Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : paulie420
From : apam
Date : Sun Apr 09 2023 15:27:08

 > Talisman - A hobbyists project. APAM has given SO MUCH to the BBS
 > community; even another BBS software, Magicka BBS... but its really
 > light on features.

Just curious, but what features are you missing from talisman? Apart from
a GUI configuration editor, I thought I had most things covered?

Talisman has:

FTN Support with Tosser/Scanner & Tic Processor
BinkP client
WWIVnet Support
QWK network support (With headers.dat)
QWK / Bluewave offline mail
Built in full screen message editor / viewer
Theme / Menu support with wide screen / fonts & sixel
Gopher Server
File areas with Lightbar
Scripting support via LUA
Synchronet Avatars via a Lua mod I wrote
Runs on Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD / Windows & last time I checked macOS.
Free and OpenSource.
Door Support
UTF-8 output as well as CP437 (and conversion for doors on Linux)

Talisman DOESN'T have:

Complete NNTP server (I started writing one and readonly is there, but I
don't like it so never finished it)
Gui Configuration editor
spell checker

I'm not offended or anything, I'm just wondering. "really light on
features" sounds like it's just scraping in with the bare minimum, and I
thought it was pretty competitive with the features it supports.

Andrew


--- Talisman v0.47-dev (Windows/x64)
 * Origin: Smuggler's Cove - Private BBS (21:1/182)

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