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Established 1992
bbs.silverhawk.no
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The BBS is the same as it was in 1992 when it first started. We
have the original user database, the same conferences
and file areas. This is a nostalgic hyper-trip!
Connect today and enter this time capsule. Old users will be happy to continue where they left off in the late90's.
When you connect to
the BBS you are directly in touch with the old ANSI styled look
and feel of how things were
back in the days. You will love to see the layout and those
familiar retrocolors again.
When we began hosting the BBS, it
had just two users. Thousands of users and over hundred
thousand messages later,
the same SysOp and CoSysop are still hosting the BBS. We do
this because we love it -- and we feel passionate about
preserving the history of one of Norway's oldest and largest
bulletin boards.
We strongly recommend using an ANSI terminal software like Putty for Windows or command line Telnet in OSX
or Linux. If you are from Norway and want the special Norwegian characters (åøæ/ÅØÆ) to work, you will have to
set up the proper encoding as well. You will find easy-to-follow setup guides below.Please note that a ZModem compliant terminal software is needed in order to upload and download files (this
includes QWK grabbing). SecureCRT and ZOC both support this. Setup instructions for ZOC and Secure-CRT
is included below (We recommend ZOC).
SilverHawk BBS was founded by Stian Andre Olsen and Espen Skog in the very early 90's after discovering the
magnificent gadget called: The modem :-)Together with helpful people, we managed to set up an A500 with a GVP external HDD using ABBS (Amiga
version of MBBS) which shortly after became SilverHawk BBS in the summer of 1992.The Norwegian telephone company, Televerket, sponsored us with two free phone lines which were open for
incoming calls only. Kristoffer Egeberg arranged this and thanks to him, we had 2 nodes. This meant that the
only expenses we had were the personal time invested in the BBS. And as we all know, this meant several
hours every day. But it was fun :-)The BBS quickly grew and gathered thousands of users. Our board was targeting the Amiga users, but we allowed
anyone to connect. Of course, we had some nice PC-vs-Amiga Wars going on in the conferences from time to time
but that was just part of the fun back in the days.After a couple of years, our board was later migrated to an A2000 which Stian bought. It was installed with a
multi-serial card and some new harddisks. The A2000 hosted the BBS for a few years before we later decided
to migrate the BBS over to an A1200, which proved tricky because the Apollo 68030 accelerator tended to
freeze up from time to time. Still, we kept it running by being true to the BBS and kept the uptime as good as
possible with daily maintenance.Sadly, in the late 90's when Internet gained more popularity, the activity on our BBS faded just like it did for many
other boards here in Norway during that period. Most of the boards died and never came back online and a piece
of history was lost forever. However, SilverHawk BBS never died -- it just idled for a while.The BBS was idling for a while mostly because work, school and military service took up more and more of our time.
But, in the early 2000 we brought the BBS back online. This time we were using a telnet-emulator as a serial device
instead of modems. This worked very well, and we brought the BBS back to life again.But -- the users were all gone. They hovered on the dark side (internet made us all into zombies) and the BBS
had very few visitors. It was now running on an A4000, but this HW was starting to behaving unstable, so we
decided to migrate to the eUAE emulator on an Ubuntu server using hardfiles. We copied all files from the A4000
to those hardfiles and it ran well like this for a couple of years. Then, in 2015, the BBS was kickstarted again after
a long idle time, but this time we hosted it on a MacBook Pro with FS-UAE for the emulation. It ran super smooth
on this setup but SysOp and CoSys decided that we needed to make a change. It was time to take Retro to the
Cloud! So we took a giant leap of faith and moved the BBS to a Cloud based server. The hardfiles were migrated to
the Cloud and set up on eUAE. We redirected the DNS and, Voila: The BBS was officially Cloud Ready in
December 2017.We have already passed beyond the year 2020 and we've celebrated our BBS's 25th anniversary. It's been enormously
fun being part of the BBS phenomenon and even though the activity on the BBS is not as high as it was during its
glory days, we still enjoy logging on and keeping in touch with everyone who decide to connect and share the fun.Thanks for your time. Now, connect and join us :)
NBBA was founded in 2019 with the sole purpose to gather members from the BBS scene. The foundation is
mainlyfor Sysop's and Users in the Nordics and with the growing rate of boards being brought back to life, we
formalised the operation and founded NBBA (org. nbr. 922 764 697).
FORGOT YOURPASSWORD ?
Text your name to either:
SysOp: +47-91867587
CoSys: +47-90368334
