Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General

["Charles Williams \(CEO\)" <hosting.mailing.list.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General


> "Charles Williams (CEO)" <hosting.mailing.list.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > then you may remember some of these.
> >
> > Wildcat
> > Litehouse
> > PCBoard
> > Telix
> > Trancer
> > etc...
>
> Thanks for the list, Charles!  It has been so long since I even thought
> about it, that I couldn't even remember what software we ran.  Wildcat was
> the BBS software that I ran for the bulk of the time (life of my BBS was
> 1991-1992).  There were actually 4 other BBS that linked together with
mine
> and dialed each other up round-robin late at night and passed on messages
> from message boards on each BBS so that by the time the process was done
all
> 5 BBS were populated with messages from all 5 BBS.  Today something like
> that's no big deal with XML documents and cron jobs, but 10 years ago what
> we did was bleeding edge.  Now if I could just remember the names of the
> mutiplayer games we ran.  IIRC, they all limited you to a fixed number of
> turns per day, and though that was annoying we lived with it.  Today, if
you
> visit a website with hundreds of concurrent users and you can't access it
> for 2 minutes it's a travesty.  Funny how things change.  :-)
>

just a few more I ran across while looking through the archive:

Maxihost
Search Light
RBBS
Sapphire


A few of the games I ran at one time or other were

Adventure Maze
Murder Mansion
Godfather of Crime
Global War
Tradewars 200?
Usurper
LORD
Netrunner
Outpost Trader
Mechwars
and 1 or 2 others I don't recall

chuck