Re: Is this for real?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu May 02 2019 10:19 am

i'm sure you've found it by now but if you haven't, you can turn that
off so they aren't deleted after X days of inactivity...

Yeah decided not to use it... I have to let go... in my old BBS era old/obsolete users were purged and I was fine with it... there are not that much users, that is the reality. But at least we are here :)

If you want "traffic" you're better off setting up a Website. Even then, get"ing "users" is difficult. Running a BBS is for your own enjoyment. Most BBS users are SysOps themselves. The lack of BBS software also makes it very hard to make your BBS unique. Unless you're programmer and can modify the source code easily, you're in for a jounrney. There really isn't much a BBS can offer that can't be found elsewhere on the internet. I'm a "hacker". That means I "hack" at the code to make it do what I want. It's a drawn out process of trial and error. I break it, then fix it, break it, then fix it. That said there's nothing more rewarding when it works! Nobody else will ever see what I did, other then me.
That's just my opinion ......I could wrong ;-)


Heliarc


Heliarc

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Re: Gratefull
By: Heliarc to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 02 2019 10:37 pm

If you want "traffic" you're better off setting up a Website. Even then, get"ing "users" is difficult. Running a BBS is for your own enjoyment. Most BBS users are SysOps themselves. The lack of BBS software also makes it very hard to make your BBS unique. Unless you're programmer and can modify the source code easily, you're in for a jounrney. There really

There aren't many modern BBS packages that are currently in development, that's true. Synchronet and Mystic are 2 that I know of. EleBBS is another I know that supports modern protocols such as telnet, but I'm not sure it's actively being developed. However, I'm pretty sure you can still use old DOS BBS packages and get something set up so they'll accept calls via telnet.

Also, even though there aren't many modern BBS packages these days, you can still customize them to make them look fairly unique, with enough effort. Synchronet lets you customize many of its text strings, and you can also write custom modules in JavaScript & Baja for Synchronet to do custom things. You can also modify the lines in text.dat to run a JavaScript or Baja module instead of displaying plain text. So with enough work, I think you could make a Synchronet BBS look and behave any way you want.

It's nice that Synchronet is open-source, but if you want to modify its source code to customize it for your needs, then you'd need to merge in your changes every time you update to a new version of Synchronet, which would be a hassle..

Nightfox

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Re: Gratefull
By: Nightfox to Heliarc on Fri May 03 2019 09:59 am

There aren't many modern BBS packages that are currently in development, that's true. Synchronet and Mystic are 2 that I know of. EleBBS is another I know that supports modern protocols such as telnet, but I'm not sure it's

WWIV is still being developed as well.

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dmxrob wrote to Nightfox <=-

There aren't many modern BBS packages that are currently in development, that's true. Synchronet and Mystic are 2 that I know of. EleBBS is another I know that supports modern protocols such as telnet, but I'm not sure it's

WWIV is still being developed as well.

There is currently a re-write from scratch version of PCBoard
being developed (v16) that is due to be released in just a few
months...



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Re: Re: Gratefull
By: Dan Clough to dmxrob on Fri May 03 2019 09:00 pm

There is currently a re-write from scratch version of PCBoard
being developed (v16) that is due to be released in just a few
months...

I ran PCBoard from about 1992-1997, I actually lived a few miles from Clark Development co.
I bought directly from Fred and the gang.
I several years ago gave my PCBoard and manuals to the thrift store.
I now run a Synchronet BBS - outwestbbs.com:23 -
and a Mystic BBS on a raspberry PI 3 - razzpie.ddns.net -

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Re: Gratefull
By: Heliarc to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 02 2019 22:37:42

that can't be found elsewhere on the internet. I'm a "hacker". That means I

Can you make a Keygen for Worldgroup 1.01 like the one for found for 3.xx?
WG 1.xx Uses a 9 Digit Code to produce a serial #. Be nice to get an activation code by entering a serial #.

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