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07/06/09
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There are enthusiasts who still run BBSes on Telnet...
...I don't know the addresses of any, but I have come across directories of them before.
07/06/09
Remember how awesome BananaCom was because it had COLORS, and it made using TELECONFERENCE oh so easier... :P
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I think acoustic coupler modems only came in the 300 baud variety. As far as I know, 1200 baud and above were all "direct connect".
Good times!
07/06/09
Thinking back, I should have just gotten roller skates or something, lol.
07/06/09
My friend Trevor had an acoustic-coupler modem. But then he couldn't hang out with me because my parents got divorced and his folks thought that I would be a bad influence.
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Nice... I used to use a cheap external 2400 baud modem to connect to local BBSes and get what I could find. Shareware games, mods, textfiles, and graphics demos.
It was so awesome when I found a MOD player that would play through a Disney Sound Source since my 286 only had an Adlib card internally (FM synth, no samples!)
Anyone remember Ripterm? It was a vector graphics terminal program - it made door games look... infinitely more impressive, even though it was only 16 colour or something.
I never really got into the modem race until Internet providers came to town - I had 14.4, 28.8, 33.6, 56k, all US Robotics Sportsters. :p
07/07/09
@yelraf:
@fuchikoma:
Yeah! Now that I read your comments, I remember!
I also had went through all fax/modems... no external, if I'm not mistaken.
From 2400 up to 56k. I do remember my dad had an ancient external modem previous to the 2400 one, but I never really used it. It was the size of a standard desktop case, all metal, heavy as hell. xD
Still, not as badass as that analog acoustic coupler modem... :P
[xspblog.com]
Actually, now that I'm reading the post, it seems I always repeat the same story... guess I'm really getting old... :P
Earlier today I was writting a post about Gorilla.bas for the blog pool... :P
07/07/09
Oh man, my friends and I used to mess with the code in gorilla.bas over lunch hours at school... one time we made it so the sun was always angry (shocked?) and encased in a gorilla-colored block. If a banana hit it, it would kill the gorilla on whichever side it was hit on. :p
Nibbles was my favorite though... My introduction to programming was actually self-taught through the brilliant built-in help for QBasic, copying and tweaking the example code in it...
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