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"BBS: The Documentary" is an 8 episode series about all aspects of the history of the dial-up Bulletin Board System, or BBS. 3 years in the making and the result of over 200 interviews, this collection puts in one convenient package a sense of the variety and wide-reaching effects of the BBS phenomenon. All in all, over seven and a half hours of material is included across the three region-free DVDs.

Among the features of this documentary:

  • 5 and a half hours of episodes
  • Over 80 minutes of bonus footage
  • Commentary Tracks and Statements by Jason Scott
  • Easter Eggs
  • Subtitles on all Episodes and Footage
  • Region-Free DVDS
  • No Copy Protection, CSS or Macrovision
  • Licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution-Sharealike)
  • DVD-ROM Section with:
    • Thousands of photos
    • Additional audio interviews
    • Speeches by Jason Scott and guests

The price is $40 plus shipping and handling.

North American residents and international residents with accounts should generally order from Paypal. International and Paypal-hating customers should generally use Kagi. (Kagi is an Internet Store that allows direct use of credit cards, checks, and money orders to buy the DVD set.)

Do not hesitate to write to sales@bbsdocumentary.com with questions about payment or payment options.

Still plenty of copies of BBS Documentary in Stock!

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BUY THE FILMOGRAPHY! BBS DOCUMENTARY PLUS GET LAMP

In 2010, after working a few years on the project, I released a documentary on text adventure games and the people who write them, called GET LAMP. Similar to BBS in the way it covers its technical subject from a storied perspective, GET LAMP brings you in contact with everyone from the minds of Infocom to modern Interactive Fiction authors. I am offering a double-pack with both films for the same shipping price as a single copy. (For more details on GET LAMP and what will come in that package, including a metal coin, check out the GET LAMP Order Page.)

Choose the price based on location.

NEW! COMMODORK, BY ROB O'HARA

From author Rob "Flack" O'Hara (website) comes what may be the first BBS memoir - a combination of stories, memories and thoughts on an era of growing up with bulletin board systems and what they meant to a man's life and growth. Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie is part history and part testimony to how bulletin board systems could be both a technical challenge and a social experience as well.

The book has been autographed by the author. 163 pages, with many photographs from Flack's life and of BBS events and artifacts. The price is $20, which includes shipping. If you buy a copy of the BBS Documentary at the same time, the price drops to $10.

Check out Chapter One from the book for free.

BUY AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF COMMODORK VIA PAYPAL, FOR $16
BBS DOCUMENTARY AND AND COMMODORK PACK, $50

THE DARK DOMAIN DVD-ROM

Sorry, folks - after six great years of selling the Dark Domain ANSI art DVD-ROM, the entire inventory of thousands of copies was sold out completely in the fall of 2011.

Thanks to RaD Man and the ACiD crew for putting together a great collection of ANSI art and having this part of history go out to many homes around the world. It was pleasure to do business.

If you were looking for specific files or history from this collection, you can still download the ANSI artworks that appeared on this DVD-ROM. The entire contents of the DVD-ROM are available for you to peruse in this location.

NEW! BUY JUST THE PACKAGING FOR $10

Recently, my printing/duplication company (the excellent Bullseye Disc out of Portland, Oregon) were throwing out old inventory and they found several boxes of overstock printed material, basically the packaging, to the BBS Documentary. This is the slipcover, and the inside four-panel tray that would hold DVDs. They didn't find DVDs.

Since this documentary is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike, people are free to make copies of the DVDs, but in doing so, they lose a couple good features. Among these features are the convenience of having 18 gigabytes of data in their hands in a professionally printed set of DVDs, and of course the packaging. This is not just a plastic slipcover and a disk stuck inside; if you check the pictures, you can see the quality that went into them.

Since throwing these out would be a waste, I figure we can make all sides happy and I can put these things up for sale. I'm selling them for $10, which is a fair price considering there's no DVDs inside. I have to make that clear: THERE ARE NO DVDS INSIDE THESE. THIS IS JUST THE PACKAGING. You should purchase above if you want the full, proper package.

BUY JUST THE BBS DOCUMENTARY PACKAGING FOR $10 A SET (PAYPAL)










BBS DOCUMENTARY - 3 DVD SET - 8 EPISODES - BONUS FEATURES - $40