Hey, I'm new here. I hope you don't mind that I'm posting this.
Anyone remember the O-M-N-I BBS software for Windows?
O-M-N-I was a 16-bit Windows BBS developed by Copsey Strain, Inc. of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, back in the 1990s. It was a little different from most BBS software of the time because it had its own graphical Windows client, O-M-N-I Term, rather than relying on a traditional text terminal. It had message boards, e-mail, chat, file areas, scripting, and quite a bit more.
I've started an O-M-N-I Preservation Project to try to preserve the software, documentation, history, and basically anything else related to O-M-N-I that I can find. It's still very much in the early stages. I don't have an O-M-N-I server up and running yet, but that's something I'm working toward. Eventually I'd love to have an actual O-M-N-I BBS back online that people can connect to again.
One pretty cool bit of progress so far is I've managed to reverse engineer O-M-N-I's original registration/serial number system, and can now generate valid registration codes that the software accepts. So if anyone here happens to be playing around with O-M-N-I and needs a registration code, let me know.
If you ran an O-M-N-I BBS back in the day, or have any old software, files, documentation, screenshots, registration material, or even just memories of using it, I'd really like to hear from you. There isn't a whole lot of O-M-N-I material left out there, so I'm trying to track down and preserve whatever I can.
The project is at https://www.o-m-n-i.com, which is the same domain O-M-N-I originally used back in the day. submitted by /u/NoNoNoJimTrott [link] [comments]