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From: jtr485@umich.UUCP (Johnathan Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Standard Languages -- Rs232 Handling?
Message-ID: <108@umich.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 03:47:19 EST
Article-I.D.: umich.108
Posted: Wed Apr 15 03:47:19 1987
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In article <787@viper.UUCP>, john@viper.UUCP writes:
>   Citadel is a PD BBS system written in C which has been ported to a large
> number of micros including the IBM-PC, C-64/128, Apple //, Amiga, -And- to
> the Atari ST...  It is (in my opinion) -The- best general-discussion-BBS
> system available PD or otherwise.  It is not as powerful or as flexable as
> FIDO as far as a file-server BBS goes, but it does have Xmodem (CHK + CRC)
> and will soon have Ymodem support.
>   If you're interested, there is a thriving Citadel community of 15-20
> systems in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area.  The system run by the person
> who ported Citadel to the ST is called "Pell" at (612)-377-9239.

His name is Orc, (legally David Parsons).  He does incredible work and only
had 512K and 1 floppy drive.  (Neil@Atari snatch this man up if you can!)

>   I would -strongly- advise that you take the time to use the system two
> or three times before you download it.  It's a very powerful, very friendly
> system, but it is -very- different in feel from 90%+ of all the bbs systems
> you've probably used before.

If you think the feel is different you SHOULD look at the code.  This thing
started out as a game program, ala Dungeon or Adventure.

--j.a.tainter

> John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)