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posted by Mike Ehlert on 14-Dec-2004
4:50
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As you may have noticed, I no longer have time to update
the news page much anymore. My good friend Bryan Turner from
Vagabond Software has agreed to take over the news, and he
is now hosting it on his own site. A big thanks to Bryan for
his present efforts, and also to Tommy Watt who has helped
me with the news in the past.
http://bbsnews.org
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posted by Dream Master on 07-Dec-2004
17:07
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that's right i will release v2.5 of jezebel. for those that
remember the old jezebel it has been revamped and in win32 and
dos flavors. to get the latest v2.4 check out http://www.dreamlandbbs.org/jezebel
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
06-Jul-2004 7:51
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Rick Parrish has released a new version of GameSrv
(originally known as TelSrv). Which is both a
Telnet Server
and a mini-BBS. It includes both NetFoss and the Synchronet
FOSSIL. This version is a
complete rewrite in C++, as Rick
lost his original Pascal Source in a hard disk crash a while
back.
The ALPHA release is very much a test version,
and Rick says it is far from complete.
It does not include
a configuration program yet, and since the configuration is
all stored in a Microsoft
Access 2000 database, that means
you're going to need a copy of Microsoft Access 2000 installed
in
order to use this ALPHA test version.
http://randm.ca
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
08-Jun-2004 18:10
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Rob Jacob released a freeware Key Generator for NetRunner
today, after reading a recent
post here that said he
vanished he contacted me to let me know hes still alive and
well.
You can download both the keygen and the
NetRunner door here:
http://archives.thebbs.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?text=NetRunner
Rob
is currently working on porting NetRunner to the Web. Due to
someone else using the name
NetRunner for their own
product, Rob has desided to change the name of the web version
to
MatrixRunner. He currently has an alpha version running,
but its still in the early stages of
development.
http://www.hobbydo.com/matrixrunner/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Jun-2004 23:19
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After a year and a half pause, NetFoss is now back in
development!
Version 0.8.6 was released tonite, which
adds compatibility for several doors with braindead FOSSIL
support, as well as some minor enhancments to improve overall
performance. It's using the redesigned Communication Engine,
(formerly available only as an experemental beta) which delays
writes by a fraction of a second to cause larger TCP/IP
packets to be sent.
NetFoss is a freeware telnet FOSSIL
driver for Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT4, which is fully compatible
with the Level 5 FOSSIL specifications, and also includes
support for the X00 enhanced FOSSIL functions. Because its
written entirly in ASM, its considderably smaller and faster
then other FOSSIL drivers.
NetFoss is currently in need
of new beta testers. Since development restarted two weeks
ago,
only a handful of the former beta testers are still
active. There is a signup form on the homepage in case you are
intrested.
http://pcmicro.com/netfoss
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
26-May-2004 16:30
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Rick Parrish of R & M Software released a stand-alone
new version of mSynchFos, which allows the
Synchronet
FOSSIL driver to run on other BBS platforms for Windows 9x,
2000, and XP.
mSynchFos is open source, based on the SynchFos
version that Maarten Bekers
released a few years ago. Both versions include some
executables taken
from SynchroNet BBS by Rob Swindell. The difference
between Maartens
SynchFos and mSynFos is the support for
Windows 98.
http://www.randm.ca/products/msyncfos/index.php
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
19-May-2004 13:10
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T.J. McMillen, and Chris Hoppman (aka: Exodus &
Bluewolf) have released another update to the
classic
Renegade BBS for DOS this week. They were given the
source code on November 14 by the previous
developer,
Patrick Spence.
This version fixes a memory leak in
their previous release, and includes dozens of minor changes
we well.
There is now an offical support site for
Renegade BBS at:
http://www.renegadebbs.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
12-Apr-2004 10:59
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The Net Runner door (based on the book CyberPunk) works
with a FOSSIL driver!
Actually it always did... The author
just never bothered documenting this feature.
I found the switch by reading the CKIT docs, which is for the
door development kit used to create it.
NETRUN C:\bbs\node%1\DOOR.SYS PORT:F:1
The "F" tells it to use the FOSSIL driver, the
"1" means COM1.
On another subject, I'm currently working on a redirector
program that allows
NON-FOSSIL doors to be played in local mode, and then redirected
to a FOSSIL driver.
The bottom 2 status lines are stripped out, and carrier detection
is supported. I need to
find some classic doors that do not support a FOSSIL driver,
and some folks to help me
test it. In order for the redirector to work, the door must
not do direct screen writes.
It needs to send to the screen using either the BIOS, or the
DOS I/O hooks. It's
basicly an ANSI driver that redirects I/O to any FOSSIL driver.
If you are intrested, contact me.
Regards, Mike
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posted by robmc on 01-Apr-2004
6:23
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** Built using the latest technology available **
AMB v4 is the FIRST and ONLY BBS door game that uses
SQL and runs in a
32Bit DLL. The game mirrors the game
modules of WorldGroup and MajorBBS,
where multiple users
interact and play in the same environment.
Also don't
forget to go to the Download Quests page and get some more
QUESTS! Yes, that's right.. you can build your own quests
and submit them to
the programmer. Exitilus 2.02 quest
converter available.
For a compleate listing of
WHATS_NEW in v4 check out the page -->
http://ambroshia.thebbs.org
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posted by robmc on 01-Mar-2004
8:43
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A major release is about to hit the streets! Here are just
a few of the new enhancements:
- All Ambroshia
functions are now in a DLL. This reduces memory
consumption.
- Fixed a problem in the Door library. Fixes
the lag in the game (Deuce)
- Players are now notified when
others join/quit the game.
- Players can now see what other
players are doing in the game.
- Sysop can now force
maintence to run at a desired time/interval.
- Menu
enhancements throughout the entire game.
- New ANSI menus
implemented (xbit)
- The SQL conversion is COMPLETE!
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Added in a guild option for viewing your spell book..
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Global in-game Chat Room Added!
- Added in new guild menu
choices for characters.
- Many bug / cheat fixes and A TON
MORE!
To see the complete list of what’s new in v4
check out Ambroshia Web
Page:
http://ambroshia.thebbs.org
and view the Development News
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
25-Feb-2004 12:38
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Many people thought John Dailey had lost intrest in the
doors he had aquired over the years.
We finally have proof
that he John is still alive. He just released an update to
Global War (v2.7), and
he also is in the process of porting
a door called Hackin' Crackin' to a 32bit native Windows
application.
http://johndaileysoftware.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
07-Feb-2004 7:00
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Ingo Brueckl has just released version 1.2 of BlueMail,
the multi-platform, multi-format, open-source
offline mail
reader, for Windows, Linux, and OS/2.
Among the new
features are:
UTF-8 decoding support
filter and search functions now accept '!' as logical
NOT
areas can be marked for a kind of personal favourite area
list
new sort option for letter list: sorting by sender's last
name
scrolling of subject in letter list
different quote styles for FidoNet and Internet style
areas
support for direct reply in personal area
bug fixes and improvements
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Feb-2004 10:28
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tcRemoteAccess32, a Win32 clone of RemoteAccess written by
Niels Schoot in the late 1990's, has been
passed along to
Stephen Proffit yesterday, who plans to continue
development.
tcRemoteAccess32 is a 100% clone of
RemoteAccess 2.5, supporting both JAM and Hudson message
bases, the RA FileDatabase, and ANSI. It includes an
excellent GUI UserBase Editor, FileBase Editor, and
FileBase to HTML converter.
Niels Schoot ended
development in November 1998, and moved on to develop a web
based clone of the
once popular BRE door game called TEQ Now after
over 5 years,
Stephen Proffit contacted Niels and asked if
he could
ccontinue development as a freeware product.
Niels agreed to it, and turned all the source code over to
Stephen yesterday.
Stephen Proffit is also the
current developer of the BeeMail Mailer for Windows.
http://tcremoteaccess.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Feb-2004 6:01
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T.J. McMillen, and Chris Hoppman (aka: Exodus &
Bluewolf) have released
another update to Renegade BBS for
DOS on Jan 10th.
This update adds some much needed
Windows timeslicing routines
when waiting for user input.
This was a major problem with previous
versions of
Renegade. It also adds the word "telnet" as a valid
baud
rate, set by a command line switch which also prevents
a pause while
renegade attempts to drop carrier after a
user logs off.
It also fixes a memory bug when
downloading with external protocols
and when swapping out
of memory to run doors, and file sizes are now
displayed in
KB and MB rather then just bytes.
http://www.renegade.wastegate.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
17-Dec-2003 19:47
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WWIV version 5.0 beta1 was finally released yesterday.
This is the first 32-bit version of WWIV to be
released to
the public, now available in both Windows and Linux flavors.
WWIV version 5 Alpha has been
under development since
April 2000, just after version 4.30 for DOS was released.
These
alpha versions were only available to select
registered users.
A guy known as Rushfan has been
spearheading the development the last few years, while the
code is
still owned by Dean Nash (aka: Trader Jack) who
took it over from the original author in early
1998.
Some of the new features in version 5 include:
- 32-bit Win32 version.
- Compiles and Runs on Linux.
- Included GUI Telnet Server.
- Internal ZModem
- DOOR32.SYS support.
- Uses the Synchronet Fossil code from Synchronet BBS.
http://wss.wwiv.com/wwiv50/
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posted by Tommy Watt on
16-Dec-2003 14:55
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December 7, 2003
Version 3.11a-Win32 Beta is now
available as an upgrade (311aBeta.zip) from v3.1x (e.g. v3.10L
beta or
v3.11a alpha).
For a (nearly) complete
detailed list of what's changed since v3.10, see
v311_new.html.
Some highlights include:
- New JSexec program to execute Synchronet JavaScript
modules externally
(e.g. as CGI scripts, external
services, background timed events, etc).
- Support for External Mail Processors written entirely in
JavaScript (e.g. SPAM filters, content managers,
list
servers, file requesters, auto-responders etc).
- Much improved JavaScript reliability (using thread-safe
js32.dll).
- Numerous improvements and additions to the Synchronet
JavaScript Object Model.
- Much improved Telnet/RLogin performance (better
utilization of TCP packet sizes.
- Synchronet NT Services for running Synchronet on Windows
NT-based OSes without logging on
- Numerous Control Panel (GUI) improvements (e.g.
previewing and editing Baja source, configuration,
text
and menu files, improved sysop chat and spy features)
- Mail Server supports SMTP authentication, QWKnet mail
routing, additional anti-SPAM measures, and
much
more
- Cyan's IRC Daemon Service (100% JavaScript)
- Version 3.11a Beta is also available for Linux and *BSD
in source format.
http://www.synchro.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
26-Nov-2003 12:04
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T.J. McMillen, and Chris Hoppman (aka: Exodus &
Bluewolf) have released an update to the classic
Renegade
BBS for DOS today. They were given the source code on November
14 by the previous
developer, Patrick Spence. Corey Snow is
still in charge of the java version, which will be a total
re-write.
New features include:
Made NEWUSER Questions Configurable. Only questions that
are required are the User Handle, and
User Password.
Extended FILE_ID.DIZ Description length from 10 lines to
20 lines.
Fixed: When a user was downloading or uploading a file,
Renegade till showed the user was able to
be paged to
chat.
Fixed: Bug in Renemail which wouldn't allow importing of
netmail from a FrontEnd Mailer.
Unfortunatly no
improvments have been made to its heavy CPU usage under
Windows, so it still performs
very poorly if more then one
node is running. But this is a great start, and hopefully
these guys will
continue to work on it.
telnet://ttb.slyip.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
09-Nov-2003 17:54
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Dink just released a new version of his Telnet Terminal
for Windows and OS/2,
known as Mtelnet or Mtel for
short..
Whats new in beta 12:
- miscellaneous user reported bugs are fixes
- fix right alt in Windows32.
- changes to the upload dialog.
http://ozone.eesc.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
07-Nov-2003 15:52
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Tonite Dominic Carretto released version 3.0 of Ambroshia
- The Test of Time. This is a total re-write of
the
fantasy door game that Dominic started from scratch 1 year
ago.
Previous versions were written in Pascal, but Dominic
re-wrote version 3 entirly in C++, allowing it to be
easily ported to other operating systems.
Ambrosia
3.0 is available in a DOS, Win32, and WinServer versions, and
a linux flavor is expected to be
released
shortly.
Ambrosia is a huge game in which you create
your own Kingdom and maintain it, from the tax rate to the
building of a great military. It includes over 1000
monsters, over 400 Weapons and Armor, and 100
different
magic spells. It is shareware, with a $15
registration.
http://ambroshia.thebbs.org
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posted by Tarix on 10-Oct-2003
16:20
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The official homepage of Operation: Overkill has moved to
its own domain! Come join us!
Operation:
Overkill
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posted by Tarix on 30-Sep-2003
14:22
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A little over a year ago a group of individuals from
comp.bbs.tbbs got together to revive eSoft's TBBS software. We
are making steady progress and have two test systems currently
up and running. If you're interested in helping out, are a
wann-be syssop, or are just looking for something different
then check us out!
http://www.tbbs.org/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
02-Sep-2003 6:49
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DoorMUD is a high-quality MUD (multi-user dungeon) that
will run on any BBS software capable of running
door
games. DoorMUD features fast-paced real-time combat, multinode
interaction, a command interface
and a huge game world
with over 2100+ rooms for players to explore.
New
features are listed at
http://dmud.doormud.com/relnotes.html
http://dmud.doormud.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
02-Sep-2003 6:34
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MannDoor v3.08.30 was just released. This version mainly
contains bugfixes, but there are also two
important
additions: OS/2 and WINServer support.
With the
addition of OS/2 support MannDoor now compiles for 5 different
platforms with 8 different
compiler combinations, and with
the addition of WINServer support MannDoor can finally compile
native
DOOR32 mode doors (not to be confused with
DOOR322.SYS doors).
http://mannsoft.ca/
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posted by Action on 26-Aug-2003
21:39
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GuTTeRBoWL 2003 - v3.00 --------
Online Bowling Door!
16bit/32bit. Simply the B E S T bowling door
you'll ever
play. ANSI-intensive animation! Bowl the nearly
true
action-pin-reaction. Featuring multi-node, multi-OS
support and
Telnet support. Supports nearly every known
dropfile.
Send him an e-mail to get your copy at
gutterbowl@cox net
or it's in the BBS Files section at
http://www.theBUTT.net:8081
Copyright ChasWare Software (c)
1996-2003
Release date --- August 24,
2003
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
14-Aug-2003 13:31
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GameSrv v3.08.01 (formerly known as TelSrv) was just
released. This version implements a major feature many people
have been asking for lately, support for RLogin
connections.
The GUI is going to be completely
redesigned for the next release, so I didnt bother adding the
ability to change the "secure host" setting. Read the included
documentation to learn how to manually set it by editing the
SETUP.INI file.
http://mannsoft.ca/gamesrv.php
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
14-Aug-2003 9:05
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Stephen Hurd (better known as Deuce) has ported several
popular DOS doors to *Nix during the past
few weeks,
including:
The Clans
NewYork 2008
FreeVote
LastWord
Dragon Lance
Leech
Star Clash
Solar Warrior
Paranoia
The doors were ported using the OpenDoors
door development kit, and the sync XPdev.
Deuce says they
will compile under either Linux or Win32, though no Win32
binarys have
been released yet (Deuce does not run
Windows).
Deuce is looking for more doors to port, so
if you have the source to any DOS based doors you would like
to see ported, you can usually reach him on irc.thebbs.org in
channel #bbs.
http://doors.bbsdev.net/
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posted by Action on 02-Jul-2003
15:07
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Tournament Trivia is a new 32-bit doorgame for Bulletin
Board Systems! Players compete with each other in real-time,
trying to be the first to answer the current question. Scores
add up from day to day, and are reset at the end of the month,
with onee player emerging victorious. Unlike older trivia
doors, Tournament Trivia has a brand new question database on
modern topics. The game also offers an excellent multi-node
environment that functions like a chat room. Per the e-mail I
received today, Evan plans to release this exciting new game
in just two more days (July 4, 2003)!
DTR &
Godspeed,
ACTION
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posted by Tommy Watt on
30-Jun-2003 7:41
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Rob is now offering free (experimental) dynamic domain
name services (DynDNS) for Synchronet sysops wanting a
yourbbs.synchro.net host name for their Synchronet v3.10 BBS.
To get your own synchro.net host name:
Download
the dyndns.js client script into your Synchronet exec
directory.
If you haven't already, create a QWK
networking account on Vertrauen, using your BBS's QWK-ID for
the username (see docs/dove-net.txt for more details).
Note: You do not have to actually join DOVE-Net to get
a synchro.net host name, if you do not wish.
Setup
a timed event (in SCFG->External Programs->Timed Events)
to run the command-line "?dyndns yourpass" periodically, where
yourpass is the password you used when you created your QWK
networking account on Vertrauen.
Note: You may want to
force this timed event to run the first time to get your host
name activated. Watch the event log window to make sure the
script runs without errors.
Attempt to ping or
connect to services at your-id.synchro.net, where your-id is
your BBS's QWK-ID. It may take a few minutes for a new host
name to become active or for an existing host name to resolve
to a newly changed IP address.
Enjoy this free new
service, exclusively for Synchronet
sysops!
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posted by Action on 21-Jun-2003
20:29
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The much anticipated Patch 3 to Ambroshia was release
today. Lot's of fixes included with this one. Check it out at
http://www.thebbs.org/ambroshia.
DTR &
Godspeed,
ACTION
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posted by Action on 18-Jun-2003
6:35
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Neverfear....If you happened upon the Ambroshia door game
website and everything was gone, well, rest assured. Dominic
is still working on the project as diligently as ever. Dom has
replied to my E-Mail with the following message:
"Just
found out about the site being deleted. Seems somebody got
my pw for that and removed the entire account as well as
the list
server I had.
Dom"
He is currently
working on getting the web server account straightened out and
then finishing up on some "bugs" reported to the current
release. Patch 3 is still forthcoming.
DTR &
Godspeed
ACTION
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posted by Action on 18-Jun-2003
6:35
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Neverfear....If you happened upon the Ambroshia door game
website and everything was gone, well, rest assured. Dominic
is still working on the project as diligently as ever. Dom has
replied to my E-Mail with the following message:
"Just
found out about the site being deleted. Seems somebody got
my pw for that and removed the entire account as well as
the list
server I had.
Dom"
He is currently
working on getting the web server account straightened out and
then finishing up on some "bugs" reported to the current
release. Patch 3 is still forthcoming.
DTR &
Godspeed
ACTION
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-May-2003 7:09
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Ingo Brueckl has just released version 1.1 of blueMail,
the multi-platform, multi-format offline mail reader, which
now includes all major functions of the old Blue Wave mail
reader and has achieved its (primary) goal to be a reasonable
alternative tto Blue Wave.
Among the new features
are:
* Personal mail and personal area support for
SOUP
* Message(s) print function
* Message status flags
can now be edited
* Support for a user definable program to
run through the reader
* Jump to replies from letter window
and return to letter afterwards
* Bug fixes and
improvements
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
29-Apr-2003 8:41
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A web based knock-off of the popular "Legend of the Red
Dragon" door is currently being beta tested.
Since Gameport owns
Legend of the Red Dragon (known as LoRD) they
retain
exclusive rights to the LoRD name and game. That's why all
content in Legend of the Green Dragon
is new, with only a
very few noods to the original game, such as the buxom
barmaid, Violet, and the
handsome bard,
Seth.
Although serious effort was made to preserve the
original feel of the game, numerous departures were
taken
from the original game to enhance playability, and to adapt it
to the web.
LoGD is programmed in PHP with a MySQL
backend. It is known to run on Windows and Linux with
appropriate setups. All code has been written by Eric
Stevens, and the code has been released under the
GNU
General Public License, so the source code to the game, and
all derivatives of the game must remain
open and available
upon request.
You can download the latest version of
LoGD at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lotgd and
you can play the latest version at
http://lotgd.sourceforge.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
29-Apr-2003 7:55
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Rick Parrish of Mannsoft has ported SyncFos to support
Windows 95/98/ME.
SyncFos is a telnet FOSSIL interface
written by Maarten Bekers, the EleBBS author, which allows the
Synchronet FOSSIL driver (written by Rob Swindell) to be
used with EleBBS to run DOS doors via telnet.
Rick has
renamed his modified version of this FOSSIL interface to be
mSyncFOS, and it is now packaged
with his GameSrv telnet
server front end (which was formerly called
TelSrv).
GameSrv/Telsrv used to require NetFoss and
Windows NT4 or greater to run DOS doors or DOS based
BBS
software, but now either NetFoss or the included mSyncFos can
be used with it. Since SyncFos was
released as GPL open
source, Rick will probally be doing the same with his version
shortly.
http://mannsoft.ca/gamesrv.php
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
21-Apr-2003 8:04
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Dominic Carretto released version 2.01 of Ambroshia - The
Test of Time. This is a fantasy door game that
Dominic
started from scratch 6 months ago. The current version is a
native Win32 application, and a linux
flavor is expected
soon.
Ambrosia is a huge game in which you create your
own Kingdom and maintain it, from the tax rate to the
building of a great military. It includes over 1000
monsters, over 400 Weapons and Armor, and 100
different
magic spells. It is shareware, with a $20
registration.
http://ambroshia.thebbs.org
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
17-Apr-2003 9:29
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Dink has released a new beta version of his legendary
Telnet Terminal for Windows and OS/2. This
version
includes a number of minor fixes, mostly related to some ANSI
ESC codes.
mTelnet is a freeware terminal with support
for zmodem and includes a dialing directory.
http://ozone.eesc.com/
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posted by Maarten Bekers on
05-Apr-2003 16:04
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This message was sent to the beta testers team earlier
today,
EleBBS was started in September, 1996 as a
sparetime project of me. It was, and still is, my largest
programming project I ever worked on. In those years, EleBBS
has grown into a huge project, on which I am truely proud. I
learned a lot while developping EleBBS, and I think EleBBS has
matured a lot - it has a tremendous amount of features, and it
offers a flexibility and ease of use that I think are
unmatched in this type of software.
However, as many of
you have noticed the true dedication to EleBBS has been gone.
Where there were almost releases each 4 months in the past,
there hasn't been a full release since September 2001. That's
almost 1,5 years without a full release, and iin those 1,5
years not much has changed to the codebase.
Also, the last
few years, my programming time has been severely reduced due
to a number of different reasons - having a fulltime job being
the most important one. Managing 3 large projects (EleBBS,
EleWEB and EleXer), has turned out to be impossible - my main
intrest has shifted to EleXer and EleWEB, and this leaves
little to no time for EleBBS itself.
The last few
months I considered several options, releasing EleBBS as an
opensource project was one of them and this option has been
pursued. The past few weeks i've been preparing the EleBBS
code tree for release, and after moving elebbs.com to a
deedicated server, i've setup an CVS repository at
elebbs.com.
The EleBBS, EleXer and EleWEB code will be
placed into this repository, and released under the Q Public
License - you can find more information about this license at
http://www.trolltech.com/licenses/qpl-annotated.html.
The
release of this code is intended to give other developers a
chance to contribute to the development of these projects - I
will keep full control of these projects, and I will keep
developing them - it just means that it will give a chance for
othher people to give the development a push by contributing
code or fixing bugs.
I would like to thank you all for
your support of EleBBS and for all the input you all have
given to the development of EleBBS - I hope you will keep on
doing this, even though the development process changes
slightly.
You can browse the CVS repository by visiting
this link, or by connecting using a regular CVS client to
elebbs.com using the user anonymous. The CVSROOT is set to
/home/cvsroot.
Please note again - this does not mean
that I will abandon EleBBS or any of the other
projects.
Sincerely,
Maarten Bekers.
http://elebbs.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
31-Mar-2003 7:03
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Two classic door games have been taken over by Rob McGee
at x-bit.org, and both doors were recently
released as
freeware.
The Magic Gate is a multi-node door set in a
medieval town plagued by problems and strange ccurances.
Players use a portal that will take them through time and
space. Additions to this world can be added by
using a
simple scripting language. The Magic Gate was first released
in 1995 by Joseph O'Connor, and
development continued into
1997 before Joseph abandoned it.
The King of the Board
was one of the most popular trivia door games. Users try to
make it up to the top
of the pyramid by challenging
another user in a position above him. It was originally
written by Chuck
Valecek in QuickBasic specifically for
PCBoard back in 1988, and Chuck later re-wrote it in Turbo
Pascal to
support all known BBS Software. Rob McGee has
not updated the archive yet, but you can request a free
key from his site.
http://x-bit.org/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
09-Mar-2003 7:15
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EleWEB v0.10.g3 has been released today for Win32, OS/2,
FreeBSD and Linux.
An earlier article in January highlights
all the new features and changes in this new release. The
MySQL
support has only been enabled for the Win32 build,
as the implementation for Linux and FreeBSD is still
having some issues. MySQL support in EleXer will not be
supported on OS/2.
EleWEB is the WEB based CGI
interface for EleBBS, which is used here on the BBS Archives
for the BBS
News and the web forums.
http://elevillage.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
03-Mar-2003 6:03
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Synchronet Version 3.10L Beta is now available for Win32
(sbbs310L.zip) and Unix-x86 (sbbsunix.tgz)!
This is a
beta release, but it does include a full-blown Win32 installer
(no prior Synchronet installation is required). The Win32
installer can be used for a full installation or to upgrade an
existing installation (of v2.3 or v3.x).
Synchronet
v3.10L now offers:
* Numerous JavaScript Object Model
improvements and fixes
* Numerous SMTP Mail Server
improvements and fixes
- Including optional external mail
processing (ctrl/mailproc.cfg)
* Unix versions are of
"release quality" with awesome installer
* Includes IRC
client (exec/irc.js) - thanks Deuce!
* Requested SBBSecho
improvements
* ADDFILES improvements (mainly for adding
CD-ROM directories)
* Improved FTP server reliability and
new features
* New command-line utility (makeuser) to add
a user to the user database
- run makeuser -? for usage
instructions
http://synchro.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
28-Feb-2003 15:08
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Ingo Brueck announced today a major new release version
1.0 of blueMail,
the multi-platform, multi-format offline
mail reader with lots of new features:
* BBBS reply
driver
* Hudson Message Base reply driver
* Packets can
now be renamed
* Filter in letter list can now be set on
letter body contents
* Greatly improved message text
formatting
* Greatly improved quoted text handling
* New
handling for "Re: " in subject
* Help available in all
windows
* Changes in SOUP, HIPPO, BBBS and Hudson Message
Base drivers
* Bug fixes and many improvements
A
list of all new features and improvements can be found in the
history file
together with a list of new options for the
configuration file since version
0.01.
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
11-Feb-2003 11:48
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Brian Turner announced today that most of the Vagabond
Software will be release as open source on sourceforge
shortly. He specificly said that the "Operation Overkill" door
game will not go open source, and one of his other projects
will not be releeased as open source.
Vagabond Software
is currently the home of "Operation Overkill" and "Virtual
Sysop" door games, as well as several other doors, IGMs and
BBS utilities.
http://www.vbsoft.org/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
11-Feb-2003 11:37
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Revival/2k is a modular BBS/suite of internet servers and
a web-site management system.
It consists of multiple web
applications (forums, mail, login, etc), internet servers
(NNTP, POP3, etc) and a Telegard/Renegade styled telnet server
all using the same data bases, and shareing information.
Revival/2k is attempting to remake the BBS thru an
open source suite of tools that allow for expandability, as
well as a variety methods of access. It will work under BeOS,
MacOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, and Linux.
Mod has
released v1.0.0 of the Revival/2k core web-interface last
week, just released v0.1.1 of the News Group posting system.
He is currently looking for people to help in documenting,
coding, and promoting Revival/2k.
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/revival2k
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
04-Feb-2003 22:57
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After over 5 years since the last release of InterStellar
Annihilation, Andy Stewart has released
a new version of
this once popular door game. This version is now based on the
A.N.G.E.L. Door kit,
and this is the first version of ISA
which supports a FOSSIL driver, allowing it to be used via
Telnet.
InterStellar Annihilation became freeware a
while back, and this version no longer requires a
key to be
present. Several dozen new features and fixes have been added
to this version.
Check out the whatsnew page on Andys site
for the details.
http://www.taynik.com/isa
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
30-Jan-2003 12:44
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Boreno has created a new JetBBS Support Site, which offers
the latest registered version of JetBBS 5.0
for DOS, which
was released as freeware back in August 2000.
The site also
offers the JetBBS manual, JetBBS scripts, menus, and
how-to's.
Boreno is still attempting to get Troy
Beckstrom (the author) to release or sell or option the source
code
for it, but thus far Troy has refused to even reply
to such requests.
http://jetbbs.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
23-Jan-2003 14:29
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Jakob Dangorden has returned to develop the classic door
game, Usurper.
The previous version 1.7 was released back
in 1996, and for many years there were only rumors of an
upcoming version.
Two days ago Today Jakob released
the offical release version of Usurper 1.8, which contained
dozens of
bug fixes as well as tons of new features. Today
Jakob released a beta version of 1.9, which he says
contains nothing new other then a couple of additional bug
fixes.
The new versions no longer require a registration
key. Jakob says you can type any name into the BBS
and
Sysop name fields, and it will operate in registered
mode.
You can read more about what is new in Jakobs
Usurper Forums, at
http://www.xtcbox.org/forums/
The
offical Usurper page at Geocities is at:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/8079/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
21-Jan-2003 7:30
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An enhanced version of EleWeb is currently under
development.
Maarten Bekers released the following list of
new features which
he hopes to include in the upcoming
release:
- Definable pruning days per forum.
- Nicer quoting in forums, also beter quote-in-quotes.
- Better individual user-settings system.
- Faster performing EleWEB.
- Improved error handling in EleWEB.
- Much faster UBBcode and smiley parser.
- Some scripts have been really optimized (eg:
listusr.pas, readmsg.pas).
- A lot of small bug fixes in the compiler and
interpreter.
- An internal string caching system to decrease memory
allocs and deallocs.
- Enhancments to deleting of messages in the forum
system.
- Some new example scripts showing new
functions.
Besides this, Maarten is putting a lot
of time into making this EleWEB faster and
more robust, and
to improve the scalability.
EleWeb is a CGI add-on to
EleBBS, which is used to run the forums and news
page you
are currently reading.
http://www.elebbs.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
20-Jan-2003 7:42
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The Renegade BBS project has been moved from snowpoint.com
to Sourceforge.
As we have mentioned previously, the new
Renegade developer Cory Snow is currently rewriting
Renegade from the ground up. Cory is not allowed to
release the original Renegade/DOS pascal source
code,
which was based on the Telegard 2.5 source.
Originally, Corey Snow had intended to develop the new
version of Renegade using C/C++. After some
research and
discussion, the decision has been made to implement Renegade
in Java instead.
The reasons for this are several, but the
primary one is ease and speed of development. Cory says "Java
has come a long way in recent years and can now be said to
be ready for primetime". This decision will
also make it
much easier to provide cross-platform support, and will
hopefully limit the number of
platform-specific
distributions that will be necessary.
http://renegade.sourceforge.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
09-Jan-2003 14:17
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Larry Athey announced this month that the Shotgun/Win32
BBS project has been
placed indefinitey on hold due to
higher priority projects (that generate income).
His
original plan was to have the program completely ported to
Win32 and released by this time.
Larry says he is no
longer inspired to develop BBS software, and continues to
rant
about how immature he feels most BBS operators are.
Full details of his ranting can
be found at the link
below.
Larry has also removed all traces of his
MaxGraphics GUI interface for BBS software,
which at one
time was an alternative to using RIP graphics. Larry sold the
source a
while back, which will be used for a non-bbs
application.
http://www.la-soft.biz/body.php?DBID=3
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
10-Dec-2002 7:14
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|
Rick Parrish of Mannsoft has released TelSrv 5.0, a
Windows BBS Telnet Server.
TelSrv now includes basic
logging, and the included GameSrv now runs in local
mode.
It also includes the newer version of NetFoss
0.81.
TelSrv works with most DOS based BBS programs and
doors, allowing them to
run over a telnet connection
instead of Dialup under Windows NT, 2000, and XP.
http://www.mannsoft.ca/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
06-Dec-2002 14:38
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Mike Dillon is in the process of releasing his TinyTIC
utility as open source.
TinyTIC is a cross-platform TIC
file processor, considerably simpler then
some other TIC
file processors such as Allfix, and best of all it's
freeware.
http://members.darktech.org/gsvalore/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
03-Dec-2002 6:58
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A minor update to NetFoss was released yesterday. Version
0.8.1 fixes
a problem introduced in version 0.8, which
caused some doors to not
properly detect
ANSI.
NetFoss is a high performance telnet FOSSIL for
Windows NT/2K/XP
which was first released one year
ago.
A newer communication engine for NetFoss
(netcom.exe) is currently
under development. This will
improve performance and CPU usage
even further by using
delayed writes to send larger packet sizes, and
will
support binary transfers. The new engine is expected to be
done
later this month.
http://netfoss.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
25-Nov-2002 16:06
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James Coyle released another update to the preview version
of Mystic BBS 2.0 for Windows today.
This version uses a
new user database structure, so anyone upgrading from a
previous
preview will need to recreate their
users.
James says he will be releasing the public alpha
version of Mystic BBS for Windows as
soon as he finalizes
some of the data files and features that he is currently
working on.
Still no news of the upcoming version of
Mystic BBS 1.08 for DOS, but there is a rumor
that this
will also end up becoming version 2.0 rather then being
released immediatly.
http://mysticbbs.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
25-Nov-2002 15:55
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Version 0.12 of the BlueMail Offline Mail Reader was
released today by Ingo Bruckl.
It's available for
DOS,Windows,OS/2 and Linux.
New in this version
are:
Reply driver for Hippo, OMEN, SOUP and Unix mail[li]
Area Offline Configuration for Blue Wave, QWK/QWKE, Hippo,
OMEN, SOUP[li]
Addressbook can be invoked during message header
input[li]
On-Screen Clock[li]
Bug fixes and many improvements[li]
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
12-Nov-2002 8:39
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Two bits of news from the James Coyle, the Mystic BBS
developer.
He has released a preview version of Mystic
BBS 2.0 for Windows. The 2.x version of Mystic will include
exhanced Internet integration along with many new
features, all wrapped up in a single Client/Server
package. Support for Telnet, POP3, SMTP,
NNTPP, and
FTP servers are in development, many of which are functional
now.
He has also released a new version of NetRunner,
his telnet terminal program for Windows.
There is still
no news on the upcoming version of Mystic BBS 1.08, which was
expected to be
released "soon".
http://mysticbbs.com/
----------
Editted
by Mike Ehlert on 08:46
16-Nov-2002
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posted by Tommy Watt on
11-Nov-2002 15:04
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Synchronet v3.10k now offers:
* JavaScript Object Model
improvements (and better documentation!)
* Better FidoNet
and Internet Message-ID and Reply-ID support
* Easier
importation of CD-ROM directory listings
* Better QWK
message header kludge (@VIA, @TZ, @MSGID, etc) support
*
Improved NT FOSSIL driver (for 16-bit doors and programs, e.g.
FDSZ and LORD)
* FTP server supports resumed uploads
(using REST or APPE commands)
* FTP server no longer
confuses Internet Explorer by accepting invalid CWD paths
* Improved compatibility with other SMTP mail servers
(e.g. Irex)
* Improved handling of "bounced" messages from
the mail server
* Numerous SBBSecho (FidoNet packet
tosser) improvements
* New UDP-based finger service for
fast Instant Messenger user listings
* Support for new
static services - services that accept their own TCP/UDP
connections and handle their own client sessions
*
Synchronet for Unix now builds and runs on OpenBSD, so that
makes it compatible with Linux-x86, FreeBSD-x86, and
OpenBSD-x86!
Version 3.10k is the release candidate of
v3.10.
Version 3.20 will begin beta shortly after the
official release of v3.10. This version will introduce an
integrated web server with CGI and server-side JavaScript
support. The current console mode build of sbbs (from cvs)
already has the beginnings oof the web server code in it (and
can be enabled by editing the ctrl/sbbs.ini file).
A
new file database format (based on SMB technology) will also
be introduced in v3.2. This new database format will eliminate
all the short-comings of the antiquated v1 file database
format still in use.
Synchronet's author is also
planning on writing a small Win32 utility to enable dial-up
users to connect to Synchronet v3 (or any Telnet-only BBS
software).
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
28-Oct-2002 6:31
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Dink released another public version of Mtelnet
today.
New in beta 10 is the ability to sort the phonebook
by pressing
alt-s. It also includes several minor bugfixes
added during the
past few days. Download it now.
http://ozone.eesc.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
23-Oct-2002 8:17
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Dink is about to release a new version of his Telnet
Terminal for Windows,
known as Mtelnet or Mtel for
short..
New features in beta9 include:
- Better input/editing
- Upped the max phonebook entries to 200.
- In ANSI terminal emulation, it'll scroll when a
character writes to column 80.
- Terminal emulation is now configurable per host.
- Re-arrange your phone book entries with alt+up/down.
- Home/End/Pgup/Pgdown work in screen grab mode.
- pasting from the grab buffer (alt-p) works in the
phonebook/quick-dial and most input fields.
http://ozone.eesc.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
23-Oct-2002 8:09
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Stephen Proffitt is planning to release BeeMail 5.0 in
January 2003.
Beemail is a Fidonet style mailer for
Windows, with both dialup and
TCP/IP Support.
New
features will include a built in telnet client, NNTP plug-in
mod,
new msg editor, support for Wildcat 5.x, and a Tic
File tosser simular
to AllFix.
http://beemail.gexonline.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
09-Oct-2002 16:20
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Version 0.11 of the BlueMail Offline Mail Reader was
released today by Ingo Bruckl.
Bluemail supports Blue
Wave, QWK, QWKE, SOUP, OMEN and Hippo packet formats, and is
available for DOS, Windows, and Linux, and OS/2 (untested on
OS/2 currently). It's also able to be used as a reader for
Hudson, Eudora and BBBS Message bases.
The source code,
binarys, and screen shots are available at:
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
07-Oct-2002 13:49
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Here's some updated news on the Renegade Win32
project.
Some of the items on the feature request list:
- Telnet Server.
- Door32.sys Support.
- Internal Win32 FOSSIL driver.
- JAM/Squish/etc Message Base.
- Outbound Connection Capability via Telnet/Rlogin.
- Doorgames Server on Alternate Port.
- Multi-/Inter-BBS Teleconference.
- Lightbar Menu Support.
- File Request Support Via FTP.
- SMTP/POP3 Support.
- FTP Support and NNTP Support
http://www.snowpoint.com/renegade/features.stm
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
03-Oct-2002 16:46
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Scott Dudley has released the source code for Maximus
under GPL. Maximus is a powerful BBS for DOS and OS/2 still
used by many sysops today. It was the first BBS software to
support the Squish message base format. Hopefully we may
be seeing a Windows or Linux version soon.
http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
02-Oct-2002 12:21
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NetFoss 0.8 was released today.
NetFoss is a telnet
FOSSIL driver for Windows XP/2K/NT.It works with most DOS BBS
programs and doors. It's considerably faster then any other
Windows FOSSIL driver, and uses less then 10k of RAM per node
because its entirly written
in ASM.
It can be used
with Win32 BBS programs like EleBBS, MysticBBS,and even
Synchronet BBS to run DOS doors faster then ever via
telnet.
It can also be used with DOS based BBS programs
like Telegard, Renegade, PCBoard, ProBoard, Maximus,
RemoteAccess and others, and includes detailed instuctions for
configuring it with many of these
BBS's.
================================================
New
in version 0.8:
DESQview emulation - Lowers CPU usage.
*
Detects/optimizes poorly designed doorkits.
* Watchdog
carrier detection for stuck
doors.
================================================
http://netfoss.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
16-Sep-2002 0:00
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One week after the sixth year of EleBBS, Maarten Bekers
has released EleWEB v0.10.g2. This new EleWEB features a very
much improved EleXer runtime which fixes numbers of bugs, as
well a major speed optimalisation. Besides the internal
changes, he took the time to fully change the layout and
feature set of EleWEB. By revising all of its HTML files,
introducing the usage of stylesheets he made the layout even
more flexible than before.
A new feature in this
release is the addition of a slashdot style frontpage, and
internet-style forums, both which should feel familiar to most
people. Besides all this, there are numerous of small changes
that should improve the usability
of EleWEB over previous
versions.
http://elevillage.com/
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posted by Jeff Herrings on
14-Sep-2002 23:27
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A new programmer for Renegade bbs has stepped up to the
plate. I have officially passed on a copy of the source code
to him and he is going to start bringing himself up to speed.
Based on my discussions with him it looks promising
and
may make for a marked difference in the direction of Renegade.
He has some really nice ideas and plans for the future and I
think it will help revitalize the project and produce some
really nice results.
http://ariven.com/renegade.adp
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
09-Sep-2002 0:00
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Ezycom 2.00 was released. Dispite the major version
number, this release only offers some minior features and bug
fixes from the (non supported) 1.49 version from two years
ago.
http://ezycom.sytes.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
04-Sep-2002 22:39
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|
We are testing a new version of EleWeb here, which now
includes a slashdot style interface. It's It's going to
replace our monthly news postings here, so stay tuned for
more. http://elevillage.com
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Sep-2002 12:00
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WWIV 5.0alpha is pretty much complete and opterational,
though there are still a few quirks they need to work out.
This version was ported from C to C++, to allow cross platform
development of the Win32, Linux, and OS/2 versions of
WWIV.
According to co-developer Trader Jack, once
the port is completed they will will decide on a feature set,
implement the features, and then beta test it before the
source is made available. So far its native telnet handling
will run
DOS doors under Windows NT/2K/XP.
http://wss.wwiv.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Sep-2002 12:00
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|
Rick Parrish at Mannsoft is releasing the source code to a
number of BBS routines and utilities. Mannsoft is known for
several BBS utils, including TelSrv, the Windows BBS telnet
server, and MANNIRC, a Win32 IRC chat door.
Rick now
offers several of his BBS related pascal units for free
including Manndoor, a cross-platform doorkit for DOS and
Windows. However he is asking a small donation for the source
to most of his products, to help offset the cost
of his
webhosting.
http://www.mannsoft.ca/source.php
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Sep-2002 12:00
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|
Mystic developer James Coyle is currently reloacting to
Arizona, but he hopes to release MysticBBS v1.08 shortly, as
well as build a new web based community soon if things go
well. New features in version 1.08 will include an SMTP/POP3
mailer, Ftp Support, Newsgroup support, new MPL stuff and
an improved message reader.
Mystic has a large
following in the old-school BBS warez scene today, and is
available in DOS, Windows, and Linux flavors. It's been well
over a year since the last public release of Mystic, and it's
good to see that James (aka GooRoo)
is getting back into
development.
http://mysticbbs.com/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Sep-2002 12:00
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Version 2.0 of EzyCom is going to be released shortly,
according Ezycoms current developer, Stephen
Gibbs.
EzyCom was a DOS based BBS originally developed
by Peter Davies in Australia during the early to mid 1990's.
It was one of several clones of QuickBBS (v2.6) developed in
the same timeframe, sharing many of the same features as
'RemoteAccess',
'SuperBBS', and 'Proboard' Bulletin Boards.
It never gained the popularity of some of those other clones
like RA, though it offered some advantages such as an improved
Questionnaire scripting language and both QWK and bluewave
offline
mail support, but it lacked support for the
industry standard JAM or Hudson and messagebase
formats.
Peter ended development after 1995 as many of
the other BBS authors did, but in 1999 the EzyCom development
team was formed, which consisted of Craig Jansen, Paul
Sanders, and Stephen Gibbs, while Peter Davies continued to
own the
copyright. They released version 1.49 in
August2000 which was a minor update with a few features and
fixes. According to Stephen Gibbs, there was a fallout between
lead programmer Craig Jansen and the rest of the development
team,
because Craig refused to work under the developers
team agreement. Stephen said Craig was dropped from the team,
and they are no longer supporting that release (although it is
still the only version released by the team so
far).
Stephen would not say what is new in the upcoming
version 2.0 release, but he has stepped in as the new
developer for the team, and has been teaching himself to code
as he finds and fixes bugs. He has also added some 'various
features'
of his own.
Stephen said that he would
really like to Ezycom to include its own telnet server like
EleBBS, so that Ezycom sysops don't have to rely on programs
like COM/IP and Netmodem anymore. He goes on to say that this
would be a giant leap
in his learning curve for pascal
programming. Stephen is considering a future Win32 port using
the Elecom library.
http://ezycom.sytes.net/
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posted by Mike Ehlert on
01-Sep-2002 12:00
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|
Nexus BBS went open-source yesterday. George Roberts IV no
longer has time to develop Nexus, a DOS based
Telegard/Renegade clone loosly based on older TG that he had
been working on for several years, up until about a year ago.
George
no longer has time to activly develop Nexus, but he
said he will coordiate its open-source project, and still may
contribute to the code a bit.
Gene Buckle wasted no
time porting Nexus over to Linux today. Not bad for over
64,000 lines of code.  Genes port will probally
be made available for download from the Nexus web site
shortly. Gene also plans to port Nexus to Win32.
The win32
port will most likely consist of a main server program that
spawns clients and routes socket i/o to them via named pipes
or sockets.
http://nexusbbs.net/
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