Hello, Philip.

30 Jul 06 13:42, you wrote to Matt Munson:

 PL> Aparently there is a guy, "John Riley", who claims to
have bought the

"John Riley" is a real person and a good friend of mine.

 PL> rights to PB off of Pat Clawson, but that Pat Clawson ended up -not-
 PL> providing the source code and that Pat claimed he only sold the
 PL> rights
 PL> to the use of the name of ProBoard and ther right to release new
 PL> versions of it, but that he didn't sell the actual source code itself
 PL> (or something like that... it's confusing to me).

Well, Mr. Pat "Asshole" Clawson basically lied to John in the
midst of negotiations, then promptly disappeared.  Evidently one of Mr.
Clawson's former programmers is looking for him too and it's not for any
friendly reasons. There was a freeware release of 2.17 (you can check it
out yourself since I'm running it).  It's rather dubious in origin, but for
some reason, neither the original author, Phillippe Leybaert, nor Pat
Clawson, have bothered to try to stop the dissemination of this freeware
version.

 PL> Anyway, the guy has been claiming a new 32bit release if pending, and
 PL> supposedly had a small development team working on it, but since I
 PL> found out about this over a year ago I haven't seen anything happen
 PL> except the guy making a faulty windows installer for the 2.17 release
 PL> that claims to be freeware.

FWIW, it wasn't John that made that Windows installer, it was someone else.
John couldn't program to save his life. :) There is another sysop, Rob
King, who is working on a ProBoard clone (workalike?) for Win32, OS/2, DOS
and Linux.

 PL> Personaly I loved ProBoard and have considered setting it up again.
 PL> There is an FAQ on the guys BBS that can help you set up PB 2.17 with
 PL> GameSrv as a telent front end rather qickly if you want.

I can tell you how to do that with GameSrv, VMODEM and a few other
front-ends too.  It's not too hard at all.

Later,
Sean

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