Re: Comming Soon WACOS

[Tony Lisanti <ajlisanti@optonline.net>]

I did not think anyone still held any copyright to this, or cared
about it.  This whole project was a hobby that's been worked on for a
few years now.  Some stuff still doesn't work well with it.  This
began years ago, was forgotten about, then recently worked on again.
Its just a little hobby, and never meant to make profit on anything.  

 I just have a few questions. Is there any profit to be made on
GBBS/ACOS now?  Where is this PC port? Are you still supporting GBBS?

	I could go on with more questions, but after thinking about
this, it seems pointless.  This was just a little project that started
when I was learning VB.  Years ago I used Acos.  The actual BBS
segment code was tossed, and me and some guys wrote a package 100%
from scratch.  We even had ACOS using a mouse over the phone lines,
which was real cool at the time I guess.  

	I thought of this project almost like an emulation project to
preserve Acos, and maybe add some other features, and perhaps someone
would find a use for this.  I think its silly to even think someone
would even use it now.  

	This is like an emulator for an Apple, Amiga or a Atari 2600.
Its nice to look at for about 1-2 hours and remember the old days,
then its deleted off the hard drive.  I ask why not just release the
source code to ACOS as freeware.  What profit could be made of this
now?  

	I would be amazed it this had any significant financial
meaning to anyone at this point.  I checked all over, and could not
find anything on ACOS/GBBS on the net, and not even samples or home
made segments.  I found the old stuff I did in some old boxes when I
moved and just ported it to this little project.

	I must say after finding out someone still owns a copyright,
WACOS will stay with me as a hobby, and never see the light of day.
However, I must say after all this time, I can't imagine this being a
source of income and would have bet money it was free-ware by now.  

	Alot of the things mentioned in the prior post work, but are
very buggy.  Proterm Special emulation is a nightmare, and is a real
ugly emulation, I'm sure someone could do better since creating fonts
doesn't work for me.  There was also an idea for using a card-swipe
system via telnet to logon.  Which never worked at all, and was
written by a friend who doesn't care to do anymore on WACOS.

	Unless Steve doesn't care if the source to my code is released
for free, without any segments from the original GBBS/ACOS package, or
if he ever wanted to sell or release Acos as free-ware, this project
will remain with me, and only me.  This was really meant to be a
learning project to teach me VB, and nothing more.

Oh Well......


On 11 Dec 2004 03:31:37 GMT, shlichter1@aol.com (Shlichter1) wrote:

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><< From: Tony Lisanti  >>
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>Yes..
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>I'm the copyright owner of GBBS (ACOS)  There could be a problem if code from
>the program was used for your version.  Several years ago a version was ported
>over to the PC, by another programmer working with me and the code, but it
>never went over.  There has not been a lot of demand for it and right now my
>support BBS is down do to a H/D failure, and I have not had must time to do
>anything about it since I just got back from the Middle East.  Before you go
>releasing it in any way please get with me on this.
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>You can reach me at stevenl1ATiwon.COM
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