Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!hoss!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple ][ BBS Software Message-ID: <1991May28.061315.19279@unlinfo.unl.edu> Date: 28 May 91 06:13:15 GMT References: <1991May27.054400.19997@clark.edu> Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Organization: GBBS/ACOS Sysop Support Lines: 111 Nntp-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu apollo@pro-hindugods.cts.com (Amrit Chauhan) writes: >cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com (Conway Chen) writes: > Hey...I must agree with bbarba@pro-torii on the ProLine BBS system. >If you're looking for a versatile, compatible, and unix based BBS system. >First of all: >>I'm quite sure many more pro-line bbs's would be around, but there is one >>major problem with pro-line. It costs too much compared to other BBS >>system software packages. What's more, the other ones are lanugaes them- >>selves and new BBS software that is totally original can be written with it. >>But, otherwise, proline is wonderful, with a unix like shell and nusenet >>capabailities... >> >>Conway Chen >>cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com >>uunet!nuchat!xcluud!cchen >ProLine is written in AppleSoft Basic...actually more like MD-Basic...Morgan >Davis's ORIGINAL creation. Don't forget to mention that MD-BASIC requires an Apple IIgs to run, and adds to the price of the product. Another fun things is that the code comes in AppleSoft with sequential line numbers, making editing a chore without a renumbering program. >It allows the modem to speak with the terminal >while in basic. That's what makes it so versatile. How many talented >computer users are not familiar with AppleSoft basic? Not too many. It was >the first language I learned. Well, I guess your first machine was an Apple II series computer then. Myself, mine was a VIC-20, and that was just in-store. I never bought one. >Morgan introduced it in like 1984 and ever >since then quite a few sysops have added mods to it. (Careful with your pronouns. I don't believe Morgan invented AppleSoft BASIC... :-) >He has welcomed it. We >have a great BBS. And no it's not expensive. You can pick up a copy of >ProLine from Programs Plus for just under $100...more like $95. It's a great >deal then! Let me quote from the Product Guide from the Morgan Davis Group: ProLine $195.50 ModemWorks 59.95 MD-BASIC 49.95 ------ $305.30 >It is the best >Apple BBS software around. For its price, it had better be. >However, that all depends on what you want to do >with it. If you're looking to make users beg for access with setting up tons >of access levels...then no, ProLine is not the right BBS software for you. If you want a BBS that can run on a HD-less system, then ProLine is not the right BBS software for you. (Req. 5 MB on one volume, minimum.) >If you want a BBS that can really do wonders with file sections, then I would >select PRIME BBS...call 313-582-0888 to see that one in action. It is also a >good piece of software. Oh, I've seen some rather well written file transfer sections in GBBS "Pro", and no I am not talking about SuperTAC. It was a local modified EFTS "Pro" area. >If you're looking for networking capablities...you >can't chose anything BUT ProLine... Not for long. Networking exists for GBBS "Pro" and METAL. For Internet networking, I am told that it won't be long 'til METAL has that. Still, networking is not what it takes to get people interested in your system. If you have too many net.messages, some users won't like it. I feel that way now when I called L&L Support BBS, which just became part of FidoNet, and I was faced with over 1000 new messages. No thank you. My next modification to my ACOS system is to switch it over to independent message counters. >ProLine is the best Apple Networking Software >on the market today. I won't argue about that. I'll argue whether or not it is necessary, or about the possibility of it being passed by on that statement, but not on its current status. >It's >worth the investment if you're looking for network capabilities. True. >Amrit >Firm Supporter of ProLine!! >==The Hindu Love Gods BBS - - - - Bloomfield Hills, MI - - - - 313/644-0481=== >ProLine: Steve@pro-hindugods | Internet: Steve@pro-hindugods.cts.com | >UUCP: crash!pro-hindugods!Steve | ARPA: crash!pro-hindugods!Steve@nosc.mil | -- /// ____ \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are | |/ / \ \| | several--one of the many major problems with governing \\_|\____/|_// people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu point, who gets people to let them do it to them."