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From: treesh@vangogh.helios.nd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Commodore BBS's
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.180739.910@news.nd.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 18:07:39 GMT
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From what I have seen, the very best BBS program for the C128 computer is
a commerical piece of software known as C-Net.  This product is sold thru
a company known as Prespective Software located in Michigan.  The cost is
a bit high as compared to most software you would pruchase for your C128,
costing arround $60-$75 for your disks.  The software at frist seems a bit
complex to set up, but once you get things running, you will proabaly find
as I did that you will be very happy with it and would not trade it for
anything else.

* ANSI color + IBM graphics support
* Commodore C/G mode
* 40/80 colum conversion for easy to read posts on any terminal
* ASCII conversion supported
* Xmodem, CRC, 1K, Window, and Y batch as well as punter and putner mutil.
* Hard drive compatable
  
These are just a few features.  Your hardware requirements will be mostly
drive space.  You will need an 80 colum monitor, color recomended, but
only 16K Vram needed.  Ram Expasion supported as fast ram disk, but not
required.  

A 100 user system with UD's will run comfortably on 2 1581 drives, but
more disk space is alaways nice depending on just how much you want to
provide your users.  My total system space personally right now is
arround 15 megabytes.  If your considering a hard disk for this system,
I highly recomend the Xetec Lt Kernal, but IEEE and CMD drives are fine.

2400 baud is fully supported, and Im working on a way to make it work at 9600
but not having much luck yet.

Networking is also aviable as an option, this network is growing fast!

Sorry for all the spelling errors!

ctfm