I started out with Telegard then switched to LSD. I also played around with PCboard a bit which had a shitload of good features but EVERYONE seemed to be running it and I didn't want to be the 'norm'.

Cheers,
Heather

I used to enjoy wildcat where I set up a board for my own amusment with lots of door games.

WWIV all the way... at least for single line boards...

maybe it's just because that's what i had used first, but i just liked how it was set up... simple, yet functional...

EZYCOM was always good... pretty easy to setup....

I remember 1 MB files taking 20 mins to download... arrggh!

Renegade was the nicest to start off with but had obvious limitations. Me and some locals used to counteract that by hex editing renegade.exe and doing all sorts of tricky stuff, but that's a pain. Tried Obv/2 after that but it wasn't ever stable enough to have live. From there on all I messed with was Iniquity... then the callers dried up. It had to do with centering my board around the ANSI scene which was far past its hey-day by that time (1998 or so)... still, the art I had going on was just sick :)

Waffle.

Written by the current webmaster of rotten.com and associated filth. Makes me proud. The comments in the source code were naturally very twisted.

I really can't recall what was the first software I used, but I used PCBoard as the seconed one, and kept going with it until the bitter end.
I found it very easy to manage everything, from users, to folders, to anything!

Faster

It was when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I used Renegade. Was able to create menus that you could actually highlight using the arrow keys, the site was called "Middle of Nowhere" mainly underground, with kick ass ascii/ansi art. The modem was a 2400 bps, one line. Underground, warez, doors, mail program that would call up other pc's around 1 in the morning download their mail, for mhy users to interact. Im 24 now, and I have no idea how I was able to do all this. My parents never bought us a new computer w/ new software, so my skills took a fall, and I never recovered. It was the shit though, and I miss it greatly! Some other fun stuff was making "applications" using BASIC that would write to a file, in which the user applying would have to upload to me, and my people would decide if the guy was a "lamer" :) or not...

Mike

MajorBBS was my favorite software to login to; I think
RemoteAccess was second (and my favorite to run for
my own board). Today I run MBSE-BBS under Linux,
since it closely follows what RemoteAccess was about,
back in the day.

mbse.sourceforge.net/

de Chris, WA1TNR in Torrington CT USA

(manazavahagala)

I really liked iniquity. Hands down favorite... and renegade too of course.

I also always wanted to set up a board with that canadian package.. 'free speech' the system with no structure and real name messaging only...

VBBS was a k-rad setup for early 90's systems. I seem to recall it being written in qb4.5 or something ill, so it was retarded easy to enhance and mod. After awhile, our system grew to about 4 lines and VBBS became dog slow. Switched to Wildcat under os/2 if I recall correctly, mildly better than vbbs w/ desqview. From there we grew into the Worldgroups (mbbs "successor"). Having played with telegard, tbbs, wwiv, etc. over the years, I have to say that MajorBBS was the most fun to admin. We grew from 6 or 7 nodes to about 32 with a fractional t1.. Amazes me that it was all dos based.. Man, those times were fun..

Early in my "bbs career" I would have quickly said Renegade or Iniquity, but as I got older I started to like Telegard and Sychronet more and more.

Oblivion/2 and Iniquity were nice in many ways, particular there "nice out of the box" looks.. though I would have to say that between those two I would pick Iniquity. To me it was more modern and functional.

I called many, but when I called my first Citadel, (running Cit86,) I was hooked.

From a sysop perspective, Gremlin's Citadel / Citadel+ took the cake.

Any other sentient Citadelers here?

I always ran a fairly customized version of WWIV 4.2x on my BBS. Even paid Wayne Bell for a registration code and everything. I made epic ANSI animation cartoons for my login screens and all was well.

Another BBS software I really liked (mostly for its slick UI) was Searchlight (SLBBS). I considered switching, but the author never released the source code so I didn't.