Mo
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Post by Mo on Dec 10, 2006 19:04:29 GMT -5
I'm going on 2 years now running a Commodore telnet BBS! ;D The caller volume has dropped off quite a bit over the last few months. I get maybe 2-3 calls per week. Just wondering, is everyone else experiencing the same, or am I doing something wrong here?  -Mo |
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Post by thurstan on Dec 11, 2006 12:50:10 GMT -5
Well just tried connecting on both ports and couldnt connect. couldnt ping it either.
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Post by Leif Bloomquist on Dec 11, 2006 13:34:21 GMT -5
It might be due to the Christmas rush - everyone's too busy to call BBSes (basically a hobby for most of us)
I have every single call to my BBS logged, since April 2003 - would be neat to do some sort of graph to see how the call volume changes throughout the year. Don't have the time though.
Promotion is key to getting calls. But I'm not sure where else you would advertise apart from here, comp.sys.cbm, and some of the other C64 forums.
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Post by Ian Colquhoun on Dec 11, 2006 14:20:26 GMT -5
I've had my bbs up since the end of October and the call volume is very low indeed - lower than I had expected in fact. I think my board is reporting somewhere around 55 calls total. I've only had about 9 people actually sign up though. Oh well, no big deal!
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Mo
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Post by Mo on Dec 11, 2006 22:00:20 GMT -5
Well just tried connecting on both ports and couldnt connect. couldnt ping it either. I just tried both ports and am able to login to both nodes without a problem. I am using CBMTerm. What software are you using to try to connect? -Mo |
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Mo
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Post by Mo on Dec 11, 2006 22:04:18 GMT -5
It might be due to the Christmas rush - everyone's too busy to call BBSes (basically a hobby for most of us) I have every single call to my BBS logged, since April 2003 - would be neat to do some sort of graph to see how the call volume changes throughout the year. Don't have the time though. Promotion is key to getting calls. But I'm not sure where else you would advertise apart from here, comp.sys.cbm, and some of the other C64 forums. I've found that in the past, this time of year is usually pretty active..... I need to start visiting the IRC's a bit again. That helped in the past. Just finding the time these days is the issue...... But, the first step is to become an active participant on this site again.  -Mo |
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Post by Mo on Dec 11, 2006 22:09:44 GMT -5
I've had my bbs up since the end of October and the call volume is very low indeed - lower than I had expected in fact. I think my board is reporting somewhere around 55 calls total. I've only had about 9 people actually sign up though. Oh well, no big deal! Ok, so I am not the only one.  In the 2 years I've had mine running, I am up to a total of 47 user accounts, and a total of over 1400 calls. Not too bad.... I'm not complaining about the caller volume. As long as I get at least a few calls a month, it is worth keeping up! I do have to admit though, I don't get a chance to call out to other BBS's very often myself anymore.  -Mo |
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Post by thurstan on Dec 12, 2006 6:33:04 GMT -5
Ah i was connecting with a normal telnet client, not a commodore telnet client.
thing with commodore BBS's is what is the actual point of connecting other than for the fun of connecting. Once you are logged in there is never really anything to do. Usually you are the only one on and often there are non working menus or cryptic hard to follow menus.
What do you guys do on these BBS's?! I logon daily to the monochrome BBS as its basically a big active forum which has been running for years.
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Post by Pinacolada on Dec 27, 2006 14:33:46 GMT -5
What do you guys do on these BBS's?! I logon daily to the monochrome BBS as its basically a big active forum which has been running for years. Well, file transfers, online games, message bases, look at Commodore color/graphic art and "movies", um... I had word games going on my BBS, programming help message bases... for the love of dog, I know there was more to it than that... I guess community and extended friendships helped too. I met a lot of neat people calling in, and even met some of them in real life.  |
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cube
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Post by cube on Dec 29, 2006 20:36:10 GMT -5
One of my all time favorite online games, call me old fashioned, was Empire 1.0 on Image. It's already up and running on my BBS, although I still have a lot of work to do on it before I'm going to open it up to the world. There's nothing worse than a medeocre opening and I would like to have a quality board, despite an apparant lack of caller activity. Another game I really enjoyed was Murder Motel, but both of these games require [other people] to call in and play. Otherwise, it's like playing chess with yourself - you can't really lose but you can't win either. This is another game I've already got up and running, so hopefully they are well recieved.
John
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cube
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Post by cube on Dec 30, 2006 18:45:20 GMT -5
Getting caught up in all this nostalgia, I started rummaging this weekend through several old boxes of [stuff], mostly artifacts from the early ninety's. So far my search has revealed a printout (on tractor-fed paper and at 40 columns, of course) of hundreds of Lightbulb jokes I downloaded from a BBS, a list of Murphy's Laws, and a photocopied edition of the complete Darkstar '88 BBS Darkterm '88 manual. Unless it's been inadvertantly discarded, I should also have a photocopied C-Net manual somewhere. Dust bunnies, anyone?
John
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Post by Ian Colquhoun on Dec 31, 2006 11:20:28 GMT -5
Cube,
Any chance you'd like to scan the Darkstar stuff for me? I'm one of the last Darkstar faithful and would love to have a copy of that stuff!
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cube
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Post by cube on Jan 2, 2007 1:46:08 GMT -5
It would probably be easier if I just photocopied it and mailed it to you... It's close to a half-inch thick. That was the method by which I recieved it, complete with a Darkstar logo glued to the front of a black duotang, making it look quite professional. (It might even be an original, I'm not sure. Perhaps that was how the manuals were originally released?) I've been scratching my head trying to remember how it came to me in the first place, and the best guess I can make is that a buddy of mine, Jeff Crawford who went under the handle of "The Prophet" gave it to me when we used to mess around with bulletin board [stuff].
It's funny, all these repressed memories coming back! That was such a fun time!
I'll get it copied in the next week or so here and if you want to E-Mail me your mailing address, I'll send you a copy.
John
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Post by Golan Klinger on Jan 2, 2007 20:25:48 GMT -5
I'm interested in having a look at the documentation too. Perhaps Ian could bring it round to a TPUG meeting once he receives it. Would it be alright if it was scanned in and made available online? I'm sure Bo wouldn't mind adding the docs to his site.
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Post by Ian Colquhoun on Jan 2, 2007 23:51:39 GMT -5
Sure, I'll be glad to bring it by a TPUG meeting when I get it! I may even consider doing the scan - but I sure can't make any promises on a time frame for that!
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In the 2 years I've had mine running, I am up to a total of 47 user accounts, and a total of over 1400 calls. Not too bad....
