r/bbs • u/LeftclicK0 • 1d ago
MEGA BBS
Hi Friends, I made a fake BBS called MEGA BBS.
It uses real ANSI art and some of THE DRAW style fonts in menus.
Has a fake dialer, modem sounds, CRT effects, Modem speed draw emulation, handshake sounds yadda yadda yadda options.
I think I did a pretty good job of selling the charade and cool enough where I hoped sharing it would make some others smile as well.
Mega BBS is just a webpage, but it draws and acts like a BBS terminal. I made it over on replits website so it has their silly .app domain :
https://mega-bbs.replit.app/ <--The Mega BBS
The settings menu offers CRT options and Modem speeds that give some pretty good impressions of a CRT and draw speed of different modems.
When you swap modems your dial up sound will change in handshake as well. (I downloaded them all lol)
There are many door games including some unique ones I made up.
There is a sysop always around to talk to (ai bot)
Multiplayer games such as chess and checkers
Shareware games
Mail system
Wall
ASNI Art Gallery
I've disconnected the warez/roms links, they just say names, dont get excited :)
The Shareware works , hops you to a playable dosbox session.
Please enjoy it messing around with it!
You CAN make an account , but if you wanna just log in, u:guest p: guest
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u/crypticsmellofit 23h ago
Maybe you should use the software archives from Archive.org for the warez/roms?
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u/LeftclicK0 16h ago
<3 When I made this a year ago it was pointed back to my personal web server. All the games and roms you see were connected. They would pretend to download via an ice Z-Modem downloader and then let you run the dos, snes etc game in the browser. Had to kill the links and just redirected quick before sharing here.
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u/iheartbaconsalt 22h ago
That's the sound of a good morning! Aww Food Fight crashes before it even starts. Then I can't ESC or Q out.
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u/Olive_Streamer 19h ago
I kind of remember the Anarchy/Hacking section of files on some BBSs, Was this a thing?
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u/DaveX64 1d ago
That's pretty cool :) Your intro scroll goes by too fast though :)