I am working on a fairly new BBS and I have been looking around for some door programs and utilities I could use. I used to have tons of BBS software on CD-ROMs but that stuff is long gone.

But then I thought to look on the archive.org web site. Well BINGO!! If you are looking for some old door programs or utilities or even books about bulletin boards, you should take a look. There are .ISO images of CD-ROMs full of software. Even complete bulletin boards people have put onto CD-ROMs.
Just download the .ISO image and burn it onto a CD and you're ready to go.

It's all free to download.
https://archive.org

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I am working on a fairly new BBS and I have been looking around for some doo programs and utilities I could use. I used to have tons of BBS software on CD-ROMs but that stuff is long gone.

I have 152 CD-ROMs ONLINE over my way, as well as 450+ LOCAL Doors. Telnet over sometime.


The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info


Feel free to leech away.

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
* Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)

I have 152 CD-ROMs ONLINE over my way, as well as 450+ LOCAL Doors. Telnet over sometime.

I will do that!

... As I said before, I never repeat myself

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
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Hello Alonzo!

On 28 Feb 2023, Alonzo said the following...

But then I thought to look on the archive.org web site. Well BINGO!! If you are looking for some old door programs or utilities or even books about bulletin boards, you should take a look. There are .ISO images of

Thanks! Yep, I have been thinking of getting some of those CDs as they were a common base for file areas back in the day... I remember requesting disc changes. :-D

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/01/27 (Linux/64)
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If you download anything from archive.org, be sure to scan it for viruses before you use it. I found that some of it is questionable.

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Unmarked Van - 21:1/130 - Mt. Healthy, Ohio (21:1/130)

On 28 Feb 2023, Alonzo said the following...

But then I thought to look on the archive.org web site. Well BINGO!! you are looking for some old door programs or utilities or even books about bulletin boards, you should take a look. There are .ISO images

Thanks! Yep, I have been thinking of getting some of those CDs as they were a common base for file areas back in the day... I remember
requesting disc changes. :-D

Ahh yes, the good ole NightOwl CD's. Great archives of freeware/shareware/demoware.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
* Origin: Legends of Yesteryear (furmenservices.net:23322) (21:4/102)

Hello Alonzo!

On 04 Mar 2023, Alonzo said the following...

If you download anything from archive.org, be sure to scan it for viruses before you use it. I found that some of it is questionable.

Thanks! Yep, probably a good thing to do...

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

Hello Geri!

On 03 Mar 2023, Geri Atricks said the following...

Ahh yes, the good ole NightOwl CD's. Great archives of freeware/shareware/demoware.

Yep, perhaps the "golden standard"!

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

Geri Atricks wrote to Zip <=-

Ahh yes, the good ole NightOwl CD's. Great archives of freeware/shareware/demoware.

Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in
order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model
that crammed 6 disks into it.





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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Geri Atricks <=-

Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.

Ah, great memories. I had one of those SCSI 6 CD changers on my OS/2 AdeptXBBS (The Bachelor Club). When the user tagged a file for download, it would copy it off the CD to local disk temp directory. Then when the user starts their batch download, it wouldn't have any weird and unexpected pauses while the drive was switching disks.

Fun times.

Take care,
bugz

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Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in
order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.

Back in the day I had two of those 4x4 CD-ROM Changers, as well as 4 Panasonic CD-ROM Drives daisy chained so I had 12 CD's online .... now I have 152 CDs online. :)

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
* Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)

Back in the day I had two of those 4x4 CD-ROM Changers, as well as 4 Panasonic CD-ROM Drives daisy chained so I had 12 CD's online .... now I have 152 CDs online. :)

That's awesome. How are you hosting them? Do you have the ISOs or are they all unzipped somewhere or...? I'd love to do the same, BBSes are such a great way to index these things in my opinion.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
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That's awesome. How are you hosting them? Do you have the ISOs or are they a unzipped somewhere or...? I'd love to do the same, BBSes are such a great wa to index these things in my opinion.

All on the Hard Drive via a CD-ROM Door. I have over 80 GIGS of files up for download.

I would love to do something different with the setup, but there are too many formats for the CDs to get descriptions and EZ-ROM door was the easiest to do.

I tried DreamROM and ROMBRAIN that I used to use where it made it own database, but I had to keep moving directorys and moving back after it was done compiling so it didn't group everything into one huge listing.

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
* Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)

All on the Hard Drive via a CD-ROM Door. I have over 80 GIGS of files
up for download.

Yeah, I've perused and searched your archive a number of times, very useful and impressive!

I would love to do something different with the setup, but there are too many formats for the CDs to get descriptions and EZ-ROM door was the easiest to do.

Gotcha, so EZ-ROM seems like the ticket here. Thanks for the feedback.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
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Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.

Most of the systems around here that had multiple CD's like that just set up a SCSI array of multiple CD drives. The multidisk changer would have probably been a whole lot simpler, and use less power. :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
* Origin: Legends of Yesteryear (furmenservices.net:23322) (21:4/102)

Geri Atricks wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.

Most of the systems around here that had multiple CD's like that just
set up a SCSI array of multiple CD drives. The multidisk changer would have probably been a whole lot simpler, and use less power. :)

Man, I hateed SCSI! I worked at a Mac software company in the '90s, and
people loved to stack peripherals. You'd have a removable drive like a
Syquest, an external CD-ROM, an external drive, and maybe a tape drive.
Getting them all cabled and terminated was a bear. Some drives would
"want" to be on the end, and getting good quality cables and terminators
was important. More than once I'd need to change the order of drives
just to make it work.



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Man, I hateed SCSI! I worked at a Mac software company in the '90s, and

I still hate SCSI :P and unfortunately so many old computers used it, so we have to use these jank adapters. My Amigas are the worst, I have all these scsi->CF adapters and things like that which always have their own problems. It's just a mess.

Yeah, they have straight up IDE adapters that you can use, but the performance is garbage; to get any decent IO you need to use SCSI. It sucks.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)