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    From phigan@phigan@bbs.penisys.online to alt.bbs on Fri Jul 4 22:40:57 2025
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    This video has been going around on the BBSes and such, but I didn't see
    anyone post it here, so here it is.

    Someone decided to take the latest source code to an old BBS software,
    Impulse (7.1), and compile it so it can run on something today!

    https://youtu.be/YaYAEtwE8Es

    Hah, I almost typed a B instead of 8 (typing on an Atari 8bit).

    Looks like a pretty cool BBS, and I would love to check it out.
    Hopefully it doesn't have any massive bugs or issues with terminal
    output. Terminal issues are a very common thing with BBS software when
    the author only uses something like a PC terminal program to test with. Personally, I would have run Enigma or Talisman or something if those
    BBSes looked nice and worked well with old computers, but I think the
    author has moved on to bigger things.
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  • From peter london@peterlondon@chimia.se to alt.bbs on Mon Sep 15 14:47:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs

    On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 22:40:57 -0000 (UTC)
    phigan <phigan@bbs.penisys.online> wrote:

    This video has been going around on the BBSes and such, but I didn't see anyone post it here, so here it is.


    Good move!

    Someone decided to take the latest source code to an old BBS software, Impulse (7.1), and compile it so it can run on something today!

    https://youtu.be/YaYAEtwE8Es

    Very interesting video, thanks for sharing!

    I ran my own BBS back around 1999/2000 with software also written in Pascal. I wasn't very good at it but managed to tweak it to my liking. Today I spend most of my "free" time resurrecting old BBS software and tools as well, with the help of AI whenever my knowledge isn't enough.

    BBSing is a great hobby even today, and it's great to see there is still a small scene out there, and the tools we have today would blow my mind 20 years ago. Being able to spawn a BBS in DOS using dosemu accessible from the whole world in an instant is something we could only dream of back in the day with shake phone lines (and high phone bills...).

    I also like to believe that more people eventually will start looking into options when they grow tired of the current centralized social media giants.

    Thanks for posting the video, a great find!
    --
    peter london <peterlondon@chimia.se>
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