Tornado News:
Konstantin Klyagin has released the Source Code to Tornado BBS
to the public, and has given up on development. Tornado is a
RemoteAccess clone, available in Win32, OS/2, and DOS versions.
Konstantin stopped development on Tornado back in June 1999.
Tornado includes limited telnet suppport, which was still being
fine tuned when development ended. Also included is internal QWK
support, multinode chatting, and a powerfull scripting language.
Tornado lacked any configuration progam, requiring a sysop to
edit several text files in order to configure it. A Linux version
had been planned, but was never released.
http://konst.org.ua/software.tornado.html
RemoteAccess News:
RA 2.61 was released just one week after the long awaited 2.60
version last month, fixing a number of items including an
incompatible exitinfo.bbs structure.
Since then some additional bugs were discovered, and version
2.62 is expected to be releleased in the near future once
all the reported problems have been fixed.
http://pcmicro.com/ra
AllFix News:
Harold Harms finally released the long awaited 6.00 version of
AllFix last week. Originally a very popular TIC file processor,
AllFix has now also become a message base Tosser/Scanner, supporting
all the common message base formats:
Hudson message base
*.MSG message base
EzyCom message base
Squish message base
JAM message base
PCBoard message base
GoldBase message base
Allfix is currently available for DOS and OS/2 platforms, and
Harold is currently working on a Win32 version as well.
http://www.allfix.com
NetModem/32 News:
NetModem/32 alpha 3 was finally released on May 24th.
This version is said to be very stable, and does not cause
Windows to crash as previous versions did.
NetModem/32 is a powerfull Telnet server that emulates
com ports under Windows 95 and 98, and includes its own
fossil driver, allowing DOS based BBS packages and doors
to be run via tcp/ip on the internet. Netmodem/32 is
available in several node-sizes, ranging in price from $25
for a single node version, to $100 for the 32-node version.
Although Netmodem/32 does not support NT or Windows2000 yet,
Dedrick says that there is such a version under development,
and hopes to have it available later this year.
http://www.alensoftware.com
ProBoard BBS News:
ProBoard version 2.20b dropped dead on midnite May 31st. due to
Telegrafix expireware policy. Even registered users of ProBoard
were down for about 24 hours before an updated Timebomb version
was released by Telegrafix.
The new version of ProBoard 2.20d contained no new features,
and according to Pat Clawson of Telegrafix, there will be no
further development once they release the final version later
this summer. Clawson told the few remaining Proboard followers
that the BBS community is basicly dead, and he claims to be
the last commercial BBS software developer that is still
"in the game". Clawson states that the continuing fraud and
piracy losses he suffers in this declining market makes BBSing
a less than desirable place for him to commit resources.
There are some developers intrested in purchasing the source code
from Clawson and continuing development, though no agreements
have been reached at this time.
http://www.telegrafix.com
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