General Discussions

Just landed in the latest issue of Compute!’s Gazette — my newest Dialed Back column:

“Reading the Board: The Atari BBS Written in BASIC”

This month dives deep into the actual code behind Atari BBS systems like AMIS, FoReM, Carina, and NiteLite — from modem answer routines and ATASCII handling to message bases, file transfers, and how 64K machines somehow became full online communities.

Still amazing to me that these systems, written largely in BASIC, handled users, databases, uploads/downloads, and real-time communications decades before the modern web. Even better — many of them are still online today.

Huge respect to the sysops, coders, restorers, and preservationists still keeping these systems alive.

The possibilities are extending for FujiNet… iOS is coming, the app is developing! #bbsing #fujinet #atari

THis one is a close 2nd favorite. 86 Samuari. Whats not done to it!

The 93 Hilux...

Miss this one a lot.