I suddenly have the urge to play Exitilus.
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I haven't played Exitilus, searching just now I see The Realm of Serion BBS has it, sounds like fun! Right now I am just a few days into my first game of LORD, after saying "maybe I'll play a game of that someday" since the 1990s. :)
LORD never grabbed me, but holy crap Exitilus was an obsession for awhile. A buddy and I even wrote a tongue in cheek campaign back in the day, though only the narrative outline. Probably my favorite aspect was that after awhile, everyone got to know each other and just gifted back funds/loot after a PK - they gave so much experience that it's foolish to not try to off someone else, but losing all your stuff SUCKED so we found a happy medium.
Good times.
Sounds like a great time, awesome to play a game to maximize the fun! Gonna have to keep an eye out for an active Exitilus game!
Cool post. I have thought about turning my old bbs back on. Ran it on an A800 using Bulletin Board Construction Set. I will have to look into devices that I can connect to the net.
I am not very familiar with the A800 but there are a lot of wifi networking adapters and the such these days for all kinds of systems, many of them emulate modems so they are well-suited to interfacing with a BBS. "RS-232 wifi modem" as search terms gives a bunch of options.
Also useful for old computers: http://theoldnet.com/ provides ways to use computers from the 1990s online today to access some websites etc.
I think there's a couple of things I can use to connect to the SIO port and emulate an rs232 modem. There is a Fujinet adapter, and I think I can do it with my Atarimax SIO2PC adapter. I would just have to set everything up, and would definitely build a new instance of the BBCS. Oh look, another thing to add to the hobby list. :)
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