Xeander

Hello I am William I not only ran BBCS I rewrote it making it stable Unfortunately all of my changes Were at Compuserve Atari 8 bit Forum posts I ran the Atari Hotel BBCS (Atascii) Graphical BBS for Atari users only The Other Side was text based ASCII login Rather than list all of the changes in equipment Over the course of operation I will describe its final Setup Atari 800 xl with 1 meg memory mod Runtime 8 cartridge 1 meg ICD MIO 2 Atari 1050 dual density drives (not double) 4 Hard drive locations only 2 physical A hard drive controller I think it was a something 4000 A Supra modem 2400 baud Now the good stuff A custom built interface that connected 2 Atari computer joysticks together Custom drivers for Host and slave imbedded in Antic routine We had myself and Richard in another house with slave connected to Host of BBCS In total we had 2 users by modem connection and 2 locals myself and Richard or 4 users online at same time The Hotel opened with a short walk up to the desk Here anyone could check their messages If you turned right and went down the hall you came To the bar the chat center From the desk if you turned left you came to an elevator Each Floor button 1-4 was a separate Hard drive for files listings And then I added the roof where you would board the space shuttle and thru a series of choices pilot it into orbit The rewrite process and results posted at Compuserve did 2 things at that time Ended a lawsuit over BBCS and its 13 failed attempts to make it stable And got me promoted to Forum Admin for Compuserve If you are trying to use "stock" versions of BBCS I can tell you this You find all kinds of typos in it (those were my first corrections) The system will not stay running I had to dump all hexadecimal values from the floppies to paper for each module Translate the hexadecimal on the paper and the edit Retranslate back to disk data form hexadecimal Write each change as changes to the source For typos it was not much work But for the final stable version of BBCS Without my posts at Compuserve I believe At this time it is pointless to even try to fix it