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Wonder if this is the one i saw at Computer Reset in the early 90’s? What a DUMBASS I was at the time for not getting it.. just lyng among a bunch of other boards and vic 20’s and shit. ughhhh

disregard - i wasnt paying close enough attention to the message and the "lprint" lol.

trying to get this one to run and am (under altirra with xm301 selected) getting the following error when I run the main bbs file (after runing initbbs first) Will google 138 and see if I can figure it out myself but I'm assuming one of you have already encountered and likely solved this problem...

weird a bbs that caters to apple 2 gs would be running syncronet or mystic or whatever that bbs software is above, on a PC....

There is some lore on AppleFritter, and I think I’ve seen a bit of here too - but I figured it might be nice to have a “sticky” for all things Apple Cat exploit stories... I didn’t own one, plus the breakout box - till about 2 years ago and still havent built out my 2gs yet - so my experience is simply piddling around with the various programs in an emulator. I’ve read some super neat home grown stories about this modem though. Share yours!!

I realized my mistake as soon as I read 2-3 of your responses... Yes, I was thinking in terms of me needing to have FujiNet as the first device, and I really dont like it butting up against the computer as it does.... Even still... I would still love to see a female SIO cable to male SIO cable.. Whatever it plugs into its going to but up against... LOL. Thanks guys.. I am honestly surprised that this has not been created though...

Curious if there is a Male/Female SIO cable? Reason I ask is I want to purchase FujiNet, but I would prefer NOT to plug it directly into my Atari.. I would rather plug a cable into the atari, and then the Fujinet a few feet away, and then my other peripherals chained from there. Its a desk setup thing and a preference thing. Problem is, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an SIO cable built like this... Does it exist?

Not my sale, nor do I know the person.... I am simply sharing because as an Atari/Apple freak my own eyes went wide and I know this is a rare thing to find, much less 5 of them - much less at the price... Not letting me post a link, so here is a pic.. use search to find it..

ill get it no matter what.. but disappointing that phreaking as it applied to enabling the piracy scene is unfortunate. thanks for the reply

I dont understand the rainbow colored key thing??? what am i missing.. never heard of that before.

Curious.... A lot of the cracker/scener things that have come out have spoken VERY little of BBS'ing and phreaking.. two things that absolutely allowed large scale cracking to occur - at least in the pre-1994 world (and even a bit later).... Does your project go very far into either subject? Codes, bluebox usage, VMB to spread the w0rd, running BBSs to host the files, users???

I need to go through all of these in search of BBS related stuff... I wasn't really a "user group" kind of guy as I always viewed them as very anti piracy... I find out as an adult that this was not always the case though I think the dal-ace folks were pretty straight laced as I heard about them on some of the PD boards.. Still - super awesome that all of this stuff has been preserved - thank you to those of you who have put in the effort to do so!!!!

Won't post the link as I really don't want to advertise for this guy any more than I guess I already am by posting at all... But what is this all about? Does someone really think that they can score that much cash on ANYTHING atari related??? Scam? For humor?? 2600, wireless controllers, and an ET landfill collage.... mindless.

So I bought an A/V modded 7800 from someone I came across at AA.com, bought the wireless adapter and a sega controller, several cartridges - of which one is "Dark Chambers" which is mostly the reason I wanted a 7800 to begin with (I love atari 2600 style adventure games) and it has sat in my cabinet untouched since unwrapping it. I've decided that changes tonight! I'm going to sit down in front of my TV just like I did when I was a little kid and "play atari"... The only difference will be the beer! I had an absolutely horrible weather related event damage my house recently and I figured that playing with the 7800 may be the perfect stress reducer! Not a very informative post - but thought I would share with the collective regardless!

Speaking of BBS's and the portfolio - has there ever been a documented success at running a bbs on the portfolio? I've never owned one so I have not tried - but I love the idea of bbs's on odd devices and the portfolio falls right into that category! And my question revolves around either telnet or dialup..

this is a great topic.. I lived in Plano TX where the was a federated and I recall all of the 8 bit and ST goodness.. I believe they even ran a BBS on the ST with a megafile... Federated is also where my mom purchased for me an XM301 modem.. My first modem and the beginning of an absolutely mindbendingly incredible adventure and line of work.. Due to this federated will forever be a place of lore and awe for me! I look forward to whatever you come across and produce...

CodeSuck and Happy Hacker would make my life complete.. lol.... Somewhere someone has these along with Blue Board BBS for the c64!!!

I have an ebay alert setup for ICD MIO and various faxcimiles of the same .. didnt get notified.. based on the price you guys are talking about it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. I wouldnt pay THAT much for a freaking amiga 600 which I also want badly ... ugh. great topic - and some awesome info and throwback memories.. Thank you!

Could you please point me to that background? I would love to add it to my rotating backgrounds folder as well as my alexa show..

I had no idea the Apshai games were in basic. I will guess then, that Forbidden Forest was as well?

Sorry I’m just now revisiting. I certainly knew that there were some differences - I didn’t know if the base board was “basically” the same though yea, I suppose the mini-size of the xm301 compared to the 1030 sort of gives that away - my bad. Love some of the other comments and I believe MrFish is correct about everything up to the SX212 being Bell 103 compliant. A bit of nostalgia - the XM301 was the first modem I *owned* but I did get to spend some time with an MPP1000c joystick port connector and all prior to that. This was at a time where I did not realize ASCII and ATASCII were something that was relatively incompatible... what was that? 1982? After googling it appears 1984.. Seemed so much earlier. Additionally - and I have no idea how he knew to do this, I had an electrical engineer neighbor who built a “fone flasher” based auto answer device out of a 2 prong power cord, a joystick cable, and - of course - the radio shack fone flasher so I could run Forem 1030 (at first), then Marshware, then finally Express on my Atari 800XL single drive setup. Didn’t have room for warez, but had lots of room for dialups, long distance codes, and phreaking textfiles/apps. The glory days.

The GS’s case lends to it being stackable and 10 of them staked looked pretty cool as a “unit”. Can anyone think of any use scenarioes? Perhaps 9 of them having huge ram disks and the “master” unit runs the bbs and support software. Was wonering if there might be some kind of networking that could be done as well.. Interesting concept.. Atari MiniFrame...

The collectives want to know...

I run this every now and again.. I hit one guy who thinks hes got it but he isnt sure - hasnt found it yet. I run a site called “wardialers.org” where I keep tabs of every known hacking/phreaking app written for the early platforms.. Anything that is NOT DOS, NOT apple past the Lisa (no mac’s), all the way up to ST/Amiga. I have an astounding number of items I need to sort package go through and put online... I hope to finish with what is in my currrent inventory sometime in 2021.. Just once again reaching out to anyone who has a copy of Happy Hacker - has all of the various box tones, in sections, ith as a normal DTMF dialer, dial tone, euro dialtone, etc... IT has no “active” things oing on - you cant even “script” a call - though if I was to rewrite it, I would add that functionallity... Anyway its one of the items I dont have, and I used it EXTENSIVELY (as well as Code Sucker) and I would love to find it... anyone happen to have a copy?

I am in FinTech as well... I have been very lucky to have zero issues. Will pray that your situ resolves without too much pain!