This page is dedicated to my BBS system, called "Da Prophecy", which was running from June 1997 to December 1998. BBSes were privately ran computer systems offering messages/files/games, accessible by a modem over a standard phone line. My system, oriented in Demoscene, Art, Music and Coding, was mostly a message board with very active local conferences. If you want to check how the board looked like back then, you can download an archive, containing all the art drawn for it, along with BBS Intros and various adverts.

I got my first modem on May 29th 1996 and started calling BBSes in my local area from that date. The first BBS I ever called was "Morte Lune", on May 30th. In April 1997, I started to call LD boards and discovered my first scene BBS: "Dream Mountains", which was running a wicked PCBoard setup with awesome ansis. I was also a regular user of these fine scene boards: "Data Crawler", "Divide By Zero", "Equalizer" and "Planet Mars", all running very nice looking PCBoard setups.

If you are interested about BBS history, Jason Scott of textfiles.com released a 3 DVD box documentary called "BBS Documentary". You can see an interview from him, explaining what the documentary is all about.

Da Prophecy is finally online! Running a fully modded Remote Access setup. Altough it came pretty late, activity was fantastic, with peaks to 40 calls a day and tons of messages in the local bases.
The final backup have unfortunately been lost during a crashdisk in October 1997. Hopefully, I had a backup elsewhere, but dating from June 23th, so reported calls/downloads statistics period is only 2 days worth :( Fortunately, the message base had been almost fully saved in a QWK packet before switching to PCBoard in August 1997, and one of my cosysops had backups from all messages, so the message counting should be fairly accurate.

BBS Software: Remote Access 2.50
Tosser/Scanner: Fmail 1.22
Mailer: Portal of Power 0.63β7 (Until 03/07/1997), Front Door 2.12

FTN Networks: Fidonet
FTN Points: 5

Running on an Intel 486DX2-66 under MS-DOS 6.22 powered by a 1200Mb Quantum Fireball HD and an USR Sportster Vi 33600bps external modem.

Switched to PCBoard + QFront! All the ansis were changed, and the Ravnet message network was added. The local conferences remained very active until the end, altough they had some slow months during the December/January period. The most active message writers were FTN Points, so the board received more mailer calls than BBS calls. Unfortunately, there was a gap in the mailer logs so the calling statistics aren't accurate. Despite a high level of activity, I decided to close the system in late June 1998, exactly 1 year after the opening, because of some personal issues at the time.

BBS Software: PCBoard 15.23
Tosser/Scanner: QFront 1.19b
Mailer: QFront 1.19b

FTN Networks: Fidonet (Dropped in February 1998), Ravnet
FTN Points: 5

Running on an Intel 486DX2-66 under MS-DOS 6.22 powered by a 1200Mb Quantum Fireball HD and an USR Sportster Vi 33600bps external modem.

Back online after 6 weeks of downtime, running a new setup built from scratch with an upgraded PCBoard version, new ansis and new local message bases. The hardware was also improved, as it was running on a Cyrix P200+ box. At this time, the Ravnet message network died, most of the boards carrying it were closing down, and the french BBS scene was almost completely dead. As the board didn't carry any networks, mailer software was dropped, resulting in no support for FTN Points. It later carried CCI message network, with FTN packets feed by Internet. There wasn't much activity anymore, as most of the users never came back, and the BBS closed forever in December 1998 as it hardly got any calls in the last weeks of its life.

BBS Software: PCBoard 15.3
Tosser/Scanner: Gecho 1.20/Pro
Mailer: None

FTN Networks: CCI

Running on a Cyrix P200+ under Windows 95 powered by a 1200Mb Quantum Fireball HD and an USR Sportster Vi 33600bps external modem.