[Coco] CoBBS

[Bob Devries]

Bill said:

>IF indeed I am not confused about it, CoBBS could run on a > single floppy, 
>but was better on a multiple drive system so as > to allow room for the 
>message bases and the limited file
> transfer (ASCII only I believe) capabilities.
That's the one... I used that for a time here in Australia, and added a 
routine to do XMODEM file transfers to the code.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Barnes" <da3m0n_slay3r at yahoo.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoBBS


I think I remember that one... came out in The Rainbow, Nov '85, I think.
IF indeed I am not confused about it, CoBBS could run on a single floppy, 
but was better on a multiple drive system so as to allow room for the 
message bases and the limited file transfer (ASCII only I believe) 
capabilities.

CoBBS itself was pure BASIC, and made no special attempts to print to 
anything else but the screen, unless you told it to print your log onto a 
printer. The Software that made it work was older, and initially made the 
bit-banger port I/O parallel to the keyboard/tv I/O. There was a modified 
version of this to use the RS-232 pack instead. Also I remember that there 
was some patches to let CoBBS work on a CoCo 3, unfortunately by then I was 
no longer running the BBS. (I even made some mods to CoBBS, but alas, 
they're as gone as my whole CoCo setup is lost. Whether my first wife left 
it for the storage people to dump, attempted to sell it, or dumped it 
herself years ago, I dunno.)

-Later!
-WB- -- BABIC Computer Consulting.





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