Project Freeworld News:
Version 0.3.1 of Project Freeworld was released on November 30th.
This version contains several bug fixes, and adds some major
changes to the server, which is now broken up into several
modules.
Project FreeWorld is an attempt to create an easy to use platform
to run a BBS on under Unix. It being developed to feel similar to
the old DOS based systems of the past while incorporating various
networking featues of today. It's being designed so that it can
be run as a stand alone 1 line dial-in system, or can be setup as
a single unit of a network of systems spread out across the internet.
http://www.freeworldbbs.org
Synchronet BBS News:
Rob Swindell is currently working on a Win32 native version of Synchronet 3.0.
The new version will be telnet based without dialup support.
Syncronet became freeware in 1997, and Rob plans to keep the Win32
version freeware as well. It's still in the early stage of development,
and is Rob hopes to release an official version in the spring of 2000.
http://www.weedpuller.com/synchronet/
Allfix News:
Harold Harms is planning to release Allfix 6.00 this month,
which will be a major update to this very popular utility.
As was mentioned in the October edition, Allfix 6.0 will no
longer be just a tic file processer, it will also be a Y2K
complient echomail tosser. The Following Message base formats
are supported: .MSG, Hudson, JAM, Squish, GoldBase, and PCBoard.
http://www.allfix.com
RGC BBS News:
Brian Tafoya plans to release the first public beta version of his upcoming
RGC BBS this month on Christmas day.
This BBS Daemon will support HTML, SMTP/POP3 Mail, FTP, DNS, and IRC services
along with a telnetable/dialable ANSI based BBS. It will have support for
Fidonet style mail, as well as offline QWK downloading for users. It will
offer a BASIC like scripting language for full customization.
The single node version of RGC BBS will be freeware, and prices have not been
set for the multinode versions.
http://www.rgcomputing.com/rgcbbs.htm
EleBBS News:
EleBBS version 0.06g1 was released to the public on November 28th.
New features include an internal full screen editor, a node monitor
allowing sysop to spy on nodes remotly, telegard style pipe color codes
in the messagebases, ftp filebase support, html filearea listings,
html newfiles listings, newsgroup file attachment conversion, and a
faster win9x communication engine.
Several bugs were also fixed since the previous gamma. A few minor bugs
still remain, which the author Maarten Bekers plans to fix shortly.
It's available in Win32, OS/2, DOS, DOS-386, and Linux versions, with
an HTML version in testing.
http://www.elebbs.com
ProBoard News:
Pat Clawson failed to deliver the first beta version of his Commercial
Y2K fix for ProBoard. During the past 6 months Pat has announced the
release was just a few days away, only to repeat these words the
following months.
A Freeware Y2K patch for ProBoard 2.16 has now been created by
Miha Ulanov in Russia. Miha disassembled the original PB 2.16
code and found over 30 areas in the code which did not handle
the Y2K year rollover, causing it to think that the year after
1999 would be 19100. Mila has created a Patch file which allows
sysops to fix their existing version of ProBoard at no charge.
The patch also fixes problems in PROCFG and PBUTIL, and Miha
just released it to the public last week.
http://www.proboard.com
If you have any additional BBS related news, please send to mike@pcmicro.com