BBS Ads /
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BBS Ads Collection v1.0
This is the most complete collection of BBS adverts including PC
and Amiga scene boards, legal as well as illegal ones. All the ads were found
in release packages and are thereby authentical.
As BBSs were the main way of communication through the 90s for ALL computer
scenes, no matter if demo, hpav or wares, there is an urge to document the way
BBSs competed for callers. That is hopefully done by this collection.
To protect the sysops of back then, as well as the owners of the same
phonenumbers nowadays, all numbers are xed out, no matter if the particular
BBS was legal or illegal. If a nummer was forgotten to get xed out, mind that
it MAKES NO SENSE to call this number, all the bbss are either offline or
moved to telnet.
The ads are sorted by charset and NOT by operating system, so it might be
that you find PC BBSs in the amigacharset folder and vice versa. The
separation of the ads were done only for your comfort, so you need to change
the viewing mode only once. The recommended viewer for this collection is
ACiDView, which you can find at
http://www.thuglife.org/cgi/load/load.cgi?/thug/apps/avw-600.zip .
To view the Amiga charset ads, it is recommended to turn on the Amiga
mode under the View menu. To view the PC charset ads, you can use
the default mode.
The purpose of this collection is to present a historical epoch and NOT
to show something artistic in the first place. There are some
beautiful ads, some are butt-ugly, still theyre ALL included.
Feel free to submit missing bbs ads or just give feedback to
dipswitch@kaoz.org or if you see me on IRC.
- Dipswitch/DCSBM
PS: Most ads contain PC CR/LF chars, because they were post-edited on
a PC, even the Amiga ones. So there might be some problems to view
this collection on Amiga machines, but if can be fixed by stripping
the CR/LF chars in Cygnus Editor.
- -/ / .Mo! //------ -/-
BBS Ads Collection v1.0
This is the most complete collection of BBS adverts including PC
and Amiga scene boards, legal as well as illegal ones. All the ads were found
in release packages and are thereby authentical.
As BBSs were the main way of communication through the 90s for ALL computer
scenes, no matter if demo, hpav or wares, there is an urge to document the way
BBSs competed for callers. That is hopefully done by this collection.
To protect the sysops of back then, as well as the owners of the same
phonenumbers nowadays, all numbers are xed out, no matter if the particular
BBS was legal or illegal. If a nummer was forgotten to get xed out, mind that
it MAKES NO SENSE to call this number, all the bbss are either offline or
moved to telnet.
The ads are sorted by charset and NOT by operating system, so it might be
that you find PC BBSs in the amigacharset folder and vice versa. The
separation of the ads were done only for your comfort, so you need to change
the viewing mode only once. The recommended viewer for this collection is
ACiDView, which you can find at
http://www.thuglife.org/cgi/load/load.cgi?/thug/apps/avw-600.zip .
To view the Amiga charset ads, it is recommended to turn on the Amiga
mode under the View menu. To view the PC charset ads, you can use
the default mode.
The purpose of this collection is to present a historical epoch and NOT
to show something artistic in the first place. There are some
beautiful ads, some are butt-ugly, still theyre ALL included.
Feel free to submit missing bbs ads or just give feedback to
dipswitch@kaoz.org or if you see me on IRC.
- Dipswitch/DCSBM
PS: Most ads contain PC CR/LF chars, because they were post-edited on
a PC, even the Amiga ones. So there might be some problems to view
this collection on Amiga machines, but if can be fixed by stripping
the CR/LF chars in Cygnus Editor.
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