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I used DESQview to run a multi-node BBS back in the day. I tried using Windows 3.1 but it was dog slow in comparison.

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This is where I used it as well. It was that, PC-MOS, or later, OS/2.

So, Wildcat! or PC-Board?

Renegade, you heathen! ;)

was it renegade or remote access that used to play a bleepy rendition of guns n' roses on the pc speaker?

RemoteAccess used that as the default Sysop page tune. It could be replaced, though.

Renegade really was the apex of the BBS era.

BBS software was very regional and scene specific. A lot of Midwestern Warez guys loved Renegade, and Cott Lang hated that! The really cool warez guys ran PC Board (for some reason), or a Fourm hack which looked cool but seemed buggy.

I think Renegade's non-warez scene competition was TAG, WWIV, Wildcat and (of course) Telegard. I kind of liked all of them for various reasons!

Not heathen, just old. Haha!

Edit: my first BBS ran on an Atari 800XL with software written by Jeff Minter. Had to hack up a ring detector for the lame Atari 1200 baud modem. Lol!

We used PC-MOS/386 to run our DOS software on 386SX computers with multiple sessions but it tended to corrupt HDD's.

The source code for PC-MOS/386 version 5.01, the last commercial version, was released under the GPL in 2017 and is available on GitHub.

Thanks - wish we could preserve more software artifacts - the Netware source code would be interesting to look at.

I stole a 256 user version license from a training machine during training, it’s all in command.com. I never used it, it was just a trophy.

WWIV! If you registered they would give you compilable source code and I liked being able to customize it. Before that it was C-Net on the C64. Modifying BBSes is what got me into coding.

Was a big WWIV modder. Never really ran a board myself, but helped several in the East Bay back in the late 80s/early 90s.

I ran PCBoard under DESQView on a 486 laptop with an external SCSI drive for file storage. Being able to use the BBS at the same time as users was amazing the first time I did it.

I remember trying double-dos to do that as well.. DESQview was much better at multiline

me too! Running BBS for several lines on one pc was awesome at that time.

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