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Let's open some bbs doors
Before access to the internet was universal, BBS'es were a huge part of scene culture. Once modems became more widely available, mailswapping died down it was where we communicated and shared files. The bbs systems were extremely modular, with plugins - or "doors" - available to enhance and replace core functionality, allowing for every system operator to tailor make their bbs a unique experience. Entire groups existed solely to create these doors for the bbs scene. Now, while working on a recent project I came across quite a few of these, and while they've been part of Demozoo as any other scene-originated tool for a long time, it was time to rethink how we'd categorize these a little better. Context brings great opportunity in mapping these out, and being able to group together tools that provide the same basic functionality can be very helpful in understanding the evolution of a certain subset.
https://files.scene.org/browse/resources/bbs/ has - I'd like to say always - been the largest collection of such doors on the internet. The collection features doors both for Amiga and PC systems, and our initial approach here features mostly specfic tags for the AmiExpress system. We may expand this in the future, as we figure things out for other bbs software. If anyone is looking for something to do, quite a few of these are still to be added to the database, so get cracking :) And if anyone wants to help out by setting up classic bbs systems for testing and screenshotting of these tools in action, then we would certainly not hate that. Now, for the tagging bit which I mentioned in the title. We've chosen to arrange together both actual doors and executable tools that are tailor-made for bbs use and come with instructions how to add them together under the same umbrella. Semantics. So, every tool should be tagged with bbs-door. In addition, we've implemented the following;
AmiExpress specific
amiex-bulls
amiex-chat
amiex-filecheck
amiex-game
amiex-logoff
amiex-logon
amiex-misc
amiex-pager
amiex-stats
amiex-textadder
amiex-who
Other bbs software
cnet-bbs
daydream
fame
logic-bbs
pcboard
proboard
remoteaccess
tempest-bbs
Door file standards
Unpacking complete for Decrunch 2020
A strong 'Yes' for Novoque!
Novoque, the hopefully one-time replacement for Evoke 2020 that was supposed to be held physically at the same dates but was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic, took place purely online last weekend and seems to have managed the storm just fine. Click below to see for yourself.
Euskal 2020 results and releases
Historic Basque event Euskal has grown into a lot more than a demoparty in the past decade, but traditional competitions are still held every year and always attract some interesting releases. The 2020 edition was held at the end of July and the results and releases are now in.
FieldFX 2020, over and out
FieldFX, the "mini demoparty at Electromagnetic Field" that's usually held in a field somewhere in England but was-an-online-event-this-year-can-you-guess-why took place last weekend. The number of releases saw a massive jump compared to the previous edition and includes what is probably the only version of Bad Apple you want to watch in full.
Flash Party 2020 results and releases
The 10th edition of the only (?) South-American party was virtually held in Argentina last weekend and the releases are now all in, and very impressively every single one of them has a screenshot (big up to our contributor Arlequin!). Have a look, there's something for everyone, both oldschool and newschool.
Plenty of sun left in the virtual forest
Lost Party 2020 has been found!
Edison 2020 results and releases
Sommarhack 2020 marks the start of summer season for the Atari scene
The Atari scene had their usual Swedish summer pow wow last weekend and it seems like the fact the event was happening online this year (guess why) didn't dampen people's enthusiasm. On the contrary, as they delivered a proper smorgasbord of amazing ST and Falcon releases!