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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: in the making
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Date: 4 Apr 89 05:05:09 GMT
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>>Which makes me wonder: what is happening out there right now? I am intensely
>>interested in hearing what wonderful things people are working on in their
>>spare time.
>>
>[...]
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Keith Rollin  ---  Apple Computer, Inc.  ---  Developer Technical Support
>>INTERNET: keith@apple.com
>>    UUCP: :decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl:!apple!keith
>>"Argue for your Apple, and sure enough, it's yours" - Keith Rollin, Contusions
>

Heh.  I guess you could say I'm obsessed with working on my Apple IIgs
65816-assembly-coded BBS.  I've been working on the BBS since 1985, when I had
it in 6502 under DOS 3.3 on an enhanced Apple //e with a California
Peripherals clock card and two Unidisk 3.5 drives.  It went to 65C02 under
ProDOS, from the S-C Assembler to Merlin Pro, and it's been under ProDOS in
65816 (via the Byte Works ORCA/M macro assembler), completely ProDOS 16
capable, for over a year now.  It makes use of the Apple IIgs clock and
interrupts, which allowed me to get rid of the clock card... :-)

But lately?  I'm never done with it.  I work on it because it's fun, and
because I have this underlying suspicion that a changing BBS is good for the
users too.  I'm always working on several parts of it at once.  It's a
topic-oriented BBS with an online game.  The system is single-user, mainly
because I have friends that can't afford the hardware I have but want to be
able to use the BBS on their Apple IIgs machines, so I keep it to a certain
memory and disk space requirement.

Right now, with the BBS I'm working on:
o Networking.
o Expanded file transfer ability (although the U/D section is mainly
  programmer-oriented; I don't want it to become a U/D BBS).
o Game modifications that are beyond the scope of this message... :-)
o General Feeping Creaturism additions.

If you're ever interested in what exactly it consists of at this time, give it
a call at 612/933-6427.  It's pretty busy, as I have about 150 regular users,
but it's easier to get on during weekends.

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