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Thanks for your interest. The core is getting updated to use the new features of the incoming release of RealBasic that handles namespaces and delegates as Java. So I expect RealSoftware will allow the creation of DLLs and Shared Libs really soon.

This will make thing easier, as you don't need the ...

I agree with both regarding compiler speed. C and C++ are the fatests, but with today CPU speeds, the use of C or C++ for this kind of applications in my opinion are not needed. Same happeneded with ASM, and no one writes applications in ASM, perhaps some very CPU intensive routines for videogames ...

Thanks for your comments. I really appreciate them, and don't take them as a personal attack.

I have to say that the first mistake of RealSoftware was to name this product as RealBasic. It would be better to name it as RealSoft as it has little in common with Basic. The review that you mention was ...

Ops... forgot to say.

Regarding Java comments or other Open Source languages.. yes, you are right but I chose RB since I am keen on it. I like the idea of having updates every 90 days, and these people are quite open to suggestions and bug fixing. Anyway, I believe rewritting the core module in ...

Sorry for my lack of updates about my MBBS clone. I have had same familiar issues that kept me away from this project. I am working some hours per week on it, and apart from the Telnet issues that does not affect Windows Telnet client, it is getting better.

Still it is not nearly an Alpha release ...

Basicallly because it's slow and users must comply with having Java installed on their OS. Not every computer has Java installed.

Also the nature of GUI apps is horrible compared to RealBasic that is more powerful and C code can be easily used via plugins.

I can wait to fix my Telnet code and ...

It works as a single EXE, no need to plugin any webserver. It's written in RealBasic (www.realbasic.com) and it's much faster than PHP and ASP as they are not interpreted languages, compile to native machine code.

Basically it solves many problems of the current MajorBBS, it uses MySQL, Threads ...

I have been during these last weeks doing a MajorBBS clone in RealBasic and is getting better and better. Its designed to be modular, as Gcomm did and basically I cloned the architecture with a modern OOP language such as RealBasic that compiles on linux, macosx and windows. Replaced Btrieve with ...

Since Gcomm released The Major BBS for Unix, I thought that it was the perfect operating system for Gcomm. Unfortunately, Unix was pretty expensive to be succesful at that time.

What about porting The Major BBS to Linux and/or FreeBSD? Now that virtualization is possible (VMware, etc) any Windows ...