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For DOS, it was really the only way. Now I'd spin out containers for each module and have them managed by kubernetes; the base system would be its own container and there'd be APIs that would allow for interprocess communication. Kafka would be fine for streaming events I mean, if we were starting f...

Yup. Credits were internally referred to as "ticks" in the old code. Why? Because they were literally seconds! Each credit was a second. But that's why casino, lotto, and other games were so much fun because people won additional online time, and as Dan points out back then that was gold! ...

"LIVE! From Coarsegold, CA! You have 7200 credits!" That was what used to greet you when you logged into the Sierra Online Support BBS, setup to provide information on their software titles, but quickly it became popular as a multiuser chat system when people wandered into their Teleconfer...

Dan you are correct. Active HTML is probably obsolete too. There's better approaches that can provide the benefit of web and client in a browser nowadays. We are investigating those.

We just need to build a dev team :)

daniel_spain wrote: > Rick... do you not own it anymore? I knew of the new phoenix project but is someone else the owner? > And if so does this affect just the core major bbs/wg ip or all the admins as well? > On another note I am curious....... I am not disputing anything, just my curious little mi...

The main issue might be pegging the CPU. Worldgroup/Major BBS is essentially an infinite loop! It's not event-driven. Not really. As Dan notes, a modern .NET Core or Java or other implementation could be event-based, with triggers along with timing on a scheduler (so it isn't constantly polling). Bu...

Hey, that's great!! @Duckula, what is the best way for Dan to get us a copy of the code for this updated module?

Happily, there IS a MailLink hub now! Rob at Prostar is running it!

The problem with The Major BBS and Worldgroup has always been some of the shady dealings that some actors within the community have perpetuated. Even with Galacticomm itself was still in existence, some of the third party developers or resellers were often doing suspect deals that really damaged som...

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