Did you use a modem with your Amiga?

ennio · 17 June 2008, 07:34

I thought I was hot stuff back in the day when I had my 1200 baud modem hooking up to GeNie (ordering stuff!) and playing online games.

I remember playing trivia games in the wee hours of the morning thinking how cool that was to be playing against people from all over the place.

My friend and I were trying to come up with our online gaming "handle"; we looked across the room at a box of Titleists on my dresser, and then found our answer:

"15 balls"

chiark · 17 June 2008, 11:31

Never had a modem... I (or more accurately, my dad) knew how much the calls would end up costing.

Ennio? Isn't that the name of the dog in Tass Times in Tone Town?

Brakus · 17 June 2008, 11:36

Started out same as you with a 1200/75 and I used to spend hours playing Global War and some MUDs ... ahh those were the days...

Then I lost my mind and ran my own BBS :-)

Zetr0 · 17 June 2008, 13:27

ahhh back in the day.....

56k board modem, my miggy was the sh*t, with an 060 and 32MB of ram... and a £500 phone bill every other month LOL!!!!!!

used to flow around with the handle "_^Majix^_" back in the day..... sigh.... so much L337 and not enough time....

Things NOT to try... using BT's crappy dialing service and attempting to play Quake on your Amiga ONLINE!!!!! .... that i can tell you is a bad idea..... even if you DO have a gfx card LOL

ahh my friend LidLessEye, miss him we got upto such mishief.... and where is Skull Monkey !? he used to run a BBS back in the day.... i think he was the last person to turn it off....

Used to hang out on IRC a lot, namely on Efnet with #Gas and Dalnet with #Hyper, i miss them dudes....

ahhh.... back in the day where a 3MB file would take 15 minutes to download.... if your connection could download 15MB in an hour THAT WAS A GOOD CONNECTION!!!

then the dreaded 2 hour cutoff..... you just was unsure if you would ever get back on again that evening!!!!

Hungry Horace · 17 June 2008, 14:18

lol, i did around 1997-1999. 56k modem on my a1200T with cv64-3d gfx card.... attached with the Twister Faster serial socket.

all of these are now owned by gdhgdh

mostly spent time on IRC #amiga on undernet as i recall. maybe under the handle 'Odin' or 'odin303' ? cant really remember.

Galahad/FLT · 17 June 2008, 14:53

Used to have a US Robotics Sportster 'back in the day', used lots of naughty AT&T calling cards and blueboxing, and when that all came to an end, ran up a stupidly horrendous phone bill trying to call out as often as I did before!

Oh well, it was a laugh!

blade002 · 17 June 2008, 14:55

I loved those BBS modem days!!... they were THE BEST !!!!!!!

I started off with a TwinCom 14.4 modem in about 1992 when one of the members on here Nexus6 ( old friend of mine ) gave it too me. By about 1997 i upgraded to a Supra 33.3 modem which i thought absolutely rocketed along!!. I loved it!

BTW - in about 1992/93 Nexus6 and I had our own BBS up and running on an Amiga 2000 called Dark Fusion. Back then my handle was just "Blade" with no 002 ( the 002 just came about because blade was used by 20 billion people after the movie Blade came out, but my handle has nothing to do with the movie )

Wish i could go back!

BBS's i would frequent were.

Empire BBS
Satans Loins BBS
Shoikens Grove BBS
Woodstock BBS

There were others but these were the main ones.

Amiga1992 · 17 June 2008, 15:31

Very, very briefly.
There weren't any Amiga related BBSes in argentina anyway ;(

ennio · 17 June 2008, 16:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by chiark

Never had a modem... I (or more accurately, my dad) knew how much the calls would end up costing.

Ennio? Isn't that the name of the dog in Tass Times in Tone Town?

You got it! Love that wise-cracking dog.

Amiga1992 · 17 June 2008, 19:39

Tass Times!
I wish I finished that one but I never did.
It was funny that it was almost Apple II shovelware, lol!

demoniac · 17 June 2008, 21:18

Had a 2400 back in 89 hooked up to my A500.

laffer · 18 June 2008, 01:27

No

Really wish now that I'd had one, sounds like it was a lot of fun.

Paul_s · 18 June 2008, 23:26

This was my rig from 1994 -1999 - dug this up tonight funnily enough....

A1200 with 6MB ram & 40mhz fpu / 1gb hdd
Tornado 28.8kbps modem.... (I paid £250 for that!)

That setup ran from 1994 all the way upto 1999 without fault

Although saying that the only thing that has changed is the wallpaper - there are now more Amiga's in my room than ever before

BBS days were bliss, remember them well. Miss it a lot - apart from the phone bills - ended up with my own telephone line as I was hogging the BT one night and day!

salax54 · 21 June 2008, 02:23

Ahhh, the good ol' days...
Started with a Crypto 300 baud modem using Diga! to backup files through the audio cable (actually the phone line) to audio casettes instead of floppies on my still trusted A1000. Then a friend of mine got his first A500 and an identical modem so we bought a couple of FM transmitters (EL504 tube) and started playing the Sublogic Flight Simulator II by transmitting from our modems through FM in combination with regular radio receivers!
Those were the days....

jabsy · 21 June 2008, 06:52

'92 or '94 I had a 14.4k external hooked up to my A2000, used it on BBS's and with AmiTCP for the net. Used Pine for email and maybe even for usenet...

I'm a PC tech now and I have to laugh when we get calls to install an ADSL modem, it's usually just a case of logging into the router, enter a user/pass, and make sure the cables are connected. Imagine if these days people still had to write their own custom ini file for AmiTCP.....

redblade · 22 June 2008, 12:13

had a shitty Dlink56k modem, which was shit for 'international' calls. I wish I had a usRobotics though, I got one in the end, but never used it for 'international' calls.

Mind you calling from New Zealand to Guam/China/Tonga/Cook Islands/ then on to Europe wasn't going to help

OddbOd · 22 June 2008, 19:41

Ah the "good old days".

My first modem was a huge 2400 baud hulk from the days when the phone service was part of the Post Office, damn thing was so old it used V.25bis commands but on the plus side it was free and I eventually figured out what most of the toggle switches did. It served me well enough for local BBS usage but all the decent boards eventually started banning speeds below 9600 baud as most of them had USR HSTs.

I've still got a couple of my old USRs including an ugly ass white Sportster 14.4 which is the modem that freed a friend and I from the tyranny of distance, well that and a UADialer tone set for Mercury UK that we managed to blag from a contact

Looking back it's amazing that we didn't get caught as we were both boxing from our home phones as well as trying to hack PACNET outdials, the stupidity of youth eh.

While looking through some old floppies I found a text file that includes the cost of a dial-up Internet connection circa 1995, it makes for pretty shocking reading.

BippyM · 22 June 2008, 19:52

I had a 56k modem too and ran my own BBS for a short while

I too was a member of Skull Monkey's BBS and I actually spoke to him on the phone a few times and If my memory is correct I met him once and we traded PS1 games

Zetr0 · 22 June 2008, 20:16

I wonder what Skully is doing now.... last time i heard he had just become a dad.... that was a few years ago.... wow so long ago....

BippyM · 22 June 2008, 20:18

I spoke to him not too long ago I'm sure.. he joined here, but I guess he was pruned as he only PM'd me a couple times

17 June 2008, 07:34	#1
ennio Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Boston, MA, USA Posts: 58	Did you use a modem with your Amiga? I thought I was hot stuff back in the day when I had my 1200 baud modem hooking up to GeNie (ordering stuff!) and playing online games. I remember playing trivia games in the wee hours of the morning thinking how cool that was to be playing against people from all over the place. My friend and I were trying to come up with our online gaming "handle"; we looked across the room at a box of Titleists on my dresser, and then found our answer: "15 balls"

18 June 2008, 23:26	#13
Paul_s Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Amigaville Age: 46 Posts: 3,337	This was my rig from 1994 -1999 - dug this up tonight funnily enough.... A1200 with 6MB ram & 40mhz fpu / 1gb hdd Tornado 28.8kbps modem.... (I paid £250 for that!) That setup ran from 1994 all the way upto 1999 without fault Although saying that the only thing that has changed is the wallpaper - there are now more Amiga's in my room than ever before BBS days were bliss, remember them well. Miss it a lot - apart from the phone bills - ended up with my own telephone line as I was hogging the BT one night and day! Last edited by Paul_s; 18 June 2008 at 23:56.

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17 June 2008, 11:31	#2
chiark Needs a life Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: England Posts: 1,707	Never had a modem... I (or more accurately, my dad) knew how much the calls would end up costing. Ennio? Isn't that the name of the dog in Tass Times in Tone Town?

17 June 2008, 11:36	#3
Brakus Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 54 Posts: 100	Started out same as you with a 1200/75 and I used to spend hours playing Global War and some MUDs ... ahh those were the days... Then I lost my mind and ran my own BBS :-)

17 June 2008, 13:27	#4
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	ahhh back in the day..... 56k board modem, my miggy was the sh*t, with an 060 and 32MB of ram... and a £500 phone bill every other month LOL!!!!!! used to flow around with the handle "_^Majix^_" back in the day..... sigh.... so much L337 and not enough time.... Things NOT to try... using BT's crappy dialing service and attempting to play Quake on your Amiga ONLINE!!!!! .... that i can tell you is a bad idea..... even if you DO have a gfx card LOL ahh my friend LidLessEye, miss him we got upto such mishief.... and where is Skull Monkey !? he used to run a BBS back in the day.... i think he was the last person to turn it off.... Used to hang out on IRC a lot, namely on Efnet with #Gas and Dalnet with #Hyper, i miss them dudes.... ahhh.... back in the day where a 3MB file would take 15 minutes to download.... if your connection could download 15MB in an hour THAT WAS A GOOD CONNECTION!!! then the dreaded 2 hour cutoff..... you just was unsure if you would ever get back on again that evening!!!!

17 June 2008, 14:18	#5
Hungry Horace Wipe-Out Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: . Age: 43 Posts: 2,544	lol, i did around 1997-1999. 56k modem on my a1200T with cv64-3d gfx card.... attached with the Twister Faster serial socket. all of these are now owned by gdhgdh mostly spent time on IRC #amiga on undernet as i recall. maybe under the handle 'Odin' or 'odin303' ? cant really remember.

17 June 2008, 14:53	#6
Galahad/FLT Going nowhere Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: United Kingdom Age: 50 Posts: 9,014	Used to have a US Robotics Sportster 'back in the day', used lots of naughty AT&T calling cards and blueboxing, and when that all came to an end, ran up a stupidly horrendous phone bill trying to call out as often as I did before! Oh well, it was a laugh!

17 June 2008, 14:55	#7
blade002 Zone Friend Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Age: 50 Posts: 2,616	I loved those BBS modem days!!... they were THE BEST !!!!!!! I started off with a TwinCom 14.4 modem in about 1992 when one of the members on here Nexus6 ( old friend of mine ) gave it too me. By about 1997 i upgraded to a Supra 33.3 modem which i thought absolutely rocketed along!!. I loved it! BTW - in about 1992/93 Nexus6 and I had our own BBS up and running on an Amiga 2000 called Dark Fusion. Back then my handle was just "Blade" with no 002 ( the 002 just came about because blade was used by 20 billion people after the movie Blade came out, but my handle has nothing to do with the movie ) Wish i could go back! BBS's i would frequent were. Empire BBS Satans Loins BBS Shoikens Grove BBS Woodstock BBS There were others but these were the main ones.

17 June 2008, 15:31	#8
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	Very, very briefly. There weren't any Amiga related BBSes in argentina anyway ;(

17 June 2008, 19:39	#10
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	Tass Times! I wish I finished that one but I never did. It was funny that it was almost Apple II shovelware, lol!

17 June 2008, 21:18	#11
demoniac Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: - Posts: 1,698	Had a 2400 back in 89 hooked up to my A500.

18 June 2008, 01:27	#12
laffer Zone Friend Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Norway Age: 43 Posts: 1,335	No Really wish now that I'd had one, sounds like it was a lot of fun.

21 June 2008, 02:23	#14
salax54 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Athens Greece Posts: 153	Ahhh, the good ol' days... Started with a Crypto 300 baud modem using Diga! to backup files through the audio cable (actually the phone line) to audio casettes instead of floppies on my still trusted A1000. Then a friend of mine got his first A500 and an identical modem so we bought a couple of FM transmitters (EL504 tube) and started playing the Sublogic Flight Simulator II by transmitting from our modems through FM in combination with regular radio receivers! Those were the days....

21 June 2008, 06:52	#15
jabsy Yeah Hup! Join Date: May 2006 Location: Australia Age: 54 Posts: 345	'92 or '94 I had a 14.4k external hooked up to my A2000, used it on BBS's and with AmiTCP for the net. Used Pine for email and maybe even for usenet... I'm a PC tech now and I have to laugh when we get calls to install an ADSL modem, it's usually just a case of logging into the router, enter a user/pass, and make sure the cables are connected. Imagine if these days people still had to write their own custom ini file for AmiTCP.....

22 June 2008, 12:13	#16
redblade Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Middle Earth Age: 40 Posts: 2,127	had a shitty Dlink56k modem, which was shit for 'international' calls. I wish I had a usRobotics though, I got one in the end, but never used it for 'international' calls. Mind you calling from New Zealand to Guam/China/Tonga/Cook Islands/ then on to Europe wasn't going to help

22 June 2008, 19:52	#18
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	I had a 56k modem too and ran my own BBS for a short while I too was a member of Skull Monkey's BBS and I actually spoke to him on the phone a few times and If my memory is correct I met him once and we traded PS1 games

22 June 2008, 20:16	#19
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	I wonder what Skully is doing now.... last time i heard he had just become a dad.... that was a few years ago.... wow so long ago....

22 June 2008, 20:18	#20
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	I spoke to him not too long ago I'm sure.. he joined here, but I guess he was pruned as he only PM'd me a couple times

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