Shadowscope BBS

Domains

rmiles7721January 31, 2022Uncategorized

I managed to register both shadowscope.net and shadowscope.us; Both should forward here (along with richiemiles.com, which I have owned for several years. the subdomains which redirect to my BBS that’s hosted here, should also forward correctly. You can now access the board through:

bbs.shadowscope.com, bbs.shadowscope.net, bbs.shadowscope.us and shadowscope.noip.us

I have also upgraded my weather station and will be putting it back online soon. With the move to the new town it’s been down for a couple of months. I will be back online at villaricaweather.com and villaricaweather.us once it’s up. Full weather report, forecasts, and a couple of webcams.

Should be transparent but I am moving my last two domains (the original shadowscope.com and another one) over to Google Domains from register.com; It’s cheaper and it’s a hell of a lot easier to manage domains through Google than it is register.com

Site Updates

rmiles7721August 25, 2021Blogging, Site News

Seems like the only time I post at all the last couple of years is when I’ve updated the site.

I’ve temporarily changed from the comic based theme here to retrogeek. Not sure if I like this or not but as most of my stuff the last couple of years has to do with the BBS or Home Automation it fits.

Cleaned up the categories. While all of the crime categories are gone, the posts are still here and I am planning on leaving them. If you find that you have been mentioned in a post and want to request it be taken down shoot me a message using the support link above. I can guarantee that if you were convicted of murder, rape, child abuse, etc…you’re going to be here forever. The rest, however, I will consider on a case by case basis. If you come in here demanding it be taken down or threatening me, fuck you then. Use your manners.

I also got rid of the sidebar links. The majority of the blogs that I used to frequent have been gone for over a decade now and the couple that I still visit I have in my own bookmarks.

Feel free to make suggestions.

Upgrades

rmiles7721October 11, 2020BBS, BBSing

Had a few minutes of downtime earlier. Just finished adding another network drive as I was running out of space for my Plex server. I now have 11 terabytes of network space (4 of that is free). Should be good for another couple of years.

Going to take the BBS down again later this evening for an update to the Mystic software as well.

Downtime

rmiles7721April 12, 2020Site News

Due to the severe weather that’s supposed to move through this evening and into overnight I will be taking down the BBS and any other internal servers for the evening. Depending on when the storm moves through it may be tomorrow evening before I come back online (Have to leave for work around 6ish.)

The website here will stay up as the server is located across the country but the BBS, home automation server and media servers will be inaccessible.

BBS Screenshots

rmiles7721January 3, 2020Site News

Here are some example screenshots of menus on the board.

Just an ad for the board
Login prompt
Main Menu
Last few calls
Door games menu
File Downloads menu. Mostly BBS support and older BBS files, door games, cracks and keygens for abandonware. Current BBS and mailer software for Windows, Linux, etc.
Example file listing
Message Menu
Current network switcher
Example message from one of the Fidonet echoes.

Thanks mostly to Luciano Ayres at https://www.ansigarden.com/ for the awesome menus. There’s no way I could have such a good looking BBS without them. I am OK at Ansi/Ascii and can edit existing stuff but my work pales in comparison to most of the great artists out there.