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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