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| From | "David L. P. Solimano" <david@solimano.org> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.bbs.waffle |
| Subject | Re: Waffle still in use today? |
| Date | 2021-01-16 08:20 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rtup6g$1ff$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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
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