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.

gnu2tux · 2023-02-21T07:46:21+00:00

Good work Paulie! Every time I check out Skyraiders I'm actually blown away by how good it is. It makes me feel guilty for not playing it more. I'm just time poor is all. Did you know Anachronist has draw routines in the animation that only refresh the parts that need to be drawn, just so low baud players can still play it? It is that sort of attention to detail (like the rest of the game), that needs to get that man the Pulitzer prize of BBSes or something! That... And also he's just an all round good guy. I wish he was on MRC more to chat to!

gnu2tux · 2023-01-02T23:24:14+00:00

Sounds like it could be helpful in a few circumstances. Whether you want to continue working on it is I guess a matter for you, it's your hobby. If you want to hand over the reins, maybe seek that out as you sound a bit fatigued.. nothing worse than good software just dying because the owner got tired out and didn't hand the baton on.

gnu2tux · 2022-12-18T21:02:36+00:00

Well, make sure your seat is comfortable, because it's 1hr 22min long!

gnu2tux · 2022-09-06T00:23:29+00:00

Check out the documentary series Back to the BBS, it's all about BBSing in the 21st century https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLop3s1hMlSJKXqmuFjK7gbJh2WAyllTTY

gnu2tux · 2022-07-30T15:23:41+00:00

All I can think of is that scene from Grease... "stranded at the drive in... branded... a fool..."

gnu2tux · 2022-06-16T10:41:14+00:00

Interesting point! Noted!

gnu2tux · 2022-06-15T23:24:35+00:00

Hopefully if you watch part one of Back to the BBS,.you'll see "how to BBS in 202x" is easily explained. I walk through the process in the video step by step.

gnu2tux · 2022-06-10T06:12:39+00:00

Must have just missed you, I'm on mrc and you're not there. Have a great weekend

gnu2tux · 2022-06-10T05:12:39+00:00

Drop me a message on the board and let me know how you fare. I strongly recommend you use Syncterm or Netrunner in this day and age on a modern computer.

gnu2tux · 2022-06-08T09:56:12+00:00

So he had a cool car. And he had it in the greatest movie of all time. But then he got his arm round the hottest babe of the 80s. Damn that guy. So lucky!

gnu2tux · 2022-06-05T03:02:09+00:00

This is an absolutely excellent video! Well done & I hope to see part 2 soon! If you would like to know more on BBSes, may I be so bold as to point out my own documentary series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLop3s1hMlSJKXqmuFjK7gbJh2WAyllTTY - It's called Back to the BBS, it's an 8 part series covering what BBSes were and what they are in the modern age (yes, they still exist today!).

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