Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!marque!studsys!buchho From: buchho@studsys.mu.edu (buchho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: BBS programs for the ][e/GS Message-ID: <772@studsys.mu.edu> Date: 2 Feb 90 02:28:00 GMT References: <90Jan31.225106est.58671@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Reply-To: buchho@studsys.UUCP (buchho) Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 31 In article <90Jan31.225106est.58671@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> MACAUSLANDR@watt.ccs.tuns.ca (Robert MacAusland) writes: >I've been looking into setting up a BBS and have looked at several different >programs. Unfortunately, none of them measures up to say a Citadel system for >the IBM/Amiga/ST... I've seen mention in several mention in people's sigs of a >system called ProLine. How does it compare to BBS programs for other systems? >I've currently looked at SBBS and AppleNet, and would appreciate more >suggestions.... I'll second that request. I'm a veteran ACOS (yes, ACOS... Abandoned GBBS long ago) programmer, and lately I've just become fed up with the kind of environ- ment that I have to work in. I'd like something as programmable, if not more so. I have only heard the names ProLine, SBBS, and AppleNet, but I've never seen any specs on them, nor have I seen their programmability or looks before. Come to think of it, I've not seen a BBS system specifically for the IIgs either. Wouldn't it be much better to write it in 16 bit code for speed and include support for such stuff as emulations? (alright, so I'm an emulation nut... The ACOS code I was working on supported seven of 'em, with optional pulldown menus) I could think of many, many ideas for such a BBS system, yet I don't quite have the experience (or the tools) (or the time) to sit down and figure out the commands, syntaxes, and actually how to write a compiler itself. Maybe in a few years... -- [][][][][][][][][][][][][][]-----------------------------------------------+ [] Jacob S. Buchholz [] With great intellect, comes an even greater | [] buchho@studsys.mu.edu [] possibility of a showing of a lack thereof. | [][][][][][][][][][][][][][]-----------------------------------------------+