Announcements: Feel free to
post late breaking news on the message
forum. As of December 2001, the BBS News was has not ben updated much due to Tommy Watt no longer having time,
and until now no one else has stepped forward. This is about to change, as we are looking into plans to bring the BBS News
back to life with the help of some recent volenteers, including Tommy Watt.
EleBBS
EleBBS 0.10RC1 was released to the public today. This release canidate
offers new features as well as fixes several minor issues found in v0.09g1.
- The Squish messagebase format is now supported.
- There is now a native FreeBSD version of EleBBS available, in addition to
versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2, and Linux.
- EleBBS's TELSRV.EXE has now been replaced with ELESERV.EXE, which is a
combination of a Telnet Server, News Server, and Ident Server in one
executable. The Telnet Server now allows sending the users IP to the BBS log.
- The Administraion tools (ELEMGR and ELCONFIG) can now be run remotly, using EleMON.
EleMon also allows the sysop to remotley spy on what each node sees on their screen.
- The menu editor now has an option to run several menu-items with the same
hotkey (as Proboard did).
- EleBBS's ELEXER scripting language has been enhanced.
http://www.elebbs.com
Mannsofts TelSrv
MannTelSrv by Rick Parrish at Mannsoft has been renamed to simply TelSrv.
Version 4.10 was released a few days ago. TelSrv is a freeware Telnet Server for
Windows which works with both Win32 BBS software, and also works with DOS based
BBS software by using the network FOSSIL driver called NETFOSS.
TelSrv now comes with an optional mini-BBS called GameSrv, which allows
sysops to run TelSrv as a simple door game server. GameSrv's function is
to prompt the user for their logon and password, present them with an ANSI
menu of door options, and it creates the door dropfiles and shells to NETFOSS
to run the proper door.
http://mannsoft.ca/telsrv.php
NETFOSS
NETFOSS version 0.7 was released today. This high performance FOSSIL driver
allows BBS and door games to run via a telnet connection. It's compatible
with several Telnet servers, including Mannsofts TelSrv.
NETFOSS is freeware, and supports Windows NT4, 2000, and XP. It currently does
not support legacy (9x) versions of windows.
New in version 0.7 is full support for PCBoard. Echo setting issues under
some telnet clients has also been fixed. New documentation includes details
on configuring it for PCBoard, Telegard, RemoteAccess, and MysticBBS.
http://netfoss.com
Web-LORP
Web-LORP is an HTML conversion of the popular door game "Legend of the Red Dragon".
It is being developed by Alan at QCS Software. Due to legal issues, its name has
been changed to "Legend of the Red Pengiun". It is being written in PHP, and uses
a MySQL database. All the LORD data files (LENEMY.DAT, PLAYER.DAT, etc) have been
converted to a MySQL database. The feel should be very simular to the original ANSI
game, with the exception that the most feared beast in the game will be a little red
penguin. :)
Allen is looking for volunteers to create some nice HTML and graphics for the
Web-LORP project.
http://www.gamescans.com/web-lorp
ProBoard- Updated June 11, 2002
The new version of ProBoard 2.17 turned out to too good to be true.
The documentation included with it claimed that the former author, Philippe
Leybaert has reclaimed the rights to the original source code and the ProBoard
name.
According to the readme file, TeleGrafix breached the contract they signed
when ProBoard was sold, and the terms of the contract allowed Philippe to
reclaim the rights to the original source code and release it as freeware.
The docs also thanked the Russian hacker
Miha Ulanov for releasing a ProBoard version 2.16 Year 2000 patch,
which fixed the Y2K bugs which had rendered ProBoard unusable after December
31 1999.
Philippe Leybeart had sold the ProBoard rights and source to Pat Clawson of
Telegrafix a few years earlier, who eventually killed it off by turning it into
expireware, refusing to allow even registered sysops to use his versions
for more then 90 days before they drop dead. Clawson shut down his web server
and vanished earlier this year, killing not only ProBoard but also the Searchlight
BBS software he had also aquired. Clawson was the same guy responsable for killing
off RIP graphics with his anti-sysop mentality many years ago.
After comparing the 2.17 proboard.exe to the 2.16 .exe, we have confirmed that
this is a patched version of 2.16, in which someone has used Mihas Year 2000 fix
and then added a few additional byte patches to enable the registered only features,
removed the [unregistered] notices, and change the version number to 2.17.
Both 2.16 and 2.17 are the same file size. The utilities in the archive have
also been patched with Mihas Year 2000 fix, and other then that the only
difference is their version number was also changed to 2.17.
Although version 2.17 is the only functional version of ProBoard available today,
it would not feel right for us to offer this for download. However the
ProBoard Site in Belgium decided to make version 2.17 available on their web server
to the public. Daryl Hunt forwarded me a reply from Philippe Leybaert in which
he denys any involvement, and says "I don't care about the hack at all. I have
nothing to with ProBoard anymore, so it's not my problem."
http://proboard.be
Netrunner
NetRunner v0.05 has been released. NetRunner is a Win32 console mode telnet client\
designed for calling BBS's. It is available for all 32-bit Windows platforms (Win9X/ME/NT/2K/XP).
Download it from the products page!
http://www.mysticbbs.com/netrunner/