Hello, Maurice.

On 06 Apr 04 at 10:01, Maurice Kinal wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 MK> In my book it isn't Linux by any stretch of the imagination nor does
 MK> it appear that it ever will be.

If someone's got the source code, then why don't they write it
"native" under Linux?  There's got to be someone out there that
wants to do it.  Myself, I'm still using Maximus/2 v3.01 and will probably
never need to use an updated version, but if someone wants to use it under
Linux as a true native application, I'm gathering someone can rewrite it.

Unfortunately, Linux BBSes are still somewhat of a minority from what I've
seen in my own personal travels (although OS/2 BBSes are an even smaller
minority :).  Everything seems to be tilted towards Win32.  I've had
several discussions with door authors that will not develop for anything
but Win32 now.  Myself, as a door author, still write stuff in DOS.  I
haven't yet found a decent doorkit for OS/2 that is updated and compiles.

However-speaking of Linux native stuff-I would be more than happy to
attempt to write Linux-native doors (I can do so in Pascal) if someone
would help me learn a bit about how to design them.  I have Virtual Pascal
and Free Pascal, both which will compile in Linux.  I may not be able to
make Maximus into a true Linux-native program, but at least I can write
some doors that don't require DOSemu. ;)

Later,
Sean

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