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When I was thinking about bringing my old system online I downloaded the demo from Elwynor and Netvillage. I installed the demos and connected them to Worldlink.

I then received my old license code from rick and deleted those systems and installed my legal licensed software. Now I cannot connect ...

Cross platform for OSX/Win/Linux 32&64 bit.

SqLite database (as default) since it is lightweight and cross platform? But of course you can change the database to other database platforms (I know you like MySql and I am a MSSql guy).

As you said baseline version 1 is terminal and web.

If a new version of Worldgroup was to be built from the ground up, what would you keep and what would you ditch?

My keep list :
Basic Internet Servers (Httpd, nntpd, ftpd, telnetd, rlogind)
Accounting - For Pay models
Teleconference
File Libraries
Forums
Web Support (a modern web interface)


My ...

honestly, it doesnt need to be ported it needs to evolve.

Yes! Preach On Brother!


what we need is a complete rewrite from the ground up using technologies available to us today

Absolutely! I was looking at the code again last night and was thinking for the day it was really cool code, but ...

I recently started up my old BBS. We are mainly a chat community oriented bbs. I am looking for teleconference type games. I am mainly looking for brawl. anything else along those lines are great. hard to find anything these days.

i have both a private and current cvs setup, private is for my own fork of 3.12 codenamed Worldgroup 3.12.xx and the current is a version of 3.30 with alot of free modifications with my premium modifications remaining closed.

Where can I get access to the cvs for the current 3.30.

I would love ...

which is why i have been working with visual c++ to get a worldgroup64 project compiled.

we need native support

We need a updated code base and central repository. Has anyone (rick, daniel) thought about creating a central repository. Maybe a private repository somewhere that people who want ...