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March 11, 2004

T&J Software

Guest Authored By Doug Rhea

A blast from the past ....

Ok, it's on it's way:

http://doors.tjsales-collectibles.com


None of the links work yet, but Tom promises he is working on the web page
when he can... and you can disregard the registration stuff, says he is
making the doors free (either no code or he'll make a way for users to get
their own codes)....

So stay tuned and I'll keep you up to date.

Doug Rhea

Note: The site was down at the time of this posting, but it was up and I am hopeing that it is just a server issue.

Posted by v at 08:58 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 29, 2004

BBSFiles.com

There is a new, Well not new, Site out there called BBSFiles.com

He is doing what I am doing. Getting Doors that have been dropped and trying to get them back to the bbs Community And keep them active with programming and uptodate, as well he takes over the Registration support on the ones that are still registerable.

Visit and if you can donate your programming time. Offer to help!

Posted by v at 01:14 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

T&J Doors

Guest posted by Doug Rhea


I have been after Tom Wildoner for about 9 months to find his source code and/or reg code software. I wanted to see people be able to register his doors again:

Lemonade Stand
Bordello
Junk Yard

And I don't know the rest....

Anyway, I guess I finally bugged him enough or put the bug in his ear to work on it.

Here is the latest email I got from him:

From: "Tom Wildoner"
To: "Doug Rhea"
Date: 02/27/2004 06:32 PM
Subject: RE: BBS Doors

Hi Doug,

Actually, I did come across almost everything. I have a business trip until
next weekend, but upon my return I am placing all the old web pages,
software, etc. back on the web. I even have a bug to possibly complete a few
old doors (time depending). First step is to get everything back online -
if I can decipher my old notes and software we'll working on some general
keys for all the doors also. I'd really prefer to do some html scripting and
let people generate their own keys, but one step at a time.

The doors will be available at: www.tjsales-collectibles.com when I get the
pages setup the link will be here.

...Tom

Posted by v at 01:07 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Food Fight 2k4

“Food Fight 2004” v1.0b Released 02/23/2004
Very Fun And Addicting Door Game. Multi-Node
Launch Food At Players, Rob Them Or The Bank
Remake Of The Old Food Fight To Continue The Legend

Download It Now At http://www.oddnet.net/oddware

Supports: DOOR.SYS, DORINFO#.DEF, INFO.BBS, CALLINF,
SFDOOR.DAT, CHAIN.TXT, PCBOARD.SYS, And DOBBS.

Posted by v at 01:05 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 28, 2004

John Daily Software

Ever wonder if John Dailey would ever emerge from his BBS slumber? Well, he has!
John Dailey has released a update to Global Warfare.

Global War v2.7 now available!
This release is a minor update (and free upgrade to registered users) to v2.6 which fixes the problem with players unable to take their turns and enhances both local and remote display of the map images.

Also....32bit door development underway.
Hackin' Crackin' v2.0 Win32bit is currently undergoing beta testing. This version of the software represents months of work of porting our existing library files and the door's code itself to work as a native 32bit Windows application.
Very exciting to see such a popular author go back to his roots!

Check out more about John Dailey Software at http://www.johndaileysoftware.com/

DTR & Godspeed,
ACTION

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February 23, 2004

Lore

Guest authored by Timothy Arnold

----------------------------------------------------

Remember the BBS Online Game called Lore by Justin Kominar of Eleven
Software? I've recently inquired about what the future holds for Lore and if
there will be any newer releases of the game. Basically Lore has been put on
the back burner for now and the author doesn't anticipate any releases of
Lore in the near future. However, the author did mention that if he receives
enough feedback requesting a newer release of Lore, then the author(s) will
start their programming on the next release of the game. For those of you
who are unsure of what Lore is about, it's an on-line game of fantasy
role-playing!
Features a full-screen ANSI graphics interface, with a detailed and
colourful moving map system. Over 1 million
locations to move to! Visit 50+ cities & talk with the inhabitants
interactively, or go underground in search of treasure!
Hundreds of monsters to fight! Full Inter-BBS support, real-time
multinode interaction, build and defend your own
fully-featured bases, hire computer-controlled allies, and much more.
Very easy to install and configure,even if
you've never installed a door before! If you are interested in giving Lore a
try, visit Biohazardous Material @ telnet://biohazardousmaterial.com!

If you would like to see future releases of Lore, then send the author(s) an
email and tell them about it! You can email the author(s) at the following
addresses:

Justin Kominar: justin@elven.ca
Warren Schrey: warren@elven.ca

Let Lore continue! It's one of the most in-depth, most advanced and
detailed online game I've played yet!

______________________________________________________________________
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Posted by v at 09:04 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 16, 2004

atk.org Back online

After a long break At2k is Back in action.

[Latest News] - AT2k - Your Support Center and Information Leader for the VBBS & VADV BBS Software

I've updated all of the AT2k VADV scripts today. I removed the install.com that was still present in several of the archives and updated a few of the scripts with versions that had been running on my system.
The AT2k Message Update Utility (MsgUpd) v1.1 for Virtual Advanced was released today. This new version will not reset any ignored subs.
A problem with AspectNet and Windows XP was found today. Apparently the ftp.exe that comes with Windows XP will screw up a batch file. A fix for this is to replace it with the version from Windows 2000.

Posted by v at 10:31 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

February 11, 2004

Bluemail V 1.2

blueMail Homepage

1.2 of BlueMail, the multi-platform, multi-format, open-source
offline mail reader, for Windows, Linux, and OS/2, Has been released!

Among the new features are:


UTF-8 decoding support

filter and search functions now accept '!' as logical NOT

areas can be marked for a kind of personal favourite area list

new sort option for letter list: sorting by sender's last name

scrolling of subject in letter list

different quote styles for FidoNet and Internet style areas

support for direct reply in personal area

bug fixes and improvements

Posted by v at 11:25 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Mbse Version 0.50.0

MBSE BBS For Unix

09-Feb-2004 Version 0.50.0 stable is released. Highlights of this release are:
Hydra and Binkp zlib packet compression.
Installation support for Gentoo.
Partly done French Language.
Binkp protocol upgraded to binkp/1.1.
Mailer telnet connection (ITN) finally works.
Added support for T-Mail fileboxes.
Lot's of small fixes.
For further details read the ChangeLog.

Posted by v at 11:20 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

February 05, 2004

CrashMail II 0.7

CrashMail II

Release of CrashMail II 0.7. After a long wait, there is a new version. The main new feature in this version is the new message filter, but there are also several bugfixes and other improvements. If you still use CrashMail, please send me an e-mail (billing@df.lth.se), I am curious about how many CrashMail users there still are.

You might also want to check out my new project JamNNTPd if you have missed it. JamNNTPd is a nntp-server which uses a JAM messagebase which makes it possible to read and write fidonet messages using a standard newsreader.

Updated the links on this page.

Posted by v at 02:09 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

WWIV 5.0 Beta RELEASES

WWIV 5.0 Beta

What's New In Beta 2
Archver commands now work.
F1 User Editor Improvements
PuTTY now works with auto-detect line mode
WFC now clears the screen in places it forgot to.
Fixed Pending Network display glitches
Changed Message Scan Prompt to 1 line from 2.
Added Litebar calls in Your Info and Voting Booth for a more common look and feel.
Fixed missing mutex in telnet handling code.
2004 Copyright
Misc internal code cleanups.
What's New In Beta 1
File compatable with 4.30/4.31
32-bit Win32 version.
Compiles and Runs on Linux.
Included GUI Telnet Server.
Internal ZModem
DOOR32.SYS support.
Uses the Synchronet FOSSIL Driver from Synchronet (thanks to Rob Swindell for helping get this to work) "Emulate Win32 FOSSIL" enables this.
Added commandline option -k (pacK message areas) to wwiv50. This will pack all message areas unless you specify the number of the areas to pack on the commandline. i.e. "wwiv50 -k 1 5 10" would pack areas 1, 5 and 10. (Build46)
If you add "NEW_SCAN_AT_LOGIN=Y" to WWIV.INI, then when a user logs in they will be asked to scan all message areas for new messages. (Build46)
The display while packing message bases is now a bit nicer looking.
Changed filename global.txt to global-[node number].txt (Build43)
Added cont

Posted by v at 02:06 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Radius Pre Release Binary

Official Radius Homepage

Although per usual there is not any news in english on what has been changed, there is a new radius release for those that are Beta Testing. This is a Pre Release Binary that was released 02/03/2004

Posted by v at 02:02 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

bbs 100 New Releases

bbs100 distribution page

Current Version is 2.1 Released Feb 1, 2004

Changes as of February 1st 2004
- Mac OS X update, thanks to Jeremy Stock :
- updated config.guess and config.sub scripts (they were ancient and
failed to detect certain OSes, like Mac OS X)
- compilation breaks on Mac OS X in ipv4_aton.h; fixed
- init_process() is a system library function on Mac OS X; changed to
bbs_init_process()
- make no longer runs: nm -P main > symtab
because the -P is not supported on all platforms
- released as 2.1

Changes as of January 25th 2004
- added BBS birthday as suggested by Stephan van Beerschoten

- changed 'Tab' to match substrings as well for room names
inspired by a suggestion of Shannon Prickett
- released as 2.0

Changes as of January 21st 2004
- fixed bugs with logging in; too many attempts
- fixed small bug in custom colors menu

Changes as of January 17th 2004
- replaced inet_aton() with ipv4_aton() to avoid build trouble on Solaris
- fixed bug in the profile function
- fixed small problem when banishing the 'New' user

Changes as of January 11th 2004
- PARAM_BOOL feature toggles
- defines LOBBY_ROOM, MAIL_ROOM, HOME_ROOM as fixed room numbers
as suggested by Shannon Prickett

Changes as of December 30th 2003
- tiny IRIX fixes
- new user and Guest get default timezone as specified in etc/param file

Posted by v at 01:55 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Daydream-2.14.7

[ d a y d r e a m    d o w n l o a d   ]

2.14.7
~~~~~~

Fixes after 2.14.6:

2003-07-25 Hannu Lyytinen

* FTP daemon leaked file descriptors, causing eventually
a hang, fixed.

* added configuration item to provide the correct runtime
library path for doors even when they are invoked from
a DayDream process invoked from the FTP daemon. Read
'docs/UPDATING' for more information.

* door programs could hang the board if they did not
connect the door socket, fixed.

Posted by v at 01:52 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Fidonet stats

Ever wondered how many nodes the fidonet nodelist has?

Total nodes: 9,270
Total unique phone numbers: 8,265

go here for more:
http://www.michaelpreslar.com/nodeliststats.html

Email me, mike@lordlegacy.com, if there's a stat you want to see.

Posted by Z at 12:43 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

tcRemoteaccess32 BACK

After 2 years of being off the market, there has been a come back for a Nice Windows GUI bbs. Although I personally do not know much about the project I am looking forward to watching it with great intrest.

tcRA/32


tcRemoteAccess32 changed hands on February 3rd, 2004 - All development has resumed and a new release is forthcoming. All support and registration functions will resume in 30 days from the date at the top of this announcement.

What to expect?

A High-quality design
A stable code base
A new look and feel
Additional features
A frontend mailer (BeeMail)
Lots of tips and help

Posted by v at 12:42 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 26, 2004

StormDoor

Nullvalue over at BBSmates sent this to me.

For anyone interested in writing door games, I have created a new doorkit, called StormDoor. It has been written specifically for 32-bit Windows Programming languages, such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, and .NET. The doorkit is compliled into an ActiveX object (OCX), and can be used from within any programming language which supports this technology. It's very easy to use.. Supports most ANSI commands, and real-time multinode communication. The Multi-node communication is accomplished by using windows sockets (via UDP protocol) to communicate between the multiple instances (nodes) of the door.

This is the first release beta, so if you have any questions, email nullvalue@bbsmates.com.

StormDoor is distributed with documentation and a commented sample application.

http://www.vaper.org/stormdoor.htm

Posted by v at 03:21 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

January 15, 2004

Beemail 4.97

Taken from the Beemail site.

BeeMail 4.97 has been released.  Apparently in the last release I got
fat-finger syndrome and left some DLLs out so it would not run properly.  
Those DLLs are included in this release as well as a few more minor bug fixes.


Click the link to download version 4.97 of BeeMail to keep things moving along.

Posted by v at 07:39 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

December 29, 2003

Lord stuffs

Over the holiday break, I was able to complete the Win32 port of Legend of the Red Dragon.. What I'm needing now is a good beta run.. If you're interested in playing, shoot over to ztest.myip.us..

If you run into any problems, be sure to take a screen shot, and send me an email with all of the details.. My email address is mike@lordlegacy.com

On a side note.. A huge thanks to Dasme who's taking over webmaster duties of the Lord site..

Posted by Z at 09:39 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

December 17, 2003

WWIV Back in Development

Good news for all the hard-core WWIV fans, as v5.0 goes to public BETA. This version is full of long awaited, and needed upgrades. This project will bring WWIV back into the mainstream BBS community. Very exciting time to see the interest in the BBS community spur such a familiar software title to go back into development. Get your copy at the WWIV website. Some of the upgraded features are listed below. Click MORE.

read more »

Posted by ACTION at 11:41 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

December 03, 2003

WWIV 5.0 In Beta

After a long down time WWIV 5.0 is going into beta. We have been sent the What's New Text Doc for the Beta. So here it is.

read more »

Posted by v at 08:38 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)


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