Opus is coming BACK baby!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45450-2003Sep8.html

Nov. 23 -- Mark your calendars

-jk

Outstanding. I can't wait.

I came into this thread half expecting it to be about the folks who did the fidonet software by that name coming up with a similar internet-related product.

Hey -- I used to run a BBS on Opus ... Of course I pretty ran every BBS at one point or another. Ah the memories. Most of my early life was spent hacking http://www.wwiv.com

Cue the compulsory 100+ post "Reminiscing about Dialup BBS Days" tangent...

I always found WWIV too yucky to deal with. Even with mods... I never found a modded WWIV board I could tolerate. Telegard (and its successor Renegade) were acceptable out of the box, and customizable enough that you didn't need to mod the source code.

Waiting for Barren Realms Elite / Dopewars / Legend of the Red Dragon sub-tangent in 3... 2... 1...

This seems a little after my BBS times. I remember ... uhhh ... well, I can't remember any of the software names now, but I remember the advent of 1200 and 2400 baud modems. Probably about half of my BBSing experience was on a 300 baud modem. And BBSes were run on Apple][s and IBM PCs, PC/XTs and PC/ATs. Tradewars was the ultimate (and only) multiuser game.

My brother ran a BBS on the Commodore64 ... The software was called AABBS (All American BBS). Monochrome green. Very exciting I can't think of the name of the one that he ran that was in color.

Yeah -- They all pretty much looked the same. That's actually why I ended up writing my own BBA that was essentially a BBS scripting language. I had a set of WWIV-emulation scripts, and a set PCBoard emulation script, but you could basically write whatever you wanted. That way you weren't bound to the WWIV layout -- you had a library of BBS features you could use and lay menus, skins, and other misc "glue" between (like message boards, games, file areas, etc). Always fun to bust out the floppy disks and peruse my old terrible terrible C code

What was the barmaid's name?

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This seems a little after my BBS times. I remember ... uhhh ... well, I can't remember any of the software names now, but I remember the advent of 1200 and 2400 baud modems. Probably about half of my BBSing experience was on a 300 baud modem. And BBSes were run on Apple][s and IBM PCs, PC/XTs and PC/ATs. Tradewars was the ultimate (and only) multiuser game.

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I still have a Tradewars game running...Although my friends and I seem to play it only ocasionally. telnet:woodie.com:2002

Anyone remember Telix? SALT was my first magical experience into programming.

Ahh yes, memories. I ran a BBS using Wildcat! (but experimented with others as well, including RoboBBS, Renegade, WorldGroup (The Major BBS), etc). One of my first ever fully functional programs was written in wcCODE (a BASIC like language for Wildcat!). We had fairly regular get togethers and lots of fun. I went from a 300 baud modem to a 2400, then a 9600, then 14.4k and finally a 28.8k. Eventually I was the of the first BBSs in the area to get a 1gb HD. Ahh, those were the days.