Subj : Amiga (Telnet Client)
To   : esc
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Mon Jan 01 2024 09:20:48

 Bu>> If talking BBS Programs, currently the 2 that I know of that are being
 Bu>> updated are C-Net, Zeus is supposedly being worked on. There is another
 Bu>> one amongst the crack community which I can't remember the name of (Damn
 Bu>> Covid Brain) that is being updated. I am sure others will reply with
 Bu>> softwares that are being updated.. I currently run a C-Net and it is
 Bu>> very stable and does the job quite well in Emulation...

 e> Amiga Express has been completely rewritten in E and is opensource.
 e> It's a fantastic BBS software.

 e> Daydream also exists, and the 1.30b4 edition is freeware. Daydream was
 e> written completely in ASM and is blazing fast. It also has a ton of
 e> mods available. However it's not being updated.

 e> <daydream saga incoming>

 e> Years ago Rudi Timmermans bought the Daydream source and he started
 e> releasing versions with a very strange versioning schema. He would do
 e> a small update and change the major version. Eventually he ended up
 e> with Daydream 8.55. I have been able to install this and make it work,
 e> and it's pretty slick, but it's crippled and now there is no way to
 e> get a key for it. I also cannot get in touch with Rudi any more.

 e> A couple years ago Rudi sold the source to someone else. I've chatted
 e> with that guy a couple of times but he says the source is on some CF
 e> card somewhere and he can't be bothered to go find it. So I guess it's
 e> dead at this point. This bums me out because I was willing to pay the
 e> guy for the source and try to make a new release that would be
 e> freeware and have a couple of bugs fixed, as well as a reasonable
 e> installer.

 e> Alas.


Is that the same Rudi Timmermans who took the source for Binkd and turned it into AmiBinkd and tried to charge money for it?   He never got it working properly since it would crash the Amiga after a couple of hours or a few days, depending on the phase of the moon or something.


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