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  • Re: C64 Reborn

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to niter3 on Thursday, January 01, 2026 09:39:26
    niter3 wrote to Bucko <=-

    There is something to be said about a physical computer sitting there
    with the WFC up on the screen and somebody dialing in....

    My first solo apartment was a studio in downtown San Francisco. Old, art
    deco building with a huge walk-in closet. I took one of my parent's
    cast-off end-tables, a cast-off IBM AT clone from work, and set up my
    BBS in that closet. My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned
    in with the FrontDoor WFC screen.

    If I left the closet door open, I'd get a bit of a green cast - enough
    to get up and walk around at night.

    I remember hearing the modem speaker on the lowest setting and the hard
    drive chattering during the middle of the night, it amazed me that a
    computer in my closet was transferring mail and accepting callers from
    around the world in different time zones.



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  • From phigan@21:3/193 to Bucko on Thursday, January 01, 2026 22:54:36
    Totally agree, when I was running one on my U64, at least it was getting used. Now it just sits there, I am probably 4 or 5 updates behind also as

    I notice there isn't a C*Base Wrong Number board....


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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to niter3 on Thursday, January 01, 2026 19:47:20
    On 01 Jan 2026, niter3 said the following...


    Nice! I'll keep an eye out for updates...

    Obviously I don't have a c64u at the moment...

    Is there also a normal install guide from scratch?


    A normal install guide for Image? If so, yes, the doc file has the installation instructions, I also have written a doc file which starts at the beginning and goes from there, Just don't know where I uploaded it to! More than likely it is on my webpage under Image support and probably in the section for Wrong Number family files..


    |11 Bucko |14- |06Wrong Number Family Of BBS' |07- |03www.wrgnbr.com

    ... Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to phigan on Thursday, January 01, 2026 19:50:26
    On 01 Jan 2026, phigan said the following...


    I notice there isn't a C*Base Wrong Number board....

    No, never got into C*Base, I run what I ran back in the day. Image, and C-Net Amiga, although I wish I could run Excelsior! for the Amiga because that was what I ran in the 90's but because it is not Y2K it won't run properly with FTN networks. The Centipede board I run is a ode to my Co-SysOp from back in the day he never wanted to run what everyone else ran, I put that up because he died a year and a half ago, and I just wanted to do something in his memory!


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    ... APPLE: It may be slow, but at least it's expensive.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, January 02, 2026 07:47:00
    BBS in that closet. My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned
    in with the FrontDoor WFC screen.

    HA, I can recall this being an issue for many monitors. Good old CRT's. :)

    I remember hearing the modem speaker on the lowest setting and the hard drive chattering during the middle of the night, it amazed me that a computer in my closet was transferring mail and accepting callers from around the world in different time zones.

    Did you loose sleep over it?

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Bucko on Friday, January 02, 2026 07:53:30
    A normal install guide for Image? If so, yes, the doc file has the installation instructions, I also have written a doc file which starts
    at the beginning and goes from there, Just don't know where I uploaded
    it to! More than likely it is on my webpage under Image support and probably in the section for Wrong Number family files..

    Sounds like I have some digging to do. :)

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to niter3 on Friday, January 02, 2026 18:50:04
    On 02 Jan 2026, niter3 said the following...


    Sounds like I have some digging to do. :)


    Here is the link to the install guide for installing in Vice...

    https://www.wrgnbr.com/files/WNF_Files/imageinstall.pdf

    If you need the docs to the whole thing let me know and I will put that on my website also...


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    ... Kids: They're not sleeping, they're recharging!

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Bucko on Saturday, January 03, 2026 07:15:42
    Here is the link to the install guide for installing in Vice...

    https://www.wrgnbr.com/files/WNF_Files/imageinstall.pdf

    Awesome! Thanks, bookmarked it for a later read.

    ... Origin of Life? Just check my refrigerator...

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