Folks, first I am dirt poor. All my money goes to my wife, who in turn
sends it to the Philippines to support many many families there. (Not only
ours but many at the church of her Newphew).

So, to the point, if you have a C64, C128, or an Amiga. I would happily
accept a donation from you. I have my PC, yes, and I could do with the emulators, yes, but nothing like handling the real thing.

Thank you. :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Red Mud BBS (80:774/108)

I am dirt poor too, send me free stuff.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/02 (Windows/32)
* Origin: 8-Bit Boyz BBS! -=[ bbs.8bitboyz.com port:6502 ]=- (80:505/6)

So, to the point, if you have a C64, C128, or an Amiga. I would happily accept a donation from you. I have my PC, yes, and I could do with the emulators, yes, but nothing like handling the real thing.

Well my friend... you are not asking for cheap stuff. A C64/C128 or Amiga in good conditions can be sold with great benefits :)

Miss my 1541 Floppy Disk Drive. It was my pride and joy back in the middle
80's :,(

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

On 24 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Well my friend... you are not asking for cheap stuff. A C64/C128 or
Amiga in good conditions can be sold with great benefits :)

Miss my 1541 Floppy Disk Drive. It was my pride and joy back in the
middle 80's :,(

You are absolutely correct.. I gave away what would probably sell today for about $4g about 6 years ago, I have since replaced most of it. I bought 2 C64c's both cost over $100 each. I was using real hardware to run my BBS's
and do my programming, but when the fan went bad on a year old Lt Kernal
Clone, I said enough is enough I am not going to kill the HD and computers
over BBS' so I am not fully on Emulation for my BBS' and use my real stuff
for myself..

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

So, to the point, if you have a C64, C128, or an Amiga. I would happi accept a donation from you. I have my PC, yes, and I could do with th emulators, yes, but nothing like handling the real thing.

Well my friend... you are not asking for cheap stuff. A C64/C128 or
Amiga in good conditions can be sold with great benefits :)

Yea, I don't know one person on this network, probably ANY of the BBS FTNs, that would pass up a 'C64, C128 or an Amiga' donation. I'm not being rude to anyone who made the statement, but it doesn't seem like this is the correct platform for that request.

We're enthusiasts, who love the same devices... I don't know who would choose to disband one of them to what is basically a 'pick-up line' on a technical message area. :P

Hey baby, thats a nice a600 you got there... nmnmNMNMnmNMmmnmNMnmnmnmNMnm can I

**ck it?



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (80:505/12)

old Lt Kernal Clone, I said enough is enough I am not going to kill the
HD and computers over BBS' so I am not fully on Emulation for my BBS'
and use my real stuff for myself..

Wow! so Wrong Number runs over emulation and not real C64? what emulator program are you using, if I can ask?

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

Yea, I don't know one person on this network, probably ANY of the BBS FTNs, that would pass up a 'C64, C128 or an Amiga' donation. I'm not

Well... guess we need to transform ourselves in YouTubers and "accept
hardware donations" as some I saw (and they actually gets nice old vintage stuff!!!).

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

It was just a question. Nothing gained but not asking. Right?

Ok - So...I have given up on the idea, and went 120 miles to see my brother,
I "stole" his C128 which was collecting dust and other unwanted items...Beer stains, Coke stains, other stains...He had completely forgotten it - but not his wife...she was very very happy for it to be gone so she could have the
desk and use it for her laptop. Well, again, nothing gained without asking.

So now I have a very ugly C128 that works perfectly. Now I have to clean it, disinfect it (from real live bugs), remove all the smoke crap, and everything else...

Thank you for your help. :)
Now I need to start looking for C128 compatible things...
David

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Red Mud BBS (80:774/108)

On 25 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Wow! so Wrong Number runs over emulation and not real C64? what emulator program are you using, if I can ask?

Wrong Number IV, and the new Time Warp BBS (Changing to Bucko's Den soon)
both run with Vice, Wrong Number IV, with a CMD HD/Ramlink/SCPU emulation,
and Time Warp on a 128 Emulation with a CMD HD emulation. Both boards run in Linux because I like not having to deal with the Windows nonsense of updates, nothing like checking your board after not being home for 2 days and finding out that 2 hours after you left Windows installed updates and rebooted the machine! LOL This board I am on right now is all PC.. :)

Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

On 25 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Well... guess we need to transform ourselves in YouTubers and "accept hardware donations" as some I saw (and they actually gets nice old
vintage stuff!!!).

LOL I posted an add on Craigslist a couple of years ago asking for
"donations" of anything from Commodore to PC, thankfully I left a burner cell number on it. I got a call at like 3am from some guy who sounded like he was stoned out of his mind asking me how much I was gonna pay him for a Pent computer (Yes he said Pent) with 8 megs of ram and a 200 meg hd! I took the
ad down that next morning!

Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

On 25 Mar 2021, David said the following...

It was just a question. Nothing gained but not asking. Right?

Ok - So...I have given up on the idea, and went 120 miles to see my brother, I "stole" his C128 which was collecting dust and other unwanted items...Beer stains, Coke stains, other stains...He had completely forgotten it - but not his wife...she was very very happy for it to be gone so she could have the desk and use it for her laptop. Well, again, nothing gained without asking.

So now I have a very ugly C128 that works perfectly. Now I have to clean it, disinfect it (from real live bugs), remove all the smoke crap, and everything else...

Thank you for your help. :)
Now I need to start looking for C128 compatible things...
David

Congrats on your acquisition!! Nothing beats getting that adrenaline rush
from getting back into the Commodore world!!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

cell number on it. I got a call at like 3am from some guy who sounded
like he was stoned out of his mind asking me how much I was gonna pay
him for a Pent computer (Yes he said Pent) with 8 megs of ram and a 200 meg hd! I took the ad down that next morning!

LOL! Bucko... your future is in YouTube. You know it. I know it. Now, let's those guys willing to donate great Commodore stuff know it :)

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

On 27 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

LOL! Bucko... your future is in YouTube. You know it. I know it. Now, let's those guys willing to donate great Commodore stuff know it :)

***

LOL nah, no one wants to see my ugly mug on YouTube.. I've been told I make a can look good!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

LOL nah, no one wants to see my ugly mug on YouTube.. I've been told I make a can look good!

Well... you are gonna miss a lot of stuff then :P think about those 1541 and the sticky floppy disk that you can get for free!

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

Wrong Number IV, and the new Time Warp BBS (Changing to Bucko's Den soon) both run with Vice, Wrong Number IV, with a CMD HD/Ramlink/SCPU
emulation, and Time Warp on a 128 Emulation with a CMD HD emulation.
Both boards run in Linux because I like not having to deal with the Windows nonsense of updates, nothing like checking your board after not being home for 2 days and finding out that 2 hours after you left
Windows installed updates and rebooted the machine! LOL This board I am
on right now is all PC.. :)

Thanks for the explanation! It is a gas to see a BBS running on Vice!

Don't tell me about Windows bloody updates! more than once my BBS get stuck
due those damn updates! who needs updates for software than seems from the middle 80's? :P

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

On 28 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Well... you are gonna miss a lot of stuff then :P think about those 1541 and the sticky floppy disk that you can get for free!

Actually, I don't mind, I have a ton of disks which I still need to go
through image and store on my NAS and who knows maybe make available on my BBS'.. I leave YouTube for my son, he does a new video every week.. If You
want to check him out, just search WunderTech on YouTube.. He has a ton of followers.. Hell I watch his vids then have him explain them to my feeble
mind!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

On 28 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Thanks for the explanation! It is a gas to see a BBS running on Vice!

Don't tell me about Windows bloody updates! more than once my BBS get stuck due those damn updates! who needs updates for software than seems from the middle 80's? :P

I started out in Emulation running 3 different Commodore boards on one machine.. I have whittled that down to 1 Image board and 1 C-Net board.. LOL The emulated board my Image runs on if I had to buy the hardware it is using back in theday it would have cost me probably a couple of grand. Today? Just the SCPU I have seen for $4g or better! It's crazy!

The updates are killer! This summer when I am on vacation I intend to take my Mystic board completely over to Linux. I am currently running it in a Win10
VM but have updates turned off and I manually install updates myself. Once it moves over, then I will be one more VM and machine moved over to Linux
leaving me with 2 Win machines..

Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

If You want to check him out, just search WunderTech on YouTube.. He has
a ton of followers.. Hell I watch his vids then have him explain them to my feeble mind!

Man! I just watched your "kid" videos... and feel sooooooo old :P heavy
techie stuff he teach! congrats!

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

LOL The emulated board my Image runs on if I had to buy the hardware it
is using back in theday it would have cost me probably a couple of
grand. Today? Just the SCPU I have seen for $4g or better! It's crazy!

Yeah, crazy and cheap times I see :) but tell me the truth: you miss (like I miss) that crazy sounds that came from the 1541 and the breadbin on your room running your system (I know you miss it because I MISS my first BBS "The Connection BBS" that rans in the middle 80 in a C64 and with only one side floppy disk :P).

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

On 30 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Man! I just watched your "kid" videos... and feel sooooooo old :P heavy techie stuff he teach! congrats!

***

Thanks.. Yea he knows his stuff, and I AM OLD!! LOL I look back in the late 80's early 90's when I made him Co-SysOp of my BBS at 2 years old. He would
sit on my lap while I programmed my Image BBS. Then as he got older he would watch as I would do feedback and stuff. In 96 when I was helping write Image 2.0 he was sitting right next to me playing with HIS PC! Now this kid is teaching the old man!!

Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

On 30 Mar 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Yeah, crazy and cheap times I see :) but tell me the truth: you miss
(like I miss) that crazy sounds that came from the 1541 and the breadbin on your room running your system (I know you miss it because I MISS my first BBS "The Connection BBS" that rans in the middle 80 in a C64 and with only one side floppy disk :P).

LOL Actually from about 1989 till I took the boards down in 96 I was running
a Lt Kernal, but yes I do miss that sound. Waking up in the middle of the
night when I would hear the 1541 head banging because either the cat hit the lever on the drive and the heads couldn't read the disk OR the disk went
bad.. When I was running SFD-1001 disks I would always know when someone was logging on I would hear them fire up. So yea, I kinda do miss it, but I can
and have run more boards in emulation now then I ever could have back then!
LOL I had at one point all 3 Image versions running on 1 computer in Emulation... LOL

AL

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

helping write Image 2.0 he was sitting right next to me playing with HIS PC! Now this kid is teaching the old man!!

Nice memories! :)
As the late Lord Vader used to said: "The Appretince becames the Master".

My 16 years old kid just entered one time at my BBS and that's because I
asked to :,(
DAMN KID! :)

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

the disk OR the disk went bad.. When I was running SFD-1001 disks I
would always know when someone was logging on I would hear them fire up.

YEAH! I know the feeling. "I'm a hot shot. Look at the people visiting my
BBS" :) it was a niiiiice time back then.

So yea, I kinda do miss it, but I can and have run more boards in emulation now then I ever could have back then! LOL I had at one point
all 3 Image versions running on 1 computer in Emulation... LOL

Do you have somewhere (maybe FB, maybe YouTube) a video where I can see the
PC running the BBS's in "emulation mode"? I'm still "fliping" knowing you can emulate not 1 but 3 BBS's in the same machine! :P

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

On 01 Apr 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

Nice memories! :)
As the late Lord Vader used to said: "The Appretince becames the Master".

My 16 years old kid just entered one time at my BBS and that's because I asked to :,(
DAMN KID! :)

LOL I know what you mean.. :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

On 01 Apr 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

YEAH! I know the feeling. "I'm a hot shot. Look at the people visiting my BBS" :) it was a niiiiice time back then.

It really was a great time.. LOL

Do you have somewhere (maybe FB, maybe YouTube) a video where I can see the PC running the BBS's in "emulation mode"? I'm still "fliping"
knowing you can emulate not 1 but 3 BBS's in the same machine! :P

Actually, I never took any pics of the 3 of them running at once the closest
I have is a picture on my website of a emulated board, and 3 BBS Servers running on the one pc and my current setup of my Image 3.0 and my C-Net 128 board both in emulation on 1 PC.. My website is wnbbs.duckdns.org If you want to check it out.. :)

***

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

Actually, I never took any pics of the 3 of them running at once the closest I have is a picture on my website of a emulated board, and 3 BBS Servers running on the one pc and my current setup of my Image 3.0 and
my C-Net 128 board both in emulation on 1 PC.. My website is wnbbs.duckdns.org If you want to check it out.. :)

WOW MAN! I'm drowling (that's the word when you have your mouth open an "liquid" is falling from it?) you have a VERY NICE setup! and the room when
the magic happens is very cool and tidy!

As we say here in Argentina "I'm dying of love" with your rack and the Commodores & 1541 on it!
What are the "three gray boxes" under the 1541?

You have a GREAT setup my friend. Best I have seen so far. CONGRATS!

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

On 02 Apr 2021, Don Rolo said the following...

WOW MAN! I'm drowling (that's the word when you have your mouth open an "liquid" is falling from it?) you have a VERY NICE setup! and the room when the magic happens is very cool and tidy!

As we say here in Argentina "I'm dying of love" with your rack and the Commodores & 1541 on it!
What are the "three gray boxes" under the 1541?

You have a GREAT setup my friend. Best I have seen so far. CONGRATS!

***

Thank you. It's taken me a little time to straighten everything out..
Actually, that rack is just a shelving unit for storage.. I saw a pic on Instagram of a woman who put together a computer desk with a regular rack and
I pretty much did the same thing.

The three boxes under the the 1541 on the bottom shelf are a Dell i3 3.5ghz, Dell i3 3.3ghz and a Dell i5 3.5ghz PC machines.. They run the emulations and the other BBS'

Thanks again, I really appreciate the kind comments.. :)

Al

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ][ (80:774/70)

The three boxes under the the 1541 on the bottom shelf are a Dell i3 3.5ghz, Dell i3 3.3ghz and a Dell i5 3.5ghz PC machines.. They run the emulations and the other BBS'

They look pretty neat. And seems small too, not a HUGE tower from what I can see. Cool and classy!

Thanks again, I really appreciate the kind comments.. :)

You deserve them my friend, your setup is "top of the line" and made me feel sooooo amateur :)

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

On Sat 3-Apr-2021 11:39a, Don Rolo@80:774/99.0 said to Bucko:

They look pretty neat. And seems small too, not a HUGE tower from what I can
see. Cool and classy!

Thanks.. They are actually mid towers, 2 5.25 bays and 2 3.5 bays internally.. Can't complain for on average $30 on ebay!! LOL

You deserve them my friend, your setup is "top of the line" and made me feel
sooooo amateur :)

Thank you again.. I do appreciate it...

Al

***
Don Rolo - The Vault BBS - thevaultbbs.ddns.net:2323
+200 Door Games! Atari/ZX Spectrum/C64/DOS stuff!
ANSI & ASCII Art Packs. ONLY curated content.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/05/26 (Windows/64)
* Origin: The Vault BBS (80:774/99)

--- CNet/5
* Origin: The Wrong Number Family Of BBS' - Wrong Number ]I[ (80:774/70.2)