G'day Dennis, Back when I was a teenager, in the 1980's and into my 20s in later years (I was born in 1961), WE (the Williams family) had different computers to access BBS's. I used many models of Commodores (C=) starting with the C= PET 4016/32 in 1977 (circa). We moved to C=64, C=128 and C= Amigas (with 2x HD floppy drives, NO HDD!). Then models of IBM clone PC's etc.
They were amazing! And had modems (naturally). We used BBS's -- before the Internet !!! http://www.masqueradebbs.com/ -- Masquerade BBS. In the 1980s and 1990s, I personally got to email, chat and know the man developing & programming the Masquerade BBS... We both lived in Canberra, Australia. He programmed with Turbo Pascal, then Delphi. The main features of Masquerade BBS software were the configuration scripts to be make it look however you wanted it to look. *GRIN* -- very clever!!! Many BBS packages are written in Turbo Pascal, Delphi & Lasarus. Many are FOSS. I suggest that you check: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=Bulletin+Board+Software&search=Search Look for Delphi Open Source (FOSS) packages. Lots of excellent FOSS BBS's there. I think of the *Time* you'd SAVE !!! With Luv from PEW ;-))) XOXOX With Best Regards, PEW { Peter Eric Williams } from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia My FREE Websites: http://pewink.org --------------- On 15 March 2010 10:41, dennis martin <visionst...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I used to program back in the early 90's in turbo pascal , and later in > delphi 1 and 2, I am currently working on porting a old bbs software I helped > write to lazarus/fpc for telnet , and would love any help I can get with > porting it , and or idea's on how todo certain area's of the source code, > please email me with any ideas if your interested > > > dennis martin > visionst...@yahoo.com > -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus