Subj : WIN7 Maximus?
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Mvan Le
Date : Thu Aug 30 2012 08:20 am

 RT> Hello everybody.

 RT> Any one compiled a version of Maximus to run under WIN7?

I have successfully compiled Maximus under Windows XP.

I comprehensively updated the "MaximusSourceDoc.doc" build instructions back in 
2008 but have not committed the new version to sourceforge. You can get the 
documentation here: "http://users.tpg.com.au/mdsl/tmp/MaximusSourceDoc.doc". It 
details everything you need.

Building the Maximus DOS, OS/2 and Win32 binaries require proprietary 
libraries. I have prepared a "redistributable" archive that contains everything 
required to build Maximus on Windows (2.63 gigabytes). Let me know if you want 
it ("mvanle@users.sourceforge.net").

I am sure it will compile successfully under WIN7.

I made some minor modifications to 3.02 eg, changed logfile time & date format 
to include the year, version numbers to 3.02.1 etc but have not gone further 
due to lack of C programming skills. A guy named Bo Simonsen said it took him 6 
months to get his head around the SLIBs (main Maximus libraries). I suppose I 
could put more time & effort into developing Maximus but I have more profitable 
things to do atm.

Maximus was made to run under DOS and OS/2. I recommend running anything 
related to a BBS under Windows XP because everything works well in its NTVDM 
(doors, games, telnet servers, virtual modems etc).

 RT> I might be forced to abandon my Linux BBS box due to 
 RT> old age and lack of funds 
 RT> to replace it ...

 RT> Ran Maximus before and liked it ...

Maximus is the best BBS software in the world !

--- Maximus/2 3.01
 * Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41)

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