Re: Wanted: GBBS Pro Versions 2.x

[kauai96765@yahoo.com (The Apple Man)]

stevenl11@aol.com (Steven Lichter) wrote in message news:<20020221205919.05885.00000130@mb-dh.aol.com>...
> << So quit whinning about Y2K (Which you have posted the same message
> about since 1998) and get on with it.  (Most people can solve the Y2K
> problem in 10 minutes yet you cant do it in 4 years!)
>  >>
> 
> 
> I never know that there was a y2k problem until
> mid January, 2000 when I came home after a job and
> saw the date on my waiting screen so don't say I
> have said that.  Also prior to 2000 I had sold or
> updated 6 programs.  

Yeah....great!  That sounds like progress there...I bet if you
released the source, you would even have a PC version in 6 months.
 
> If you know how to fix it, both the hard and root, 
> then let me know how and I'll make it worth your
> while.  I fixed the hard coding in the compiles
> segments, but can't find it in the ACOS root,  I have
> spend hours looking over the code.  I had asked Lance
> as well as Greg if they had any ideas.  No one
> expected the program to last as long as it did or just
> did not think about it.  Many segments have hard
> code date like 19xx and each one has to be removed
> or changed to read the patched ProDOS.

Everyone knows this as the same problem existed in the 1990
changeover. So?   Again my other point stands.  Put the program into
the PD and I know someone will get the solution in a time shorter than
you can sneeze.

Not rocket science.  Any first year programmer could probably do it.