Subj : WIN7 Maximus?
To   : Darrick Burch
From : Mvan Le
Date : Thu Aug 30 2012 02:17 pm

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

>> Ran Maximus before and liked it ...

> I know this is old but I just happen to be playing with the UNIX port of
> Maximus this week.  I played with the code briefly under Cygwin but I
> eventually changed my mind about working on it in Windows and did it in
> Linux.  It compiled after some coaxing, but there are serious problems with
> the MEX compiler.  The README alludes to this (still unresolved) issue, so
> I'm tempted to try fixing it.  I wanted to learn yacc and how to use GDB
> anyway.

Compiling under Windows requires the proprietary Watcom C/C++ Version 10 and 
11c libraries (Open Watcom will not work). I have assembled a distribution 
archive of all the build tools necessary to compile Maximus 3.02 (2.63 gb) 
under windows. I successfully compiled the DOS, OS/2 and Win32 binaries and 
tested some minor code changes in 2006.

Let me know if you want the build tools (mvanle@users.sourceforge.net).

> By the way, I'm playing with the 3.03b tar.gz files from Sourceforge.  That
> *IS* the latest version of the source code, isn't it?

Althought I appreciate the efforts to port Maximus to Linux, I firmly believe 
that development of the DOS and Win32 versions would be more worthwhile because 
the best programs written for BBSes are for DOS.

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)

.