I guess my question would be to be willing to release the
KenGen software
so registrsation keys can still be made for sysops that
might still want to
use these software titles ....

If not, possibly a single "public" registration key any and
all sysops can
use.

Due to the deal at the time of my purchase of the ice branded
software, I can't do that....

Instead my suggestion is to find one of the several key generators
that were made to "protest" the sale of the icebranded utilities.
Those key generators were quite annoying, and I know the original
icebranded software is/was still available.

There is several problems with me releasing any BBS related software
at this point.

1) The tools and software I used to make the software are all archived.

2) The compiler that I used is Borland Pascal, and had issues with
Pentium 2's and higher. There were official patches, but
I doubt it would work with Pentium 3 or 4, let alone 1 Ghz+
based machines. I do not even have it installed anymore..
(See below)

3) Any software that I do now is cross platform.... Macintosh,
PC, and Linux..... I don't even use the same programming language
now. I am primarily using Python... (http://www.python.org)

I honestly do not believe there is a desire for Dial up BBS software
anymore. In the years since I closed the doors after the system crash,
I have had 3 people ask about the software.

I had several QuickBBS sysops begging for internet enabled software
back in 96-97...

While I can believe that Dial up still exists, with over 50% of the
US having internet access, I can't believe that Dial up BBSing has
a significant following anymore...

As I mentioned I have toyed with making a Internet friendly BBS like
package, but nothing has convinced me that it would be worth my time
and energy to seriously consider it...

Matt Munson - The Parallel BBS - parallel.darktech.org (4 line)



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