January 2001
Announcements: Feel free to post late breaking news on the message forum message board. News will be posted around mid February for the next edition of BBS News. We apologize for the brief hiatus of our newsletter, and we hope you keep on reading. Matt Munson is an aspiring journalist and political activist who has been in the BBS scene for the past five years. His Editor has been in the scene 15 years.
TEOS/LORD/LORD2: Watergate: COM/IP 2.2.7: John Dailey: Fmail: Beemail: Mystic BBS 1.07.02:
TEOS/LORD2 are under redevelopment. Metropolis, who holds the copyrights to all
three of the popular door games originally programmed by Seth Robinson will be
enhanced and maintained by Michael Preslar, the same programmer currently developing
the original LORD door game for Metropolis. Michael has also been granted permission
from Metropolis to port all three of these door games over to Win32 excutables.
Thanks to all the people who joined the petition a few months back to let Metropolis
know that people wanted to have LORD ported to Win32.
http://lordlegacy.org
A new development team has taken the reins from the original author.
The registration routines are being taken out, Watergate can be now compiled
under Free Pascal as well as Borland Pascal. Synchronet BBS message base support
is also one potential feature that is being considered. Find out more at http://watergate.sourceforge.net
A new version of the Virtual-Modem/Telnet driver for Windows was released this month.
COM/IP 2.2.7 fixes some minor glitches under Windows 2000 when transfering files, and with the AT command interpeter.
As usual, this is a free update for registered users. The latest version can be requested from
http://pcmicro.com/comip/download
John Dailey is still alive. The current developer of games such as Dungeon Master and Barren
Realms Elite has released a newsletter, readjusted his pricing policies and
hopes to unveil his newest site design soon. One change that most customers will
appreciate is that John expects to implement a secure instant registration
system. Visit his site at http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
A new public beta version of the JAM/Hudson/Goldbase tosser has been
released. The version is 1.59e and minor stability bugs have been fixed.
Download the new version at http://fmail.nl.eu.org
The Win32 GUI Mailer and Message tosser is now donationware. An
donation is appreciated for continued use of Beemail. File TIC processor ablity
is being worked on, Y2K fixes for message base formats in the message base
editor, improved TCP/IP and modem handling with better release of system
resources. Visit Beemail HQ at: http://beemail.gexonline.net
Mystic BBS version 1.07.2 is out. Mystic is a cross platform BBS
software for DOS, OS/2, Win32 and Linux. Upgrades from 1.06 to 1.07 are not
possible at the moment. Version 1.07.2 is a upgrade for fresh installs of
version 1.07. Visit the author's page at http://www.mysticbbs.com