I'm Larry Hedman, AKA X-Tec. 

I will be checking into this message board frequently and try to answer all your questions as best as I can.

Where am I?!?!?!? I guess it's time to go through the whole introduction thing... I am Bucko (Al DeRosa) I have been a sysOp since before dirt was called dirt! I put up my first BBS on 11/22/1986. I ran CNet 10.0 and moved up the chain to CNet 12.1 as my last CNet. I moved over to Image when it was released my serial number was E0001. Yep first one, and yep Don Gladden and Fred Dart called me to congratulate me on being the first buyer. Anyways, I took over NISSA (New Image SysOp Support Association) in the fall of 89. AND yes, I have the shirt to prove it, just don't know what happened to it! During the time of 1989 and 1993 I wrote what I am now finding out to be at least 100 files, When X-Tec calls and says do you remember such a program and I answer vaguely and he says how did you do this, and I say why ask me I didn't write the software and his answer is load it up and read the rem statements and I see my name on it I am embarrassed to say I don't remember writing 90% of what I wrote! Anyways, around 1992 I was in line to take over programming of Image 2.0 and when that fell through I took my board down. I was burnt out and needed some time off.. About 6 months later, I put a Amiga board up and then 2 years later I put up a WildCat! Win95 PC board. Early 96 Fred Dart called me to ask if I wanted to help finish and market Image 2.0, I jumped on it and 6 months or so later my hardware went belly up and I retired from being a sysOp... Fast forward to 2015, I was getting ready to move to a new home and didn't want to take my Commodore stuff with me, so I gave it all away and sent X-Tec my backups of my BBS and what I was running for 2.0 when my HD died. He started working on getting it running and did a very good job. Fast forward again 2018 I got the bug to be a sysOp again, I put up a Mystic BBS, and Larry (X-Tec) was putting the finishing touches on a actually VERY stable version of 2.0.. In October of 2018 I was running a Mystic BBS, a CNet Amiga BBS, and a SynchroNet BBS. Larry and I were talking and all I read since I got back into being a sysOp was how Image would not run in Vice. On October 13th, I sat down at 5pm and installed Image 2.0 on Emulated FD4000 disks and a SCPU setup of Vice, I had it answering and hanging up in 2 hours. The Wrong Number V was born. Long story short, I have been running Image BBS' and Other boards now since 1986.. Although I am not as proficient as Larry now with 3.0 I try to BS my way to support, I will do my best to help anyone who has questions here.. So ask away!!! BTW I like to type real long messages.. LOL

Aspiring Image 3.0 Sysop.... 😎 

@sutehk Welcome aboard (Hulk Hogan Voice) BROTHER!

Glad to see you made it!

@palkat 😀 🤣 

Hello everyone.

And this is my first BBS in the picture.

Under the dinosaur 😉

@radius75 That is cool, @sutehk also runs his Image v3 BBS on a mini PC.  What are your specs on that machine?

Intel(R) Atom(TM) x5-Z8350 CPU @ 1.44GHz 1.44 GHz
RAM 4,00 GB
HD 60GB
Win10

Emulator parameters:

C64C NTSC, SuperCPU, CMDHD+RTC, Swiftlink38400

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Intel(R) Atom(TM) x5-Z8350 CPU @ 1.44GHz 1.44 GHz
RAM 4,00 GB
HD 60GB
Win10

 

Emulator parameters:

C64C NTSC, SuperCPU, CMDHD+RTC, Swiftlink38400

Nice!!

@bucko wow looking at your history reminds me what my adventure was... C64 aabs, chent 10, 11, 12, ds2... then went amiga 3.1 ... then wildcat on the ibm clone mainly because there was bigger fishes to be fried.. then in the 90's we all experienced all the internet aol. then that was it for the bbs scene as we all knew it

well I got that sysop bug really bad when I found out that the bbs software was out and running so this is my warning to everyone.. I will be asking tons of setup questions and non related to anything ate all questions if i can get away with it.. KIDDING I will try my best to stay on topic of bbs stuff,  chuck

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@bucko wow looking at your history reminds me what my adventure was... C64 aabs, chent 10, 11, 12, ds2... then went amiga 3.1 ... then wildcat on the ibm clone mainly because there was bigger fishes to be fried.. then in the 90's we all experienced all the internet aol. then that was it for the bbs scene as we all knew it

Yea, we look like we went through the same things.. I think that is why when I got back into things, I wanted to run all of my old BBS software's. I tried getting my WC5 online, but that would have entailed spending upwards of $600 and I was not paying that kind of money to run a BBS! SO I tossed a Mystic BBS online. then a CNet Amiga board (because I couldn't get Excelsior! running which I owned). Then I decided I wanted to run 1 BBS on every platform, and at one time over the past 5 years, I have had a BBS running on emulated systems, a C64, C128, Amiga, Linux Machine, Windows Machine. One day soon I will have a Mac board running also.. LOL

It's been a helluva ride though..

AL

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well I got that sysop bug really bad when I found out that the bbs software was out and running so this is my warning to everyone.. I will be asking tons of setup questions and non related to anything ate all questions if i can get away with it.. KIDDING I will try my best to stay on topic of bbs stuff,  chuck

Good for you Chuck!! You don't have to stay on topic here, just ask Palkat, we end up going off on tangents all the time, you should see some of our LENGTHY emails!! Jeez.. Best times for support with Image is posting here, (I try to get on here every few days) or on Facebook in the Image 3.0 group or my group The Wrong Number Family of BBS' or on my BBS wn4.wrgnbr.com:3000 I answer all emails every evening. 

A big suggestion I can make though is after you install from the main disks, configure up the BBS make sure you go through EVERY option in the IM command from the main prompt, I MEAN EVERY OPTION! then logoff normally and answer yes to update user config files Once that is done and everything is running smoothly install all of the updates disks, there are a lot. Not because of bugs but because of changes made and updates. The files can be found on Retrograde BBS which is run by X-Tec. rtg.dyndns.biz:6428 Larry has all the updates he did from release date to now there. He is today's Fred Dart he pretty much did everything on 3.0. I dabbled in some minor stuff but couldn't grasp getting back into programming until my Covid fog lifted recently and now my programming is starting to come back to me. I have a disk of mods and pfiles coming out soon with some original Image stuff on it. Other then that, just ask if you need help.. 🙂