Had the chance to collaborate with Jason Moore of AtariProjects.org on a guide showing how to connect your #Atari (or modern terminal apps like SyncTerm, MuffinTerm, IcyTerm, fTelnet, and Altirra) to a live #BBS.
Really appreciate the guest author opportunity and the chance to keep helping users learn how to connect to these restored pieces of our #computinghistory.
Check out the article—and Jason’s amazing Atari project library—at www.atariprojects.org
It's snowing outside, so...good time for some BBSing.
https://bytecellar.com/2022/01/11/bbsing-in-the-snow-is-the-best-way-to-log-in/
#BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoards #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dialup #telnet #internet #tech #vintagetech #blog #blogpost #techblog #nostalgia #AppleII #CRT
Gobble gobble from the Southern AMIS terminal!
May your modem stay synced, your turkey stay warm, and your download speeds be faster than 300 baud.
Happy Thanksgiving!
#Atari #BBSing #RetroCommunity #SouthernAMIS
ah yes, before we posted pictures of food we had to simply describe it
i absolutely remember that room
Citadels attracted a mature literate crowd, a clear forerunner to modern twitter-like micro-blogging, that none the less reveled in irrelevant shitposting 😆
from a eulogy for three citadels by Michael Finley of the St. Paul Pioneer Press circa 1996?? now there's something to track down a scan of
https://lwr.wtf/citadel/Newsletters/news9604.html
so there you go, from top of the world in the early 90s, to rapid death around '96 along with the rest of the BBS scene...
as the large for-profit multi-line boards pivoted to full ISP service, the amateur sysops looked at their phone bills and began eyeballing DSL connections instead of second phone lines...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
A few big names even ran Citadels
hometown hero PC Tech Inc ran a Citadel-86 before being absorbed into Zeos/Micron (and still has a Minneapolis office!)
Atari Corp ran a STadel circa 1988!
Bad Sector became Visi.com, a pivotal early Twin Cities ISP, and long since absorbed into god knows what...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
@orc (hi!) famously implemented a UUCP gateway for STadel, bringing usenet groups (and email?) into CitaNet for a time, but got in to a bit of a row with Hue Jr and had left the 612 scene by the time i got online in 1994
a CitaNet overview, from December 1992
the original Test System, run by Hue Jr in Minneapolis was the beating heart of the CitaNet
i often called it as it was a good place to pick up most of the networked rooms 😀
a good ~25 nodes in MN alone
maybe half were still running in `94 and memories are shaking loose of a number of them...
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
there's a stash of CitaNews at https://lwr.wtf/wiki/Newsletters
Citadel history thread LETS GO!
been racking my brain trying to remember what all the networked rooms were, here's a list from an amiga board in August 1991
Citadel style BBSs may not have been that popular overall, but they maintained pockets of rabid popularity in a variety of major cities
Citadel-86 gained its own federated networking as early as 1986, (a mere few years after FidoNet began!) quickly becoming a mainstay of many Citadel BBSs
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
Citadel-86 v3.49-hax deployed live 🫡
has Y2K fix, removed some pauses waiting for old modems which are not necessary in emulation, and i've got it idling using HLT, which keeps it from burning CPU in VMs new and old, such as a Win95 dos window 😀
connect via ssh to bbs@haxxed.com
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
Signing off.
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#bbsing #computesgazette #atari #retrocomputing #fujinet #atari
An evening's BBSing.
for how many retro BBSs are out there now, maybe two of them are Citadel?
doing my part, and attempting to resurrect Citadel-86, widely used in its (and my) hometown of the Minneapolis 612 and beyond, and root of many later Citadel forks
does anyone out there remember these?
tell me your stories because they are rapidly being lost to internet decay
did you notice bbsmates is gone?
Citadel-86 is now borderline lost media, the last version is MIA along with some extra tools for database resize and the Ease config tool
does anyone have them? check those dusty floppies
#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays
Straight from 1985 operating in 2025.
Here’s the southern amis login screen running on the Atari XEbook, connecting over FujiNet using BobTerm in full Atascii glory.
Southern AMIS BBS
southernamis.ddns.net:port 23
Mode: Atari/Atascii Only – southernamis.com for how to connect
#Atari #BBS #AMIS #FujiNet #RetroComputing #SouthernAMIS #Atascii #XEbook #Atari8bit #RetroTech #BBSing #computesgazette
Ah! This takes me back! Surfing the BBSes on my Commodore VIC-20. I use a custom terminal program, but one of the screen colour choices emulates the original VICTERM from Commodore back in 1981. This is how visiting the boards looked to me in the early 80s!
#Commodore #VIC20 #RetroComputing #BBS #BBSing #BulletinBoardSystem #C64 #Commodore64 #8Bit
Get back to BBSing!
AMIS XE online — powered by the Southern Amis Projects running on real #Atari hardware.
Log in for pure ATASCII art and 8-bit nostalgia: southernamis.com
Web,Dial,Telnet
amis86.ddns.net:port 9000
He’s not just wearing shades—he’s scanning for callers. Plug in, power up, and relive the Atari/Atascii glory.
southernamis.ddns.net: port 23
#Telnet • Dial • Web
#Atari / Atascii only for the true retro vibe
Come for the graphics, stay for the chaos.
Southern Amis BBS — where yesterday is always online.
#SouthernAmis #Atari8bit #Atascii #BBSing #RetroComputing #dialupdays
Fire up SyncTerm and try connecting to "Guardian of Forever BBS"!
guardian.synchro.net
I've got a mix of old and new games, plus ANSI animations and experiments.
#bbs #retrocomputing #bbsing #vintagecomputing #textmode #ansiart #asciiart
Compute! Gazette latest, Retro BBS Scene — pulse by the numbers, legends CBBS, ANSI art, themed boards, shout-outs, Basement BBS, CIA, Microtown, Particles, Guardian of Forever and more.
Read the mag… then hit ATDT and log on.
#BBSing #RetroComputing #compute #southernamis
Telecommunications and BBS pioneer Nick Andrew joins the Stray Pointers podcast to talk about the TRS-80 Model I workalike known as the System-80. With many hardware modifications, Nick wrote and operated his own BBS on the System-80 in the 1980's. As time went on, Nick continued as a telecom pioneer.
