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| Name: | JazzyTech |
| Location: | |
| Email: | [withheld] |
| Date: | 11 June 2005 |
| Comments: | Hello. I was looking around the Net wondering if AmiX was still around. I ran a fairly large BBS "back in day" while staying in Germany. After using a copy of AmiX, I found it so good, that I purchased an original :) My board ran from 1991 until 1999. I originally upgraded from my A500 to the 2000, and finally the 3000(originally a desktop model that I modified to handle all the extra HDs and DATs. I started with the fastest available modems (1 x 9600bps) and finished with 8 x 56k modems and 4 ISDN lines. One of my fondest memories was bringing my first DAT player online. I used a program that treated the tapes like a HD enabling me to offer 8 GB of data online! That was an insane amount of data since a 300 mb harddrive was still in the USD 600 range at the time. :) Although old, I still love my Amiga. I went nuts on the PPC bandwagon. My Old 3000 is still very fast running a 4 x PPC 604e / MC68060 Blizzard (Phase5). Just thought I'd share. Regards, JT. |
| Name: | Terry Wilson |
| Location: | West Virginia |
| Email: | TLWHusker at aol dot com |
| Date: | 8 November 2005 |
| Comments: | To anyone that knows where Joe is tell him, I still have the 500 in the box waiting for the next beta release. Of course the last one I received from him was a long time ago. I am or was a very good friend from back in the 80's when Joe and I worked together in the UK. What a time. Anyway, if anyone knows Joe's where abouts, please email me. I'm certain if we locate him, we can get him to do some updates to AmiExpress, of which, I still have many copies, all of which are packed in boxes from all the moves over the years. Anyway, Wild Willy's BBS in Vegas or Draeko's BBS, which ever name anyone might have seen, is where I started with the BBS system that I operated. In 1989 and 1990. It's really cool to see such dedicated to a program, as Joe liked to say, why drive a ford when you can own the Cadillac for so much less... And I thought he was crazy back then.. Anyway Joe, if you read this give us a hollar here in the hills.
Terry
aka - Draeko |
| Name: | Hybrid |
| Location: | Newcastle UK |
| Email: | [withheld] |
| Date: | 19 December 2005 |
| Comments: | I was the Sysop of Digital Candy BBS in the UK. This was the largest Amiga Scene BBS in the UK running on an A4000 with 6 node ringdown, quite a few gigs of storage and 14 disk CD jukebox online for all to access. Ran on Ami Express of course as did my previous BBS "The Ultimate Dream". Ahhh the good old days, how I miss them! Paul aka Hybrid |
| Name: | 2-Cool/ex-LSd! |
| Location: | Cyberspace |
| Email: | |
| Date: | 15 January 2006 |
| Comments: | Hi Hybrid!!
Did anyone ever manage to find Axeman?? and more importantly did he ever finish his AxeLHA after he went off to Imperial College London to do his degree back in the early 90's :)
I wrote the encrypted password support module for /X and give it to Joeseph Hodge. I also lost contact with him many years ago. I did this after several bbs's got hacked at the time, all the encryption actually was was a oneway hash based on a CRC32 checksum algorithm, :) bless, still it stopped ppl hacking the user.data at the time :)
Regards,
Trev |
| Name: | Hybrid |
| Location: | Digital Candy |
| Email: | paulw A-T hillford d0t co d dot T uk |
| Date: | 2 March 2006 |
| Comments: | Trev! Hey good to hear from you. Drop me an email on the above address. Believe it not I have now bought another Amiga, got SCSI running and found a DAT drive. Ive just today restored my DAT backup of Digital Candy and logged on as Sysop for the first time in 9 years!! It was so cool to see all the old screens, files and messages. Your co-sysop account is still there too!! I still have a USR courier around so may even get the BBS back online for old times sake. Hybrid |
| Name: | Webmaster |
| Location: | Here |
| Email: | |
| Date: | 2 March 2006 |
| Comments: | Hi folks. That's great news to hear, Hybrid - I never imagined the old electric would be coursing through a computer bringing DC back to life again. I should be in the userdata somewhere, keep a lookout for 'Wormhole'..!
2-Cool: About the userdata - I assume a user types in their pass and a hash is created, which is then matched against a stored hash - thus no actual pass is on file anywhere? I'm not technical minded when it comes to this stuff, but it begs the question as to how DefJam created a decrypter - it was a demo that handled only four character passwords, but it definitely worked, I remember trying it. I think the file is on the net somewhere, riddled with a virus (it always was) - I'll keep a lookout for it. |
| Name: | Ghandy |
| Location: | mOODS pLATEAU & sCARAB |
| Email: | sobi AT diskmag DOT de |
| Date: | 4 December 2006 |
| Comments: | Nice memories come up reading those lines here! I was a regular caller of Digital Candy bbs and under the name Gandalf in the early 90s I ran a bbs on my own in Germany. Exon later took it over, it was called Los Endos BBS. Maybe some of you might remember!?!?!?
You can watch some cute meeting photos at www.losendos.de in case you care. |
| Name: | Tiger/Spreadpoint |
| Location: | GerMoney |
| Email: | tiger321 at usa dot com |
| Date: | 19 January 2007 |
| Comments: | wow, nice to see there are still ppl alive who honor out best times in life
i invite all to my old amiEx BBS:
http://warthole.molgen.mpg.de/~tiger/connect1.htm
live long and prosper
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| Name: | Zeus/Mystic |
| Location: | Finland |
| Email: | otso [a] sokeri dot com |
| Date: | 27 January 2007 |
| Comments: | Cool mockup you have there Tiger! I've been looking for a telnetable /X board with no success. Maybe the peeps at amiga irc-channels might know some. Nevertheless, I telnetted a C64 board that's one helluva hack! It's an original C64 hardware connected to a routing PC.
http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/ |
| Name: | lastyle |
| Location: | Germany |
| Email: | |
| Date: | 28 January 2007 |
| Comments: | Hmmm i still feel i have to setup my A4000 and restart my /X BBS somehow. Currently i just run The-Hidden on C64 with CBase but i like to have another BBS running, you guys think there may still be some people interested ? ICQ me plz 20327223 |
| Name: | Reflex |
| Location: | London |
| Email: | danny_doubtfire at msn dot com |
| Date: | 29 January 2007 |
| Comments: | Hey, Trev (2-Cool) if your still reading this site then send us an email will ya? Be good to catch up - only the last 10 years or so!! ;-)
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| Name: | madmatt |
| Location: | Bath, UK |
| Email: | mad_matt 99 at hot mail com |
| Date: | 4 March 2007 |
| Comments: | Hi Everyone, this takes me back, I came in to the BBS scene towards the end of its life. I can remember racking up huge phone bills whilst I was at school and getting into loads of trouble after making over £200’s worth of calls.
I certainly remember digital candy and think it was offered up for sale/transfer before eventually coming to an end. Other BBS’s I can remember were… Dallas, The Gamma Quadrant, Townville and I also remember the GraveYard BBS was quite big in its day.
Must see if I can find my old disks of all the stuff and see if I can get the old Amiga to work. Sure I saved off some captures of old BBS’s etc…
I have also just remembered my first email address ever was something to do with digitalcandy. Something like username@digitalcandybbs.demon.co.uk
Amazing… Matt |
| Name: | MAXimator |
| Location: | Austria |
| Email: | maximator at eselkult dot tk |
| Date: | 6 June 2007 |
| Comments: | thanx for this cool memories! |
| Name: | Skittle |
| Location: | UK |
| Email: | theman at stefanholmes dot com |
| Date: | 16 June 2007 |
| Comments: | Holy crap! I have fond (and some not so fond) of BBS'ing back in the day. I used to run The Octavo BBS. I jumped between /X and FAME until settling on DayDream, eventually grabbing the sourcecode off Antti when he moved the project to linux.
I recall racking up a £1026.21p phone bill during a mad 6 month period (the amount is burned into my brain). After some phreaking and a call from a guy claiming to be from "BT internal security", I slowed the hell down.
I remember Orson (Orson's Farm BBS, running on MAX's) getting busted for having hardcore pr0n on his board. I also remember trying to log on one day and getting his very irate mom on the line. Sorry Orson, I know you got your miggy confiscated but I did laugh my ass off!
It's truly weird seeing all you guys posting here. I remember Digital Candy and Los Endos. Most other places I would likely remember if prompted ;)
Shit. This is far too much nostalgia :)
1026 quid? Jaysus, that must be a world record hehe. Glad to see you survived it :)
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| Name: | SYD (Synchronous Yak Demon) |
| Location: | UK |
| Email: | barnyx ate rocketmail dat com |
| Date: | 27 June 2007 |
| Comments: | Wow...it's so cool seeing u guys are still about. I have fond memories of DC too. I was never a big shot 3L173, but it was a driving force to better myself through the years. I think I too had one of my first email addresses on DC. Something like syd@digitalcandy...blah.
Dunno if anyone ever saw some of my leechy lame stuff. I used to love ripping intros/trackmos/demos changing the fonts/tracker, sometimes disassembling and tweaking, recrunching with supplex or bytepacker was it? and rereleasing Skid Row and Paranoimia products at college as my own re-releases heheh!
Ah, the fun and the nostalgia...not quite the same anymore. I'd have to write my own stuff now, to get the same high.
(Above address is msn only, not real email, if anyone wants to say hello, or wants some support for a nostalgia party or something, I'd love to remenice).
Hybrid: if u manage to get ur BBS up, would love to log in for old times sake.
Take care peeps, catchup some time. |
| Name: | Thundercat |
| Location: | Norway |
| Email: | |
| Date: | 17 September 2007 |
| Comments: | Hi :) Used to run Checkpoint BBS :) anyone remember? |
| Name: | Reflex |
| Location: | Grasshopper Developments / Darq# |
| Email: | ian AT darq d dot n net |
| Date: | 8 October 2007 |
| Comments: | Hey,
great to see some old names around here... i used to call dcandy all the time, one of my first email addy's was reflex@dcandy.demon.co.uk. it was ghd's whq too. i ran a s!x board for a few years called "root", mostly h/p/a, but the machine got confiscated when i got busted for hacking.. heh
i used to call black ice a lot, i forget the name of the sysop there but he gave me a lot of help running sigma express, and of course permanent vacation appeared on my phonebills for quite a few years.
wurd! |
| Name: | Shaitan - Ultima/Data Division |
| Location: | Durham, UK |
| Email: | [withheld] |
| Date: | 10 October 2007 |
| Comments: | Good to see that some of the old sceners are still alive and kicking.
A big shout goes out to anyone who remembers me! |
| Name: | Andy Davies |
| Location: | Tigers Claw Sysop |
| Email: | |
| Date: | 10 December 2007 |
| Comments: | I miss the old days, I ran an /x board for the last 5 years of the 'miggy scene ending up on a 3 node warp-engine equipped a4000/030 (multiface3 card & courier DST's), was a lot of fun, especially with that naughty 'box of blue' its a pitty those days are gone, instead of those great boards of that past gone era, which so much work went into tweaking them to giving each a unique personality by their devoted sysops, now you have ftp, a cold, clinical, interface no fchecks, no filelists or fr, no colour! no hydracom! but what I miss most of all were the dudes... I think people were freindlier back then.
I wonder how many ex sysops like myself have toyed with the idea of putting a board back up telnet style?
there is one /x board that is still running to the best of my knowledge in the uk 'the shuttle' which is run by kirk
. Blackmafia ex Nerve axis / ex Radiance, ex Traders Dream |
| Name: | Sunbeam/DC |
| Location: | $DFF000 |
| Email: | |
| Date: | 14 December 2007 |
| Comments: | Hey Thundercat!!!!
What's up? Still remember me? :-)
Our old WHQ has been The Junction. I still have the Phonenumbers of the Junction and Dreamland in my term :) |
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