9/7/2016 - Look ma, I'm doing stuff!
OK, so I'm just cleaning house, something I should be doing all the time, but
honestly... this BBS is a LOW priority hobby at the moment. I'm considering
putting this board on AWS, but i'm trying to figure out if all the spam/bot
bandwidth would put me out of the "Free" Tier.
Trying to keep this board a low cost as possible, but my home AT&T DSL is
really horrible. Having the BBS on a cloud box would be pretty cool. Hopefully
I can make it happen.
In the meantime I'm fixing things like the login screens all look wrong and
aren't working correctly, but now they are, and I just realized that there are
a lot of login screens. So I'm considering making a fast login option (Skip to
main menu), or just trimming the fat.
A few of the logins I really like are door apps. One being local weather which
will look at the callers location and get the WeatherUnderground data at that
moment. Pretty cool, thanks LoLAGeek. The other being the new Solar Data app
from Ken3DB which is really cool for those HAM guys. I love the look of those
apps. It's inspiring me to clean up the rest of the site. (just a little)
Finally in the X>ternal Doors area, I killed AgoraNet League. For some reason
since I started using BinkIT for FTN (Fidonet Transfer Network), the online
game packets aren't getting to their destination. My upllink runs a tight ship,
so he cut me off and I've had no desire to get reconnected. The Echo's for
AgoraNet are still coming in, so for now unless someone demands it, I'd rather
just stick with the CoA InterBBS Games (which often aren't working, but that
could be my DSL again).
Oh, some more stuff... Did you see that Nightdive Studios is doing a REMAKE of
System Shock? (
http://systemshock.com/) What's more is there is a System Shock
3 in development as well! (
http://othersidetease.com/sss.php)
It's a good time to be online!
-Andy