+------------------------------------+ ! How To Crash a Commadore BBS ! ! +--------------------------+ ! ! !Written By: The Highwayman! ! ! +--------------------------+ ! +------------------------------------+ ! (C) 1985 - Chaotic Computing ! +------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------+ !Part One - How to crash a RAVICS BBS! +------------------------------------+ Try to chat with the sysop. If it starts to say "Attemp #1" and so on, then just hit 'C' >VERY< fast a few hundred times. After it pages the sysop about 30 times it will give an out of memory error in such and such a line. +------------------------------------+ ! Part Two - How to crash an IIBBS ! +------------------------------------+ This will only work if the sysop is running either an un-modified version of IIBBS, or he has the very first version. Log on as a new user. Log off and then log on again as a new user. Then log off and try to log on again as the SECOND new user you logged in as. In the old version, the BBS dosn't initialize the drive after writing to the relative file. Therefore, when you try to log in as the second new user, it will try to read past the bad position but will never find it. This will leave his drive spinning until he can come in and reset the system. If it dosn't work the first time try again with two more new users, and so on. The system will just sit there sending a carrier to you. When the drive is left spinning it will heat up the metal frame in inside of the 1541 drive. This will cause the readwwrite head to be knocked out of alignment, costing the sysop a mere $45... +------------------------------------+ !Part 3 - How to crash a 64 Exchange ! +------------------------------------+ Go into the download section and start to download a file. When it is ready to send (it should say 'A to abort, B to change block size. Ready to send') then select B and enter '99e99' when it asks for the new block size (99e99 is a number bigger than the computer can accept). This will only work on older versions of 64 Exchange. +------------------------------------+ ! Soon to Come ! +------------------------------------+ !How to Crash: ! ! ! !Eagle Term Auto Mode Hal BBS 4.0 ! !Vision BBS Systems Ribit BBS ! !Punter Exchange Aceline ! !Rail Network BBS Ultimate BBS ! !TeleMessage BBS Plato BBS ! !MegaSoft BBS T.P.U.G. BBS ! !CGG BBS CMBBS ! +------------------------------------+