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10/8/2008 - New Dialup line
I have installed a new dialup line the dial up number for the BBS is now 5035230136

10/6/2008 - Tele-arena revival!
Tele-arena has a new bunch of players all eager to play. Sign up and join in!

1/5/2008 - Cat Fud

1/2/2008 - Hippie Gnu Ears
Welcome to 2008, please keep your hands and arms within the vehicle at all times.

moar funny pictures

11/18/2007 - Dial up returns
The KEEP has returned to modem access. Only one line for now, so if it's busy then keep trying it.
503 336 1463

10/15/2007 - Mod 9 Installed
Mod 9 installed! Thanks to all that donated.

10/10/2007 - Back up! Finally!
The BBS computer kicked the bucket, couple that with me moving last weekend = down time!
I have now replaced the computer, you should have not lost any days during the down time.

9/16/2007 - More new things to come
Some changes going on around here, stay tuned.

And yes as some people just found out, I am serious about the BBS and the system rules/policies. No kidding..

7/29/2007 - New Paypal Policy
All paypal payments must be made with accounts with a confirmed address. This is to prevent fraudulent chargebacks on our account.

Also as always, payments should be made with an instant-payment method; e-checks and other non-instant payments will be posted when they _clear_ not before. If you want your paypal payment to post immediately it must also fund immediately. We offer paypal as a courtesy service to our customers for convenience.

7/28/2007 - Players wanted
Looking for some serious Galactic Empire junkies for our game, see the website for more information. Also openings for Tele-arena addicts, and other online gamers.

5/3/2007 - GE reset today
GE has been dead for a while. Time for some new blood. Congrats to Glomaster for top score, too bad your membership isn't current or you'd get some free days.. Prizes for winning games are only awarded to paid members in good standing. Scoreboard is in the GE forum..

11/20/2006 - GE reset this Friday
To celebrate the largest shopping bonanza of the fall, you get a new GE game to play. While the others are spending money you can spend torpedos.

11/20/2006 - This is just cool
Check out this comic

7/22/2006 - This is how I play guitar in my head

7/21/2006 - Seems to be all better
Server's fixed. Thank you all for your patience during the gameserver's anurism. New server. I'll probably have to reset GE again, Chime in in the GE forum

7/19/2006 - BOOM!
Game server's network server is down. Down DOWN drive died.. backups got a little tweaked got everything but one file, the GE ships file.. SO game's got no ships, but if you go in you can make more.

6/23/2006 - GE Reset!
Warm up your interceptors! congrats to Captain for the win!

5/4/2006 - Networking groups on the net for The KEEP BBS
I just set up two groups one on my space and one on frapper

groups.myspace.com/thekeepbbs Network friends and interests

www.frappr.com/thekeepbbs - Map where you can see where everybody is from

Feel free to join them and help promote your favorite BBS!

4/29/2006 - how cool is this
Want to watch mst3k? (wikipedia link) try this with winamp:
http://veneficus.serverroom.us:4126/;stream.nsv

3/27/2006 - Paypal is back
Yes ok fine I'll take paypal again. twist my arm, links in the rates page

3/23/2006 - MajorMud Updated
I have updated Majormud to version 1.11p

3/21/2006 - Moonknight / Mister13 Rest In Peace
An old member has passed on, Jay was a prince of a guy. And way too young!
I hope he is in a better place.

2/21/2006 - MONSTER CAT!
http://www.local6.com/news/7267453/detail.html

1/26/2006 - Paystone account funding issues and alternate payment methods
Some members have brought to my attention that it can take up to 10 days for US customers to fund your paystone account directly from their bank account. This is NOT entirely true, if you follow their instructions you can also drop funds off at any Bank Of America and get them credited within 2-3 working days. Since there's pretty much a BOFA anywhere sounds to me like a time saving solution

If you REALLY want your membership payment to arrive here overnight there's always westernunion.com or fed-ex for a money order...

Also I have had a number of members enter the payment info into their bank's billpay system and having it issue a bank check. This seems to work quite well. I am perfectly happy to receive payments that way. But it does take a few days to arrive here through the mail. But you can set this up to pay automatically so you don't have to remember.

11/30/2005 - Replacement CC processing system
I have a new pay system called paystone in the rates section which seems to be the best of the lot so far. I have set up links for the typical memberships. If you have any problems or questions let me know.

11/27/2005 - Thanksgiving and GE Reset
Happy Thanksgiving (yeah ok I'm a couple days late)

Galactic Empire will be resetting December 4, 2005 at 6am.

11/10/2005 - PIRATE RADIO
If you like rock n roll and 80's music check out our friends at Pirate Radio.
You can listen now with winamp or other aacplus players: Cool new banner below with current song!

Rock Live with The Pirate

10/18/2005 - Paypal doesn't want our money
Again paypal has locked out my account even though I've had lots of positive business coming through. Other methods of payment will be required until this is resolved. I really am sick of Paypal and their games.. SO I'd love to find another way for people to pay for accounts.. lmk if you have suggestions. Western union works but I think they charge a _lot_ more..

7/29/2005 - Another year older
I haven't been updating the news much, since frankly there's been little new going on here except for the usual games on the bbs and other than that no real changes or announcements. Though finally someone has bothered to kick me out of the castle in Excalibur. (yay!)

I wanted to take a minute and thank everyone that has supported The KEEP since it started in 1983 and encourage those that are here now to continue with our online community and are considering becoming members to join us. The KEEP will continue to be here. Anyway enjoy the BBS and if you have something to say email me, I am usually checking my email from wherever I am at.

3/14/2004 - GE Reset imminent!
Ge will big-bang on 3/17/04 at 5am, get your interceptor warmed up!

3/1/2004 - PIRATE RADIO
If you like rock n roll and 80's music check out our friends at Pirate Radio. You can listen now with winamp or other aacplus players:

Rock Live with The Pirate

2/27/2004 - Tlord winnner!
Congrats to Maniac for winning tlord! 15 days added to his membership

11/28/2004 - GE Reset
Ge will reset on 12/1/04 warm up your interceptor!

8/30/2004 - GE update
Ge missile technology upgraded, the guys in tech say they have improved missile performance to double the speed of missiles in the game. Enjoy!

6/9/2004 - Paypal's back
Ok I am now accepting paypal memberships again. Check out the rates page for the links.

6/1/2004 - GE winners

5/29/2004 - Passing of an old friend
Thomas "Techie" Manalo passed away yesterday, he will be missed. He hasn't been a member of the BBS in years but we remember him fondly.

5/29/2004 - GE reset
Ge will reset on 6/1 unless a majority of members have a problem with that date.

3/12/2004 -View of the Earth from Mars rover Spirit
How cool is this http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040311a/11-ml-02-earth-A067R1.jpg

3/9/2004 - New tourist class limits
I have been evaluating changing tourist (demo) accounts to a longer time limit.
After a week without limits I've found it has made little difference in system usage.. I have set the tourist class to a 7 day demo period, with 1 hour call limits.. unlimited calls per day. Previous tourists were 30 days of 2 hours per day, 30min call limit. Feedback is appreciated.

3/3/2004 - Power Outage
We were without power for about 24 hours.. back up about 3pm pacific time today.. :(

2/10/2004 - Firewall problems FIXED!
If you have had trouble getting online, or staying online the problem turns out to be my firewall router, which has decided to finally give up the ghost. It has been replaced, and things look a lot better from my end. Email me if you have problems staying online or reaching the BBS.

1/11/2004 - MajorMUD full reset
At the request of the current players of mud I have completely reset the game.

12/27/2003 - Down time
There was a lot of down time today when the system failed to come back up after cleanup @ 5am.. I believe majormud is the culprit so I installed the "Version O" update to see if that fixes the problem. It took all morning to convert/update and now everything looks ok.

12/10/2003 - Ecount.com email issues
Anybody having problems signing up for Ecount.com please call 877-ECOUNT-5 (877-326-8685) and let them know. They are having some email server issues and they ask that you call and they will send out the verification emails via another server when you do.

11/20/2003 - Galactic Empire Reset scheduled for 12/4/03
Warm up your interceptor.. Whelen looks like the obvious winner (again) and gets a free 15 day extension of his membership on 12/4 unless someone beats him by then.. Email if you have comments/concerns or use the GE forum

11/17/2003 - Pirate Radio Returns on the net
My favorite radio station in LA in the late 80's is back.

Rock Live with The Pirate

11/15/2003 - Paypal down again
Yep you guessed it. Paypal and I are arguing again. Have to use another service (ecount preferred) or mail a money order for the time being. Sorry for the probs. Paypal hates me :(

10/9/2003 - Crosswordz fixed
Just a quick note to let everybody know that the crosswordz game (just like scrabble!) has been reset and it now will store games for longer. I found it was deleting unstarted games too quickly it will now hold them for 15 days.

If you would like to join a game type /go crosswordz anywhere online

9/1/2003 - MajorMUD 1.11n installed
Yep.. its been updated.. lots of things changed

8/25/2003 - Crashes resolved
It was a combination of brownouts due to A/C and a power supply in a server here that was too old. It died. So I built another pc for that server and moved the A/C to another circuit. Result: no more crashes.

8/20/2003 - Trivia fixed
I have reset the trivia module and fixed the database errors. Thanks for your patience.

8/20/2003 - Game server crashes
I have determined the problem to be power related. I have to purchase a new battery backup for the servers. I will do what I can to keep them operational in the meantime. Sorry for the problems.

12/11/2002 - Warthog halo jump movie link broken
So here are some mirrors.. This is quite funny :) Quicktime is required: http://halo.bungie.org/misc/warthogjumpmirrors.html

12/11/2002 - Payment options update!
I am now accepting paypal payments again. Why? Well probably because Ebay bought them and now I have no choice but to use them for my Ebay auctions so I figure I might as well use them for the BBS too.

6/20/2002 - Funny stuff
This is something I found on the net.  http://www.thekeep.net/media/triumph.wmv

6/16/2002 - I want one of these desks
Poetic technologies makes the ultimate computer desk.  http://www.poetictech.com/

6/4/2002 - I no longer accept paypal payments
Paypal has decided that their policies are more important than my business, so I am no longer accepting payments via their service.  I accept payments via c2it and billpoint, egold and probably other services. If you are using one and I don't seem to support it, please email me and let me know and I'll see what it takes to join up.

5/9/2002 -Save the world
These guys are trying to light up parts of the world that have no electricity. A very commendable effort. Click here for their website: http://www.lightuptheworld.org/

5/8/2002 - Poll Results

5/8/2002 - Check this out
This is kinda nifty, Picture Yourself In Plastic

5/7/2002 - Check this out
Templar says to look at this: http://www.xboxs.com/XboxAu/downloads/warthog.wmv it's really funny. It requires windows media player or equiv to play.

5/5/2002 - New Format
The KEEP's web page has a new look.  Comments? Feel free to post me an email on the BBS.

5/5/2002 - Galactic Empire Reset is coming up!
The current game is ending at the end of May. I am hosting an online chat in the teleconference at the end of the month to discuss changes to the game settings, galaxy size and the addition/modification of ships. For more information check out the Forums

5/5/2002 - Gaming news
An interesting open-source (read: FREE) game that is a cross between deathmatch and the old arcade game Battlezone has been produced. It is available for many platforms, including windows, linux etc..
I highly recommend it for a bit of fragging in the afternoon check it out at their homepage: http://www.bzflag.org/

5/5/2002 - Dreamcast Emulation
Like some of you I own a dreamcast and frankly found that it can be frustrating not having any new games since Sega dumped it.  Then I discovered that there's lots of developers on the internet making new games! And emulators too!  I particularly enjoy the Quake port that they have developed and there is even DCMame! for more information check out this quality web site: http://www.megagames.com/dc/dc.shtml

5/5/2002 - MAME cabinets now available, MP3 jukeboxes on their way
As some of you know I own http://www.arcadeshopper.com/ and I am a buyer/seller/trader of arcade games and pinball machines.  What you may not know is that I am developing new arcade emulation cabinets for home or business use. They are amazingly nice (if I say so myself) and support over 3000 video games from just one cabinet. There are two and four player capable cabinets available now. I am developing other cabinet styles such as cocktail and cabaret styles..  And my MP3 jukebox will be available soon as well!  A full featured jukebox just like they had at the corner pool hall but instead of CD's or 45 RPM records it plays MP3 files from an internal hard disk drive.  For more information consult my web site at http://www.arcadeshopper.com/