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Hey Amis so following up on the post where you mentioned that this cartridge thing I had for the Atari 800 that was used for Audubon High School (where I went) on a local cable access TV station was called SpectraView.
So the beginning of this upload of mine uses that thing:
Yeah enjoy the banter of a young teenager. I made a collection of Atari 800 demos and sprinkled words of wisdomus between them.
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Over the last few weeks, I have been testing and now finalized a direct post from the Atari BBS Gateway to BlueSky. Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging social media platform that looks and functions very similarly to X (formerly Twitter). It is designed to be an open, user-controlled alternative to traditional, corporate-owned social networks.
So what does this mean for sysops and users? First, as a BBS is selected from the Atari BBS Gateway, it is published as you will see below: The Atari BBS, Address, etc. This helps make the awareness of the Gateway and your BBS available to BlueSky users. It also will advise users when someone heads over to the Chat app so you know when we have people in the chat room or playing multiplayer games.
So why BlueSky and not some other outlet - Hey, its free and has an API thats easy to use..…
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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.
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The possibilities are extending for FujiNet… iOS is coming, the app is developing! #bbsing #fujinet #atari
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THis one is a close 2nd favorite. 86 Samuari. Whats not done to it!
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The 93 Hilux...
Miss this one a lot.
That reminds me a bit of my dad's old 1980s Toyota 4x4. I wish I had some pics of it. I think I will ask him today if he has any.
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Unfortunately, this puzzle requires you having the 10 NFC tags I am programming. I am attaching my full notes and solutions to this puzzle.
Description: Welcome to the modern era of physical security and access control. Before you lie ten NTAG215 NFC tags, physically numbered 1 through 10. One of these tags contains the system override phrase. The other nine are decoys.
Reading the tags is the easy part; understanding them is the true test. The data payloads on these tags are obscured. To reveal the true messages, you must realize that the hardware itself holds the key. The cipher changes from tag to tag, bound by the physical identity of the chip and the current era.
Your Objectives:
Interrogate the Hardware: A standard smartphone tap will only show you the encrypted text. To find the key, you must use a Flipper Zero, a Proxmark3, or an advanced smartphone application…
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You will need the attached QR codes to complete this.
Description: You have bypassed the physical hardware restrictions and secured the initial foothold. Now, you must escalate your privileges to absolute control.
Hidden in the physical environment are five sequential data drops in the form of QR codes. A standard smartphone scan will yield a Base64 string, but that is merely an encoding wrapper. The true payloads are heavily encrypted.
You must establish an air gap protocol to transfer this data to your terminal. Your cipher is AES-256-CBC with PBKDF2. The payload from the first drop will contain the passphrase to decrypt the second, chaining all the way to the final target.
Find the drops, decode the wrappers, decrypt the network daemons, and claim root access.
Points: 200
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You will need the disk image from this link: jumpman-ctf.d64
Description: You have extracted the target's identity, but static analysis is only half the battle. Your next objective is execution. Using the physical Commodore 64, load the executable into memory, connect the peripheral hardware, and successfully initiate a game of Jumpman. Be warned: 1980s hardware engineering did not always follow modern logical standards. Trust the machine, not your instincts.
Get Jumpman moving and we will give you the flag.
Points: 100
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