VectorGamer Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 This article talks about "Rebuilding Prodigy, one screen at a time." It's almost a year old but an interesting read. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/where-online-services-go-when-they-die/374099/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I thought this might be about the Onlive service which is set to go offline tomorrow. I played some of my Onlive games the past 2 weekends to help say goodbye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 http://orrtech.us/qlink/ http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/qlink/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Why bother.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Why bother.. You could ask that question about anything, really. I mean, seriously, look at our hobbies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Suppose so.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Why bother.. I think it would be really neat if someone somehow was able to get a hold of the server software, post the client software and allow people to connect over TCP/IP. Make it free of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 You know, it did not occur to me that the title of this thread is the actual title of the linked article. I just took it for a general topic, which is why I posted about Q-Link Reloaded. All good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 They go to a lake of fire and fry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Won't see 'em again till the 4th of July! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 ^^$$$^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Actually I found the article pretty fascinating. I was wondering what happened to my USVideoTel account and all the thousands of Compuserve messages I posted to various boards... It is cool to see that there is a shot to bring some of this stuff back into the light... Not that it would be super relevant these days, but then again... I post several times a day on a board called Atariage... So.... My relevancy standards are significantly different than Joe Cool's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 My grandfather was on Prodigy. I am trying to locate his old PS/2 to see if the hard drive is still good and if his directory is intact. I found yesterday that one of my programs I wrote 21 years ago and uploaded to Q-Link is in circulation. I found another one in a GEnie resurrection repository. Kind-of neat to see that stuff around again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82-T/A Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 My parents had Prodigy for as long as I could remember. Started with a 2400 baud modem, and we kept it well into the mid 90s when we finally gave it away. I still remember my user account: BTWK94A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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