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| ====== BBS Projects ====== | ====== BBS Projects ====== | ||
| - | This page lists known BBS projects, both active and inactive, and is a work in progress. If you spot something that should be added, edited etc. please | + | This page lists known BBS projects, both active and inactive, and is a work in progress. If you spot something that should be added, edited etc. please |
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| + | ===== ProBoard BBS ===== | ||
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| + | First released circa 1990 ProBoard has been under development ever since. ProBoard fully supports the ability to interface with mail networks such as FidoNet, UseNet, fsxNet, and mail processors such as SQUISH, FastEcho, GEcho, Fmail, and others. | ||
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| + | An asset of ProBoard is it's ability to be enhanced by user written programs in C/C++ using the provided ProBoard SDK (Software Development Kit). Programs written with the ProBoard SDK are called PEX (ProBoard Executable) files. ProBoard has the ability to run most, if not all doors programs and other utilities written for other BBS systems such as PCBoard, QuickBBS (QBBS), SuperBBS, RemoteAccess (RA), etc. | ||
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| + | ProBoard is owned by Jason Bock who purchased the software from John Riley. | ||
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| + | Features: | ||
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| + | * Full multi-line/ | ||
| + | * Built-in fullscreen message editor. | ||
| + | * Support for 4 message base types: Squish, Hudson JAM and *.MSG, all at the same time. | ||
| + | * Support for up to 10,000 message areas and 10,000 file areas. | ||
| + | * Powerful sorting/ | ||
| + | * Compatible with most, if not all, doors written for other BBS software such as RemoteAccess, | ||
| + | * A software development kit is included with ProBoard! | ||
| + | * Integrated, lightning-fast duplicate file checking on uploads. | ||
| + | * Hooks for external upload checking programs. | ||
| + | * Extremely fast indexed file system, while still using the standard FILES.BBS-based file system. | ||
| + | * Full CD-ROM support. | ||
| + | * Full alias (handle) support. | ||
| + | * Flexible protocol configuration including X/Y/Zmodem, MPT, Bimodem, HS/Link, etc. | ||
| + | * Local up/ | ||
| + | * Very flexible security system with over 65,000 security levels and 32 security flags as well as " | ||
| + | * TTY, ANSI, Avatar (0 and 0+) terminal emulation. | ||
| + | * REAL-TIME multi-line chat built in. No stupid line-per-line chat. | ||
| + | * Direct support for all high speed modems (up to 115,200 bps). | ||
| + | * Added capability to run external Python programs. | ||
| + | * Lots and lots more... | ||
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| + | === Related Links === | ||
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| + | * [[http:// | ||
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| ===== Renegade BBS ===== | ===== Renegade BBS ===== | ||
| - | xx | + | Renegade BBS is a DOS based Bulletin Board Software. Created in 1991 by Cott Lang. Various updates were released until 1996. In 1997 Lang ceased work on the codebase and passed it on to Gary Hall and Patrick Spence. They maintained the code for nearly three years and released three updates. |
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| + | In 2000, Jeff Herrings was offered the code to address various YZK issues within the code and released one update. After this, Herrings assumed the BBS scene was dead and laid Renegade to rest. In 2003, T.J. McMillen contacted Patrick Spense in a off-shoot chance to get some minor code updates to make Renegade somewhat more flexible with today' | ||
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| + | October 2003, Spence gave the code to McMillen stating he did not have the time nor want to add these requests. McMillen soon added the help of Chris Hoppman to quickly add some features. In 2004, Hoppman grew tired of coding, and stepped down from the project. In late 2004 Jeff Herrings saw that the Renegade code he laid to rest was given out by the previous author. With a deep hurtful feeling of trust issues, Herrings decided to release his Y2ka2 source code to the pubic to get back at Spence for not respecting his wishes. | ||
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| + | With the Y2Ka2 Renegade Source Code out in the wild, this presented a few problems if anyone took off with it. There were two updates since the Y2K version of Renegade was release. The other problem was if someone started coding by themselves without the official hand down, there would be two forks of the codebase and it would confuse people when trying to upgrade. | ||
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| + | Lee Palmer contacted McMillen in late 2004 to see if he could help with the code as he was a former third party developer for the T.A.G. BBS Software. His utilities looked interesting and he was soon added to the team. Various updates such as File Tagging and Light bars were added. Sometime around 2011 Palmer disappeared. | ||
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| + | With little time to play with Renegade, McMillen finally decided to lay it to rest once again and put the source code for v1.19a on GitHub for anyone to work on. People flocked to grab this code and make their own fork. But after 7 years, nothing was really, done with the code. McMillen was disappointed and with a bit more free time due to the pandemic, started work on Renegade once again. Two more releases were made since McMillen' | ||
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| + | In 2021, McMillen found some hope, and added Lee Woodridge to the Dev Team after seeing his fork of the v1.19a codebase. Work is being done to merge the two code bases, add features, and fix some long outstanding bugs. | ||
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| + | === Related Links === | ||
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| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| ===== Synchronet BBS ===== | ===== Synchronet BBS ===== | ||
| - | xx | + | Synchronet Bulletin Board System Software is a free software package that can turn your personal computer into your own custom online service supporting multiple simultaneous users with hierarchical message and file areas, multi-user chat, and the ever-popular BBS door games. |
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| + | Synchronet development began as a personal hobby in 1990 for single-tasking MS-DOS compatible computers and Hayes compatible modems. The program was sold commercially from 1992-1996 after which time it was released (with source code) for both the 16-bit DOS and 32-bit OS/2 platforms to the public domain and development by the author was ceased. | ||
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| + | In November of 1999, the author Rob Swindell aka Digital Man found a renewed interest in further developing Synchronet, specifically for the Internet community, embracing and integrating standard Internet protocols such as Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IRC, NNTP, and HTTP. Synchronet has since been substantially redesigned as an Internet-only BBS package for Win32 and Unix-x86 platforms and is an Open Source project under continuous development. | ||
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| + | === Related Links === | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| + | * [[https:// | ||
| ===== Talisman BBS ===== | ===== Talisman BBS ===== | ||
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| === Related Links === | === Related Links === | ||
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