BBS Scene News 02/2026 2026-02-12 09:00:02AUGS Amiga Meeting The Amiga User Group Switzerland invites to the annual meetup at Gemeinschaftszentrum Hottingen in Switzerland. On 14. and 15. of March 2026 it is all about the Amiga and Commodore Computer. At the meeting the swiss Amiga scene will exchange knowledge about the Systems for longtime users and newcomers. Besides a fixing booth for amigas with health issues there will also be a video projector to show demos and videos. if you're a gamer you can proof your skills within the 4 player dynablaster competition. There is more at the AUGS meeting to see. More informations about the event are available on augs.ch February the 16. in 1978 On this day in history the first BBS was going online. That's 48 years ago. Both founder of the first BBS with the name CBBS startet the online evolution for home computer. Both, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess are no longer with us. But they leave a leagacy that is rememberd 48 years later. They founded the home use online communication that would spread all over the world until today. Without them there might not have been the FidoNet by Tom Jennings or other inventions like ZIP Files and much more. To find an overview about BBS Projects visit the website BBSday.org LORD in the Web Lord Of the Red Dragon the beloved online door game got a new webport. Visit lord.interplex.app to see the newest implementation of it. An older one can be found at a-net-online.lol/lord The newest webport however has the IGMs in focus. IGM for LORD are Addons/Mods for the basegame. Some rumors also going the someone is working on a webport for the door game Planets The Exploration of Space also known as TEOS. Usurper Reborn The BBS DoorGame from 1993 is getting a remake. All 10 races and 11 classes with the turnbased fight system and over 50 dungeons are from the original. In general the new version is very close developed on the original. For now the version 0.6 is looking for alpha test players. What's special about this version is that it will not run only with 16 bit DOS. Instead it will run on 32 Bit versions of Windows systems. There is also native support für Linux and macOS. And every BBS Software that supports DOOR.SYS or DOOR32.SYS can run the game for there users. It is open source and free. If you like to take a look at it you can get the code on github and join the community on Discord. uMRC Door The Mystic Relay Chat know as MRC is a shared chatprotocoll that users from different BBSes allow the chat together even tho they are not connected to the same BBS. With uMRC this chatuniverse is opening up more. It was online accessible if the BBS was running the Mystic BBS Software. With uMRC any system that can execute Windows 32 programms can add the chatclient as a door to the BBS. That means Sysops using Renegade BBS or SyncroNet can particepate now at the Mystic Relay Chat. Letzte BBS Video News Quellen/URLs: augs.ch bbsday.org lord.interplex.app a-net-online.lol/lord https://github.com/binary-knight/usurper-reloaded/releases https://discord.gg/BqY66QkPGE https://github.com/codefenix-dev/uMRC
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