Announcements:
Feel free to post late breaking news on the
message forum. This month Tommy Watt has taken over Matt Munsons
position as the primary Author of the BBS News. Tommy operates a BBS,
and has been a member of the BBS community for 16 years. Mike Ehlert
continues as supervising editor, with very little free time these days
due to other priorities. A big thanks to Matt Munson for his contributions
from November 2000 to March 2001.
WWIV
WWIV 5.0 for Win32 is currently being tested by
the beta team, after aproximatly a year of development. The beta version
includes its own telnet support, though it will not run DOS based doors
over telnet. A public release version is still a long way off.
WWIV was one of the first DOS based BBS programs, and its source code
influenced many later day BBS's including Telegard and Renegade.
http://wss.wwiv.com
RemoteAccess
After a 9 month break,
RemoteAccess developer Bruce Morse is about to begin the 2.63 beta
cycle. This version will fix some minor bugs reported in last years
2.62, but no new features are expected. RemoteAccess first appeared
in 1990 as a QuickBBS clone, and within a few years it had become
the most popular BBS software in Europe, though it followed behind
WildCat and PCBoard in the states. Unfortunatly not much ever
happened since the original developer lost intrest in 1995.
http://www.rapro.com
Fusion
Fusion MBBS for Linux
version 3.0 RC2.5 has recently been released. Fusion MBBS is an update
to the Fusion GS program, and aims to look like MajorBBS or Worldgroup
by Galacticomm/netVillage. This new release adds User Management and
theme support. This is a prerelease and may not be stable.
http://www.intergate.cx
Worldgroup
Worldgroup is still
available for purchase! Many had thought it was only available as part
of a custom system that was ran by netVillage, but, it has recently
been made available. Although still rather expensive, it is available
at discounted rates if you allow "ads" to be displayed on
your system. They also are offering the following new add-ons: Job
Search, Shopping Mall and Auctions. Worldgroup is available for Windows
NT.
http://www.worldgroupware.com
DayDream
DayDream, a BBS program for Linux, 2.13 had been released. This release
fixes a few bugs. Fixes include: ddcfg was saving with wrong
permissions, Usered and sysop login now work with built-in frontdoor,
now works with NetBSD and OpenBSD, and fixes ddtelnetd compiling
problems on OpenBSD.
http://daydream.iwn.fi
MBSE
MBSE, a Linux BBS program integrated with a FidoNet mailer and
utilities, 0.33.15 has recently been released. This version has many
bug fixes and has experimental support for Newsgroups. Tested on
Slackware 7.1 (i386) and Debian 2.2 potato (Sparc).
http://mbse.sourceforge.net
Mystic
Mystic BBS 1.07.3 should be out soon. The author said he would not be
around much in April, so naturally we may see this in May. There will
be many minor new features and bugfixes, along with the return of the
OS/2 native version. Mystic BBS is available for DOS, OS/2, Windows and
Linux.
http://www.mysticbbs.com
Nexus
Nexus BBS v0.99.36.001-beta has been recently released. It includes
several bug fixes and features. This is an update only release.
v0.99.35 must already be installed for this update to install
successfully. This is a public beta version, and may not be completely
stable.
http://www.nexusbbs.net
LORD
Legend of The Red Dragon (LORD), the popular door game, is still being
ported to other systems. Plans are to release versions for to Win32,
OS/2, and Linux. There is a possibility of Palm, Win/CE and Web-based
versions. Infact, Lord/X, the Linux version, and WebLord, the web-based
version are making signifigant progress. Screen shots of WebLord are
available at the website. Other games with simular goals are LORD II,
TEOS and T-Lord.
http://lord.lordlegacy.org
COM/IP
COM/IP, a virtual modem emulator, version 2.3.0 has been released. This
version has no new features or other changes. The code base that COM/IP
resides on was updated, and so it was recompiled with this new code
base.
http://pcmicro.com/comip
DoorMUD
DoorMUD, an RPG door game, version 0.96b has recently been released.
This is a beta version includes includes 185 new rooms. DoorMUD is
available for DOS and Windows NT.
http://dmud.thebbs.org