Hello, Donald.

Replying to a message of Donald Tidmore to Sean Dennis:

 DT> I got the information from two reliable sources several years ago.

That's fine then, but leave the extra comments out, okay?  Suffice to say
that he's no longer a part of the BBS scene which is too bad since he knew
a lot about BBSing.

 DT> Who is the developer of the FKFossil program, and where can I get a
 DT> reliable, virus-free copy of the program?  The trouble with relying
 DT> on Google for searches for computer programs is that you could easily
 DT> find yourself on some criminal's web-site and be in danger of getting
 DT> a virus or trojan horse that might not yet be covered by your
 DT> antivirus program.

Tim Strike, the author of Telegard BBS, is the author.  You can get a copy
of FKFOSSIL from http://www.telegard.net (look in the download section) or
if you want I can send you the archive I have.  No viruses or anything.

 DT> others.  I hope none of you guys have been victims of this new virus
 DT> infiltration.

Nope, don't use Delphi, so we're good. :)

 DT> that any more.  And I never figured out the Preslar situation either.

From what I heard, he got in and then got a medical discharge due to health
issues.  But that's an unsubstantiated story.  Michael and I had a falling
out quite some time ago so we don't talk anymore, but I heard that from a
very reliable source.

 DT> Eventually I suppose we will all have to give up on our LORD games,
 DT> when we get forced into using either Vista or Windows 7.  I

No, that's not necessarily true (keep reading).

 DT> understand that Vista won't run LORD programs at all under DOS and
 DT> its probably going to be the same situation with Windows 7 as well.
 DT> So what will all of the BBS programmers do then?  Keep old systems
 DT> around that can run DOS and just use them for their programming?  Or
 DT> will they only do Windows programming or Linux.  I have no idea if
 DT> there is still much activity in the OS/2 programming environment.

There's a lot of activity with OS/2, especially with porting Linux
applications over.  I run eComStation 1.2MR as my primary OS for myself.  I
have the latest Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird installed-actually, I'm
running a nightly beta of Seamonkey.  As for BBS programmers, well,
speaking for myself, I'll keep doing DOS stuff.  If ya run a BBS under
Windows, you get what you get IMNSHO.  That's why I've not really strayed
from OS/2 in over a decade (I did try running under Windows a few times but
was sadly disappointed).

I don't see too many Windows-only doors around these days but then again
I'm not into that scene.  I have a few Windows-based beta testers that run
my doors just fine under XP and Vista (yes, Vista will run LORD).  I have
heard that Windows 7 runs DOS stuff better than Vista but that is not
really widely proven.

I'm not the type that has to keep up with the latest OS, either, so I guess
I'm kinda biased.  My BBS runs nicely on a Dell Optiplex GX100
(Celeron/500) and I've no problems with it.  My "newest"
computer, save for my wife's Macbook, is no older than 2004, if that.

Later,
Sean

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