March 16, 1999
RGC BBS News:
It's impressive list of features includes: Dialup/Telnet ANSI BBS, Telnet
Server, Web Server/BBS, FTP Server,SMTP/POP3 Server, PPP server, Fido Mailer,
and QWK/E Mailer. It will use MS-Access style database formats for the files,
messages and userbases, and of course will be Y2K complient.
The one-node version of RGC BBS will be FREEWARE, and there will be
10 and 20+ node versions available for an undetermined licencing fee.
EleBBS News:
Since it's release 2 weeks ago, over a dozen minor bugs have been reported
by former RemoteAccess sysops who are giving it a try. EleBBS author
Maarten Bekers plans to release a service pack shortly to fix every one
of these reported bugs. Some undisclosed additional features are also
being added in the upcoming service pack, which should be available to
the public within the next month.
The RA beta team is currently being expanded to better test the structural
changes and code with third party utilities. Due to these structural
changes, some RA compatible utilities that write to the EXITINFO drop file
or userbase may no longer work.
Bruce Morse, who took over RA in late 1997 plans to start on RA 3.00
once the Y2K version is finalized. The 3.00 version will include
unspecified additional features.
Majik.Net is requiring all registered users to request a new key for
future versions, due to the change in ownership and the existance of
hacked key generators.
Several sysops paid in advance for a Windows 95/98 upgrade of Intermail
from Further Development (the previous owner) which was never released.
Majik.Net says they plan to finish the Windows version of intermail, and
will honor those that pre-paid for the upgraded.
Majik.Net is also considering offering an OS/2 version of Intermail in
the future.
The first public beta of RGC BBS is expected to be released next month.
RGC BBS is a 32-bit Windows based BBS by Brian Tafoya of Rio Grande
Computing in New Mexico.
http://www.rgcomputing.com/rgcbbs.htm
EleBBS 0.04g1 was released to the public on February 28th as expected.
This free public gamma is designed to be a 100% clone of RemoteAccess
BBS offering considerable more features such as telnet, newsgroup, IRC
internet support, 32-bit Windows and OS/2 versions, plus lightbar menus
and an improved scripting language.
http://home.wxs.nl/~elevator
RemoteAccess News:
The original RemoteAccess BBS software will soon become Y2K compliant.
This will be the first upgrade in nearly 3 years since version 2.50 was
released by the previous author.
http://www.rapro.com
Tornado BBS News:
Tornado version 1.70alpha was released to the public on March 14th.
New in this version is an internal Telnet client, which allows users
to connect to other hosts directly from BBS. Tornado author Konstantin
Klyagin says that the TCP/IP features of Tornado are still at a very
early stage, but he plans to add a telnet server and implement other
TCP/IP client services. He also plans to start working on a Linux
version in the near future. Tornado is currently available for Win32,
OS/2, and DOS.
http://adel.telecom.nov.ru/konst/tornado.htm
Intermail News:
The InterMail Fidonet Mailer was sold to Majik.Net in Texas, along with
the InterEcho mail tosser/scanner. InterMail and it's cousin FrontDoor
were at one time the same product, untill it's two authors went their
seperate ways several years ago with the FrontDoor source code.
http://www.ifido.com/
There is not much else to report currently, but we will be posting an
update early next month. If you have any BBS related news, please send
to mike@pcmicro.com