r/bbs • u/SqualorTrawler • Oct 21 '24

BBS Software VIC-BBS -- A BBS running on a VIC-20

https://www.vic-bbs.com/
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u/Mylaptopisburningme Oct 21 '24

Are you loading everything from tape?

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u/broooooooce Oct 21 '24

For real tho! xD

My first computer was a Vic-20 (second hand). Even as a ten year old, I was able to type up basic programs too big for the RAM, at least without the expansion cartridge, heh. Long time ago, but I wanna say 4k and 16k respectively?

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u/Mylaptopisburningme Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

Back around 83 or 84 a friend I went to school with ran a BBS off a Vic-20 and tape. He found the BBS software from a magazine he typed in, it didn't rely on disk but of course could be easily modified to. So anyway one evening he read it all to me over the phone as I typed it in... I quickly learned the difference between a forward slash and a back slash.