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  #2611535 27-Nov-2020 08:45
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BMarquis:

 

I figured out how to "crack" LORD to get the full version back in the day.
It was something stupidly simple like entering an incorrect registration code, then looking in the file to see where it did the comparison and copying over what it thought the correct code was.

 

My part-time, amateur, BBS in the mid/late 90's happened to have the full version...  I wasn't old enough to sort out paying for it back then!

 

 

Being on an Amiga, didn't get the option of running LORD, but most doors (games and otherwise) were easily "registered" with a little bit of editing with a hex editor ;) I remember one forced a pause when exiting it, I just went in and found the code %Z which was the pause request for the BBS software - removed and it ta-da, good as registered ;)

 

They were the days.....




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I was in the Auckland BBS scene in the 80's and early 90's. I went under a couple of names, both my real name (Murray Moffatt) and also an alias of The Bit Bandit.

 

I started off with a 300 baud modem, then followed with 1200, 2400 and 56k modems. Back in those days I was an Atari user and I ran a couple of BBS's on my Atari ST for a while. My memory is a bit hazy but one of the names was STarlight Express and a short-lived one was The Ubiquitous Connection.

 

I also used Jon Clarke's STaTus BBS and David Dix's KC BBS.

 

I remember the queen of the boards was Bernadette Mooney (we used to call her "B"), I wonder whatever happened to her?

 

There's a lot of old BBS memories recounted at https://www.nethistory.co.nz/Chapter_6_-_Craving_for_Connection/

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More memories here..   https://codetapper.com/amiga/random-rants/auckland-bulletin-board-systems/

 

 

 

Think I may have logged into Starlight Express at least once :) Every 2nd BBS was named "Star" something it seemed though ;)




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  #2611578 27-Nov-2020 09:53
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I still have friends to this day from the Welly BBS scene 25+ years ago and many fond memories of the drunken parties when we all met up IRL.

 

 




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I wish I could remember the BBS' I used, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head was Streamed Sanity

 

There were a few others I used to download department #38 (d38) ascii/ansi packs etc

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xpd:

 

Think I may have logged into Starlight Express at least once :) Every 2nd BBS was named "Star" something it seemed though ;)

 

 

Actually I think it was STarlight Express with the emphasis on the "ST" since it ran on my Atari ST computer.

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dfnt:

 

I wish I could remember the BBS' I used, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head was Streamed Sanity

 

There were a few others I used to download department #38 (d38) ascii/ansi packs etc

 

 

Maybe this list will help? Found it one of my (very old!) backup folders just now - I remember a few of these ones now...

 

(File date = 26/08/1996!)

 


Created by BBS Junction v1.40

 

Name of BBS: 499-Cave
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Titus Kahu & Doug Hogg
Telephone Number: 499-2283
Modem Speeds: 2400-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Fidonet: 3:771/130
Other BBS Information:
Running since 23 August 1987.  Mulible VGA Planets games running.
3 gig. total disk online -- billed as the Southern Hemisphere's
biggest OS/2 BBS.  NZ support site for Walnut Creek CD-ROM.

 

Name of BBS: Afterlife
Location: Wellington?
SysOp's Name: Corpse
Telephone Number: 237-4863
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
Lots of message, few doors but heavy on files.  Lots of swimsuit pics.
No ratios for people who type lots of message and play door games.

 


Name of BBS: Below Zero
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Peter Thompson
Telephone Number: 388-9169
Modem Speeds: 1200-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Fidonet: 3:771/1200; SGAnet; RGSnet; SAMSON
Other BBS Information:
Registered BRE and LORD  BRE interBBS on SGA.  Lots of Renegade
support files.  A few pics. . . NOT Adult stuff.
50 odd message areas.

 

Name of BBS: Board S--tless
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Aimee Winn
Telephone Number: 389-5687
Modem Speeds: 300-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Sh1tlink!: 13:666/1; Fidonet: 3:771/1450; SAMSON
Other BBS Information:
An active and social BBS with regular public meatings packed with 
scandals, recipies and general stress relief.  Even has it's own theme
song!  New members get 3 weeks eval time before dropping to lower sec.

 

Name of BBS: Dark Potato
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Gareth Thomas
Telephone Number: 388-8145
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Sh1tLink! 13:666/17; FRET 26:200/0
Other BBS Information:
Home of FRET network! Lots of Guitar tabs, lots of MODs. Musically 
orientated BBS + heaps of files. LORD, BRE and Falcon's Eye online.
Easy validation, friendly sysop who chats very often. . .

 

Name of BBS: Dizzy's Delemma
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Dizzy
Telephone Number: 568-3362
Modem Speeds: 2400-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Sh1tLink!: 13:666/15, Fidonet; SAMSON, RGSnet, SGAnet, Dnet
Other BBS Information:
Line stepping from 8pm 12noon
A friendly BBS, with emphasis on messaging.  Some door games, InterBBS
BRE and Falcon's Eye, with interBBS LORD coming soon. Minimal files.

 

Name of BBS: Dragon's Lair
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Darklord
Telephone Number: 477-4722, 477-4723 (Members)
Modem Speeds: 2400-16800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Fidonet: 3:771/1100
Other BBS Information:
IBM, Amiga, sound, adult pictures, InterBBS BRE, PIT, VGA Planets,
role playing, 24+ trivia games, 20+ doors.

 


Name of BBS: Etherspace
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Pete Bent
Telephone Number: 577-1478
Modem Speeds: 1200-14400
Times online, weekdays: 
Times online, weekends: 
Mail Networks: Fidonet 3:771/1410
Other BBS Information:
Specialising in RIP graphics.  Basically catering for everyone.
Awesome RIP graphics support including RIP v2 compliant.

 


Name of BBS: Final Frontier
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: William Stewart
Telephone Number: 476-5179
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Sh1tLink!: 13:666/300, Fidonet, STnet
Other BBS Information:
Good local chat areas, mainly messaging BBS.  Few files.  Star Trek
theme.

 


Name of BBS: GenBoard
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Murray & Liz Thessman
Telephone Number: 479-1960
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Fidonet: 3:771/160
Other BBS Information:
Geneology (family tree) theme.  QWK compatible offline mail reader.

 

 

 


Name of BBS: Gremlins
Location: Kapiti
SysOp's Name: Phil McKenna
Telephone Number: 04-2984194
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Fidonet: 3:771/180.0; Gremnet 100:1/1
Other BBS Information:
Doors:- Global warfare, Tradewars, LDD, BRE. Free callback for Wgtn
users. Support for Top Speed and Micah Systems

 


Name of BBS: IBM BBS
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Not stated
Telephone Number: 5765583
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
Two lines. OS/2, PS/2, AS400, RS6000 files and support. Run by IBM
New Zealand in Petone. No uploads permitted. Access also available in
Auckland and Christchurch.

 

Name of BBS: Interzone BBS
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Pinhead
Telephone Number: 4996833
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
Heaps of game demos/shareware, ufos, & adult. Friendly sysop, heaps
of tasteful adult pics and many cool games, some doors, no theme.

 


Name of BBS: Jane's Board
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Jane
Telephone Number: 4795609
Modem Speeds: 2400-9600
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
General BBS appealing to users from all walks of life. Heaps of
messages, and CDRom online. 20+ trivia door games online.

 


Name of BBS: Kik Arse BBS
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Ken Polson
Telephone Number: 2376633
Modem Speeds: 9600-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Telegard Net soon
Other BBS Information:
Mainly a help BBS for Novell, Renegade, telegard and general computer
junk. Also a few doors and free file download from CD Rom. What PDD
would call JABBS. Also a full set of RIP screens.

 

Name of BBS: Legend's Realm
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Legend
Telephone Number: 2399978
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:

 

 

 

 

 

Name of BBS: Magpie's Nest
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Magpie and David
Telephone Number: 5277286
Modem Speeds: 2400-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: SAMSON
Other BBS Information:
Heaps of doors. Quality files direct from the Internet. 4 CD Roms 
online. Sysop is 13 years old.

 


Name of BBS: Megabaud
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Adrianus Hollander
Telephone Number: 3841684
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Fidonet, Internet
Other BBS Information:
Run by NZPCA for it's members

 

 

 


Name of BBS: Micro Remote
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Dale Spittle
Telephone Number: 4791135
Modem Speeds: 2400-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Fidonet 3:771/320
Other BBS Information:
All Pc World USA echoes online. Wellington hub for Tapelink (files
from the USA backbone).

 


Name of BBS: Moonlight
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Oscar Damper
Telephone Number: 5646238
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Fidonet 3:771/1120; After Dark; Throbnet; SAMSON
Other BBS Information:
Always the latest shareware CDs online, also 500Mb of software on hard
disk. Offline mail reader. Door games. Official hub for After Dark and
Throbnet in NZ. 2 new USR Courier Dual Standard VFC/V34 modems online.

 

Name of BBS: Necropolis
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Prince of Darkness
Telephone Number: 3861436
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
Wellington's premier horror BBS! Message areas with a difference. Net
13 specialists in horror. Files are bonuses for those who read mags.
Not for sponges. No IBM files or porn.

 

Name of BBS: Nine Hells
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Asmodeus
Telephone Number: 5636777
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
30,000+ adult girls, animations, text and games. The BBS with the most
XXX adult stuff in wgtn, possibly NZ. Currently awaiting clasification
of 5 CDs from Internal Affairs.

 

Name of BBS: Nitemare
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Phil Macartney, F.& R. Green
Telephone Number: 5672413
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: SAMSON
Other BBS Information:
BBS is kept clean and suitable for everyone. It's main theme is door
games. Registered Falcon's Eye & others online.  Very friendly Sysop.

 


Name of BBS: PC Resources
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Brent Wood
Telephone Number: 383-6040
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
Two in one:- Romboard BBS/ PC Resources' Silicon Systems support BBS.

 

 

 


Name of BBS: Poison's Ivy BBS
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Poison
Telephone Number: 8019023
Modem Speeds: 2400-33600
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Smileynet, On_net, More coming
Other BBS Information:
Over 65 games doors available, more coming. 30 local message areas.
3 Gb of files online. No message censorship or restrictions, basically
no real theme - a users BBS.

 

Name of BBS: Pythias
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Soxs
Telephone Number: 5770557
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Sh1tlink! 13:666/150; Fidonet 3:771/1590, DN 500:44/3
Other BBS Information:
Lots of gifs, cheap access. Ring now and you'll get nothing thrown in.

 

 

 


Name of BBS: Sideways
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Pat Cain
Telephone Number: 3851000
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Usenet; Sideways.welly.gen.nz
Other BBS Information:
Pc programs. Waffle BBS utils. Wellington's only alt. sex site.
Wellington's largest adult story collection (hetero, gay, les, bi).
Cheapest wgtn place for Usenet & e-mail UUCP feeds.

 

Name of BBS: Slyrp BBS
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Slyrp
Telephone Number: 3885514
Modem Speeds: 300-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Smiley Net/Kiley Brown haters Annon. World HQ.
Other BBS Information:
BBS aimed at teenage group/ old ppl that think they are teenagers: 
With a Doom 2 ladder, Awesome logon.

 


Name of BBS: Smash
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Gavin Cross
Telephone Number: 5661021
Modem Speeds: 2400-16800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Sh1tlink!: 13:666/12; Fidonet: 3:771/290
Other BBS Information:
Inter-BBS BRE; Running from inside my cupboard. Far too many files.
Sysop will try to make this comment more exciting in the future...
maybe.

 

Name of BBS: Spiders Web
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Jay Montilla
Telephone Number: 4771698 or 4773133
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Fidonet 3:771/200
Other BBS Information:

 

 

 

 

 

Name of BBS: StarStruck
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: John Horton, Graham Wolf
Telephone Number: 389-1325
Modem Speeds: 300 to 14400
Times online, weekdays: 9pm - 9am
Times online, weekends: 9pm - 9am
Mail Networks: None
Other BBS Information:
As far as we know, this is New Zealand's only BBS for astronomers.
We also have a large selection of Doors and files as well as message 
areas.

 

Name of BBS: Technology Connection
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Micheal Yu
Telephone Number: 3841550
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
Support for ACTION networking, E-TECH modes and MUSTEK scanners. Run
by Technology Connection, phone 3847722

 


Name of BBS: Terminal Meltdown
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Jon Forrest, Paul Dagger
Telephone Number: 5666569
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Fidonet 3:771/1380; PrisoNet; BRE; NetThirteen. SAMSON
Other BBS Information:
Has around 250 Mb of files, Customised LORD, Variety of door games.
Extremely nice Sysops, suggested accepted, at times.

 


Name of BBS: The Crypt
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Peter Lambrechtsen, BJ The Hun
Telephone Number: 479-6660
Modem Speeds: 1200-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Sh1tLink!: 13:666/9; Fidonet: 3:771/310
Other BBS Information:
A BBS for all and sundry.  BJ The Hun is now Co-Sysop.

 

 

 


Name of BBS: The House of Hades
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Perseus, Guard Dog, DE SADE
Telephone Number: 8016396
Modem Speeds: 2400-28800
Times online, weekdays: 24 hrs
Times online, weekends: 24 hrs
Mail Networks: Not stated
Other BBS Information:

 

 

 

 

 

Name of BBS: The Odyssey
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Craig Bassett
Telephone Number: 2348244
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Fidonet 3:771/1260
Other BBS Information:
Over 2 Gb on-line. InterBBS Door Games. Fido, Demi-mode and more.
Free access on first call.

 


Name of BBS: The Pig Pen
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Julie Christie
Telephone Number: 5266974
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: 
Other BBS Information:
The Pig pen Doors! 5266740. Messages and files on 5266974.

 

 

 


Name of BBS: Twilight Zone
Location: Wellington
SysOp's Name: Tim Philips
Telephone Number: 5638380
Modem Speeds: 2400-14400
Times online, weekdays: 24 hr
Times online, weekends: 24 hr
Mail Networks: Sh1tlink!; Fidonet; Twilight; BRE; Tecnet; Filebone; SAMSON.
Other BBS Information:
PC and Amiga software. Offline QWK mail. Registered doors.

 

 

 
 
 
 

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Lias:

 

I still have friends to this day from the Welly BBS scene 25+ years ago and many fond memories of the drunken parties when we all met up IRL.

 

 

 

 

I met my wife at a BBS BBQ 26 Years ago.

 

There are a few people I have known as long from a the BBS scene like @nickmack

 

 

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Yeah, I met a few people in person via BBS parties, mainly the Purgatory ones :) Still bump into Frig occasionally in person (well, was a number of years now) and online.

 

 

 

There was a BBS running a list of NZ BBS's, Edge I think it was. They had an automatic dialer system that checked your BBS was valid and added it to the list. I could never get on it tho was always rejected. Queried it and got told, "It's always engaged so we can't verify it". I couldn't help it was popular.....  :D

 

 




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I remember call waiting kicking me off the BBS, parents would not allow me to temporally disable it transferring games over z modem back in the day!

 

 

 

 




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quickymart:

 

Maybe this list will help? Found it one of my (very old!) backup folders just now - I remember a few of these ones now...

 

(File date = 26/08/1996!)

 


Created by BBS Junction v1.40

 

 

 

 

A lot of those ring a bell :)

 

 

 

I used to run "The Wizard's Lair" pity it didn't make the list, but it would have been shutdown by 1996.

 

There are a few GZ members that were on TWL.

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I always wondered what happened to Jane, chatted with her a few times and she was cool (good board too). I used to go on Meetboard quite a bit - back in the day.

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I ran a BBS in the 90s, with four lines. I had a daemon to connect to a UUCP server in the USA - so people would send emails or post on usenet locally, and at night when the call costs were lower it would call to the UUCP server and send/receive emails and posts. 

 

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nztim:

 

I remember call waiting kicking me off the BBS, parents would not allow me to temporally disable it transferring games over z modem back in the day!

 

 

Haha yup, or when faxability became a thing, Telecom would tell people it was like a 2nd phone line, so parents would get it thinking it'd solve their modem hogging issues ;)

 

Forgot I wrote a short article on my blog about my BBS days....

 

 

 

https://www.xpd.co.nz/2020/07/23/get-off-the-line/

 

 




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Ahh BBS, thems were the days.  I still have the Amiga 3k which originally ran Abacab and later my own Project Amiga out in the shed that I can't bring myself to part with, along with (I think I still have it) the boxed DLGPro that originally ran Equinox and later Project Amiga.  In fact, there is a full height scsi drive out there somewhere which might well still have the last incarnation of PABBS on it, Fidonet Trapdoor and all.  One of these days I will see if it still spins after, 20 some years.

 

I was fido 3:770/380.0 , sadly I had to google it, the most I could remember now was 3 and 7 something :-)  Protip, don't google yourself if you were ever a usenet user, self imposed cringefest.

 

The arrival of $5 an hour (from memory) internet by Voyager was the death knell really, I distinctly remember reading the ad for it in TV Guide and the next day cadjolling mum's credit card to sign up, all downhill for the BBS from there.

 

 




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