17 March 2018, 00:26 | #1 |
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Digital Candy BBS
Hey folks!
Last week I dug my A4000 out of the loft and fired it up. 4Gb Seagate Barracuda SCSI disk in there wouldn't spin up but I found backup drive I had created long ago that did. So what I have now is an almost fully functioning version of my BBS Digital Candy. All the files are there, all the doors and message bases, all the user.data and new user answerfiles. Such a blast from the past! Early days with this retro project and a lot of tweaking to do but I filmed this quick Youtube clip this evening so you can see it all working from my Sysop side of things. Enjoy the clip. Sorry for it just being hand held camera phone as definitely no video capture just yet!!! [ Show youtube player ] Paul aka Hybrid |
17 March 2018, 00:29 | #2 |
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Excellent!!
Great save! |
17 March 2018, 02:26 | #3 |
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I was a few years too young to ride the BBS wave, but that video gave me the nostalgies. The tape drive looks neat.
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17 March 2018, 03:17 | #4 | |
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17 March 2018, 06:09 | #5 |
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Yes, yes, share your files please
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17 March 2018, 08:31 | #6 |
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Yes I will share the files when I get the 4000 linked up to my PC. Figuring all this stuff out! Guess I need to get Amiga Forever and the required cables. |
17 March 2018, 08:32 | #7 |
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Thanks, really appreciated
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17 March 2018, 09:20 | #8 | |
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Also Amiga Explorer is still available as a free download if you prefer to use that. https://www.amigaforever.com/ae/ |
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17 March 2018, 18:28 | #9 |
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Hi It must be something in the air, I just resurrected cEMENTcITY she is only running on WinUAE as the hardware has long since gone 22 years since she closed
pics: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2oAUhLIhNbEe9WVj1 |
17 March 2018, 20:02 | #10 | |
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17 March 2018, 21:00 | #11 |
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I've recovered about 7.3gig of Amiga BBS uploads so far, I'm struggling to recover some of my DAT tapes as they have been damaged, I'm using linux to recover the tapes as I have no Amiga hardware, each tape has multiple backups month by month most the damage seems to be on the first backups on the start of the tapes everything else comes off fine. I've had to learn tape commands in linux to do the extracting to a tape.bin file copy that on a pen drive to my PC and then mount the bin as a hard drive in amiback under winuae and extract them it's a miracle it works and it's actually a very quick way to do it, as to ftp them would take years
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18 March 2018, 02:24 | #12 |
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Hi, I see your bbs closed in 96, what year did it start? Also what hardware was it running on?? What conferences did you have on your bbs?
Will you be making the file listings available?? I'm looking for old h/p tools. I like the upload screens, I can't believe that people uploaded 600MB on dialup . What speed connections did you have at the start and at the end?? Thanks |
18 March 2018, 05:46 | #13 |
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7.3 gig .... wow
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18 March 2018, 12:33 | #14 | |
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18 March 2018, 13:52 | #15 |
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For a simple file you can use "The Zone!"
Here how to do for using it http://eab.abime.net/faq.php?faq=vb_...ezone_faq_item |
18 March 2018, 14:38 | #16 | |
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A better solution is to upload to the EAB File Server Yes, MDR doesn't fit the criteria as yet to have an account... but given his time / effort for the Amiga community then I'm positive we can make this happen (hey Turran) |
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18 March 2018, 14:41 | #17 |
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On a side note; I should really merge the thread with this one: Digital Candy BBS
...but it may get a little messy so will see what other GMs think. |
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18 March 2018, 15:29 | #19 |
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I tried that about 10 years ago it's extremely slow and painful. I recently found a way to read my Ami-back DAT tapes on a PC using linux it's an extremely fast way of doing it, if you need any help I can give you all the Linux terminal command lines you will need.
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18 March 2018, 20:22 | #20 |
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Sweet, 3rd top uploader that week
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