Aaron from One Maybe Two Retro has pulled off a small miracle—and it came wrapped in about 30 floppy disks. His latest video covers the rediscovery and revival of RAMifications, his early-1990s Commodore 128 BBS that once served as a home for the Hamilton Commodore User Group after their reorganization.
After sifting through a mountain of backups and dealing with disks that were about as cooperative as a tired VIC-20, Aaron finally unearthed a working version of the board. Running at a faithful 2400 baud, the recovered system still holds much of its original structure, with enough pieces intact to open it back up to visitors—an impressive feat for a platform that’s been offline for three decades.
This tour through RAMifications is shorter than Aaron’s previous uploads but offers a direct look at the kind of homegrown online communities that powered Commodore users long before social media was even an idea. The video strikes a good balance between walkthrough and storytelling without wandering off into endless disk-swap montages.
Aaron hints that this is only an early chapter in reviving RAMifications, suggesting more updates down the line as he peels back more layers of the original system and perhaps restores even more of its former capabilities.
For anyone curious—or brave enough—to experience a living piece of Commodore history firsthand, RAMifications is back online and ready for visitors. Fire up your favorite terminal and connect to:
telnet://bbs.ramifications.ca:5128
Just make sure you have your 8-bit sensibilities switched on.
