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#THE BBS ZINE#
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#BY MHJ#
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#Issue 7 - For the week of 10/06/19 - 10/12 #
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########################### #Date Published - 10/22/19 #
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#Focal Point#
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Index:
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Foreward
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Amateur Radio BBS
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Amiga Frontier
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Amstrad BBS
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NULL: A BBS E-mag
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BBS Real Time Chatting
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BBSes and File Sharing
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Game of the Week
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Music of the Moment
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Links
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Outro
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Contact
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Next Issue Preview
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#Foreward#
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So I’ve decided the following concerning the zine. It will now be
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monthly, and I will spend more time at just one BBS instead of many.
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This will allow me to get a better understanding of everything.
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Additionally, I will only cover BBSes that interest me or are popular or
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new. I just feel like it’s impossible to cover every BBS ever.
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#Amateur Radio BBS#
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Amateur Radio BBS was down, so unfortunately, no screenshots of it.
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#CONNECTION METHODS#
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telnet://amateurradiobbs.com:2323
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#Amiga Frontier #
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As I need to apply for an account there, this will be covered again some
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other time.
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#CONNECTION METHODS#
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telnet://frontierbbs.net:8888 ssh://frontierbbs.net:8889
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#Amstrad BBS #
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This BBS was pretty interesting. It was all about the Amstrad line of
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home computers. I don’t know much about those home computers, but it did
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seem pretty interesting that they decided to make a BBS all about them.
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I think this BBS doesn’t get enough love, I noticed that there weren’t
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many calls to it. Show the SysOp some fun and give them a call!
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[Main]
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[Games]
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[Text Files]
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#CONNECTION METHODS#
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telnet://amstrad.simulant.uk:464 ssh://amstrad.simulant.uk:6128/
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#NULL: A BBS E-mag#
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Just wanted to give a shout-out to a fellow BBS supporter, xqtr! He
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writes NULL, a executable(!) e-mag that regularly features columns,
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music and more about BBSes. His work is pretty amazing. Check his mag
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out at the following: https://github.com/xqtr/null
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#BBS Real Time Chatting#
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One of the great things about BBSes is the chatting. Most seem to use
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something like IRC, so it feels natural to just be able to talk back and
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forth. There’s also the fact that the SysOp can break into your session
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at anytime. That’s happened to me once and it was great getting to know
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them.
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I really prefer real time chatting to email, as it’s easier to fire off
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and get to know someone quicker, rather than waiting for possibly days
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to hear back from them. Of course, that sort of thing isn’t always
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conducive to careful, thought out replies.
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The rise of secure instant messaging has been a blessing, such as
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Telegram, Signal and so on - but it’s good to go back and see how
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messaging was on a BBS. It feels much more like a public forum than a
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all-out spam fest like some of the bigger group chats are.
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#BBSes and File Sharing#
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File sharing has been around since forever, although for most people it
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started with things like Napster. Back in the BBS days though, I heard
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that many things were shared, from shareware(of course), to warez, to
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music and everything in-between.
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Of course, having lived back then, in the days of CompuServe and
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Prodigy, I remember it being particular slow to download much of
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anything. So the best things to get was simple shareware games, FAQs and
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pictures. Everything you downloaded felt like a teasure, because it cost
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you potentially some money depending on how you got to the BBS.
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I think today people just try to digitally hoard things because the
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speeds are so fast and the drives are so big. I think reducing our
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digital footprints is important, so perhaps, like ‘simple living’, there
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should be a ‘simple digital life’ to go along with it.
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#Links#
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VGMusic - lots of video game MIDI music https://vgmusic.com/
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Tilde News - Part of the tildeverse, but for news! https://tilde.news/
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#################
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#Game of the Week#
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Assassin:
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This game is pretty cool. I didn’t play it much beyond making my own
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character named Mario. It seems a bit like LORD but with a more
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interesting premise. I think it seems to be fun, so I would definitely
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recommend it.
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[Assassin]
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#Music of the Moment#
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Super Metroid OST Complete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C4-ay3RUzk
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#Outro#
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I hope I didn’t disappoint anyone with this announcement, but I have to
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be reasonable concerning this. I want the zine to continue for as long
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as possible, but I also want quality over quantity. Thanks for reading
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this issue.
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#Contact#
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For questions, concerns, comments and anything else, please contact me
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at the following: mhj@sdf.org
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Thank you.
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#Next Issue#
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BBS:
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Atrium
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Columns:
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Multiplayer BBS Games
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ANSI art showcase
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Guest column
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Game of the Week
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Links
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