My wife and I bought the house in Hurst shortly thereafter, and the BBS never got set back up. That came to an end when the DLS provider (FlashNet) went belly up. A couple of my friends would call me up and say they wanted to dial in and I'd pop in the 3.5' floppy, reboot, and power up the 2400 baud modem.īack in 2000/2001 (ya'll even that is 20 years ago now!) when I got a 1.5Mbs SDSL line with a static IP Address (I cannot tell you how amazing this was at the time to have) at the rental house in Grapevine and one of the first things I did was setup a server also running Synchronet BBS software (FidoNet node 1:3830/7). It's available by Telnet and RLogin and it's running in it's own VM on the main server, running 32-bit Windows 10 with the 16-bit Subsystem enabled so that old DOS applications can run 'natively'.Ī little bit of background - in 1990-92 (yes 30 years ago) I had a 'dial on demand' BBS that ran on my Amiga 500. Right now, I have it networked on Dove-Net and I'm working on getting in FidoNet. Games installed right now - LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon) and BRE (Barren Realms Elite) - my two favorite BBS games. I've installed Synchronet BBS Software on this server now, it's located at.
