Subj : Re: Opportunities and Challenges in Development To : MeaTLoTioN From : Gryphon Date : Sun Mar 23 2025 21:50:00 On 26 Jul 2024, MeaTLoTioN said the following... Me> On 25 Jul 2024, Gryphon said the following... Me> Me> Gr> On 20 May 2024, MeaTLoTioN said the following... Me> Gr> Me> Gr> Me> Developing for Mystic BBS offers a fascinating intersection of o Me> Gr> Me> technology and contemporary programming practices. Whether you'r Me> Gr> Me> customising modules or creating new features, the possibilities Me> Gr> Me> Me> Gr> Me> What projects are you currently working on with Mystic BBS? Me> Gr> Me> Have you encountered any significant challenges or innovative so Me> Gr> Me> during your development journey? Me> Gr> Me> Let's exchange ideas and insights on pushing the boundaries of w Me> Gr> Me> possible with Mystic BBS. Me> Gr> Me> Gr> I've written quite a number of MPL apps and games. Most Mystic BBSes Me> Gr> at least one of my games and many run MRC. Me> Gr> Me> Gr> I recently wrote a utility that is similar to Midnight Commander. I c Me> Gr> it Mystic Commander. It's a light-bar driven file manager. You can us Me> Gr> it to copy files from anywhere within your BBS directory to another. Me> Gr> can view and edit ansi's and texts and run MPL programs on the fly. Me> Gr> Me> Gr> I also have a number of games in the works. Pyramid Solitaire, Free-C Me> Gr> Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, and Sudoku. Me> Me> Yeah dude I have used quite a few of your additions, MRC is definitely Me> the most popular door in all of BBS land I think, you certainly paved Me> the way to bringing everyone in the scene closer together. I'm sure Me> others have said it too but thank you! Blush! Me> I'm looking forward to seeing your new games that you're working on, and You can swing over to madmanbbs.ddns.net to check them out. Every game on my BBS is one that I grew myself. The ones that I get the most feedback on will be the ones that I get closest to finishing. Me> Mystic Commander sounds super neat - I have to check that out. Sounds Me> like a really sweet Sysop utility. Does it have like a config file or Me> settings such that a sysop could configure it to allow lower security Me> levels different access, for example s255 can do all the things, s10-s30 Me> could be "jailed" to the files directory and only download/list and not Me> move/edit/copy/delete/etc? Could be a neat new file index lister with Me> the ability of directory hierarchy. This is funny because I was using MC just today to curate some of my gallery files. I discovered that it comes in realy handy to rename/delete/view files on the fly without having to switch to the OS to do it. ATM it does not have any ability to restrict access. But I'm always open to feature requests. One problem I'm having with it is that it doesn't seem to behave the same way on Windows as it does on Linux. I have to assume it's because of the differences between the two platform's file structures. One thing I don't want it to do is escape the the BBS directory and maybe muck up the OS drives, and I have to put some safeguards in to prevent that from happening. I have many Mystic games/apps in the works and I can never seem to complete ones before I start on another. I'm currently working on a MPL rendition of AberMUD2. I have no idea why I'm doing it. Maybe because I found the C code to it and I said to myself, "Yup, I can convert that into MPL!" Nevermind how the game can compile to linux and I can play it as a door without having to convert a thing. Madman with a Blue Box BBS madmanbbs.ddns.net --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Linux/64) * Origin: thE qUAntUm wOrmhOlE, rAmsgAtE, uK. bbs.erb.pw (1337:1/101) .