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Zer0net - Programming/scripting, demo sc
#332 (LOCAL) (ECHOMAIL)
11-14-2025 18:36
Shurato
All
Program Wanted... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I could pay a little for this, but many sysops could use it. I'd like a
win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that would load a files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file names for downloading
along with the description on the right. Tagging files would add them to a download list, they'd be viewable (downloads and viewing would be via
external executables that I already have) and downloadable via batch. I
don't think this would be too hard to implement, codefenix already has a sbbs version of this, but I'd like something that could be run on any win32 bbs or dos bbs running on a win32 os using nfu. I've got a mostly functional script for elebbs, but only got it mostly working for one page. It would need to be an executable to run on any win32/dos bbs.

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On 18 Dec 25 22:52:58, Mindsurfer said the following to Phillip Kimble:

Minimal requirements for installation: --------------------------------------
. MS-DOS 3.30 or higher
. About 530kb of FREE conventional memory
. Vga or compatible video-card (for setup)

Ahhhh, memories of better times.

Atreyu

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Re: Re: Wanted Program...
By: Phillip Kimble to Shurato on Thu Dec 18 2025 19:52:21

I would be willing to double down on this request. I see alot of

value in

this for the RA-bbs users such as proboard, elebbs, & even mbsebbs...

Program Wanted... --------------------------------------------------------
------------------- ----- I could pay a little for this, but many
sysops could use it. I'd

like a

win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that

would

load a files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file names
for

downloading

along with the description on the right. Tagging files would add

them to

download list, they'd be viewable (downloads and viewing would be via S>> external executables that I already have) and downloadable via batch. I
don't think this would be too hard to implement, codefenix already

has a

sbbs version of this, but I'd like something that could be run on any win32 bbs
or dos bbs running on a win32 os using nfu. I've got a mostly functional
script for elebbs, but only got it mostly working for one page. It would
need to be an executable to run on any win32/dos bbs.

Is that something? for DOS

Mindsurfer

What's filegate? ---------------- FileGate v2.00 is a fileslister,

I tried this. It doesn't like NTVDM. The downloading routines alone won't even work. They definitely don't work with the file lister.

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Re: Re: Wanted Program...
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gamgee on Fri Dec 19 2025 10:35 am

Compaq seemed like they wanted to differ from IBM for difference's sake. IBM standardized on "one beep OK, two beep NO" with their BIOSes. You hear two beeps, you know something's wrong.

Compaq did the opposite, and any time one of the Compaqs booted up, the two beeps would damage my calm.

I wonder if there may have been some IBM patents or something on the BIOS and error codes, where other PC copmanies legally had to do something a little different? I do know other companies had to do blind reverse-engineering to figure out how IBM's BIOS worked in order to make their own BIOS, so that they didn't use any of the BIOS code from IBM - so I know there were legal protections for those kinds of things back then.

Nightfox
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On 19 Dec 25 11:09:47, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

I hear the floppy drive seek to track-zero and hard disk slowly whirring up.

Do you see the bright glow of the "Turbo" LED lit up on the front of the beige-colored case?

Nah, I was a Tandy 1000 fanboy...

Atreyu

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Re: Re: Wanted Program...
By: Phillip Kimble to Shurato on Thu Dec 18 2025 19:52:21

I would be willing to double down on this request. I see alot of value in this for the RA-bbs users such as proboard, elebbs, & even mbsebbs...

Program Wanted... --------------------------------------------------------
------------------- -----
I could pay a little for this, but many sysops could use it. I'd like a
win32 or dos16 bit program that I could pass a directory to that would
load a
files.bbs file and display with lightbars, the file names for downloading
along with the description on the right. Tagging files would add them to
download list, they'd be viewable (downloads and viewing would be via
external executables that I already have) and downloadable via batch. I
don't think this would be too hard to implement, codefenix already has a
sbbs
version of this, but I'd like something that could be run on any win32 bbs
or dos bbs running on a win32 os using nfu. I've got a mostly functional
script for elebbs, but only got it mostly working for one page. It would
need to be an executable to run on any win32/dos bbs.

Is that something? for DOS

Mindsurfer

What's filegate?
----------------
FileGate v2.00 is a fileslister, downloader and uploader
for RemoteAccess compatible bulletinboardsoftware running
files.bbs or RA internal filedatabase. FileGate will take care
of download-counters and will start the needed protocols.
BiDirectional protocols are supported as well!
The wareztag alike lister is HIGH-speed and easy to use for
both sysop and user. Lightbars, internal (and external)
fileviewing, tagging, backscroll, all features are available to
make life and bbs'ing very relaxed.
FileGate has multinode support aswell so more than one
line should be no problem at all.

Minimal requirements for installation:
--------------------------------------
. MS-DOS 3.30 or higher
. About 530kb of FREE conventional memory
. Vga or compatible video-card (for setup)
. 80286 or better
. About 1mb of FREE harddisk space for FULL
installation of ALL features
. Remote access 2.50 or higher compatible
bulletinboard-software using files.bbs or
ra-internal filedatabase
. You must set the environment variables:
set dszlog=<path+filename>
set temp=<path>
set ra=<path>
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Re: Re: Wanted Program...
By: Atreyu to Mindsurfer on Thu Dec 18 2025 23:55:47

Minimal requirements for installation:
-------------------------------------- . MS-DOS 3.30 or higher
. About 530kb of FREE conventional memory . Vga or compatible video-card
(for setup)

Ahhhh, memories of better times.

Thats right =) and 1 CPU 1 Core. No multicore CPUs :)


Mindsurfer
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Atreyu wrote to Mindsurfer <=-

On 18 Dec 25 22:52:58, Mindsurfer said the following to Phillip
Kimble:

Minimal requirements for installation: --------------------------------------
. MS-DOS 3.30 or higher
. About 530kb of FREE conventional memory
. Vga or compatible video-card (for setup)

Ahhhh, memories of better times.

Why am I hearing the ticking of a POST memory test and a beep in my head?






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On 19 Dec 25 07:38:11, Poindexter Fortran said the following to Atreyu:

Ahhhh, memories of better times.

Why am I hearing the ticking of a POST memory test and a beep in my head?

I hear the floppy drive seek to track-zero and hard disk slowly whirring up.

Atreyu

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Re: Re: Wanted Program...
By: Gamgee to Atreyu on Fri Dec 19 2025 11:09 am

I hear the floppy drive seek to track-zero and hard disk slowly whirring
up.

Do you see the bright glow of the "Turbo" LED lit up on the front of the beige-colored case?

Compaq seemed like they wanted to differ from IBM for difference's sake. IBM standardized on "one beep OK, two beep NO" with their BIOSes. You hear two beeps, you know something's wrong.

Compaq did the opposite, and any time one of the Compaqs booted up, the two beeps would damage my calm.

We did get rid of the Compaqs and go all IBM PS/2, I ended up taking home a Compaq Portable II, the green screen model, with a 20 megabyte "brick on a stick" ISA hard drive.
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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I wonder if there may have been some IBM patents or something on the
BIOS and error codes, where other PC copmanies legally had to do
something a little different?

IBM had a lot of lawyers, and they were looking for anything to try and
shut down competition in the PC space...


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