bbstros being added recently
category: general [glöplog]
@sensenstahl I noticed that you've been adding bbstros in great numbers for quite a while. I really appreciate your effort, thank you so much!
A couple of questions:
- is there a story, like where do they come from? Have you had this archive since forever, or is it a recent find?
- seen any flying floppies there? I'm looking for what I think could be a bbstro or a cracktro from around 1992-1993, it had a 3-inch floppy flying in space and probably some title. I have a bit of a personal story to go with it. Back then I was very impressed by the graphics and tried my best to replicate it. I made an intro of sorts called "Cereus" and probably related to FidoNet node 2:5030/31, but it also didn't survive.
A couple of questions:
- is there a story, like where do they come from? Have you had this archive since forever, or is it a recent find?
- seen any flying floppies there? I'm looking for what I think could be a bbstro or a cracktro from around 1992-1993, it had a 3-inch floppy flying in space and probably some title. I have a bit of a personal story to go with it. Back then I was very impressed by the graphics and tried my best to replicate it. I made an intro of sorts called "Cereus" and probably related to FidoNet node 2:5030/31, but it also didn't survive.
i've dropped you an e-mail (hopefully)
o/
Is it private or could you share it on the forum too?
awesome shaders
Sensenstahl scavenges the dark alleys at night for cracktros like in Battle Angel Alita.
@yzi my childhood was traumatised by an intro that looked very much like this one:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4093
but not this one. 4093 is actually a commercial and the one that I had was more like a bbs or cracktro. I can't find it anywhere. Seeing how sensenstahl had been shoveling them by thousands, I hoped that maybe he had come across one. No luck so far.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4093
but not this one. 4093 is actually a commercial and the one that I had was more like a bbs or cracktro. I can't find it anywhere. Seeing how sensenstahl had been shoveling them by thousands, I hoped that maybe he had come across one. No luck so far.
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- is there a story, like where do they come from? Have you had this archive since forever, or is it a recent find?
I'm also wondering about this. Give up the deets. (Please.) :P
I've been slowly going through my own collection of floppies and so far only found two not-previously-online BBStros, and I used to download a TON of stuff from local boards. Granted not every board had its own intro, but even nice text files are scarce. Where do you find all these?
@jmph please add them!
Maybe search through a large shareware collection such as cd.textfiles.com for all unique .com and .exe files < 10kb or so? :) After you finish with 90s DOS demo archives, of course.
Naah.. this was before cdroms and cdroms never really were wild enough to have cool intros.
jmph: Gargaj is in fact right. But I am not dressed up like that while doing so.
phoenix: you will miss a ton by only checking for up to 10k :)
phoenix: you will miss a ton by only checking for up to 10k :)
You'd think that intros are all coded in l33テ assembly, but a lot of them are written in qbasic and compressed using pklite to bring the size down to something manageable. A bit weird considering how a lot of them used to be packaged with every file.
Having watched quite a few of bbstros in a very compressed period of 2 nights, I'm imagining myself an archaeologist who tries to understand the long lost bbs culture based on its artifacts.
I know a few things about this mysterious bbs thing:
* it's very often about skulls, space and fire
* they seem to be a place of worship to sysgods
* there are some mystical numbers, but they tend to end in n0t-4y0u
* warez, whatever they are, tend to grow very fast, usually harvested in 0-3 days
I know a few things about this mysterious bbs thing:
* it's very often about skulls, space and fire
* they seem to be a place of worship to sysgods
* there are some mystical numbers, but they tend to end in n0t-4y0u
* warez, whatever they are, tend to grow very fast, usually harvested in 0-3 days
