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> BBS Software Development News


      COM/IP v3.1.0 released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 02-May-2003 8:59



 Tactical Software has released COM/IP version 3.1.0 today.
This fixes a number of intermitant issues found in the previous version
3.x.x releases, such as the
dreaded "WINSOCK: TCP config error 0000274c" error. The
FOSSIL/INT14 support has now been
removed from COM/IP, and is available in a seperate installeer called DOS/INT14.

Registered Users can upgrade from version 3.0 at no charge. The price for
COM/IP has increased to $86
which takes it out of the price range that most Sysops are willing to pay,
but the primary distributer for
Tactical offers a free alternative for BBS use (NetFoss).

http://pcmicro.com/comip/version310.html



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 BlueMail 1.1 released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-May-2003 7:09



 Ingo Brueckl has just released version 1.1 of blueMail, the
multi-platform, multi-format offline mail reader, which now includes all
major functions of the old Blue Wave mail reader and has achieved its
(primary) goal to be a reasonable alternative tto Blue Wave.

Among the new features are:

* Personal mail and personal area support for SOUP
* Message(s) print function
* Message status flags can now be edited
* Support for a user definable program to run through the reader
* Jump to replies from letter window and return to letter afterwards
* Bug fixes and improvements

http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail



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 Legend of the Green Dragon goes open source

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 29-Apr-2003 8:41



 A web based knock-off of the popular "Legend of the Red Dragon"
door is currently being beta tested.

Since Gameport owns Legend of the Red Dragon (known as LoRD) they
retain exclusive rights to the LoRD name and game. That's why all content
in Legend of the Green Dragon
is new, with only a very few noods to the original game, such as the buxom
barmaid, Violet, and the
handsome bard, Seth.

Although serious effort was made to preserve the original feel of the game,
numerous departures were
taken from the original game to enhance playability, and to adapt it to the web.

LoGD is programmed in PHP with a MySQL backend. It is known to run on
Windows and Linux with
appropriate setups. All code has been written by Eric Stevens, and the code
has been released under the
GNU General Public License, so the source code to the game, and all
derivatives of the game must remain
open and available upon request.

You can download the latest version of LoGD at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lotgd and you can play the latest version at
http://lotgd.sourceforge.net



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 mSyncFos now supports Windows 9x

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 29-Apr-2003 7:55



 Rick Parrish of Mannsoft has ported SyncFos to support Windows 95/98/ME.
SyncFos is a telnet FOSSIL interface written by Maarten Bekers, the EleBBS
author, which allows the
Synchronet FOSSIL driver (written by Rob Swindell) to be used with EleBBS
to run DOS doors via telnet.

Rick has renamed his modified version of this FOSSIL interface to be
mSyncFOS, and it is now packaged
with his GameSrv telnet server front end (which was formerly called TelSrv).

GameSrv/Telsrv used to require NetFoss and Windows NT4 or greater to run
DOS doors or DOS based
BBS software, but now either NetFoss or the included mSyncFos can be used
with it. Since SyncFos was
released as GPL open source, Rick will probally be doing the same with his
version shortly.

http://mannsoft.ca/gamesrv.php



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 Ambroshia 2.01 released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 21-Apr-2003 8:04



 Dominic Carretto released version 2.01 of Ambroshia - The Test of Time.
This is a fantasy door game that
Dominic started from scratch 6 months ago. The current version is a native
Win32 application, and a linux
flavor is expected soon.

Ambrosia is a huge game in which you create your own Kingdom and maintain
it, from the tax rate to the
building of a great military. It includes over 1000 monsters, over 400
Weapons and Armor, and 100
different magic spells. It is shareware, with a $20 registration.

http://www.thebbs.org/ambroshia/



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 mTelnet 1.0beta #11 released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 17-Apr-2003 9:29



 Dink has released a new beta version of his legendary Telnet Terminal for
Windows and OS/2. This
version includes a number of minor fixes, mostly related to some ANSI ESC codes.

mTelnet is a freeware terminal with support for zmodem and includes a
dialing directory.

http://ozone.eesc.com/



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 EleBBS opens Source!

 posted by Maarten Bekers on 05-Apr-2003 16:04



 This message was sent to the beta testers team earlier today,

EleBBS was started in September, 1996 as a sparetime project of me. It was,
and still is, my largest programming project I ever worked on. In those
years, EleBBS has grown into a huge project, on which I am truely proud. I
learned a lot while developping EleBBS, and I think EleBBS has matured a
lot - it has a tremendous amount of features, and it offers a flexibility
and ease of use that I think are unmatched in this type of software.

However, as many of you have noticed the true dedication to EleBBS has been
gone. Where there were almost releases each 4 months in the past, there
hasn't been a full release since September 2001. That's almost 1,5 years
without a full release, and iin those 1,5 years not much has changed to the
codebase.
Also, the last few years, my programming time has been severely reduced due
to a number of different reasons - having a fulltime job being the most
important one. Managing 3 large projects (EleBBS, EleWEB and EleXer), has
turned out to be impossible - my main intrest has shifted to EleXer and
EleWEB, and this leaves little to no time for EleBBS itself.

The last few months I considered several options, releasing EleBBS as an
opensource project was one of them and this option has been pursued. The
past few weeks i've been preparing the EleBBS code tree for release, and
after moving elebbs.com to a deedicated server, i've setup an CVS
repository at elebbs.com.

The EleBBS, EleXer and EleWEB code will be placed into this repository, and
released under the Q Public License - you can find more information about
this license at http://www.trolltech.com/licenses/qpl-annotated.html.

The release of this code is intended to give other developers a chance to
contribute to the development of these projects - I will keep full control
of these projects, and I will keep developing them - it just means that it
will give a chance for othher people to give the development a push by
contributing code or fixing bugs.

I would like to thank you all for your support of EleBBS and for all the
input you all have given to the development of EleBBS - I hope you will
keep on doing this, even though the development process changes slightly.

You can browse the CVS repository by visiting this link, or by connecting
using a regular CVS client to elebbs.com using the user anonymous. The
CVSROOT is set to /home/cvsroot.

Please note again - this does not mean that I will abandon EleBBS or any of
the other projects.

Sincerely,
Maarten Bekers.
http://elebbs.com



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 COM/IP 3.1.0 beta released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 04-Apr-2003 9:50



 A beta version of COM/IP 3.1.0 was released today by Tactical Software.
This beta should solve several known issues that appeared in the version
3.0.x releases last year, that are often encountered when using COM/IP as a
BBS Telnet Server.

Once there is enough feedback from users who were expericing issues in v3,
such as the virtual modem responding to AT commands with a "WINSOCK:
TCP config error 0000274c" error message, a final version of COM/IP
3.1.0 will be released, probally withiin the next month or two. Currently
users who have experienced this issue have had to downgrade to version
2.4.1. FOSSIL support has been removed from the COM/IP archive, and is now
distributed in a seperate (free) package.

Users intresting in joining the COM/IP beta program may do so by contacting
support{at}pcmicro.com
COM/IP is developed by Tactical Software, and is sold and supported by PC
Micro. COM/IP version 3.1.0 is a free upgrade for version 3.0 users.
Unfortunatly COM/IP marketed for commercial applications, and it is priced
outside the buget of most BBS syysops since the sysop discount program
ended last year.

http://pcmicro.com/comip/version310.html



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 magic gate and king of the board freeware

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 31-Mar-2003 7:03



 Two classic door games have been taken over by Rob McGee at x-bit.org, and
both doors were recently
released as freeware.

The Magic Gate is a multi-node door set in a medieval town plagued by
problems and strange ccurances.
Players use a portal that will take them through time and space. Additions
to this world can be added by
using a simple scripting language. The Magic Gate was first released in
1995 by Joseph O'Connor, and
development continued into 1997 before Joseph abandoned it.

The King of the Board was one of the most popular trivia door games. Users
try to make it up to the top
of the pyramid by challenging another user in a position above him. It was
originally written by Chuck
Valecek in QuickBasic specifically for PCBoard back in 1988, and Chuck
later re-wrote it in Turbo Pascal to
support all known BBS Software. Rob McGee has not updated the archive yet,
but you can request a free
key from his site.

http://xbit.org



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 EleWEB v0.10.g3

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 09-Mar-2003 7:15



 EleWEB v0.10.g3 has been released today for Win32, OS/2, FreeBSD and Linux.
An earlier article in January highlights all the new features and changes
in this new release. The MySQL
support has only been enabled for the Win32 build, as the implementation
for Linux and FreeBSD is still
having some issues. MySQL support in EleXer will not be supported on OS/2.

EleWEB is the WEB based CGI interface for EleBBS, which is used here on the
BBS Archives for the BBS
News and the web forums.

http://elevillage.com



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 Synchronet 3.10L beta released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 03-Mar-2003 6:03



 Synchronet Version 3.10L Beta is now available for Win32 (sbbs310L.zip)
and Unix-x86 (sbbsunix.tgz)!

This is a beta release, but it does include a full-blown Win32 installer
(no prior Synchronet installation is required). The Win32 installer can be
used for a full installation or to upgrade an existing installation (of
v2.3 or v3.x).

Synchronet v3.10L now offers:

* Numerous JavaScript Object Model improvements and fixes
* Numerous SMTP Mail Server improvements and fixes
- Including optional external mail processing (ctrl/mailproc.cfg)
* Unix versions are of "release quality" with awesome installer
* Includes IRC client (exec/irc.js) - thanks Deuce!
* Requested SBBSecho improvements
* ADDFILES improvements (mainly for adding CD-ROM directories)
* Improved FTP server reliability and new features
* New command-line utility (makeuser) to add a user to the user database
- run makeuser -? for usage instructions

http://synchro.net



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 BlueMail 1.0 Released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 28-Feb-2003 15:08



 Ingo Brueck announced today a major new release version 1.0 of blueMail,
the multi-platform, multi-format offline mail reader with lots of new features:

* BBBS reply driver
* Hudson Message Base reply driver
* Packets can now be renamed
* Filter in letter list can now be set on letter body contents
* Greatly improved message text formatting
* Greatly improved quoted text handling
* New handling for "Re: " in subject
* Help available in all windows
* Changes in SOUP, HIPPO, BBBS and Hudson Message Base drivers
* Bug fixes and many improvements

A list of all new features and improvements can be found in the history file
together with a list of new options for the configuration file since version
0.01.

http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail



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 Vagabond Software open source

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 11-Feb-2003 11:48



 Brian Turner announced today that most of the Vagabond Software will be
release as open source on sourceforge shortly. He specificly said that the
"Operation Overkill" door game will not go open source, and one
of his other projects will not be releeased as open source.

Vagabond Software is currently the home of "Operation Overkill"
and "Virtual Sysop" door games, as well as several other doors,
IGMs and BBS utilities.

http://www.vbsoft.org/



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 Revival/2k open source

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 11-Feb-2003 11:37



 Revival/2k is a modular BBS/suite of internet servers and a web-site
management system.
It consists of multiple web applications (forums, mail, login, etc),
internet servers (NNTP, POP3, etc) and a Telegard/Renegade styled telnet
server all using the same data bases, and shareing information.

Revival/2k is attempting to remake the BBS thru an open source suite of
tools that allow for expandability, as well as a variety methods of access.
It will work under BeOS, MacOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, and Linux.

Mod has released v1.0.0 of the Revival/2k core web-interface last week,
just released v0.1.1 of the News Group posting system. He is currently
looking for people to help in documenting, coding, and promoting
Revival/2k.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/revival2k



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 ISA V0.994

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 04-Feb-2003 22:57



 After over 5 years since the last release of InterStellar Annihilation,
Andy Stewart has released
a new version of this once popular door game. This version is now based on
the A.N.G.E.L. Door kit,
and this is the first version of ISA which supports a FOSSIL driver,
allowing it to be used via Telnet.

InterStellar Annihilation became freeware a while back, and this version no
longer requires a
key to be present. Several dozen new features and fixes have been added to
this version.
Check out the whatsnew page on Andys site for the details.

http://www.taynik.com/isa



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 New JetBBS Support Site

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 30-Jan-2003 12:44



 Boreno has created a new JetBBS Support Site, which offers the latest
registered version of JetBBS 5.0
for DOS, which was released as freeware back in August 2000.
The site also offers the JetBBS manual, JetBBS scripts, menus, and how-to's.

Boreno is still attempting to get Troy Beckstrom (the author) to release or
sell or option the source code
for it, but thus far Troy has refused to even reply to such requests.

http://jetbbs.com



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 Usurper development returns!

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 23-Jan-2003 14:29



 Jakob Dangorden has returned to develop the classic door game, Usurper.
The previous version 1.7 was released back in 1996, and for many years
there were only rumors of an
upcoming version.

Two days ago Today Jakob released the offical release version of Usurper
1.8, which contained dozens of
bug fixes as well as tons of new features. Today Jakob released a beta
version of 1.9, which he says
contains nothing new other then a couple of additional bug fixes.
The new versions no longer require a registration key. Jakob says you can
type any name into the BBS
and Sysop name fields, and it will operate in registered mode.

You can read more about what is new in Jakobs Usurper Forums, at

http://www.xtcbox.org/forums/

The offical Usurper page at Geocities is at:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/8079/



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 EleWeb new feature list

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 21-Jan-2003 7:30



 An enhanced version of EleWeb is currently under development.
Maarten Bekers released the following list of new features which
he hopes to include in the upcoming release:

Definable pruning days per forum.

Nicer quoting in forums, also beter quote-in-quotes.

Better individual user-settings system.

Faster performing EleWEB.

Improved error handling in EleWEB.

Much faster UBBcode and smiley parser.

Some scripts have been really optimized (eg: listusr.pas, readmsg.pas).

A lot of small bug fixes in the compiler and interpreter.

An internal string caching system to decrease memory allocs and deallocs.

Enhancments to deleting of messages in the forum system.

Some new example scripts showing new functions.

Besides this, Maarten is putting a lot of time into making this EleWEB faster and
more robust, and to improve the scalability.

EleWeb is a CGI add-on to EleBBS, which is used to run the forums and news
page you are currently reading.

http://www.elebbs.com



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 Renegade BBS project goes open source

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 20-Jan-2003 7:42



 The Renegade BBS project has been moved from snowpoint.com to Sourceforge.
As we have mentioned previously, the new Renegade developer Cory Snow is
currently rewriting
Renegade from the ground up. Cory is not allowed to release the original
Renegade/DOS pascal source
code, which was based on the Telegard 2.5 source.

Originally, Corey Snow had intended to develop the new version of Renegade
using C/C++. After some
research and discussion, the decision has been made to implement Renegade
in Java instead.
The reasons for this are several, but the primary one is ease and speed of
development. Cory says "Java
has come a long way in recent years and can now be said to be ready for
primetime". This decision will
also make it much easier to provide cross-platform support, and will
hopefully limit the number of
platform-specific distributions that will be necessary.

http://renegade.sourceforge.net



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 Shotgun/Win32 BBS project put on hold

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 09-Jan-2003 14:17



 Larry Athey announced this month that the Shotgun/Win32 BBS project has been
placed indefinitey on hold due to higher priority projects (that generate income).
His original plan was to have the program completely ported to Win32 and
released by this time.

Larry says he is no longer inspired to develop BBS software, and continues to rant
about how immature he feels most BBS operators are. Full details of his ranting can
be found at the link below.

Larry has also removed all traces of his MaxGraphics GUI interface for BBS software,
which at one time was an alternative to using RIP graphics. Larry sold the source a
while back, which will be used for a non-bbs application.

http://www.la-soft.biz/body.php?DBID=3



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 Mannsoft TelSrv 5.0

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 10-Dec-2002 7:14



 Rick Parrish of Mannsoft has released TelSrv 5.0, a Windows BBS Telnet Server.
TelSrv now includes basic logging, and the included GameSrv now runs in local
mode. It also includes the newer version of NetFoss 0.81.

TelSrv works with most DOS based BBS programs and doors, allowing them to
run over a telnet connection instead of Dialup under Windows NT, 2000, and XP.

http://www.mannsoft.ca



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 TinyTIC goes open-source

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 06-Dec-2002 14:38



 Mike Dillon is in the process of releasing his TinyTIC utility as open source.
TinyTIC is a cross-platform TIC file processor, considerably simpler then
some other TIC file processors such as Allfix, and best of all it's freeware.

http://members.darktech.org/gsvalore/



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 NetFoss

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 03-Dec-2002 6:58



 A minor update to NetFoss was released yesterday. Version 0.8.1 fixes
a problem introduced in version 0.8, which caused some doors to not
properly detect ANSI.

NetFoss is a high performance telnet FOSSIL for Windows NT/2K/XP
which was first released one year ago.

A newer communication engine for NetFoss (netcom.exe) is currently
under development. This will improve performance and CPU usage
even further by using delayed writes to send larger packet sizes, and
will support binary transfers. The new engine is expected to be done
later this month.

http://netfoss.com



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 Mystic BBS 2.0 preview for Windows update

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 25-Nov-2002 16:06



 James Coyle released another update to the preview version of Mystic BBS
2.0 for Windows today.
This version uses a new user database structure, so anyone upgrading from a previous
preview will need to recreate their users.

James says he will be releasing the public alpha version of Mystic BBS for Windows as
soon as he finalizes some of the data files and features that he is
currently working on.

Still no news of the upcoming version of Mystic BBS 1.08 for DOS, but there
is a rumor
that this will also end up becoming version 2.0 rather then being released
immediatly.

http://mysticbbs.com/



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 BlueMail 0.12 QWK Reader

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 25-Nov-2002 15:55



 Version 0.12 of the BlueMail Offline Mail Reader was released today by Ingo Bruckl.
It's available for DOS,Windows,OS/2 and Linux.

New in this version are:

Reply driver for Hippo, OMEN, SOUP and Unix mail[li]

Area Offline Configuration for Blue Wave, QWK/QWKE, Hippo, OMEN, SOUP[li]

Addressbook can be invoked during message header input[li]

On-Screen Clock[li]

Bug fixes and many improvements[li]

http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail/




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 Mystic BBS preview for Windows, and NetRunner 0.08

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 12-Nov-2002 8:39



 Two bits of news from the James Coyle, the Mystic BBS developer.

He has released a preview version of Mystic BBS 2.0 for Windows. The 2.x
version of Mystic will include
exhanced Internet integration along with many new features, all wrapped up
in a single Client/Server
package. Support for Telnet, POP3, SMTP,
NNTPP, and FTP servers are in development, many of which are functional now.

He has also released a new version of NetRunner, his telnet terminal
program for Windows.

There is still no news on the upcoming version of Mystic BBS 1.08, which
was expected to be
released "soon".

http://mysticbbs.com

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 Synchronet Version 3.10k Beta Released

 posted by Tommy Watt on 11-Nov-2002 15:04



 Synchronet v3.10k now offers:
* JavaScript Object Model improvements (and better documentation!)
* Better FidoNet and Internet Message-ID and Reply-ID support
* Easier importation of CD-ROM directory listings
* Better QWK message header kludge ({at}VIA, {at}TZ, {at}MSGID, etc) support
* Improved NT FOSSIL driver (for 16-bit doors and programs, e.g. FDSZ and LORD)
* FTP server supports resumed uploads (using REST or APPE commands)
* FTP server no longer confuses Internet Explorer by accepting invalid CWD paths
* Improved compatibility with other SMTP mail servers (e.g. Irex)
* Improved handling of "bounced" messages from the mail server
* Numerous SBBSecho (FidoNet packet tosser) improvements
* New UDP-based finger service for fast Instant Messenger user listings
* Support for new static services - services that accept their own TCP/UDP
connections and handle their own client sessions
* Synchronet for Unix now builds and runs on OpenBSD, so that makes it
compatible with Linux-x86, FreeBSD-x86, and OpenBSD-x86!

Version 3.10k is the release candidate of v3.10.

Version 3.20 will begin beta shortly after the official release of v3.10.
This version will introduce an integrated web server with CGI and
server-side JavaScript support. The current console mode build of sbbs
(from cvs) already has the beginnings oof the web server code in it (and
can be enabled by editing the ctrl/sbbs.ini file).

A new file database format (based on SMB technology) will also be
introduced in v3.2. This new database format will eliminate all the
short-comings of the antiquated v1 file database format still in use.

Synchronet's author is also planning on writing a small Win32 utility to
enable dial-up users to connect to Synchronet v3 (or any Telnet-only BBS
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 Mtelnet beta 10

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 28-Oct-2002 6:31



 Dink released another public version of Mtelnet today.
New in beta 10 is the ability to sort the phonebook by pressing
alt-s. It also includes several minor bugfixes added during the
past few days. Download it now.

http://ozone.eesc.com



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 Mtelnet beta9

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 23-Oct-2002 8:17



 Dink is about to release a new version of his Telnet Terminal for Windows,
known as Mtelnet or Mtel for short..

New features in beta9 include:


Better input/editing

Upped the max phonebook entries to 200.

In ANSI terminal emulation, it'll scroll when a character writes to column 80.

Terminal emulation is now configurable per host.

Re-arrange your phone book entries with alt+up/down.

Home/End/Pgup/Pgdown work in screen grab mode.

pasting from the grab buffer (alt-p) works in the phonebook/quick-dial and
most input fields.

http://ozone.eesc.com



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 BeeMail 5.0

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 23-Oct-2002 8:09



 Stephen Proffitt is planning to release BeeMail 5.0 in January 2003.
Beemail is a Fidonet style mailer for Windows, with both dialup and
TCP/IP Support.

New features will include a built in telnet client, NNTP plug-in mod,
new msg editor, support for Wildcat 5.x, and a Tic File tosser simular
to AllFix.

http://beemail.gexonline.net



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 BlueMail 0.11 QWK Reader released (open source)

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 09-Oct-2002 16:20



 Version 0.11 of the BlueMail Offline Mail Reader was released today by Ingo Bruckl.

Bluemail supports Blue Wave, QWK, QWKE, SOUP, OMEN and Hippo packet
formats, and is available for DOS, Windows, and Linux, and OS/2 (untested
on OS/2 currently). It's also able to be used as a reader for Hudson,
Eudora and BBBS Message bases.

The source code, binarys, and screen shots are available at:
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail/



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 Renegade Win32 project

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 07-Oct-2002 13:49



 Here's some updated news on the Renegade Win32 project.

Some of the items on the feature request list:
Telnet Server.

Door32.sys Support.

Internal Win32 FOSSIL driver.

JAM/Squish/etc Message Base.

Outbound Connection Capability via Telnet/Rlogin.

Doorgames Server on Alternate Port.

Multi-/Inter-BBS Teleconference.

Lightbar Menu Support.

File Request Support Via FTP.

SMTP/POP3 Support.

FTP Support and NNTP Support
http://www.snowpoint.com/renegade/features.stm



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 Maximus BBS Open-sourced

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 03-Oct-2002 16:46



 Scott Dudley has released the source code for Maximus under GPL. Maximus
is a powerful BBS for DOS and OS/2 still used by many sysops today. It was
the first BBS software to support the Squish message base format. Hopefully
we may
be seeing a Windows or Linux version soon.

http://maximus.sourceforge.net





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 NetFoss 0.8 Released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 02-Oct-2002 12:21



 NetFoss 0.8 was released today.
NetFoss is a telnet FOSSIL driver for Windows XP/2K/NT.It works with most
DOS BBS programs and doors. It's considerably faster then any other Windows
FOSSIL driver, and uses less then 10k of RAM per node because its entirly
written
in ASM.

It can be used with Win32 BBS programs like EleBBS, MysticBBS,and even
Synchronet BBS to run DOS doors faster then ever via telnet.

It can also be used with DOS based BBS programs like Telegard, Renegade,
PCBoard, ProBoard, Maximus, RemoteAccess and others, and includes detailed
instuctions for configuring it with many of these BBS's.

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New in version 0.8:
DESQview emulation - Lowers CPU usage.
* Detects/optimizes poorly designed doorkits.
* Watchdog carrier detection for stuck doors.
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http://netfoss.com





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 EleWeb 0.10G2 Released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 16-Sep-2002 0:00



 One week after the sixth year of EleBBS, Maarten Bekers has released
EleWEB v0.10.g2. This new EleWEB features a very much improved EleXer
runtime which fixes numbers of bugs, as well a major speed optimalisation.
Besides the internal
changes, he took the time to fully change the layout and feature set of
EleWEB. By revising all of its HTML files, introducing the usage of
stylesheets he made the layout even more flexible than before.

A new feature in this release is the addition of a slashdot style
frontpage, and internet-style forums, both which should feel familiar to
most people. Besides all this, there are numerous of small changes that
should improve the usability
of EleWEB over previous versions.

http://elevillage.com





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 New Renegade BBS Programmer

 posted by Jeff Herrings on 14-Sep-2002 23:27



 A new programmer for Renegade bbs has stepped up to the plate. I have
officially passed on a copy of the source code to him and he is going to
start bringing himself up to speed. Based on my discussions with him it
looks promising
and may make for a marked difference in the direction of Renegade. He has
some really nice ideas and plans for the future and I think it will help
revitalize the project and produce some really nice results.

http://ariven.com/renegade.adp





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 Elecom 2.00 Released

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 09-Sep-2002 0:00



 Ezycom 2.00 was released. Dispite the major version number, this release
only offers some minior features and bug fixes from the (non supported)
1.49 version from two years ago.

http://ezycom.sytes.net





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 EleWeb

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 04-Sep-2002 22:39



 We are testing a new version of EleWeb here, which now includes a slashdot
style interface. It's It's going to replace our monthly news postings here,
so stay tuned for more. http://elevillage.com




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 WWIV 5.0

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Sep-2002 12:00



 WWIV 5.0alpha is pretty much complete and opterational, though there are
still a few quirks they need to work out. This version was ported from C to
C++, to allow cross platform development of the Win32, Linux, and OS/2
versions of
WWIV.

According to co-developer Trader Jack, once the port is completed they will
will decide on a feature set, implement the features, and then beta test it
before the source is made available. So far its native telnet handling will
run
DOS doors under Windows NT/2K/XP.

http://wss.wwiv.com





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 Mannsoft

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Sep-2002 12:00



 Rick Parrish at Mannsoft is releasing the source code to a number of BBS
routines and utilities. Mannsoft is known for several BBS utils, including
TelSrv, the Windows BBS telnet server, and MANNIRC, a Win32 IRC chat door.

Rick now offers several of his BBS related pascal units for free including
Manndoor, a cross-platform doorkit for DOS and Windows. However he is
asking a small donation for the source to most of his products, to help
offset the cost
of his webhosting.

http://www.mannsoft.ca/source.php





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 MysticBBS

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Sep-2002 12:00



 Mystic developer James Coyle is currently reloacting to Arizona, but he
hopes to release MysticBBS v1.08 shortly, as well as build a new web based
community soon if things go well. New features in version 1.08 will include
an SMTP/POP3
mailer, Ftp Support, Newsgroup support, new MPL stuff and an improved message reader.

Mystic has a large following in the old-school BBS warez scene today, and
is available in DOS, Windows, and Linux flavors. It's been well over a year
since the last public release of Mystic, and it's good to see that James
(aka GooRoo)
is getting back into development.

http://mysticbbs.com





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 Ezycom BBS

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Sep-2002 12:00



 Version 2.0 of EzyCom is going to be released shortly, according Ezycoms
current developer, Stephen Gibbs.

EzyCom was a DOS based BBS originally developed by Peter Davies in
Australia during the early to mid 1990's. It was one of several clones of
QuickBBS (v2.6) developed in the same timeframe, sharing many of the same
features as 'RemoteAccess',
'SuperBBS', and 'Proboard' Bulletin Boards. It never gained the popularity
of some of those other clones like RA, though it offered some advantages
such as an improved Questionnaire scripting language and both QWK and
bluewave offline
mail support, but it lacked support for the industry standard JAM or Hudson
and messagebase formats.

Peter ended development after 1995 as many of the other BBS authors did,
but in 1999 the EzyCom development team was formed, which consisted of
Craig Jansen, Paul Sanders, and Stephen Gibbs, while Peter Davies continued
to own the
copyright. They released version 1.49 in August2000 which was a minor
update with a few features and fixes. According to Stephen Gibbs, there was
a fallout between lead programmer Craig Jansen and the rest of the
development team,
because Craig refused to work under the developers team agreement. Stephen
said Craig was dropped from the team, and they are no longer supporting
that release (although it is still the only version released by the team so
far).

Stephen would not say what is new in the upcoming version 2.0 release, but
he has stepped in as the new developer for the team, and has been teaching
himself to code as he finds and fixes bugs. He has also added some 'various
features'
of his own.

Stephen said that he would really like to Ezycom to include its own telnet
server like EleBBS, so that Ezycom sysops don't have to rely on programs
like COM/IP and Netmodem anymore. He goes on to say that this would be a
giant leap
in his learning curve for pascal programming. Stephen is considering a
future Win32 port using the Elecom library.

http://ezycom.sytes.net





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 Nexus BBS Open-sourced

 posted by Mike Ehlert on 01-Sep-2002 12:00



 Nexus BBS went open-source yesterday. George Roberts IV no longer has time
to develop Nexus, a DOS based Telegard/Renegade clone loosly based on older
TG that he had been working on for several years, up until about a year
ago. George
no longer has time to activly develop Nexus, but he said he will coordiate
its open-source project, and still may contribute to the code a bit.

Gene Buckle wasted no time porting Nexus over to Linux today. Not bad for
over 64,000 lines of code.  Genes port will probally be made available for
download from the Nexus web site shortly. Gene also plans to port Nexus to
Win32.
The win32 port will most likely consist of a main server program that
spawns clients and routes socket i/o to them via named pipes or sockets.

http://nexusbbs.net





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