Subj : Re: Spitfire's Y2k25 bug
To   : Dan Cross
From : xbit
Date : Sat Jan 04 2025 05:40:22

  Re: Re: Spitfire's Y2k25 bug
  By: Dan Cross to xbit on Sat Jan 04 2025 07:38 am

 xb>> Sadly, looks like Spitfire is RIP forever. On the morning of
 xb>> 1-1-2025 I noticed that all SF nodes would no longer boot as it
 xb>> requests to set the system date and time. 
 xb>> Looking into putting it on a VM w/ the date set to 2014 but perhaps
 xb>> its just time to say goodbye.

 DC> That's really sad. I know that Mike Woltz passed away in 2022; it's
 DC> a shame that the source code to Spitfire wasn't released as open source
 DC> before that. Does anyone know how to get in touch with his estate?
 DC> Perhaps they'd be willing to transfer the code somewhere and someone
 DC> could patch it. For that matter, maybe the binary could be patched.

Last year I put a few days into trying to find a family contact w/ out much luck. But, I'm not a person finding expert so I'm sure it can be done by someone with the correct tools. 

I'm upset w/ myself as I had an ongoing thread with Mike before he passed. We worked on a few bugs i found and he even updated my spitfire.exe not long ago. I was going to ask him if he had plans on making SF freeware and/or opensource but i knew he got a little put off with this line of question. 

 DC> I ran Spitfire back in the early 90's. I've always had a soft spot
 DC> for it in my heart.

Same.. I remember how excited i was when i got the init strings to pick up a call and about fell of my chair when my first call came in :)
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