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by daniel_spain
Sun Jan 26, 2025 3:28 am
Forum: MBBS v10
Topic: why is it not open source yet?
Replies: 10
Views: 920

Re: why is it not open source yet?

Duckula wrote:
> [quote=Ragnarok post_id=2750 time=1737823993 user_id=194]
>
> From the first day I saw WG, I knew it was the most advanced bbs of the
> time. But what happened was that it remained stagnant over the years due to
> maintaining this closed development model.
> My question is: in 2025 ...
by daniel_spain
Sun Jan 26, 2025 3:12 am
Forum: MBBS v10
Topic: why is it not open source yet?
Replies: 10
Views: 920

Re: why is it not open source yet?

Ragnarok wrote:
> daniel_spain wrote:
>
> > oh i get it man, i have been an active sbbs developer since 1995, i purchased (i
> > believe 2.20 and Rob sent me 2.30b and a pretty bound book) i used it mainly as
> a
> > majorbbs door server but tinkered with baja now JavaScript, i even have a sbbs ...
by daniel_spain
Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:35 pm
Forum: Add-on Modules
Topic: FidoNet Addon?
Replies: 8
Views: 1986

Re: FidoNet Addon?

Ragnarok wrote:
> Of course it's a good idea to use sbbs as a gateway,
> my project was a bit to learn and understand how WG's MHS works
> many years ago someone from the Z4 did a job similar to what you're telling me
> about... I had some scripts that converted fido packets and injected them ...
by daniel_spain
Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:30 pm
Forum: MBBS v10
Topic: why is it not open source yet?
Replies: 10
Views: 920

Re: why is it not open source yet?

Ragnarok wrote:
> Hello Dukula/Daniel, how are you?!
>
> An example can be seen in the SBBS development model, there are many
> collaborators... development is very active.
> The software has grown immensely in functionality, the code compiles on
> many platforms and architectures. And it has great ...
by daniel_spain
Sun Jan 12, 2025 3:49 am
Forum: Add-on Modules
Topic: FidoNet Addon?
Replies: 8
Views: 1986

Re: FidoNet Addon?

so the mhs importer/exporter will work with the current forums and you can use something like argus or any other packers to toss them to a hub.
i have a fido node for this exact reason, i have not tinkered in years but back when i did i was a member of the 1:229 area and using a series of
batch ...
by daniel_spain
Sun Jan 12, 2025 3:41 am
Forum: MBBS v10
Topic: why is it not open source yet?
Replies: 10
Views: 920

Re: why is it not open source yet?

if i may...

Tim and company wrote this from the ground up so that you could practically do anything you wanted utilizing addons.
now from the outside looking in you may not see it this way but when you dig into the inner meat of the engine there
is so much you can do... too bad a lot of the manuals ...
by daniel_spain
Sun Dec 22, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: New Sysops
Topic: Error installing some modules
Replies: 2
Views: 262

Re: Error installing some modules

Slinky wrote:
> I found a repository of MBBS / WG modules, and I have made sure to choose
> the modules that are for (WG3/nt). It's been about 50/50 installing them.
> Some have installed, some have needed tppatch to get past error 200, and
> then there are those that throw: "INIT: unable to read ...
by daniel_spain
Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:51 am
Forum: Nostalgia
Topic: Rob from ProstarPlus
Replies: 0
Views: 387

Rob from ProstarPlus

just wanted to pass on the info of one of the greats passing on...

Rob from Prostar plus left us in august, if you want to pay your respects, you can here...

https://www.charleswsmithandsonsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/robert-michnick
by daniel_spain
Sun Dec 01, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: New Sysops
Topic: Love To Help
Replies: 2
Views: 220

Re: Love To Help

gmoore wrote:
> Hi all,
> I ran MajorBBS and WorldGroup in the day for a few years. I did work with
> the source code to a minor extent back then having been born/bred in to
> C/C++. Not that I am up on all that these days and my wife made me throw
> out my box of diskettes about 10 years ago in a ...
by daniel_spain
Wed Nov 13, 2024 2:21 am
Forum: MBBS v10
Topic: BBS Error Message
Replies: 2
Views: 289

Re: BBS Error Message

Endyr wrote:
> I just got this error message on my board today in my Audit Trail : C/S
> Error Limit Exceeded (too many retries: C/S connection terminated) Any
> help would be appreciated. Thank you.

assume you're running version 3.xx? thats too many client server connection failures.