[Coco] RiBBS

[John Donaldson]

Ron,
   Back when I used to own a MM/1, I converted RIBBS to the MM/1 and 
renamed it KRIBBS, since it used KWindows. When I sold my MM/1 all of 
the source code went with it. I sold the whole thing to Dave Kelly.

John Donaldson


Ron Bihler wrote:

> Ok,
> So I have been sucked back into the Coco Community.  After doing some 
> research I can't beleive the following is as strong as it is.  Lot's 
> of passon and opionons make it very interesting.
>
> So can someone update me, when I left the MM1 was being intoduced and 
> only a few of the first editions where being released.  Much of my 
> interest is in what happened to RiBBS, sorry to hear Warren Hrach has 
> passed as he was such a big help to me.  The best testing I even had.  
> Funny I can still here the Phone calls, Ron ! you know that last 
> update ! Not so good !  and then he would detail what was wrong.  He 
> didn't have programming backround, but he was the best with the details.
>
> I had passed all the code to a person in Canada for an MM1 port, all 
> these details are lost.  I did look at the coco about 8 years back, 
> and the HD was dead and many of the floppies I used had so many errors 
> that they would not work.  All my work was lost - in more way than one.
>
> Anyway, how long did the MM1 continue?
> Does anyone have RiBBS code, might try to see it again on Emulation?  
> Most of the information was on Compuserve - how things have changed.
> Can anyone recall the person involved with the MM1 doing the port - 
> not sure if it even was finished.  He was located in Canada.
> How well does OS9 or Nitro9 what I gather the new update work under 
> emulation?
>
> Anyway I am a bit older, might be smarter, but have way less time :)
>
> Too bad the Hero 2000 was not a 6809 as that would make it more fun :)
>
> Ron Bihler
>
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