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- From: kevinb@oblivion.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brokaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: BBS under Windows
- Keywords: help help help
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.185932.17997@news.csd.sgi.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:59:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, knight@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight Before Christmas) writes:
- |> I am basically looking for some BBS package that runs CORRECTLY under
- |> MS Windows 3.1 enhanced mode. I'd prefer to use Maximus BBS, which I
- |> am most impressed with, but it only works under standard mode.
-
- While I was waiting for a firmware upgrade to a new harddrive controller
- which didn't like QEMM/Desqview, I ran my Wildcat 3.55P BBS (2 nodes) under
- Windows 3.1 for a while (one local node, one com port locked at 19200 with
- a V32bis modem, and a BinkleyTerm mailer frontend). While I can't say I
- particularly loved the speed of the sessions (I was, after all, running
- on only a 386DX-20), It was an acceptable stop-gap until I could run Desqview
- again. Frankly, I'd recommend Desqview, as it's friendlier to comm-intensive
- applications, and you can run Windows (albeit in standard mode... never tried
- it in enhanced mode) from within a Desqview session).
- The disclaimer here is that Wildcat is not free, nor is it cheap ( $99-$149
- dollars for the single line version, depending upon what store you buy it
- in - I saw the $99 at Software Etc), and most utilities for it are also in
- the 50-99 dollar range. Figure a full setup with maintenance tools, and
- Fido-net style networking capabilities will set you back about 200-250. The
- only good side of the cost is that they have provided excellent support to me
- when I've needed it, including rebuilding my file database once when a
- drive glitch rendered it unreadable. Saved me at least 100 hours of having to
- re-load all my files into the BBS. I'm sure others have had negative
- experiences, and it's not my aim to debate BBS software packages. Simply
- put, I run Wildcat, and it worked fine under windows unattanded for a
- period of 2 months.
- Cheers,
- Kevin
-
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