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Gunshot PRO

32bit port of Shotgun BBS Professional version 2 alpha 10.

Shotgun BBS Professional is Copyright Brent Shellenberg

Gunshot PRO is being ported by Rick Parrish

The original FILE_ID.DIZ described it as:

Shotgun BBS Professional version 2 alpha 10.

Complete SVGA/ANSI/ASCII/RIP source of Shotgun Professional.

Bring the touch of high quality Super-VGA to your online service or BBS.

Everything is included that you would normally pay extra for:

• SQUISH/JAM/FIDO Support

• Front End Mailer Software

• TIC File Echo Processor

• Echomail processor

• Multiple Interface (SVGA/ANSI/TTY/RIP)

• Shotgun GUI Editor included!

• XModem/YModem/ZModem and much much more!

Requires 540k of RAM, 1024k of EMS/XMS, SVGA monitor & mouse.

TODO list:

<ul> <li>Implement any REETODOs that appear in compiled executables</li> <li>Anything passing 0 for the Attr parameter to FindFirst should pass AnyFile instead (VP returns no files when 0 is passed for Attr)</li> <li>Investigate FILEMODE usage to see if FILEMODEREADWRITE, TEXTMODEREAD or TEXTMODEREADWRITE should be used</li> <li>Find/correct any usage of FOR loop variables after the loop (since they are 1 greater in VP than in BP</li> <li>Rename executables mentioned in code (ie SGECHO to GSECHO in a string in a code file)</li> </ul>

Completed list:

<ul> <li>IFDEF out anything that doesn't compile and make a WIN32 placeholder that does a "WriteLn('REETODO UNIT FUNCTION'); Halt;" (then you can grep the executables for REETODO to see which REETODOs actually need to be implemented)</li> <li>IFDEF out any ASM code blocks and handle the same as above</li> <li>WORD in RECORD to SMALLWORD</li> <li>INTEGER in RECORD to SMALLINT</li> <li>TYPEs of OF WORD to OF SMALLWORD (just in case they're used in a RECORD)</li> <li>TYPEs of OF INTEGER to OF SMALLINT (just in case they're used in a RECORD)</li> </ul>