Publisher's 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!
