Re: Re: Hello?
  By: John Kelly to Joe Delahaye on Tue Dec 09 2014 21:02:00

 JK> I have compiled the source. It's no harder than compiling a PPE. If you
 JK> can do that, you can build the PCBoard main executable from source.

Does it include a compiler?  Seems to me, If I remember correctly, it is
written in C.  


 JK> Download the .zip file, unpack it to a work directory, see src153.txt,
 JK> and follow its instructions. You don't need extra tools, everything is
 JK> included. The resulting PCBOARDM.EXE will not check for a license. You
 JK> can build it for any number of nodes, but the default is 25. No one has
 JK> enough callers to exceed that, and higher node counts would only waste
 JK> memory with larger internal data structures.

Agreed.  I sometimes have 3 nodes in use, but that is about the extent of it.


 ->> make it work under today's conditions

 JK> Telnet, yes. HTTP and web, forget it. Nobody cares about your little BBS
 JK> web site. There are millions of more useful sites. You have no chance of
 JK> standing out from the Internet crowd. If you get some telnet callers who
 JK> enjoy an old time ANSI text mode experience, that's all you can expect.

There are plenty of people using the web side of my BBS actually.  I dont care
to stand out,  I dont just run the BBS web server here.  I have two others
besides.


 ->> I would be willing to even pay

 JK> The PCBoard source code is tied to the 16-bit architecture, all the way
 JK> to its core. It took a team of programmers at least five years to reach
 JK> the 15.x level of functionality, and it would take another team at least
 JK> ten years to untangle the convoluted mess the first team wrote.

You did mean the second team?  Many of the original team left PCB 15.x was
mostly updated by the second team.  David Terry had already left, and so had
several other key players..  I am aware it is 16 bit architecture.  There was a
web based entity that was being worked on as well.  I dont recall the name of
that.
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