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It’s surprising how much of this era has just disappeared. I recently searched around to see if I could find a few of the door games from my youth (Legends and Virtual SysOp) and there really isn’t much out there. Some games like Tradewars live on, but software for TBBS/TDBS is basically forgotten.

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If you haven't come across this already: the most comprehensive archive I could find is http://archives.thebbs.org/

It's dial-up slow when downloading files, but maybe you'll find what you're looking for.

To relive a little nostalgia, check out "The Last Call BBS" game [1]. This is a collection of games framed as BBS online games, and very well done.

[1] https://zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/

I believe Usurper and Legend of the Red Dragon are still running somewhere. They’re basically just old DOS games running on someone’s computer you dialed into.

I remember years ago someone made a PHP version of Legend of the Red Dragon, I think it was Legend of the Green Dragon if not mistaken. I wish I still had my original registration code that was mailed to me and signed by Seth Robinson.

Is this it? https://github.com/stephenKise/Legend-of-the-Green-Dragon

I had Usurper back in the day. It’s one of those items I lost during a move.

I remember playing an Eragon version of this game when I was a kid. I couldn't figure out what the software was for years, and finally figured it out a couple years ago. Unfortunately I couldn't find any information on the specific instance I played, but it was nice to get an answer :) Good memories there

They definitely are running, in more than one of the BBSs I call regularly.

I spent hundreds of hours playing Tradewars as a kid.

There’s a service to play vga planets over the Internet as well. Googling will find it.

Tradewars is still sold here: https://www.classictw.com/

TWGS is Tradewars Game Server that uses Telnet to run on a Windows PC over the Internet: https://www.eisonline.com/downloads/

It runs on WINE but it won't do the Big Bang, you have to Big Bang the universe from a Windows PC and then export it to be imported into WINE.

Working on that… see tbbs.org and the link to the discord…

Heyyyyy Phil! Great to see you here. - Jason Scott

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