
Carsten aka Roy\/SAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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