Subj : Phoenix/Spitfire/Wildcat
To   : Boxoskulz
From : AKAcastor
Date : Tue Jul 09 2024 11:12 am

 B> SysOps who have used Phoenix, Wildcat or Spitfire BBS software... why?

I haven't used those software packages myself, but I know there is a community of Wildcat (and WIN Server) sysops still active.  Also, Santronics Software still licenses the software, though from stories I read they don't seem particularly interested in hobby BBSes so they may be focusing on a corporpate customer base.

There is a "Wildcat-Winserver SysOPs" Discord server, there's 2-3 dozen people on that server, a few people have been working on a project to run multinode Wildcat on Raspberry Pi (the-wc4-pi-project) using DOSBox-X and a shared network drive.  (that's been particularly interesting to me since it's similar to my own network setup to run Maximus multinode)

I'm not sure what the specific draw to Wildcat is, but it's enough to keep a community around, which is great to see!


Chris/akacastor

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