Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!!

NeST, AtariNet, Modems... Ugh???

Well, 2020 seems to have kicked off nicely because I've just taken delivery of four awesome Atari CDs and it's all thanks to winning the monthly prize draw over at Darkforce BBS. Now, I never win at anything so this was the biggest Mega ST shock ever!! All I need now is a CD-ROM drive. Yup, eBay here I come...

For those who still don't know, Darkforce is a bulletin board service run by Atarian Ron Hall, aka DarkLord. It's a BBS for all the usual stuff like news, messaging, chat, downloads, games, etc/etc. You can access it freely using any terminal program supporting the Telnet protocol - I prefer SyncTerm myself.

The CDs are mainly for the Atari Falcon, a grand machine I'll never be able to afford - unless I win the lottery. However, there is tons of other stuff and I'm eager to see what's on the Moving Pixels disk - lots of ST/STe stuff on that!! Greetings Ron - as you can probably tell, I'm excited to explore these oldie archives!

Wanna know more? Wanna experience this fine throwback to a magical time in computing? Of course, you do, so ignore the internet, travel back in time, boot up SyncTerm or any other preferred Terminal emulator, and then visit this address using the telnet command: telnet darkforce-bbs.dyndns.org 1040

I hope you all enjoy this amazing BBS. My thanks to Ron for this great gift :-)

Don't you dare fall for Ron's trickery? I expected beer and a room for the night... but... NOTHING!!

Check out the main menu!! Time has stood still and is also STuffed full of Atari goodness!

Ahh, I feel all nostalgic now. It's like I'm back in the 90s dabbling in NeST...

Heck, you can even play games. It's like having an Xbox in your terminal!

The downloads area is huge and also complimented with a CD Rom section!

I love the range of jokes and other random quotes that can be installed to pop up!!