Limitations
Because all user accounts and message headers are stored in the 64's limited RAM, which had to be shared with the program itself, the program only supported up to nine message areas and nine download file areas. Further limitations include a maximum of 239 user accounts, and a four-character password length.
Each time the BBS was started, the sysop would have to enter the time of day, because the Commodore 64 has no real-time clock hardware.
In addition, starting up the program was cumbersome. First, the program itself had to be loaded and run, then the RAM-resident user and message data had to be loaded, and then the disk had to be replaced with the message text disk. The whole process took several minutes.
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