PZ wrote:
You could be right. As of t today I have 15 people that want the program, most are former GBBS SysOps. If I was home and had the time to work on the program I could get it done in a few days. As I said I have a former SysOp and programmer working on the bug problems. As to the date issue I'll have to deal with the ACOS kernal part of it. I'm hopping to get home later this month, but the last time I had my work extended. I was supposed to be on the project for 6 months, but it got extended to 10 and now 13 months. I have access to a site where the program is as well as having some of the segments here, so I can work on them when I have the time using ProTERM on my iBook. But I can't test them and have to send the files to a friend to put them up on his // and run them. So far the segments I have sent him have not crashed, but these are my modified ones. I have to either take the changes out or find GBBS version 3 which was the last stable version of it and update it from there. My //'s H/D took a dump while I was gone, my daughter shut it down and when I tried to bring it back, nothing, as it turned out it was just the motor and the disk was fine with just a few errors, but I have not been home enough to do anything. The next break I get I'm going to put the BBS back on line and then call it from where I am working. Years ago another SysOp and myself helped maintain a BBS for a school in Oregon and we made changes in real time by U/L the text segments using EXfer and then deleting the ACOS compiled ones and then accessing the segments, never had a crash; but you can't do that with the login or System segments, those have to be done from the computer, never figured why. I bought the program not to make anything, but to save it since that is where I learned all about computers and it was really fun running the BBS for over 10 years and seeing my programming work. I figure I could get $15.00/$20.00 for the disks and owners manual, which is just about what it would cost to produce. Or have a User group that approached me do itIt would be tough to sell it given that METAL is still widely available free to those who are interested in this kind of thing. You might be able to get a couple bucks here and there. ProTerm still sells at least a dozen copies a year, and Intrec hasn't updated their website in eons. - Paul
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