Subj : Re: IcyBoard 0.1.6 release
To   : Exodus
From : Omnibrain
Date : Sun Oct 05 2025 09:33 pm

 Ex> Any chance of making this or another like the MBBSEMU where it will run
 Ex> PPE's but allow rLogin's to use it as a "server"?

Short answer: No

My first idea was to just make a runtime for PPEs so they can be used in other BBS systems. Adding a new one to the pile wasn't really my goal.

But ~95% of the PPEs out there are pcboard only they make only sense for pcboard. There is no use for let's say a end of message reader command. PPEs usually plug in via pcbtext which makes it more difficult. They control the BBS via keyboard stuffing which isn't usually supported nor make any sense outside of PCBoard.

So you need a 100% compatible PCBoard to run. And they're really tied to PCboard data structures. Usually they read the binary data files to work.

So I had to create a new BBS. Has pros and cons - pro is that I can make a 'real' PCboard - I think I succeeded pretty well with that. Con is that it's a PCBoard - which isn't considered 'good' in terms of easy to use in 1992.

Could be described as nightmare 2025 - however that only makes it more fun :). I tried to make some things easier - like using text files, have self contained BBS folders, using relative paths everywhere etc. 

But it's basically a complex thing with tons of options. There are some PPEs that make sense outside of PCBoard - a few games for example. But they're a real exception.

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