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| Text: | welcome to
this intro
celebrating
silverhawk bbs
30 years online
credits:
code by:
unicorn/twa
music by:
ma2e/dsr
spritelogo:
tng/flt
font by:
the meatball
gfx+text+idea:
espskog
let us begin...
the bbs is the
same as it was
in 1992 when it
first started.
we have the
original user
database, the
same confs
and the same
file areas.
this is a
nostalgic
hyper-trip!
connect today
and enter this
time capsule.
old users will
be happy to
continue where
they left off
in the 90's
when connecting
to the bbs you
are directly in
touch with the
old ansi styled
look 'n feel of
how things were
back then...
you will love
seeing the
layout and the
same familiar
retro-colors
once again.
when we began
hosting the bbs
it had just two
users, but
thousands of
users and over
trillions of
messages later,
the same sysop
and cosysop are
still hosting
the bbs. we do
this because we
love it -- and
we feel
passionate bout
preserving the
history of one
of norway's
oldest and
largest
bulletin boards
silverhawk bbs
was founded by
stian a. olsen
and espen skog
july 23 1992
we discovered
the magical
gadget called:
the modem :-)
together with
helpful people,
we managed to
set up an a500
with a gvp hdd
using abbs
(amiga version
of mbbs) which
shortly after
became:
silverhawk bbs
the norwegian
telephone comp.
(televerket as)
sponsored us
with 2 free
phone lines
which were open
for incoming
calls only.
kris egeberg
arranged it
and thanks to
him, we had 2
nodes. this
meant that the
only expense
we had was the
personal time
we invested in
running the bbs
and as we all
know, this
meant several
hours a day :)
but we had a
lot of fun :-)
the bbs quickly
grew and it
gathered
thousands of
new users. our
board was
targeting the
amiga users,
but we allowed
anyone to
connect.
we had
some nice
pc-vs-amiga
flame warz
going on in the
conferences
from time to
time, but that
was just part
of the fun back
then :-).
after a couple
of years, our
board was
migrated to an
a2000 which
stian bought.
it was inst'ed
with a new
multi-serial
card and some
new harddisks.
this a2000 ran
the bbs for a
few years
until we later
decided to
migrate it over
to an a1200.
it which proved
tricky because
the apollo
030-axellerator
tended to
freeze up from
time to time.
still, we kept
it running by
being true to
the bbs and
kept its uptime
as good as
possible with
daily service.
sadly, in the
late 90's when
internet gained
more popularity
the activity on
our bbs faded,
just like it
did for many
other boards
here in norway
during that
period, most of
the boards died
and never came
back online and
a piece of
bbs-history was
lost forever.
however....
silverhawk bbs
never died --
it just idled
for a while.
mostly because
work, school
and military
service took up
more and more
of our time.
but, in the
early 2000 we
brought the
bbs back online
this time we
were using a
telnet-emulator
as a serial
device instead
of modems. this
worked very
well, and we
brought the bbs
back to life
again.
but -- the
users were all
gone. they
hovered on the
dark side
(internet made
us all into
zombies) and
the bbs had
very few
visitors. it
was now running
on an a4000,
but this hw was
starting to
behave unstable
and we decided
to migrate to
the euae
emulator on an
ubuntu server.
using hardfiles
we copied all
files from the
a4000 to those
hardfiles and
it ran well
like this for a
couple of years
then, in 2015,
the bbs was
kickstarted
once more after
a long idletime
but this time
we hosted it on
a macbook pro
with fs-uae for
the emulation.
it ran super
smooth on this
setup but sysop
and cosysop
decided that we
needed to do a
change. it was
time to take
retro to the
cloud! so we
took a giant
leap of faith
and moved the
bbs to a cloud
based server.
the hardfile
was migrated to
the cloud and
set up on euae.
we redirected
the dns and,
voila:
the bbs was
officially
cloudifyed in
december 2017.
we have already
passed beyond
the year 2021
and we've also
celebrated our
bbs's 25th
anniversary and
now we are
celebrating its
30th birthday.
it has been
enormously
fun being part
of this
journey and
even though the
activity on the
bbs isn't as
high as it was
during its
glory days, we
still enjoy
logging on and
keep in touch
with everyone
who decide to
connect and
share the fun.
thanks for your
time...
we love you all
now connect and
join us on:
bbs.
silverhawk.no
port:6400
greetz to:
*all our users*
stian a. olsen
oyvind jergan
darius arnesen
cas
all twa-members
onslaught
jon suphammer
firestone
abbs-devs team:
geir i. hosteng
jan e. olausen
kaare johansen
+ all sysops!!
in the world
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