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New BBS News Site
posted by Mike Ehlert on 14-Dec-2004 4:50   

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



jezebel 2.5 to be released in a few weeks.
posted by Dream Master on 07-Dec-2004 17:07   
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


GameSrv ALPHA 1 released
posted by Mike Ehlert on 06-Jul-2004 7:51   
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



posted by Mike Ehlert on 08-Jun-2004 18:10   
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/


NetFoss 0.8.6 released
posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Jun-2004 23:19   
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


mSynchFos v4.0529 Released
posted by Mike Ehlert on 26-May-2004 16:30   
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



Renegade BBS (DOS) 05-19.4 Released
posted by Mike Ehlert on 19-May-2004 13:10   
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/


Net Runner Door now works with a FOSSIL!
posted by Mike Ehlert on 12-Apr-2004 10:59   
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



AMBROSHIA V4.0 Has been Released, and is ready for download!
posted by robmc on 01-Apr-2004 6:23   
** 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


Ambroshia v4.0 - Ready for testing.
posted by robmc on 01-Mar-2004 8:43   
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!
- Added in a guild option for viewing your spell book..
- 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


john dailey is alive!
posted by Mike Ehlert on 25-Feb-2004 12:38   
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/


BlueMail 1.2 released
posted by Mike Ehlert on 07-Feb-2004 7:00   
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


  • tcRemoteAccess32 is back from the dead!
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Feb-2004 10:28   
    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/


    Renegade v01-10.4 for DOS released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Feb-2004 6:01   
    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/


    WWIV version 5.0 beta1 released!
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 17-Dec-2003 19:47   
    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/




    Synchronet v3.11a-Win32 Beta Released
    posted by Tommy Watt on 16-Dec-2003 14:55   
    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/


    New Renegade/DOS update! v11-26.3
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 26-Nov-2003 12:04   
    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/


  • Mtelnet beta 12
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 09-Nov-2003 17:54   
    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/


    Ambroshia 3.0 Released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 07-Nov-2003 15:52   
    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


    OperationOverkill.com opens!
    posted by Tarix on 10-Oct-2003 16:20   
    The official homepage of Operation: Overkill has moved to its own domain! Come join us!

    Operation: Overkill




    TBBS.org Celebrates it's 1st Birthday!
    posted by Tarix on 30-Sep-2003 14:22   
    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/




    DoorMud v0.99 released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 02-Sep-2003 6:49   
    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/


    MannDoor v3.08.30 released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 02-Sep-2003 6:34   
    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/


    GuTTeRBoWL 2003 - v3.00
    posted by Action on 26-Aug-2003 21:39   
    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


    GameSrv v3.01.01 Released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 14-Aug-2003 13:31   
    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


    Deuce ports Doors to Linux
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 14-Aug-2003 9:05   
    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/


  • Tournament Trivia
    posted by Action on 02-Jul-2003 15:07   
    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



    Synchronet now offering dynamic domain name service
    posted by Tommy Watt on 30-Jun-2003 7:41   
    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!



    AMBROSHIA Patch 3 is released
    posted by Action on 21-Jun-2003 20:29   
    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


    Ambroshia still LIVES
    posted by Action on 18-Jun-2003 6:35   
    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


    Ambroshia still LIVES
    posted by Action on 18-Jun-2003 6:35   
    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



    BlueMail 1.1 released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-May-2003 7:09   
    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


    Legend of the Green Dragon goes open source
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 29-Apr-2003 8:41   
    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/


    mSyncFos now supports Windows 9x
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 29-Apr-2003 7:55   
    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


    Ambroshia 2.01 released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 21-Apr-2003 8:04   
    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


    mTelnet 1.0beta #11 released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 17-Apr-2003 9:29   
    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/


    EleBBS opens Source!
    posted by Maarten Bekers on 05-Apr-2003 16:04   
    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/




    magic gate and king of the board freeware
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 31-Mar-2003 7:03   
    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/


    EleWEB v0.10.g3
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 09-Mar-2003 7:15   
    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/


    Synchronet 3.10L beta released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 03-Mar-2003 6:03   
    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/


    BlueMail 1.0 Released
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 28-Feb-2003 15:08   
    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


    Vagabond Software open source
    posted by Mike Ehlert on 11-Feb-2003 11:48   
    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"