April 5th, 1998
Philippe has grown tired of people hassling him to finish the code, and says that if he can not get it released by the end of July 1998, he will "give it all up and release the source code".
Assuming he does get the first version released as a wide-beta, his future plans are to later add a webserver to ProBoard, which he belives would be a better alternative to offering telnetability. Normal dialup logins (as ProBoard currently has) would still be supported as well. At least that way people can log in to the html "bbs" using their favorate web-browser.
Many Proboard sysops had forseen major problems with Philippes implimintation of it's internal telnet support, as it's design did not allow any external doors to be used!
NetModem News!
Dedrick Allen announced that the new NetModem/32 API will not be
compatible with the 32-bit API used by Winfossil. The winfossil
API was incomplete, so Dedrick has desided to rewrite the FOSSIL
Rev5 specs for the Win32 environment. It will basically take the
same functionality as the Rev5 DOS specs, and move it to the Win32
platform. It will support all fossil functions from 00h to 21h
Dedrick will release Delphi units/source code to interface with
the FOSSIL API, so 32-bit BBS developers can add telnetability to
their BBS very easily, and by communicating through the API the
BBS software can retrieve all kinds of information from the Telnet
Server.
NetModem Progess:
Currently Dedrick is working on the new configuration, and is adding
several new features. According to Dedrick, it is about 60% complete.
Once he has the new configureation done, he will continue to work
on the new server code itself, which he is totally rewriting using
his own code rather then the borland librarys. This version should
not only solve the unstability that the previous beta had, but it
should also run smoother as well.
RACE User Editor Released!
Dewayne Cox is releasing the first GUI version of RACE today! RACE is
a UserBase editor for RemoteAccess and compatible BBS's. It was originally
written by Mike Janke back in the early 1990's, and the source was sold to
Dewayne last year. Dewayne has re-written RACE as a windows program, and
the interface looks fantastic! The only other GUI UserBase editor available
for RA and compatible BBS's is Niels Schoots TotalControl-32 UE.
Dewayne plans to continue RACE development immediatly, and is currently
working on the next version which will include many new features.