Expanding Your BBS - Softcover

Wolfe, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471115665 ISBN 13: 9780471115663

Publisher: Wiley, 1995

Synopsis

The ultimate resource for expanding your BBS!

Expanding Your BBS gives you all the software and expert advice you need to add the features that most callers want. The author, David Wolfe, has been a sysop for over six years. He offers real-world advice for adding the newest capabilities to your board, including UUCP Internet connectivity, FAX capability, QWK networking, and more.

This book also covers complex hardware issues like high-speed modems, digiboards, intelligent I/O boards, and telco services including caller ID. Expanding Your BBS reviews several business applications from Durand Communications and DarkStar Publishing that enable you to run a multimedia BBS.

The CD-ROM is BBS-ready and includes:

• Great game doors like Tradewars 2002, Baron Realms Elite, Land of Devastation, Battle Grid, Murder Motel, Yankee Trader, and more
• Waffle and Waffle utilities for giving your BBS UUCP Internet connectivity
• Callback doors that will increase your BBS's security and automate the registration process
• Upload checkers that scan for viruses, weed out old files, insert BBS ads, check file integrity, and more
• 4DOS and 4DOS utilities for increasing your batch file power
• ANSI and RIP screen drawing utilities like The Draw, Dead Paint, and Tombstone Artist
• Other BBS utilities, including Fossil drivers, external protocols, QWK mail doors, hard-to-find compression utilities, port and modem diagnostics, and more!

About this title

From the Publisher

A smart, streetwise guide to expanding your BBS and equipping it with the most popular features. Contains a substantial amount of technical information, hardware reviews and practical advice. Hooking your BBS into a national network of BBSs and into the Internet, adding multi-player games, starting a multi-node BBS and how to use the new faster modems are among the topics discussed. The accompanying CD-ROM includes shareware and freeware to assist readers in installing BBS features covered in the book as well as games, software sampler for callers to download, graphics to improve the look of your BBS and hard- to-find BBS utilities.

About the Author

WOLFE is sysop of Pandaemonium (317-580-1531), a BBS he's been running for over six years. David is a full-time freelance writer and couch potato who spends far too much time basking in the radioactive glow of his super VGA monitor. His Internet address is sysop&atsign;pandy.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0471115665
• ISBN 13: 9780471115663
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 371