Spectre wrote to Blue White <=-
I remember BlueWave arriving here first, followed by QWK all door implementations. Later by QWK being written into most software that
still had development. After that BW kinda disappeared.
It would have been nice if the source for Blue Wave had been made
public before
George passed, but, sadly, it was not meant to be. His stuff was
probably sold
off in the estate sale and the person who got the source didn't know
what it
was and deleted it.
EDS had a policy of effectively taking any outside work you do and "owning" it. I don't think it would ever hold up in court, but they
could make it difficult for you.
Quoting Ogg to Tiny <=-
Ah.. Hector! Yes.. he seemed angry and bitter most of the
time.
Quoting Akacastor to Tiny <=-
I installed Silver Xpress (it was popular on the local BBS I called as
a kid, so I have some memories of it), but I noticed Y2K issues and
then didn't dig any further. I take it the Y2K issues didn't get
patched? :(
Blue White wrote to Dr. What <=-
If someone wanted to, they could probably use sources like those and reverse engineer a new Blue Wave reader. With MultiMail still
supporting the format , I am not sure how much demand there is unless
the BlueWave reader had some features that MM does not.
I installed Silver Xpress (it was popular on the local BBS I called as
a kid, so I have some memories of it), but I noticed Y2K issues and
then didn't dig any further. I take it the Y2K issues didn't get
patched? :(
Not that I know of. I was going to try it on your BBS but the SX door doens't load. I assume that's Y2K stuff.
I think he still is. ;)
I think he still is. ;)
Do you know if Hector, of Silver Xpress, is still online these days? I recognize the name from using Silver Xpress long ago, but I've never run into him myself.
Chris/akacastor
Quoting AKAcastor to Tiny <=-
I must sheepishly admit it is a combination of Y2K stuff and my own
broken setup. The door not loading is my own fault, but even when it
did load it didn't seem to work properly because of Y2K stuff. I kind
of forgot about it and now it's 'there but not working at all'. :(
I wonder how hard it would be to patch Silver Xpress for Y2K
compliance - I've never done a patch like that before. But so many
other things have been successfully patched, it seems like it should
be possible.
Quoting AKAcastor to Tiny <=-
Do you know if Hector, of Silver Xpress, is still online these days?
I recognize the name from using Silver Xpress long ago, but I've never
run into him myself.
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