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- From: E2KP <E2KP@UNB.CA>
- Subject: RoboBoard BBS
- Message-ID: <19DEC92.11913785.0035@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>
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- Sender: usenet@UNB.CA
- Organization: The University of New Brunswick
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:01:52 GMT
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- Well - I suppuse such a suggestion would upset all the Waffle BBS types
- here who enjoy comlicated interfaces because they deter inexperienced
- users, however, I was wondering what the reaction has been around here
- to RoboBoard BBS.
- For those of you who don't know, RoboBoard BBS is a full EGA/VGA graphi
- cal BBS package with a freeware term. It uses a proprietary graphics
- standard, allowing the use of icons and a mouse over the term. The icon
- language in particular allows for much faster and pixel edited graphics
- as opposed to draw box fill here stuff the NALPS proposes (though it
- does that too).
- The package has not been without some bugs, but is only four months
- old so some patience here is required.
- It will run all ansi doors, although there are not as of yet any Robo
- specific doors out yet.
- It has an excellent draw package and icon editor - thus allowing for
- greater ease of use than currently avail NALPS packages.
- It does not allow users to log on with anything less than the term for
- it or EGA/VGA graphics, although it will automatically prompt a user
- to dl the term package if that happens.
- It utilizes a Hudson style message base and dorinfox.def drop file, all
- owing it to be used in a BBS carousel program for silmultaneous use wit
- RA/SBBS/QBBS for example.
- I will be willing to post this package on a ferw ftp sites for those wh
- are curoious. IT is breathtaking and looks very much like Windows. TO
- many of you i suppose that is not a great advantage, although it sounds
- like in some places around the world where RA and SBBS are getting bori
- ng it would be a breath of fresh air.
- The debate over excluding mono users and old commodore/amiga/mac types
- has been done to death on Fido, with the only concensus being that old
- programmer types are shocked while newer users with newer equipment are
- quite happy and couldn't care less.
- Let me know and i will ftp to your chosen site. Please try to choose
- something that is not so off the wall that others don't know where to f
- ind it.
- Would be very interested in hearing reactions from at least those who
- at least view it locally (speed is not that much worse remotely). And
- if the Waffle types could contain there enthusiasm for colour for a mom
- ent and stay with the tour it would be helpful...:)
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- Robert Trifts <E2KP@UNB.CA>
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