Welcome to the Last Hope BBS Home Page!

(604) 320-6570

A little bit about the BBS...

The Last Hope is located in Burnaby, BC, Canada, operated by Ryan Goolevitch. It is operated on an Atari 130XE with BBS Express! Professional Software version 5.0b, a 1MB MIO, two 40MB Harddrives (one online, a second for backup), an Adaptec 4000A SCSI Host adapter, and various other hardware (way too much to list here!), and last but not least a US Robotics Courier HST Dual Standard 16800 bps Modem, the most reliable modem I've ever owned!

News

• November 13, 1998 - I'm Moving!  Therefore, I have taken the BBS offline until it get's setup again at my new place.  The new number will be (604) 320-6570!  Tell all your friends ;-)
• December 12, 1998 - Received an Email from Rene De Bie, of the Underground BBS with new info for the Node-list. 
• January 3, 1999 - Alright!  The BBS is back online, I performed a full system backup, and all seems to be well.  Networking is re-established with the Eclectic Collective BBS, but the Jail BBS in Toronto (our link to the rest of the IMR) seems to be down!  Oh no!  So, the status of the rest of the network is unknown at this point.

The Network

After the BBS was online for about a year, August 1996 marked The Last Hope (Node #244) as a founding member of the revival of the historic IAN (International Atari Network) network of Atari 8-Bit Systems around the world, along with the Jail BBS in Toronto, and Beco Tel BBS in the Netherlands. The newly formed network is now called the IMR, for International Message Relay. We wanted to use a different name so that people would not associate the new network with the hard-feelings that brought on the downfall of the former IAN.

The network now has an awesome seventeen systems in total, in countries including Canada, USA, Netherlands, Germany, and more! The Last Hope BBS is the home of the official IMR nodelist that is updated monthly and posted through the network so all of us can see how the network is formed, and who is out there.

Last Hope Resources

• Complete BBS Files Listing, complete with descriptions, Updated September 21, 1997
• Our User listing - Updated Sep. 7, 1997.
• IMR Network Nodelist - Updated May 1997.
• Message Bases on the Last Hope - Including IMR Network Bases.
• Ryan's Atari 8-Bit Page

Links to other Atari 8-Bit BBS's

• Beco Tel BBS operated by Bernard Kok in the Netherlands, Node #176 on the IMR!
• Atari Inside BBS operated by Marius Diepenhorst, Node #476 on the IMR!