Sepember 3, 1999
Version 2.0 was rewritten from scratch without using any third
party libraries. This was done to avoid the stability problems
that previous versions had, which unfortunatly would cause fatal
windows crashes such as the blue screen of death.
The current alpha is only for Windows 95/98, and will not run
under NT4 or Windows2000. Developer Dedrick Allen said he hopes
to also offer NT versions sometime in the future.
Douglas is a former developer of utilities for PowerBBS. While
much of Centurion will be based on PowerBBS, it will use the
RemoteAccess messagebase and filebase structures, in order to
be compatable with the majority of third party message/file
processing software. It will use it's own unique userbase
structure which obviously will be Y2k complient, and it will
use the standard door.sys drop file.
Centurion will be a server/client program, so callers will use
a GUI client program to connect to the BBS. This client terminal
will eventually include internet navigator capabilities as well.
There will be both a standard and a premium version of this BBS.
The premium versions will include higher node capabilities, and
certain internet options like IRC, FTP, and possibly others.
Currently the configuration program is being beta tested, and
the userbase structures are still being finalized before the
server development begins.
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.
In addition to the the Win32, OS/2, DOS, and linux(beta) versions EleBBS
currently available, there will be an additional DOS version released
designed for 386 or better CPUs to offer improved performance to sysops
who perfer using a DOS version.
No release date has been set yet for this version of EleBBS, though it
is expected sometime this year.
This development will not be related to the concurent developments
of LoraBBS being done by Craig Castle in USA, or by Bernhard Thoben
in Germany. It appears that all three developers will offer unique
flavors of this freeware open-source program.
NetModem 2.0 News:
NetModem 2.0 alpha2 was released to the public on August 30th.
Version 2.0 of this virtual modem / telnet BBS driver has been
under development for over a year and a half. It now features
true comport emulation in addition to the fossil driver emulation
which the first versions offered.
http://www.allensoftware.com
Centurion 2000 BBS News:
A new BBS software for Win32 is currently under development by
Douglas M. Mewis, called Centurion 2000 BBS.
http://www.dmmsoft.net/
RGC BBS News:
As of August 30th, RGC BBS is now back in development.
A beta was originally expected in April 99, but developer
Bryan Tafoya had to take several months off due to other work.
He is now back on track, and is currently finishing the command
processor. He hopes to release the first beta by the end of this
month.
http://www.rgcomputing.com/rgcbbs.htm
EleBBS News:
A new version of EleBBS is currently under development. New features
include FTP/filebase support, HTML creation for file areas, an internal
full-screen message editor, and a node spy/monitor called ELEMON, which
is simular to RANETMGR. The EleNews newsgroup client now supports mime file
attachments.
http://www.elebbs.com
LoraBBS News:
There is now yet another developer working on a win32 version of LoraBBS.
Kenneth Schmidt of Denmark is porting LoraBBS to mingw32, and once that
is done he says he will continue to add new features. He expects to have
a public release in a month or two.
If you have any additional BBS related news, please send to mike@pcmicro.com