August 15, 1999
These long awaited versions of 2.40b are now fully Y2k complient.
Other enhancments include fixing the "Runtime Error 200" when
used on fast CPUs, and support for real names in the message
bases. Dozens of minor bug fixes have also been made. Still missing
is support for JAM style message bases, which he plans to add shortly.
Since Oblivion/2 is now freeware, the registration routines have
been removed from the latest betas, so a serial number is no longer
required.
As mentioned last month, there will be a non-Y2k version of
RemoteAccess released shortly which will just include minor bug
fixes and with no added features.
There will be an upgrade fee for the Y2K complient version of
ProBoard once it's released to the public, though it's unknown
at this time how much it will cost to upgrade.
Inverse now uses the EleCom communications library. Hopfully a Win32
version of Inverse with telnet support will be available in the future.
Oblivion/2 BBS News:
Paul Cox just released two public beta versions of Oblivion/2
BBS v2.40 this week. Paul took over the development of Oblivion/2
in 1998, but due to a hard drive crash earlier this year much of
his work was lost and had to be redone.
http://www.darktech.org/obv2/
COM/IP News:
Tactical Software released version 2.1 of their COM/IP virtual com port
/ telnet driver on August 10th. New in this version is support for fossil
aware BBS programs and doors. No additional fossil driver is required as
COM/IP now includes its own 32bit fossil driver. Also new in this version
is DOS UART emulation, which allows COM/IP to be used with DOS programs
that access a com ports UART directly.
Tactial Software is still honoring their special
Sysop Price for COM/IP to Sysops residing in USA.
http://www.tacticalsoftware.com
WWIV BBS News:
WWIV BBS 4.30 Public Beta 5 was released on August 8th.
The last few betas during the past month have been bug-fixes only
with no new features added.
http://wss.wwiv.com/beta
RemoteAccess News:
Bruce Morse has moved the target release date of the Y2k version
of RemoteAccess forward last week. Originally he projected the
target release date of RA 2.60 to be around December 1999, but
that date has now changed to around September 1999.
http://www.rapro.com
ProBoard News:
A Y2K complient version of ProBoard for DOS is being beta tested
by a small group of testers this month. It's been three years
since the previous beta cycle of ProBoard 2.16 ended.
http://www.telegrafix.com
Inverse News:
Inverse BBS build 8 for DOS, OS/2 and Linux were released on August 1st.
In addition to the normal DOS version, there is now also another DOS
version specificly for 386 or better CPUs that take advantage of the
faster instruction sets of the modern CPUs.
http://www.darktech.org/zoob/inverse.html
If you have any additional BBS related news, please send to mike@pcmicro.com