Color 64
The Fone Company BBSes will be back
Both the Color 64 and Supra 128 BBSes will be back, likely over Memorial Day weekend 2021. As with the best laid plans, time has not allowed me to give them the attention I would like.
Read MoreTFC BBSes down 10/29-11/9
Well, crap. A tropical storm came through and messed things up for both BBSes on October 29th. And it took me until today to realize it. Still, both BBSes are back. Supra is still as it was and Color 64 is about to go through the promised “big reset” but this being 2020 it has…
Read MoreNot Dead! (2020 1st Edition)
Hey there and Happy New Year! (a month and a half too late). Been busy with things and stuff (life and work). On the Color 64 side we will soon be shelving all of our hard work and starting over from scratch. You read that right, from a plain-Jane version of Color 64 Version 7.37.…
Read MoreNot dead!
There has been a stagnation in development because paying work keeps the power on for the fun stuff. The Fone Company BBSes went down for a few days because of a power outage. Not everything rebooted smoothly. But they are up now at tfcbbs.com:6400 (Supra 128 version) and tfcbbs.com:6464 (Color 64 version).
Read MoreComing soon…
The infamous TFC message editor. Once I get it working with the stock system. And fix the spacing with /b. Maybe change it to /f. Or /* because it’s fabulous.
Read MoreTFC returns on Color 64 BBS!
A few weeks ago I picked up a Commodore 64 from a local guy. I was planning on putting up another BBS with it. After I opened it I saw that the 64 kernel was soldered on, not socketed. And not being that great with a soldering iron I took it to a guy to…
Read MoreSupra 128
So, I decided to switch the BBS software from Color 64 to Supra 128. Why? Well, that’s a long story. But this is a blog and not a message on the BBS so I’m happy to explain. Why leave Color 64? It’s a great BBS and getting into it for a few weeks reminded me…
Read MoreThe Fone Company is back! What I learned…
It took a bit longer than I expected but The Fone Company v2, circa 1990 is back! Call it: tfcbbs.com port 23. After looking through all of my files and folders I realized there have been 3 iterations of the BBS software up until it died: v1: 1988-1990 – just learning Color 64 v2: 1990-1991…
Read MoreSet up and log on to Color 64 BBS
In this post we are going to set up Color 64 BBS, get it running and log in. We will be using Vice so if you don’t have it yet I suggest you get it and install it. Vice makes things easier on a modern machine and it makes screenshots much prettier. Plus we can…
Read MoreWhere to start?
The eternal question when embarking on a new quest: where to start? I personally wanted to resurrect one of my old BBS programs. Fearing that some of these 30 year-old disks’ protective film would soon be wearing off I set out to preserve them which was not a minor nor inexpensive task. First I needed…
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