FALCON BBS IS BACK!

A Retro Computing BBS

In 1983, the movie WarGames came out. Watching David Lightman use his IMSAI 8080 to dial into the WOPR supercomputer made a generation of kids want a modem. The sysop was one of them — bought a modem, started dialing BBSes, and eventually decided to start his own.

Falcon BBS was born in the late 1980s, originally themed around the F-16 Fighting Falcon (hence the name). These days the name feels more like a nod to Professor Falken from WarGames (Falken being German for falcons). What began as a hobby eventually led to the founding of Internet Service Provider BIT, one of the oldest and 100% Dutch datacenters in the Netherlands. Running an ISP left no time for a BBS — Falcon went offline.

Fast forward to today — I never lost my love for retro computing. I now have a large collection of vintage computers including Commodore, Atari, Apple, Sinclair, and Philips machines, as well as an original IMSAI 8080 and an original DEC PDP-8. Falcon BBS has been revived with a new theme: retro computing.

Features:

• FidoNet (2:280/1043), Usenet, DoveNet message networks
• Retro computer emulators: CP/M, MS-DOS, Commodore 64, Atari 800XL, Apple I/II, BBC Micro
• Classic programming languages: BASIC, Pascal, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, LISP, FORTH, Assembler
• WarGames WOPR simulator and Zork I-III text adventures
• Live NOS Teletekst
• Door games and classic BBS culture

Sysop: Sioux • FidoNet: 2:280/1043