[Coco] Coco on Intenet BBS

[Bill Pierce]

Wow!
I had forgotten how much fun Door games were... Thanks Bill Gordon :-)
I remember 3 of us staying up all night and combining our forces to take TradeWars from some guy who had it wrapped around his pinky. The guy didn't know what hit him when he logged on the next day. We had control of most of the resources (IIRC).

Then there was the online D&D. I played religiously. We also had a local group that met at my house on the weekends. My wife & I would host about 6-8 people from Friday night till (sometimes) Sunday morning. I remember trying to write some D&D software in Basic09, never did finish it. I think I got the Character generator running and that was about it, along with a dice roller. I would sit at the Coco and play on a BBS while we were playing IRL.

Those were the days....

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gordon <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jan 5, 2014 2:47 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco on Intenet BBS


Thanks, Bill, I made it!! Only problem I'm having is changing SuperComm's
screen colors.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Pierce
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 11:12 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] Coco on Intenet BBS


Ok, I finally logged my Coco onto Bill Gordon's "SquareOne" BBS.
As soon as I connected... I was taken back to 1985 and Mark Samwick's
"Wilmington 80 BBS" where I spent MANY hours in the "Color Computer SIG"
discussing Coco programming, software and playing D&D. There was some Coco
software for download as well. It was there I met a lot of Wilmington area
CocoNuts and discovered another local BBS... "New Hanover Highschool BBS"
which had a very active Coco SIG and tons of Coco files. I eventually became
"CoSIGOp" along with Dean Holder and kept the Coco file downloads stocked
with stuff from Delphi till it went down in about 1999 or 2001 (??). I
really miss those days :-)

Here's the setup to get on Bill Gordon's "SquareOne BBS" (for those who
don't know)

PC:
DriveWire4 (latest) w/active internet connection (not dw3) Coco 3:
Nitros9 w/dw4 (nos96x09L2v030209coco3_dw.dsk) SuperComm (supercomm.dsk)
Instructions:
Start Supercomm by typing "supercomm /n" (no quotes) hit "F1", "t" (or <alt>
t) and select "ANSI" for your terminal Now (blindly) type
"ATD71.68.29.241:23" (without quotes).
As an alternate to typing the address, you can set up an "autodial" file. In
/DD/SYS/DIAL, create a file named "Squre_One.adf".
In that file (with text editor) type:

ADS=ATD71.68.29.241:23<CR>
RTR=FF<CR>
RPS=10<CR>

To use the autodial in Supercomm, just hit "F1", "a" (or <alt> a) and select
"Square One"
Use either method to dial...
Wait for connection
Follow prompts... Username/password or New User And you're in !! 


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