Hi,

I used to program back in the early 90's in turbo pascal , and later in delphi 1 and 2, I am currently working on porting a old bbs software I helped write to lazarus/fpc for telnet , and would love any help I can get with porting it , and or idea's on how todo certain area's of the source code, please email me with any ideas if your interested

dennis martin

G'day Dennis,

Back when I was a teenager, in the 1980's and into my 20s in later years (I was born in 1961), WE (the Williams family) had different computers to access BBS's. I used many models of Commodores (C=) starting with the C= PET 4016/32 in 1977 (circa). We moved to C=64, C=128 and C= Amigas (with 2x HD floppy drives, NO HDD!). Then models of IBM clone PC's etc.

They were amazing! And had modems (naturally). We used BBS's -- before the Internet !!!

http://www.masqueradebbs.com/ -- Masquerade BBS.

In the 1980s and 1990s, I personally got to email, chat and know the man developing & programming the Masquerade BBS... We both lived in Canberra, Australia. He programmed with Turbo Pascal, then Delphi. The main features of Masquerade BBS software were the configuration scripts to be make it look however you wanted it to look. *GRIN* -- very clever!!!

Many BBS packages are written in Turbo Pascal, Delphi & Lasarus. Many are FOSS. I suggest that you check:

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=Bulletin+Board+Software&search=Search

Look for Delphi Open Source (FOSS) packages. Lots of excellent FOSS BBS's there. I think of the *Time* you'd SAVE !!!

With Luv from PEW ;-)))
XOXOX

With Best Regards,
PEW { Peter Eric Williams }
from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

My FREE Websites: http://pewink.org

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Thanksm but back in the day i was on the vision/2 programming team, and as much as i would love to use the old tp code, i don't want to not the effect i am going for

Hi Dennis,

dennis martin wrote

Thanksm but back in the day i was on the vision/2 programming team, and as much as i would love to use the old tp code, i don't want to not the effect i am going for

It (Masquerade BBS) *NOW* no longer uses TP code. Back in the 1990s he was using Borland Delphi (version?). Please visit the website, and at least look at it. :))

>> http://www.masqueradebbs.com/ -- Masquerade BBS.

What I was trying to say, there are many *Excellent* FOSS BBS projects, often using Delphi or even with Lazarus. ;-)))

Why reinvent the wheel? See how other people have done it! :)

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Again, the different BBS's were programmed in different languages. Often times, when a developer was updated his/here code to a new version, s/he would consider using different comms libraries / techniques :-O!!! Rewriting comms procedures / units (etc) to use the latest STUFF (whatever you want to call them) *MAY* be a Good Thing! ;-)

{ I'm not an expert, however, I did work for the Aussie RAN (Navy) for 23 years - as a technical Draftsman, documenting Naval Comms Systems (and more general RAN Systems, etc). I also worked for the software cell which wrote & gave software support -- for R.A.N. Comms Systems for sending messages between Ships/Submarines/Naval Bases/and the rest of the World & Outer Space, e.g. Satelittes/Radios/YOU NAME IT! etc etc.

It was very excellent software! And our Directorate wrote the software and the Standards & Specifications for it and more general Systems for the RAN. The RAN has been using different implementations of the same/other software for more that 30-40 years. I became MATES with lots of them.

It was written in Turbo Pascal 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6.0 then ported to different languages. Manly ADA for OS/2. Also C/C++/C# etc - then different Systems. }
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Why not have a look??? *Maybe* you'll find Delphi / Pascal BBS project using "telnet" techniques!

> > With Luv from PEW ;-))) > XOXOX

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