Tag bbs door games
while writing about BBSes and doors as a thing of the past is universally intuitive, i still think it is ultimately POV. These programs still exist, and surely there are a a few BBSes still operating somewhere with door games available for play. This whole article is written in the past tense. Steve -The preceding unsigned comment was added by Steve Hansen ( talk Only to add available resources where not many existed. We certainly didn't mean to appear 'spammy'. So if someone looks up this topic here, they can access the files as well. And the others link back and forth, as well as providing their own downloads. There are sites in these listings which are currently active, and seem to be much more up-to-date than is. This seems to be the case with some other sites having similar, older lists. It appears they are not currently in the business of expanding resource listings, or may not be monitored regularly. I guess that's why they have so few there. Unfortunately it's very difficult to get sites, where such files are featured, listed at which we've attempted before. Since Wikipedia articles must be sourced, I think the best solution for the time being is to include all.
To be fair, we should either remove them all or leave them all.
#Tag bbs door games manual#
All are third party manual or utility sites. RTucker 01:36, (UTC) IMO is nothing better than any of the sites listed above. Mirror Site for UltraSoft Door Games, Utilities and Descriptionsįeel free to re-add anything compliant with WP:EL, or if any of these are your sites, consider submitting them to instead.- BBS Files, Door Games, Utilities & Forums available.
#Tag bbs door games download#
UltraSoft BBS Door Games & Sysop Utilities to download.UltraSoft Home Site - Door Games, Shareware & Freeware.things were starting to feel a little spammy in there. I've cleared out the external links section, with the exception of the dmoz link. Dan Griscom ( talk) 03:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC) Clearing out external links Launched either way, they were considered FidoNet 'front-end mailers' or even 'front-end doors' (hence names like 'FrontDoor').Īnyway, I couldn't find a citation, so I'm writing this from personal experience, which will hopefully stand as a citation for the article.įormer BBS SysOp of Final Frontier BBS - is unfortunately a clear violation of WP:NOR. How they were configured was often up to the SysOp - the advantage of having the BBS spawn Bink or FroDo instead of the other way around was that the BBS was the program running at the wait-for-caller (WFC) screen, so it could spawn maintenance tasks ('events') otherwise you had to setup your events in Bink or FroDo, which might not do you what you want.
and Telegard are examples) they can be spawned from the BBS like a door program would after the BBS answers the phone.
#Tag bbs door games software#
These external programs can either answer the phone for the BBS and then spawn the BBS software itself, or, for some BBS programs (T.A.G. Programs like 'BinkleyTerm' and 'FrontDoor' can technically be such 'door' programs. The statement marked as needing a citationĪ few door programs operated the opposite way, answering the modem and then giving control to the BBS software