Give Magicka a try and give your feedback and ideas to Apam. It's not Renegade or VA I know, but it's off the a good start.
Do you have any coding skills? Writing a BBS isn't too hard if you break it down into smaller pieces. The hardest part is integrating the older technologies I think like squish or JAM or FTN etc. If you use squish or JAM then you can use HPT as a tosser and binkd as a mailer and focus on the BBS.
incornations of my HMB to prove that! :D The biggest weakness of the
HMB was a 16M size limit for the _entire_ messagebase. When your messagebase has close to 200 echos (plus netmail), and many of those
areas are fairly active, it makes the messagebase very susceptible to being overloaded. Once you break the 16M limit, ugly things happen,
like everything gets scrambled, and weird crossposts happen!
When you say crosspost, what is that?
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail 0.52, and terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently.
Things just looked mangled.
On 01-05-21 21:06, bbsing wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 27 Feb 2020 at 02:34p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
incornations of my HMB to prove that! :D The biggest weakness of the
HMB was a 16M size limit for the _entire_ messagebase. When your messagebase has close to 200 echos (plus netmail), and many of those
areas are fairly active, it makes the messagebase very susceptible to being overloaded. Once you break the 16M limit, ugly things happen,
like everything gets scrambled, and weird crossposts happen!
Hi Vk3jed,
When you say crosspost, what is that?
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail
0.52, and terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently.
Multimail shows the message count for an area, but the area index has
many messages that have error 0 message for the message line.
In Terminate's (old dos program) the messages from field looks missing
and the messages body runs through the from, and subject. Each message looks to contain several messages.
Things just looked mangled.
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'mseeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using
Hmm, I don't recognise any of the symptoms you're describing. :( When I had a corrupt messagebase, I could still download messages into Bluewave (that's what I used back then), but they were all in the wrong areas, almost randomaly scattered throughout the messagebase. Only fix was to delete the messagebase and start again. I can't recall if multiple message
On 01-05-21 08:46, Bob Roberts wrote to Vk3jed <=-
It could be something to do with the QWK export settings from the
hosting BBS. Perhaps a missing CONTROL.DAT or incorrect QWKE setting?
Multimail should support QWKE just fine. Not sure about Terminate.
Back when I used Terminate it was just a comm program.
I'd give anything to have your skill set and move to redoing the old source code to Renegade or Virtual Advance 5.0 source code.
So far I have logins and signups working and reading squish
message bases.
I'd love to see squish and *.msg support in Magicka. I don't think
I'd use *.msg for a lot but there are times when *.msg support
comes in handy. Makenl only has support for *.msg and some games
use *.msg to attach files to be sent to other nodes. The GAC games
come to mind.
I haven't actually setup netmail on the BBS yet but I wonder, does
Magicka do AKA matching, so if I write a netmail to an fsxNet node
it uses my fsxNet AKA and if I write one in fidonet it uses my
fidonet AKA?
So I was bored yesterday and started on a new BBS package
(because that's what I do when I am bored).
I'd give anything to have your skill set and move to redoing the
old source code to Renegade or Virtual Advance 5.0 source code.
I'm a bit tired of working on it today, so might pick it up later.
Anyway, just having fun. :)
On 01-05-21 21:06, bbsing wrote to Vk3jed <=-
When you say crosspost, what is that?
I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing errors on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail
0.52, and terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently.
Multimail shows the message count for an area, but the area index has
many messages that have error 0 message for the message line.
In Terminate's (old dos program) the messages from field looks missing
and the messages body runs through the from, and subject. Each message looks to contain several messages.
Things just looked mangled.
On 01-05-21 08:46, Bob Roberts wrote to Vk3jed <=-
It could be something to do with the QWK export settings from the
hosting BBS. Perhaps a missing CONTROL.DAT or incorrect QWKE setting?
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