I've been trying to dig up as much about japanese grassroots BBSs
as I can. This all started because I saw hints of an old ncurses
midi writer called STed2 whose README had all sorts of ties to a
BBS called yui-NET. There's a lot of stuff about desktop music
(DTM) and japanese music 'writing' or 'typing' culture that is
really interesting to me. So I've been slowly trying to work my way
through information and just dumping some of it here. If anyone has
any more information about anything here please let me know :-)
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yui-NET
grassroots BBS primarily for DTM (DeskTop Music) and MIDI
discussion/filesharing
SysOp Yui Kobo (Yuichiro Yamamoto)
yui-NET was founded october 5, 1991,
officially opening december 1, 1991
and closed early 2005
had over 20,000 members
including "c'mon music" the members of DTM magazine
members can be found in a few mixi boards but none are active
notable members
- BOMBER (Satoshi Arisue)
a.k.a. Satoshi Mimori, Black Bomber
FORMAT-BBS FMT0002
68 heaven ROKU0033
Yuinet YUI17075
Apple Tart APLE0059
Happinet HAPI0131
S�ignale�t SIG00494
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Software
STed2 - STed was a recomposer knockoff for the x68k japanese
home computer, STed2 was a UNIX port, ported with efforts
from two members of yui-NET
TASL - Text Animation Scenario Language
plaintext animation file format
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supposedly alive grassroots BBS
- parsley net
- wapico
- midnight driving
- hanzou BBS
- virusu net
- seiwa net
