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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
Adding A BBS Section...
There have been discussions in the forums, in the past, about adding a BBS section to the CSDb. Perff told me that he would consider adding a BBS section when he finds the time. He does not know much about the great boards that supported the 64. For
such a section to be added, we all must describe more about it.
Detailed information is needed about BBSs, for this to happen. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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DemongerX
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Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 137 |
It'd also be cool, if collections of c/g artwork could be hosted in a supporting role to the bbs section. I know several of us on here have extensive c/g art collections, many that were captured while the bbs's were still up and others from collections since.
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OEP
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 60 |
I would love to see some of that c/g artwork, maybe some of it is mine :)
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
ok, here is my attempt of writing some specs. comments please :)
BBS Entry (new Main Type)
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Field Type Sub-Field Type
BBS Name Text Short Name Text
Type multi-selection (legal,illegal,hp,wares)
Online Timespan (two Dates) one or more
Sysop Link to Scener type of association selection (Main-,Co-) one of more
Phone# Text one or more
location selection (country) state selection
URL/Telnet Text (Link) one or more
related Groups Link to Group type of associaton selection (HQ,Support) one or more
related Production Link to Release one or more
related Buffer Link to Buffer one or more
related Gfx Link to Gfx one or more
Users Link to Scener one or more
"related Mags" would be nice, but is kinda tricky, since there is no single entry for each mag in the
database. ideas? maybe something that can well be in trivia since it applies to few boards only anyway.
things that should go into trivia (because it would be overkill to have it all in single fields)
- type of board software: (UCBBS, C*Base, Ivory etc)
- whether it was 24 hours (most were)
- board speed: anywhere from 300 to 2400 baud and in some rare cases higher
- Amount of 1-800 and 0130- numbers people illegally assigned to the BBS line
- Line quality when using AT&T, MCI or Sprint :)
- Probability of calling card death on calling the bbs :)
BBS Buffer Entry (new releasetype)
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should be used for actual bbs buffers, and the graphics that belong to the "outfit" of
the specific bbs (like menu gfx, welcome screen, prompts etc)
usual credit stuff etc from release entries can be used, plus:
Field Type Sub-Field Type
buffer from Link to BBS
BBS Graphics Entry (new releasetype)
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should be used for all other c/g artwork, such as independent pictures, c/g animations etc
usual credit stuff etc from release entries can be used, plus:
Field Type Sub-Field Type
used on Link to BBS one or more
released on Link to BBS one or more
- new credit type "bbs graphics"
- Scener entries need new function type "bbs graphician"
some bbs data gathered from the threads:
Wares Galore
Data shack
Data shack II
The Forum,
Prowl's Place
Terminal Obsession
The Fountain of Lamneth
The Home for the Addicted Pirate
Channel Zero
Dream Park
Tunnel of Wares
Backdoor (901)
The Undiscovered Country (201)
The Black Genesis (9147356653)
Holiday Inn Cambodia (HIC) (5106898893)
Virtual Reality (505) (The Ruling Company)
Infectious (4198853857) (Chromance)
Garden of Eden (GoE)
Wild Wares
The Disc Shoppe
orplay
Terminal Obsession
Shaolin Temple
Second to None
CALL NOW: Forplay RSI WHQ - 1-314-481-4821 - Sysop: Nightwriter
- much former ATC
- then someday Hysteric before it became RSI -no idea about the rest
- running color64 in the early days - then ucbbs for quite some time - finally ended up with villain modded c-base
- hardware: cmd ramlink, cmd 40GB HDD, us robotix modem (14.4k in the end)
- a commonly used 4mhz turbo card (forgot exact name) was avail as well, but often removed due to unstableness :)))
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1098 |
Looks good groepie, so my comments so far:
You might want a timespan (one or more) on (co)sysops, they changed over time. Same goes for related groups.
Its also possible to add a datatype bbs-software, but.. might be a bit overkill.
Thats it for now, maybe I'll come up with more later. |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
I guess type of BBS software used is somewhat important. We all had our favourites and it would be nice to know if e.g. some BBS we always thought was cool was once running on IvoryBBS ;)
Groepaz: nice work! seems quite good to me! |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2928 |
Quote: I guess type of BBS software used is somewhat important. We all had our favourites and it would be nice to know if e.g. some BBS we always thought was cool was once running on IvoryBBS ;)
Groepaz: nice work! seems quite good to me!
That would need to be a multi-selection category since plenty of boards changed software over their lifetimes.
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Stan
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 187 |
I consider associated magazines as quite important, even though I see the problem that there is no single entry for a mag. Yet this might be the solution: Why not link the magazine staffs with the boards? However, not for every magazine there is a mag staff in the database. We might have to fill this up.
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Stan
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 187 |
I know, double-posts suck, but...
Thanks GROEPAZ for compiling the information. |
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wreg
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 679 |
NO to multiselection: better have dates when started/stopped using the software, so we can see how it developed |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2928 |
Quote: NO to multiselection: better have dates when started/stopped using the software, so we can see how it developed
Different words for the same idea.
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