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От : MRO 1:103/705 04 дек 25 05:49:10
К : Daniel 04 дек 25 15:29:02
Тема : Easy lesson learned = time saved
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Re: Easy lesson learned = time saved
By: Daniel to alt.bbs.synchronet,alt.bbs.mystic on Wed Dec 03 2025 07:53 pm
> Just sharing an accidental (unintended) discovery about a certain
> use case for the BBS.
> First, some history. Occasionally I catch up with Retro Recipes
> (perifractic) on youtube and was quite attentive to his purchase
> of commodore and his efforts to reboot the C64 platform. Basically,
> an FPGA jobber with the original breadbin designed molding, a
> mechanical keyboard, wifi and some flashy shit.
> For some time, I considered buying one to support his cause but, life
> is expensive as it is and I can`t justify buying a 40 column device
> that`ll serve to collect dust. Ultimately, I`m not nostalgic
> for the C64. Never had one as a kid, none of my friends did. The
> schools I attended had Apple. Bought a C64 mini from gamestop,
> on sale for $20, some years ago. The games aren`t compelling
> to me. And, I`m accustomed to MS basic on my trs-80 laptop.
> So why am I here? Well, peri said that they`ve sold roughly 15000
> new c64u`s. All with wifi. I operated under an assumption that we`d
> see an uptick of bbs logins from C64`s looking for a petscii theme.
> So, i began planning out a petscii theme for my bbs to support
> them. I figured, by the time the devices ship, my board would be
> ready for them.
> During dinner in October, my wife suggested submitting a poll on a
> forum. I thought, `what a brilliant idea.` Lemon64 has huge threads
> on this endeavor. Hundreds of thousands of views. i thought it would
> be a perfect place to go.
> So I put out the poll at the end of October and set it to go a month.
> With threads surrounding my post with views in the thousands, mine
> saw a meager number just under 200 views, three responses,
> and 11 votes. All this in a month on a very active forum.
it`s worse than you think. the people who were interested weren`t really
interested. there`s a lot of fake people that pretend to be into retro shit
but really are idiots who are not interested.
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