Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "David L. P. Solimano" Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle Subject: Re: Waffle still in use today? Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:20:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:20:16 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f664d032904b72b7d96b2b94a5a23cdc"; logging-data="1519"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Rqp9nEBneiUtElO26icZgixXpcwmCsw4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yGav8CjvvJjDYyDSurLdrf6ZLo0= In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.bbs.waffle:13 Peter Hoffman wrote: > > To get started ASAP, I found that WAFFLE will run on vDOS from https://www.vdos.info/ > > I expect it will eventually need to run on something that's an actual DOS but it's pretty exciting to see the old "Dark Side of the Moon ... darkside.com ........ 408/245-SPAM" show up! > > Good times... > > I've been watching "BBS the Documentary" at https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI and WAFFLE was *very* briefly mentioned in that at https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI?t=5843 I didn't know Tom Dell had gone by the name "Soylent"? Or was that him at all? Such a mystery... How can the source code be unavailable? People bought copies so it has to be somewhere. > > — Peter. > Hopefully someone will show up with source, but a lot of old software just sort of disappears as people pass away, disks stop working, etc. A few weeks ago I was reading an article about trying to reconstruct the source for a 70s UNIX utility (https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20210102/#tu), widely distributed in its day but the only source code anyone could find was in an erased block on a disk. More on topic though, starting your own BBS is great fun, hopefully in a few years I'll have the time to tackle the project myself! -- David Solimano david@solimano.org