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- PowerBBS/Windows leads the industry in Windows BBSing. The
- Internet, On-Line Databases, Gui Games, and the creation of
- GUI Screens are a SNAP with PowerBBS! PowerBBS/Windows has
- been around since 1990 so we know how Windows works! In fact
- we are the *ONLY* Windows Based ASCII/ANSI and Windows
- Multimedia BBS Available. PowerBBS and PowerAccess are both
- *Windows95* ready! Take charge by using the latest in
- Microsoft and PowerBBS Computing technology!
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- "..PowerAccess isn't just a pretty face. It let us download
- files while simultaneously chatting in an online conference
- room. And despite all of these features, we found PowerBBS'
- speed to be more than adequate...The Windows-based PowerBBS
- will meet the needs of most operators. Configuration and
- operation is Windows-based, making it easy to manage your
- system."
- LAN TIMES, May 22, 1995.
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- "For those of you who believe there is no such thing as a good
- Windows-based bulletin board system, I have some news for you.
- There is at least one product that can stand up to any commercial
- BBS or shareware package around. The product, PowerBBS for
- Windows, was first introduced several years ago and has grown
- since that time into a full-featured and powerful business tool"
- NETWORK WORLD, February 20, 1995.
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- *SOME* of the features of PowerBBS:
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- Internet
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- Seemless Internet Mail and Newsgroup Support (Set it up in an hour!)
- All callers have their own personal mailing address,
- ie: FIRST_LAST@yourbbs.address
- TELNET/FTP available via add-on product, which allows you to set
- up PowerBBS as a server on the Internet. ANYONE
- who has access to the Internet would be able to connect directly
- over the Internet to your BBS! Your dial-up callers would
- be able to TELNET and FTP out into the Internet.
- Easily integrate PowerBBS's Internet features with Microsoft Mail
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- Messaging
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- Built in off-line mail reader in PowerAccess
- Internal QWK Mail Support for ANSI Callers
- Support for Internet mail and newsgroups
- Support for FIDO style mail
- Public and private file enclosures
- Flexible security for message areas
- Set restrictions on outgoing Internet messages
- Support for QWK Mail networking
- Support for Microsoft Mail via MAPI Gateway.
- The PowerBBS - MS Mail Gateway is an application
- that allow users of Microsoft Mail to send and
- receive mail through their BBS. The gateway works
- with both the Windows for Workgroups version of mail
- and the full-blown Microsoft Mail version 3.2. If your
- network is setup with mail servers between different
- offices it will work over them as well. The Gateway
- and Reader E-FORM comes in both Windows and Windows NT /
- Windows 95 versions.
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- Files
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- Windows based file manager for easy file maintenance
- Bulletproof security
- Multiple file areas
- Support for third party upload checking programs
- Automatic importing of FILE_ID.DIZ files
- Built in support for viewing contents of ZIP files
- Seamless CD-ROM support
- Internal X/Y/Z-modem and Kermit protocols
- Proprietary bidrectional protocol for PowerAccess connections
- Advanced searching capabilities include AND/OR logic
- Preview 24-bit color graphics (PowerAccess) that are only 4k-8k in size!
- Drag & Drop file management
- Automatic file resume with PowerAccess
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- Teleconference
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- Supports multiple "rooms"
- Each room can have separate actions and/or moderators
- Restrict room access by security level
- Actions can have sound for PowerAccess callers
- Secret Actions
- Whispers
- Create a user registry quickly available to those in teleconference
- Public and Private rooms can be created by both sysop and users
- Profanity Filter
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- Database
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- Support for dBASE compatible databases via PowerBase add-on
- 100% compatible with dBASE III, dBASE IV, Clipper, FoxBASE,
- FoxPro, dBXL, Alpha, and compatible xBASE DBMS products
- Single record and multirecord views
- Full network and multi-user compatible database access support
- One database can be linked to teleconference as a User Registry
- Support for indexing
- Download files directly from a database
- Memo fields
- Attach a graphic image to database records that can be displayed
- and downloaded Custom database templates can be created to display
- database records Spread Sheet used in PowerAccess mode to easily
- browse the database Ideal for creating Catalogs or Marketing Information
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- Other features
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- Support for the following image formats: .JPG, .CMP, .BMP,
- .TIF, .TGA, .GIF, and over 20 others!
- Hear WAV and MID files while on-line (PowerAccess)
- Free-Form Menu Trees
- When adding a command on a menu, choose from one of the
- following command properties: internal command, branch to
- a menu, run a PowerLang script, PowerBase, Live Program, a
- Plug 'N Play DLL, PowerGen screen, display text, display a
- file, display a graphic, an auto-message, or send a file.
- Internal ZIP/UNZIP support
- Built in programming language with over 70 commands for writing
- BBS commands
- Over 80 "macros" to display caller information
- Support for doors using DOOR.SYS even for PowerAccess callers
- Caller-ID support
- Send/Receive FAX support
- Free Software Developer's Kit to create BBS add-ons
- Highly customizable
- Multiple language support
- Support for ratios and/or credit systems
- Support for handles
- Call Back Verifier built in to verify users phone numbers
- Local Sysop Nodes at no additional charge
- Define sysop paging times
- PowerAccess integrates a royalty-free Spell-Checker
- Events processor to run as many events, whenever needed
- Plug 'N Play 3rd party DLLs, or create your own custom DLLs
- to enhance PowerAccess or PowerBBS. 3rd party products
- already available include GUI Games, a Shopping Mall, and
- others including PowerBBS's own Telnet/FTP DLL plug-ins.
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- PowerGenerator
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- PowerGenerator allows sysops in minutes to convert existing
- PowerBBS menus into completely customizable 3D screens for
- use in PowerAccess that feature full 24-bit color images
- -- taking advantage of over 15 different allowable graphic formats
- (including GIF, JPEG, PCX, CMP,TIFF and many more!) -- full support
- for live WAV and MIDI sounds as well as real 3D
- Windows command buttons, icons, edit boxes, captions, shapes and
- much more!
- PowerGenerator is required to make custom screens for callers to your
- BBS using PowerAccess. If PowerGenerator screens are not available,
- PowerBBS will use ANSI versions of those screens. Menu
- screens can be created using PowerGenerator. If these
- custom screens are not available, PowerBBS will
- automatically create generic versions of these screens.
- PowerGenerator is an extremely easy to use and
- very powerful screen creation program. Features include:
- Color icons that can be inset or raised
- 3-D fonts that can be inset, raised or shadowed
- Buttons
- Various shapes with different borders
- Import graphics as background bitmaps or
- pictures on the screen or both!
- Objects can have sound attached to them
- Full access to all internal PowerBBS menu commands
- Special proprietary PowerAccess only commands
- PowerGenerator view screens created for use with the PowerBBS P/Base
- add-on allow for fully-realized online databases
- featuring 24-bit color graphics fields, useful, for
- example, with Real Estate databasing or whatever else
- ones imagination may conceive!
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- No other BBS graphics tool has ever been as easy to use and
- as powerful. One no longer needs to be a wizard to develop a
- full, mind-blowing, ear-popping online multimedia experience for your
- BBS callers. With PowerGenerator, the medieval days of BBS'ing
- as we know it, are over!
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- Hardware
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- Supports modems up to 28.8
- Supports ports locked at up to 57600
- Up to 8 remote nodes per PC
- Local nodes only limited by memory
- PCs can be networked together to add more nodes
- Runs on any Windows compatible network
- Network log-ins supported using PowerAccess over any
- local or wide area network (including the Internet!)
- Support for multiport cards such as Digiboard and any others
- with Windows drivers.
- PowerBBS and PowerAccess allows connections over a network
- using TCP/IP. This connection looks and works the same
- way as a regular modem connection.
- Requires 386 with 4M RAM and Windows 3.1 or WFWG 3.1
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- Installation and Support
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- Four line BBS open 24 hours a day for free unlimited tech support
- Comes with 200 page illustrated manual "Best in the business"
- Windows based configuration program
- Ready to run "out of the box"
- Support forum on Compuserve (GO PBBS)
- FTP site PowerBBS.Ic.Net
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- PowerBBS Computing is based in Hicksville, New York and
- produces advanced telecommunications and Internet software
- solutions for personal and business productivity.
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