THE SYSOP'S BACK ROOM
Behind the padded door, past the Men in White Jackets, is the closet where Dr. Null kept the tools. Dust off a disk, pick a program and run it. Every one of them behaves the way the 1990s original did, bugs and all, and says so on its About screen.
MAZED
The map editor for the Padded Cell Maze. Sixteen colours, eighty by twenty-four, and not one pixel of menu. Load MAX.MAX, wander the corridors with the keypad digits, and watch the sysop screen of a call in progress.
28 May 1995 (MAZED.EXE, SEGAME99.EXE); 4 Jun 1995 (PRGM.EXE)DISKDUMP
A hex viewer that was never finished. It says SECTOR 600 on every screen, skips the first half of each page and never, ever quits. We kept all of that.
27 Oct 1994 21:43:56VCON
The voice converter from the box the cards came in. Feed it a Powerline file and it hands back a WAV; feed it a WAV and it gives you back a file the board could have played, minus its first sample, because that is what the original does.
1 Oct 1990PPAD / RPAD
The play pad and the record pad. Press play on any public clip and read its stamp: who recorded it and at what level. Or talk into your microphone and get a PU or PC file with the stamp the family's recorder wrote.
RPAD 23 Jul 1991; PPAD 21 Aug 1991WHEN
What time is it, and what day, and what should the telephone do about it? WHEN answers with a number. The number is the whole program.
29 Aug 1991 (WHEN.COM); 3 Feb 1992 (WHEN.DOC)RINGTEST
How BigMouth learned to tell a ringing line from a person talking. Documentation only: the phone line is not included.
3 Feb 1992House rules: nothing you do here writes to the archive. Maps you save stay in your browser or in a download. The hex viewer will only open public files. Anything you upload to the voice tools is converted in your own browser and goes nowhere else. No callers' names, numbers or mail are in this room.