There's just something peaceful and warm about seeing BBS screens render on an old CRT. I really miss those days! As others have said here - so much to learn and enjoy when you're a child!
Fantastic vlog. I was the sysop of Metnet BBS - Jon Witty - from 1988 til 1997 , before that was Metnet on Compunet. It was operated on an Amiga 4000 68060 with an A2232 and many hard drives. Ten phone lines ran into it from my little flat in Hull, UK. There was also an ISDN line in later years with telnet accessibility to it. It was the largest free system in the UK and no piracy was allowed. Those ANSI menus took a long time to create, especially the same space invaders animation for the games section. Metnet operated on Mebbsnet software and was the UK support and also support for MUD systems. Later became support BBS for Son of Spong that was the Amiga Format magazine. I recall they gave me a free hard drive for the privilige. Lots of stories and history. I have decided to create a website telling the story and hopefully to recreate the system (at least on a small scale) . You have inspired me today... Thanks..
@@MalhaIIa Yeah, I switched to that one the night Donald Trump won the presidency. Appropriate then, even more so today. Sorry - no politics on the channel, please.
oh the memories! I ran a multi-node BBS on an Amiga 2000 with Ami express, 3 Us Robotics HST Couriers, the BBS was called Pleasure Dome. 0 day warez :)
I connected my A1200 to the net back in 1993. I remember the early web browser pointed its temp directory to the RAM disk. It would fill up and crash so I had to remap it to my hard drive which worked but blimey it was slow and pounded the snot out of my 80mb hard drive. I still remember the first BBS I called. It was in Ireland and I downloaded the “Jesus on E’s” demo as my trader friend somehow never got hold of it. For that reason it’ll always be my favourite demo.
I remember using this computer as well as my Vic20. These were the early days of personal computing and Internet before the masses. We lived on public assistance and all my well off relatives gave me money for Christmas and I was able to buy one. This computer felt like some magical alien technology from across the universe which had the power to transport me to other worlds.
It's dead now, but I'm working on bringing it back to life, but my Amiga 3000 was permanently connected to the Internet from around 1994 till the early 2000's, and I ran a multi-line BBS. It is also possible to get 802.11b drivers for the Avaya/Orinoco/Proxim 16 bit PCMCIA cards, for use in Amiga 600's and 1200's
I remember playing Populus and Falcon on my Atari ST with my friend by linking them up together. It was awesome and had hours of fun, would have been around 1988.
It's always nice teaching old tech new tricks :). It's why I have a rotary dial phone that can call over VoIP lines and a black-and-white TV that can display digital television.
So funny. I was castigated as a "comms weirdo" for saying how fun it was to chat to people online, and that digitizing was so much more socially acceptable. Thank you for the video. It made me appreciate what gave me another nervous breakdown... Seeing a future when other people just could not. :)
@@danwood_uk With a subject matter like the Amiga, it was fun. 90% guesswork mostly. I was forbidden access to Amicon, conflict of interests to sign NDA with Commodore and be an independent journalist at the same time. God knows I did my best to get it right.
My Amiga days, don't want to know the hours I've spend on them, from the 500 until the mighty 4000. You've done a great job showing and describing the BBS emotions, not being owned by big corporate dollars yet, I miss it. Subscribed!
Nice to see you back! There are a lot of highly polished, well produced channels these days, all of which I love. But I missed your casual style just hanging out in the computer room. Few people can do that style well. Usually its just someone rambling, with a lot of "umm" "ahh..." in a dark room. awkward jump cuts, etc. It takes practice to make scripted feel unscripted but still engaging, seem-less and fluid. I know its simple skills. But obviously practiced well.
I remember getting my Amiga 1200 and USR Sportster 14400 connected in 94/95 to a dial up modem rack at Dundee Uni where I was studying. Allowed a remote session onto one of the Sun Sparcs that was internet connected and Telneting into chat BBSs like Brinta and Skynet (and occasionally doing C++). So much study time wasted on chatting to people all over the world, was mind blowing at the time!
When I was in high school (Aus) in the early 90's I recall I did maybe 1 or 2 classes of creative writing on electric typewriters. Then the teachers ushered us into another classroom from then on which was decked out with apple macintosh pc's. With a choice of floppy or hard drive, it was alien to me, then within a few years again we had laser disc home theatre systems & home gaming consoles. My first was a nintendo 64 which came pre loaded with a game called "Alex the kid". Could complete the entire game in under 40 minutes LOL. Now I can connect to the internet from almost anywhere on the planet with a small device I can fit in my pocket. My teachers would have put me in detention if I'd tried to explain modern tech to them back then. At least my childhood taught me how to use a compass, read a street map & I knew exactly where all my local telephone boxes were in case of an emergency!
NComm!!! There's a blast from the past! I too missed out on the BBS days for the most part. Eventually I moved to a large enough city where I could dial in to GEnie on my 1200 and not have to pay for long-distance.
Thank's for the blast from the past. I remember have a commodore 64 way back in 1980 it was one of my very first computers. It's was nice to see that the old classics PC's still has what it takes get in the modern web. I appreciate your time and effort in making this video and I'm glad I found your channel and yes I did subscribe. Please keep up the great work and I'll keep coming back for more.
@@RMoocher then it probably was in 1982 I don't have as good as a memory as I use to have. As I remember it was because I just went to middle school at the time. Wow how time flies by. Just seems like yesterday.
I'm going to have to get one of these sooner than later. I love the fact this one has a display on it. I started dialing BBSes in 1990 I suppose (even ran a couple of boards), and those are some of my most cherished memories of computing as a kid. Great video!
Ahh the memories of a bygone age of pre DSL and cable modems where few were brave enough to risk using a box of blue...... I still got my old /x 3.xx BBS on a DDS2 dat tape somewhere, not sure it if its recoverable or not after all this time- those were the days hot warez cool sysops and met a lot of kewl dudes while it lasted. . . . . .
Back in '94/95 I got an Amiga 1200 connected to Demon Internet using a US Robotics Sportster 14400 and configuring AmiTCP by hand to dialup Demons local POP. Lynx text based web browser, Usenet, and Gopher were the order of the day.
I remember producing really really huge phone bills on my A1200/030/50Mhz/882 with 8 MB FastRAM with Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel's fabulous TERM terminal program. Or connecting to the FIDO net with trapdoor. Internet access via console (gopher!) first trough call in to universities (was about 14 that time), later with the AmiTCP/Miami TCP/IP stacks. Was a beta tester for YAM. Those were wild times :)
good work as always Dan. My kids who are used to only hearing you on the podcast kept asking where the other guy was. "no not the guy with the smooth radio voice, the other guy with the super english accent that we can't understand"
Ahh. I remember running Frontier BBS back in the day on my old A500 with 40MB hard drive. good times. We even had an email program (before email) I wrote that would send messages up and down our trunk of BBSs over night.
I remember my first connection (with my Amiga 500) to a BBS (2400 baud modem)... And it was a blast! Uploading something you just made, and perhaps (sometimes there was Down/Uploading ratio which sucked) downloading new stuff... I think it was my second time and I had hard time with the BBS menu system (I tried stuff I was not privileged to do basically... But I did not know that)... Anyway the BBS admin looked at my weird tries and tribulations and started to chat with me... I was OMG! this is cool! I asked me what I wanted to do... I told him and we had a small constructive chat and then he made me a privileged member (almost admin status :-). In the early 90's that was really great! So I had to make my own BBS on my Amiga (can't remember which terminal program I used, but it had a wonderful AREXX port in later development which was awesome) so I could relive that moment with a user and me as admin :-)
Even to me who is still 3 years away from entering his 30's, it's always fun to see BBS in action on hardware of its age. Personally, I sadly don't have the time to spend with Commodores anymore but I wonder if it'd work through Vice running on my Raspberry Pi inside the breadbin C64 that's connected to the web.
Mate SO glad to see you making videos on this channel again. I've made reference to you and linked to you on my first video. Hope you don't mind. You're the man man! :D
very cool . I ram an amiga bbs in the late 80's I used the DLG bbs program on an amiga 500 with 4 scsi hard drives. I just got it back out of the closet and bought a gotec drive emulator
Dan, I have to say that I have never heard someone with so much "cheer" in their voice. Also, the level of detail that you cover is fantastic, you have a new subscriber here in California. However, I am more of an Atari fan but the Amiga is still a great machine.
BBS days were great , watching a 14k jpeg download , line by line..... I was amazed when I got my Amiga on the proper internet with Demon , I had to learn all about tcp/ip and this new fangled browser called "Mosaic" !!!!
Good to see you back Dan, looking forward to the next vid. I'll surely be picking one of those modems up as I used to love the bbs scene back in the day! 😊 Oh and if your out and about in Notts, tap me up, I could use a beer with someone as geeky as me! Lol.
Nice video. I have one of these and it is fantastic. He also makes the regular WiModem for the C64. Good stuff. A cool related video would be showcasing all the great terminal programs that are available for the Amiga as there are some greats.
Great video... I ran BAd DReams BBS back in the day.. used to love AMI EXPRESS! loads of mems... silly phone bills... blueboxing!! arrr we where lucky..
Excellent video! I was looking into purchasing a Wifi232, but they aren't for sale any longer. Hopefully the WiModem232 will make a good a substitute. (Attempting to get my TRS-80 Color Computer online)
What always sticks out from these old "computer user clips", like around 9:30 of Dan's video, is that especially in the 80's and probably well into the 90's people generally didn't give two shits about ergonomics.
I remember quite vivdly an internal discussion on Amiga Format about the importance of form and function. My stance was that if it didn't do the function, the form was irrelevant. What I realize now is that the form is crucial to attracting... but then, I was a writer, not an arty person. :)
Great info, Dan. I just got a NIC64+ to go with my C128, and am planning on getting on some boards with it. Your info on who still hosts the BBS's will be helpful.
Using a similar products I’ve been able to get a c64 and a 32k bbc micro online and many different psions online . Even got a amstrad nc100 notepad on line .
Ah the good old bbs days. A friend of mine made a program for amiga called Thor, it reduced the time spendt on bbs by downloading lists and such into the program. You could then select the files you wanted from the list and mark them for download. Also you could write messages and such in the program. So when you clicked activate bbs the program called up the bbs, did the login, sendt the messages, downloaded the files, and closed the line. Everything automatically, it saved us alot of money. I think theres still the free version of it around somewhere, maybe on aminet?
I used a surf squirrel -pcmcia card and IBrowse with my A1200, biggest issue was that vanilla A1200 serial port only supported up to 28800kb/s any faster and you got buffer over run. Issue with todays web pages is that they are very resource heavy to use and can't really be used without beefing up your Amiga, mine had a 68060 with 16megs of RAM and even back then in -96 it already had issues with web pages loading.
Back when I was a kid the closest I got to the internet was trolling my friend to think I connected to the internet and stole money from a bank by making a truly bad basic program that said "Do you want to take out money y/n". My friend was horrified when I clicked y and nearly cried. Good times.
I wish it came with a C64 adapter. The Amiga 500 should be able to handle 19200. Mine did, although it did have a 14Mhz accelerator. I could almost handle 38400 but not 100% reliably.
i was watching one of your earlier videos and i saw you have a dreamcast. Considering you have brought the mighty A500 back online, i think now it's time to bring the dreamcast back online, since there is now an easy solution to do that (the dreampi), don't you think so? :)
Brilliant video Dan, that modem is gold and lets make BBS popular again, no in-your-face Ads and constant distractions, the Internet used to be for geeks, its become a corporate, political awful place
I never got the chance to do any of this back in the days, never having owned an Amiga or in fact any computer that could have gone online. This probably sounds like a dumb question but how does Baud rate compare to kb/s? For instance what would 9600 baud be in kb/s?
Wow, I just saw a name Jim Drew. Crikey he's been around since Noah played fullback for Jerusalem.. I purchase Fusion Mac Emulator, he was the programmer..
There's just something peaceful and warm about seeing BBS screens render on an old CRT. I really miss those days! As others have said here - so much to learn and enjoy when you're a child!
I agree. It brings some real memories flooding back.
BBS Days, brings back good memories :D
Fantastic vlog. I was the sysop of Metnet BBS - Jon Witty - from 1988 til 1997 , before that was Metnet on Compunet. It was operated on an Amiga 4000 68060 with an A2232 and many hard drives. Ten phone lines ran into it from my little flat in Hull, UK. There was also an ISDN line in later years with telnet accessibility to it. It was the largest free system in the UK and no piracy was allowed. Those ANSI menus took a long time to create, especially the same space invaders animation for the games section. Metnet operated on Mebbsnet software and was the UK support and also support for MUD systems. Later became support BBS for Son of Spong that was the Amiga Format magazine. I recall they gave me a free hard drive for the privilige. Lots of stories and history. I have decided to create a website telling the story and hopefully to recreate the system (at least on a small scale) . You have inspired me today... Thanks..
Damn. I miss those Bulletin Board days. Such a sense of wonder. I was sooo young back then.
o.o you got my old avatar
@@MalhaIIa Yeah, I switched to that one the night Donald Trump won the presidency. Appropriate then, even more so today. Sorry - no politics on the channel, please.
oh the memories! I ran a multi-node BBS on an Amiga 2000 with Ami express, 3 Us Robotics HST Couriers, the BBS was called Pleasure Dome. 0 day warez :)
@Brad Viviviyal good days! you will love this ua-cam.com/video/nO5vjmDFZaI/v-deo.html
I connected my A1200 to the net back in 1993. I remember the early web browser pointed its temp directory to the RAM disk. It would fill up and crash so I had to remap it to my hard drive which worked but blimey it was slow and pounded the snot out of my 80mb hard drive.
I still remember the first BBS I called. It was in Ireland and I downloaded the “Jesus on E’s” demo as my trader friend somehow never got hold of it. For that reason it’ll always be my favourite demo.
The Commodore 1541 disk drive, probably the most excited I’ve ever been about a piece of tech when I got one of those as a 14 year old kid.
I remember using this computer as well as my Vic20. These were the early days of personal computing and Internet before the masses. We lived on public assistance and all my well off relatives gave me money for Christmas and I was able to buy one. This computer felt like some magical alien technology from across the universe which had the power to transport me to other worlds.
It's dead now, but I'm working on bringing it back to life, but my Amiga 3000 was permanently connected to the Internet from around 1994 till the early 2000's, and I ran a multi-line BBS.
It is also possible to get 802.11b drivers for the Avaya/Orinoco/Proxim 16 bit PCMCIA cards, for use in Amiga 600's and 1200's
CNet or DLG?
I remember playing Populus and Falcon on my Atari ST with my friend by linking them up together. It was awesome and had hours of fun, would have been around 1988.
It's always nice teaching old tech new tricks :).
It's why I have a rotary dial phone that can call over VoIP lines and a black-and-white TV that can display digital television.
So funny. I was castigated as a "comms weirdo" for saying how fun it was to chat to people online, and that digitizing was so much more socially acceptable. Thank you for the video. It made me appreciate what gave me another nervous breakdown... Seeing a future when other people just could not. :)
Pat McDonald as in Amiga Format writer? If so it was probably your articles that got me interested in the first place 😎
@@danwood_uk With a subject matter like the Amiga, it was fun. 90% guesswork mostly. I was forbidden access to Amicon, conflict of interests to sign NDA with Commodore and be an independent journalist at the same time. God knows I did my best to get it right.
My Amiga days, don't want to know the hours I've spend on them, from the 500 until the mighty 4000. You've done a great job showing and describing the BBS emotions, not being owned by big corporate dollars yet, I miss it. Subscribed!
Nice to see you back! There are a lot of highly polished, well produced channels these days, all of which I love. But I missed your casual style just hanging out in the computer room. Few people can do that style well. Usually its just someone rambling, with a lot of "umm" "ahh..." in a dark room. awkward jump cuts, etc. It takes practice to make scripted feel unscripted but still engaging, seem-less and fluid. I know its simple skills. But obviously practiced well.
I got a similar device like this, and is amazing! Calling the BBS-es with my real AMIGA 1200 is such a blast from the past!
I remember getting my Amiga 1200 and USR Sportster 14400 connected in 94/95 to a dial up modem rack at Dundee Uni where I was studying. Allowed a remote session onto one of the Sun Sparcs that was internet connected and Telneting into chat BBSs like Brinta and Skynet (and occasionally doing C++). So much study time wasted on chatting to people all over the world, was mind blowing at the time!
best amiga specialist in the world by far big up dan dj as well!!!!!!!!!
When I was in high school (Aus) in the early 90's I recall I did maybe 1 or 2 classes of creative writing on electric typewriters.
Then the teachers ushered us into another classroom from then on which was decked out with apple macintosh pc's.
With a choice of floppy or hard drive, it was alien to me, then within a few years again we had laser disc home theatre systems & home gaming consoles. My first was a nintendo 64 which came pre loaded with a game called "Alex the kid".
Could complete the entire game in under 40 minutes LOL.
Now I can connect to the internet from almost anywhere on the planet with a small device I can fit in my pocket.
My teachers would have put me in detention if I'd tried to explain modern tech to them back then.
At least my childhood taught me how to use a compass, read a street map & I knew exactly where all my local telephone boxes were in case of an emergency!
Very cool... and OMG much much money spent on BBS back in the days..
NComm!!! There's a blast from the past! I too missed out on the BBS days for the most part. Eventually I moved to a large enough city where I could dial in to GEnie on my 1200 and not have to pay for long-distance.
That flashing display on the chip looks awesome !!. I'd turn my light out just for this alone.
Nice to see you again, was starting to wonder if something's happened.
Thank's for the blast from the past. I remember have a commodore 64 way back in 1980 it was one of my very first computers. It's was nice to see that the old classics PC's still has what it takes get in the modern web. I appreciate your time and effort in making this video and I'm glad I found your channel and yes I did subscribe. Please keep up the great work and I'll keep coming back for more.
C64's weren't out until 1982. 1983 outside of the U.S
@@RMoocher then it probably was in 1982 I don't have as good as a memory as I use to have. As I remember it was because I just went to middle school at the time. Wow how time flies by. Just seems like yesterday.
I'm going to have to get one of these sooner than later. I love the fact this one has a display on it. I started dialing BBSes in 1990 I suppose (even ran a couple of boards), and those are some of my most cherished memories of computing as a kid. Great video!
Ahh the memories of a bygone age of pre DSL and cable modems where few were brave enough to risk using a box of blue...... I still got my old /x 3.xx BBS on a DDS2 dat tape somewhere, not sure it if its recoverable or not after all this time- those were the days hot warez cool sysops and met a lot of kewl dudes while it lasted. . . . . .
Back in '94/95 I got an Amiga 1200 connected to Demon Internet using a US Robotics Sportster 14400 and configuring AmiTCP by hand to dialup Demons local POP. Lynx text based web browser, Usenet, and Gopher were the order of the day.
I was doing exactly the same thing, happy days. I still have the same Demon e-mail address and website at www.incanus.demon.co.uk
I remember producing really really huge phone bills on my A1200/030/50Mhz/882 with 8 MB FastRAM with Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel's fabulous TERM terminal program. Or connecting to the FIDO net with trapdoor. Internet access via console (gopher!) first trough call in to universities (was about 14 that time), later with the AmiTCP/Miami TCP/IP stacks. Was a beta tester for YAM. Those were wild times :)
good work as always Dan. My kids who are used to only hearing you on the podcast kept asking where the other guy was. "no not the guy with the smooth radio voice, the other guy with the super english accent that we can't understand"
Nice to see you here Dave, big fan of your channel! :)
Ahh. I remember running Frontier BBS back in the day on my old A500 with 40MB hard drive. good times. We even had an email program (before email) I wrote that would send messages up and down our trunk of BBSs over night.
Great to have you back Dan. 😎👍🏻
That Prestel loading screen brought back memories of using them on my BBC!
This is so cool! I had a bbs too back in the end ofthe 90’s with a friend, not 24/7 ( i was 15 and we had just 1 line)
I remember my first connection (with my Amiga 500) to a BBS (2400 baud modem)... And it was a blast! Uploading something you just made, and perhaps (sometimes there was Down/Uploading ratio which sucked) downloading new stuff... I think it was my second time and I had hard time with the BBS menu system (I tried stuff I was not privileged to do basically... But I did not know that)... Anyway the BBS admin looked at my weird tries and tribulations and started to chat with me... I was OMG! this is cool! I asked me what I wanted to do... I told him and we had a small constructive chat and then he made me a privileged member (almost admin status :-). In the early 90's that was really great! So I had to make my own BBS on my Amiga (can't remember which terminal program I used, but it had a wonderful AREXX port in later development which was awesome) so I could relive that moment with a user and me as admin :-)
I had a Supra 14400 modem hooked up to my A500 around 1994-1995. Got to use e-mail for the first time through some BBS, which was neat.
Its been too long, more videos ! :)
Even to me who is still 3 years away from entering his 30's, it's always fun to see BBS in action on hardware of its age.
Personally, I sadly don't have the time to spend with Commodores anymore but I wonder if it'd work through Vice running on my Raspberry Pi inside the breadbin C64 that's connected to the web.
Radio Shack was our best friend back in the day!
Love your videos Dan. More please : )
Mate SO glad to see you making videos on this channel again. I've made reference to you and linked to you on my first video. Hope you don't mind. You're the man man! :D
Awesome, love the vid! :)
What did you censor out at 2:03!? Something under the F3 key?
That F3 key is too hot for UA-cam... in all seriousness, that wasn't meant to be there lol.
Good to see you back Dan. Hope you're well.
So excited I didn't even care about the 360p resolution ...
I watch vids at 240p
It's 1080p now.
Welcome back. More content please Dan. It's always top drawer.
@@Daz555Daz No user should ever see a video before it's 1080p, ever!
Hey Dan , Looking forward to seeing a video on the first Amiga I bought , the 1500 , I believe you have just become the proud owner of one :)
very cool . I ram an amiga bbs in the late 80's I used the DLG bbs program on an amiga 500 with 4 scsi hard drives. I just got it back out of the closet and bought a gotec drive emulator
Awesome. I could only dream about surfing BBS's with my Amiga 500. It was more far away then buying a HDD.
JRComm/Terminus were the best. Ran them back in the day. Did DLG and CNet for Amiga. Did Fido and Ami-Net. So fun
Dan, I have to say that I have never heard someone with so much "cheer" in their voice. Also, the level of detail that you cover is fantastic, you have a new subscriber here in California. However, I am more of an Atari fan but the Amiga is still a great machine.
Man it's been a long time ! No Xmas special upload this time round. Hope your keeping well
Check out The Retro Hour podcast to see what he's been up to. Does a new episode every week!
@@Lorfarius ah thanks for the recommendation!
I used a lot of irc back in the day, covering the modem with a cushion until it connected so the noise didn’t disturb anyone.
On the one hand, this is cool!
On the other hand: I don't need any more Trade Wars All-Nighters, thanks!
Great video, as usual. Glad you back. BTW I heard a guy on the radio in the works van, I thought I know that voice lol very cool
Nice to see, something about the BBS scene - Next time try the BlackICE BBS ;)
BBS days were great , watching a 14k jpeg download , line by line..... I was amazed when I got my Amiga on the proper internet with Demon , I had to learn all about tcp/ip and this new fangled browser called "Mosaic" !!!!
Good to see you back Dan, looking forward to the next vid. I'll surely be picking one of those modems up as I used to love the bbs scene back in the day! 😊 Oh and if your out and about in Notts, tap me up, I could use a beer with someone as geeky as me! Lol.
Nice video. I have one of these and it is fantastic. He also makes the regular WiModem for the C64. Good stuff. A cool related video would be showcasing all the great terminal programs that are available for the Amiga as there are some greats.
Great video... I ran BAd DReams BBS back in the day.. used to love AMI EXPRESS! loads of mems... silly phone bills... blueboxing!! arrr we where lucky..
Excellent video! I was looking into purchasing a Wifi232, but they aren't for sale any longer. Hopefully the WiModem232 will make a good a substitute. (Attempting to get my TRS-80 Color Computer online)
BBSes and Dial-Up Internet, how I spent the early 90s :D
Good to see you again, it's been a long time! Great video!
Dan, you should be on bbc's click, seriously you have excellent presentations on your video's.
wonderful crt sound at 3:12
I say "wonderful" cuz I am trying to enjoy the sound while I can still hear it
What always sticks out from these old "computer user clips", like around 9:30 of Dan's video, is that especially in the 80's and probably well into the 90's people generally didn't give two shits about ergonomics.
I remember quite vivdly an internal discussion on Amiga Format about the importance of form and function. My stance was that if it didn't do the function, the form was irrelevant. What I realize now is that the form is crucial to attracting... but then, I was a writer, not an arty person. :)
First time I connected my 500 to the net was in 1996 using Miami and 3 months later I finally purchased an Intel Pentium 166 machine.
So much cool retro hardware sooo little time. Great video as always!
Mayflower, Arkansas! I've got family there, maybe I should ask and see if they know who's running that bbs
Cool I remember connecting my a1200 to internet through modem in the 90s and I feel no need to do that anymore lol
Welcome back Dan!
I was a BBC B user and we had Telecomm Gold bulletin board.
I still play the game Elite by David Braben.
Great info, Dan. I just got a NIC64+ to go with my C128, and am planning on getting on some boards with it. Your info on who still hosts the BBS's will be helpful.
I love your videos Dan.
Using a similar products I’ve been able to get a c64 and a 32k bbc micro online and many different psions online . Even got a amstrad nc100 notepad on line .
\woah! first! no way.. great video Dan, nice to see you back :)
Ah the good old bbs days. A friend of mine made a program for amiga called Thor, it reduced the time spendt on bbs by downloading lists and such into the program. You could then select the files you wanted from the list and mark them for download. Also you could write messages and such in the program. So when you clicked activate bbs the program called up the bbs, did the login, sendt the messages, downloaded the files, and closed the line. Everything automatically, it saved us alot of money. I think theres still the free version of it around somewhere, maybe on aminet?
I have ordered all the parts from China to make one if these. Can wait to get it. Cheap as hell when u can use a soldering ion. Less then $8 usd.
Welcome back dude, can't wait to see more
Thanks Dan.
love it :) I had to build my own!
I used a surf squirrel -pcmcia card and IBrowse with my A1200, biggest issue was that vanilla A1200 serial port only supported up to 28800kb/s any faster and you got buffer over run.
Issue with todays web pages is that they are very resource heavy to use and can't really be used without beefing up your Amiga, mine had a 68060 with 16megs of RAM and even back then in -96 it already had issues with web pages loading.
Nice to see you back
Back when I was a kid the closest I got to the internet was trolling my friend to think I connected to the internet and stole money from a bank by making a truly bad basic program that said "Do you want to take out money y/n". My friend was horrified when I clicked y and nearly cried. Good times.
I wish it came with a C64 adapter.
The Amiga 500 should be able to handle 19200. Mine did, although it did have a 14Mhz accelerator. I could almost handle 38400 but not 100% reliably.
Brings back memories of teletext :-)
Amiga rulez! 💪
👍🍻
Great to see you back Dan 👍
Happy to see another video! How does the WiModem232 handle TCP/IP stacks for the Amiga? Can you load up iBrowse and get to Aminet to download files?
good question
Remember getting my 1200 on line using aweb, amosiac then the fab ibrowse
Any of these boards still up? I wanna connect via winuae
Nice video Dan :) Jim Drew as in Jim Drew of Emplant and Fusion fame?
The very same :)
Rupert Bear and Podgy Pig recommended this to me. :)
Excellent stuff
i was watching one of your earlier videos and i saw you have a dreamcast. Considering you have brought the mighty A500 back online, i think now it's time to bring the dreamcast back online, since there is now an easy solution to do that (the dreampi), don't you think so? :)
Good to see you back Dan! :)
Brilliant video Dan, that modem is gold and lets make BBS popular again, no in-your-face Ads and constant distractions, the Internet used to be for geeks, its become a corporate, political awful place
I never got the chance to do any of this back in the days, never having owned an Amiga or in fact any computer that could have gone online. This probably sounds like a dumb question but how does Baud rate compare to kb/s? For instance what would 9600 baud be in kb/s?
Dan, it has been a while, ohhh, you have grown a bit boy hahaha :D :D
Where have you been, you are missing a trick, you have a audience, don't let it slip, more Amiga stuff please Dan!
Combination of moving house, working long hours and holidays. Back now though :)
A Dan Wood video!!
Changed your hair! Nice!
My first experience on the internet was through my 1200, demon internet and I think netscape? Those were the days.
Wow, I just saw a name Jim Drew. Crikey he's been around since Noah played fullback for Jerusalem.. I purchase Fusion Mac Emulator, he was the programmer..
@CBMSTUFF.COM tounge and cheek.. 😊