From: corey@tsgc.dyndns.org.remove-d17-this   
      
     To: E. Nusbaum   
     Re: MajorBBS Reverse Engineering   
     By: E. Nusbaum to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Thu Sep 02 2004 04:07 pm   
      
    > So, I've been fishing through a lot of the posts on this newsgroup. It's   
    > good to see that not only the BBS community is brought together, but also   
    > the actual people who've worked on the software still lurk here as well.   
    >   
    > I've recently began reverse engineering a lot of MajorBBS applications as to   
    > register them. As you know, a lot of companies who produced software for   
    > MajorBBS have long since gone out of business (High Velocity Software and   
    > many, many others).   
    >   
    > I'm reaching out to any developers out there who know a thing or two about   
    > reverse engineering. MajorBBS DLLs are fairly easy to crack open (WIN32DASM   
    > actually will disassemble DLLs nicely), and editing procedural applications   
    > at the ASM level are much, much easier than OOP applications (as many   
    > reverse engineers will tell you).   
    >   
    > I understand that a lot of modules are still under copyright and are   
    > currently being developed and sold (Lunatix, T-LORD, some IGMs and all the   
    > modules being sold at Gameport), but I think there should be an open effort   
    > at fully unlocking "abandonware" modules that obtaining   
    > registration/activation today would be impossible.   
    >   
    > I'm interested to hear thoughts/feedback on the subject.   
    >   
    > - E. Nusbaum   
      
   it's still stealing.   
   if I bought a brand new caddilac and decided to leave it some where and never   
   go back to it ever, it is still my property. if I wrote a mbbs or wg addon and   
   decided to forget about it, it is still mine, even thou I would rather delete   
   it all from my hard drive and never think about it again. like, Guile, who   
   wrote Crossroads of the Elements. he converted his code so it's now a self   
   standing game server and said he will never sell the mbbs version or a reg code   
   again. but it is still his.   
      
   Help! I've fallen and... Hey! nice carpet!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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