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AH! The good old days. I used to roam bbs's around the world getting wares as well as getting those wonderful ansi packs (that I still have from 1993-1997- contact me via e-mail if you want some). When I started in 1992, everything was almost over in the scene, INC the biggest cracking team, as well as the first on PC's (I think?) was dying. Then it came to THG, and Phoenix, a local (but very good) Montreal cracking team. Then there was Nuke, the virus making group and Darkman (which I met accidentaly).
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Carl Eric Codere AH! The good old days. I used to roam bbs's around the world getting wares as well as getting those wonderful ansi packs (that I still have from 1993-1997- contact me via e-mail if you want some). When I started in 1992, everything was almost over in the scene, INC the biggest cracking team, as well as the first on PC's (I think?) was dying. Then it came to THG, and Phoenix, a local (but very good) Montreal cracking team. Then there was Nuke, the virus making group and Darkman (which I met accidentaly). And in the 514 AC everything stopped one day (in 1995), when most boards got busted, The Notice and Twins in particular. Everyone had high speed modems (they were getting very cheap), and more and more young kids were getting in on the biggies (and the stupid fighting and flaming messages shortly followed). Anyhow, it is all over now, but it was fun while it lasted. I have a lot of old intros, ANSI packs, and textfiles - contact me for more information! Mirage BBS - This was the best of the best for speed, evidently i never got in (I could not even get the phone number to it, was somewhere in California). Sadly enough, after several busts at other boards, the sysop got scared and simply closed shop. Used to be the Razor WHQ. (Ami-Express) The Pits - This bbs lasted for over 10 years, it was the THG WHQ and was located in NYC. Never got validated. (I hated those NUV voting systems). It closed down (why?) after the sysop had problem with the phone company. (PC-Board) Alpha 2010 - This bbs came from absolutely nowhere, but after a while it was one of the biggest (in terms of storage) in North America, sadly enough it was busted. NUV = no validation (PC-Board) The Elusive Dreams - The legends of legends, for over 2 years, this was the fastest bbs in the world, if your group wanted to be known and claim to have released something first, you HAD to upload it to this board to have any credit. Closed down a while back. Evidently I never got validated there. ACiD HQ. (PC-Board) Assassin's guild - When everything closed down, there was this bbs left, and it rose up quite fast, I don't know much about this board, except that I have a small loader for it (when it had only two nodes!). By the time this board had become the fastest, I had retired from the scene. Was busted though. Never called. The Wall - This bbs took the place of The Elusive Dreams, when it closed down, it became one of the fastest in the world, it later became PTG WHQ. The board was busted in March 1996. It used to have 28 Gigabytes online! (thanks for the information Master of Puppets). X-Factor - Still alive and well AND BIG, one of the biggest in NYC. I called there a few times, but I did not like my ratio (1:2 bytes, normally 1:3 for LD callers), I never called back, I think that was a BIG MISTAKE from my part. Beyond Akira - This was the de facto fastest board in Canada, no doubt about that. ISDN lines included! Called there once, got validated by a miracle (NUP was required but I got in anyhow). I made a mistake in not uploading immediately (What could I upload, I did not have anything?), got flushed when I later called. (Amiexpress - last time I called). Got busted recently. The Notice - I did not even know these kind of boards existed in Montreal. First time I called there, there was no PC section, but the sysop decided to open one, and I mean it was fast, even after calling other boards in others AC's (which were big, 3+ nodes), I could still not upload at this board. I gave up on uploading entirely it was useless. At least 70% of his users were from Europe. (Ami-Express) - 4 nodes. Boards that I used to call (all are now down) * Name: Lithium [313] (6 nodes) Groups: Paradox, Skillion, Romkids, PWA among others. Destiny: Disappeared from the face of the earth one day! Comments: Cool people/ratio/messages and sysop. BBS System: Ami-Express. * Name: City of Chaos [212] (1 node) Groups: A lot, PTG among others. Destiny: ?????? Comments: Fast! Sysop was co-sysop of X-Factor. BBS System: PC-Express / Oblivion/2. * Name: Towers of Sorcery [614] (4 nodes) Groups: Prestige among others. Destiny: Got busted in 1997. Comments: Cool but quiet board. BBS System: Ami-Express. * Name: Phiber Dub [314] (3 nodes) Groups: some trainer groups. Destiny: ?????? Comments: quiet board. BBS System: PCBoard. * Name: Chemical Warzone [613] (6 nodes) Groups: Genesis , among others. Comments: Cool board, one of the oldies in the region. Destiny: Closed down when HD = kaput. BBS System: Ami-Express. * Name: Eldar's Craftworld [418] (4 nodes) Groups: Razor among others. Destiny: Closed down and reopened for consoles only. (still exists??) Comments: Sysop did not seem to know what he wanted, always changed BBS system and groups! Cool bbs nonetheless, sometimes slow, sometimes fast BBS System: PC-Express then PCBoard * Name: Rivendell (1 node) Groups: ICE Headquarters Comments: The place to get programming/graphics sutff Destiny: Closed down when sysop retired. BBS System: Renegade hack. * Name: Altars of Madness (4 nodes) Groups: ICE, among others. Comments: The place to get graphics packs fast. A lot of message networks. BBS that I liked a lot. Destiny: Closed down when sysop moved to USA. BBS System: Renegade Hack. * Name: Renegade Legion [416] (4 nodes) Groups: INC then PTG, Dread. Comments: Great sysop. Destiny: Sysop now sells shareware CD's!! BBS System: PCBoard. * Name: Dark Society [408] (1 node) Groups: ACID Headquarters Comments: Too much messages! Difficult to connect to. Destiny: ?????? BBS System: Oblivion/2 Other boards that I visited: * Infinite Darkness - ICE US HQ, and distribution site for absolutely everything on earth in graphics. Used to have one hellish node. I called three times, and it took me exactly SIX hours to connect the first time!! FOUR hours the other times. I think the sysop should have installed more nodes. This board is still alive and well. * Latitude Zero - (510) Mirage Distribution. Good place for messages (networks). * Jabberwocky's bbs - Fast ansi pack distribution.
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