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Rebuilding 1990s BBS software using Git
🕑 Added 2025-06-23 13:48:42 +0000 UTCLast year Mark brought up the idea of revisiting BBS software called Impulse. It was popular with underground scene boards in the 90s, something we frequented as much as we could back then. We were able to get in touch with the original author of Impulse, Brandon Sneed, and he had some incredible recollections of that time period.
We wanted to see if we could bring the software back, but work with it using modern tools that are indispensable to developers today. This ended up being a LOT of fun, and even if you aren't into BBSes as much as we are, hopefully it is still both fascinating and entertaining.
Hope everyone is doing well, and thank you for the continued support!
Comments
Bruno
This is so cool! Thanks for the video
Jack Beckman
Quite a cool video! Sorry that BBS content doesn't do as well because I love it. Had to snicker a bit when you ran into compile problems using the network drive. We would never try to do anything over the network other than copy a file back then. It was so much slower - and less reliable - than copying local, making changes, compiling, then copying back. Networks back then were just too fragile to expect to use the network drive for anything intensive. Programs would die because of timeouts, dropped drives, and the like. So not surprised that LANMAN for DOS would cause issues. Brrr, LANMAN.
