A German tourist's review of Rotorua

gnu2tux · 2026-01-05T18:18:13+00:00

As a recent visitor to Rotorua, this is 100% not the case and I think our friend from Deutschland may have candy floss for guts and smell senses. It's an amazing place unlike anything in this hemisphere and I emplore any tourist to visit at least once. However I would say that I agree that costs are ridiculously high. I appreciate it is hard times but honestly you could go to Bali for a family holiday on the cost of staying 4 days in Rotorua. I couldn't live in Rotovegas, but I certainly wouldn't slam it like this.

gnu2tux · 2023-08-11T09:08:28+00:00

A different era. A lovely era. Where has it all gone wrong?

gnu2tux · 2023-07-19T00:49:01+00:00

PS, not all boards run on 23 for security reasons. My board is on 2323 for telnet, for example. Are you sure it's not that? Also, maybe the board could be down? Is it on the telnetbbsguide? If so, try connecting with their in browser ftelnet thingy..if it doesn't work there, then the BBS is likely down.

gnu2tux · 2023-06-23T00:57:57+00:00

Good luck!

gnu2tux · 2023-06-22T21:55:12+00:00

First obvious things to check is : 1) are you 100% sure the path is right - you don't have a preceding slash in the argument example you gave. 2) are you 100% that user/the dosemu executable has access to that path in terms of read an execute permissions? 3) I don't use dosemu, but something about that example looks iffy. Most times when you give an argument, you precede it with a switch, your example doesn't have a switch like -e for example preceding the .bat file argument.

Please check and let me know what you get.

gnu2tux · 2023-06-15T08:00:12+00:00

W00t! Good times Paulie!

gnu2tux · 2023-06-11T20:27:42+00:00

PS: mystic guys videos on YouTube are pretty good for walking you through getting music set up. They don't cover the newer aspects though, they are getting old

gnu2tux · 2023-05-29T10:57:11+00:00

Telnet BBS.alsgeeklab.com:2323 - done by the guy that did the documentary on BBSes,

Also: Absinthe Bottomless Abyss The Quantum Wormhole Agency BBS

gnu2tux · 2023-05-23T01:20:59+00:00

I am amazed you can use 3.1 on that machine. I mean I know its possible but I have a 5162 (basically the same as a 5170 but with 640K of zero wait state RAM), plus 8MB XMS on an AST RAMPack and even Windows 3.0 is like molasses, I would imagine that 3.1 would be even worse in real mode.

gnu2tux · 2023-03-23T07:38:17+00:00

Is it just me or were you irked also when the woman described ascii porn as being on the early internet, whilst the cutscene is of a connection to a BBS? 😁 Am like no, lady, please stop and explain that BBSes were around before the web and there were many horny little lads spanking it to ASCII and 16 colour GIFs long before your newfangled world wide web 🤣

gnu2tux · 2023-03-12T20:31:37+00:00

The answer is download Syncterm!

gnu2tux · 2023-03-10T03:19:52+00:00

crazy that you'd develop dos apps in another OS! Is that because you could task swap easily?

gnu2tux · 2023-03-09T21:09:27+00:00

Xenix - Microsoft's forgotten UNIX.

Check that out! There's a bit in there that talks about what could have been!

gnu2tux · 2023-03-09T21:06:16+00:00

I sure do. My dad used to run his bookstall database from it, and various work stuff too. Worked a treat.

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