Subj : Re: Opus-CBCS - any boards on
To   : Fandarel
From : AKAcastor
Date : Wed Jun 05 2024 10:37 am

 F> RBBS can do fido.  There were 2 tossers that I recall 
 F> supporting its message base format: MSGTOSS and 
 F> RBBSMail.  Look around for MSGTOS2B.ZIP or RMAIL182.ZIP. 
 F>  Looks like annex.retroarchive.org has them both off of 
 F> Kirk's Comm CD numero 2.

Great to know!  It makes sense, RBBS was pretty widespread (even if I never called one personally).  Maybe with some outreach we could get one of the existing RBBS systems on fsxNet - I am not familiar with Bitwoods RBBS-PC, but have heard of RC-BOX and the RC2014 project (Z80 homebrew system), seems like they'd be a good fit here. :)

 F> I think both packages only do echomail.  There is a 
 F> separate package for netmail, called NoSnail.  
 F> NOSN190A.ZIP same place is some alpha version.  There 
 F> are better versions around.

Do you remember if there was a preferred frontend mailer?  I presume any of them would work (like with most other BBSes)?

 F> I have run all of the above with RBBS 17.4 but it's been 
 F> literally 30 years or more.  no idea how I remember all 
 F> this stuff.

I'm glad you do remember!  It's really interesting to find out some details like you've mentioned.

 F> Back to the original topic, I'm not aware of any live Opus-CBCS systems on 
 F> the internet.  1.79 is widely available and should be 
 F> Y2K complaint. The older ones, good luck.  1.73a is 
 F> around, and someplace I saw version 0.00 for download 
 F> (sunsite maybe?), Wynn started with 0.00 as the initial 
 F> release.  1.14 was a common version, at least here in 
 F> Pittsburgh, but I haven't seen it around lately.

1.79 sounds like the version most likely to work today, I also got the impression it is Y2K compliant while the older ones aren't.  Do you happen to remember how much Opus changed through the different versions?  I am curious how close 1.79 is to the early versions written by Wynn Wagner.

I found pieces of earlier Opus versions, but so far I didn't find a complete set of install files for any of the early versions.


Chris/akacastor


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