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  • PcBoard Source Code?

    From Corey Blake@mrbuttonman@gmail.com to alt.bbs.pcboard on Wed Jun 2 08:46:19 2010
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    Ok, this is to put to rest the mystery of PCBoard Source Code. That
    Was My Source Code to my 15.3 10 node version. those zip files with
    the passowrd of pcb153 are mine.
    they were stolen off my bbs computer by a friend I trusted to make
    mods for me. the source code out WONT compile! it is missing some
    librarys which lock it to my serial number and node count. and some
    other miss librarys too. I have since lost my original cdroms from
    clark so I am also dead in the water with PCBoard myself.
    so once again, The PCBoard Source Code out there will NEVER compile.
    unless a person tracted 100's of library calls and patched it all back together, serial and node routines and all. sorry. PCBoard is really
    dead, unless Fred ever gets his property back.
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  • From Trifle Menot@triflemenot@beewyz.com to alt.bbs.pcboard on Wed Jun 2 17:44:53 2010
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT), Corey Blake
    <mrbuttonman@gmail.com> wrote:

    Ok, this is to put to rest the mystery of PCBoard Source Code. That
    Was My Source Code to my 15.3 10 node version. those zip files with
    the passowrd of pcb153 are mine.

    pcb153 password works on the source files, but not the saltair bulletin.
    What's the password for the saltair bulletins?


    they were stolen off my bbs computer by a friend I trusted to make
    mods for me. the source code out WONT compile! it is missing some
    librarys which lock it to my serial number and node count. and some
    other miss librarys too. I have since lost my original cdroms from
    clark so I am also dead in the water with PCBoard myself.
    so once again, The PCBoard Source Code out there will NEVER compile.
    unless a person tracted 100's of library calls and patched it all back >together, serial and node routines and all.

    Food for a hackfest.


    PCBoard is really dead, unless Fred ever gets his property back.

    Where's Fred?


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  • From Corey Blake@mrbuttonman@gmail.com to alt.bbs.pcboard on Wed Jun 2 13:23:35 2010
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    beats me, I never released any saltair bulletins.
    fred is long gone.
    On Jun 2, 10:44 am, Trifle Menot <trifleme...@beewyz.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT), Corey Blake

    <mrbutton...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Ok, this is to put to rest the mystery of PCBoard Source Code. That
    Was My Source Code to my 15.3 10 node version. those zip files with
    the passowrd of pcb153 are mine.

    pcb153 password works on the source files, but not the saltair bulletin. What's the password for the saltair bulletins?

    they were stolen off my bbs computer by a friend I trusted to make
    mods for me. the source code out WONT compile! it is missing some
    librarys which lock it to my serial number and node count. and some
    other miss librarys too. I have since lost my original cdroms from
    clark so I am also dead in the water with PCBoard myself.
    so once again, The PCBoard Source Code out there will NEVER compile.
    unless a person tracted 100's of library calls and patched it all back >together, serial and node routines and all.

    Food for a hackfest.

    PCBoard is really dead, unless Fred ever gets his property back.

    Where's Fred?

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  • From Trifle Menot@triflemenot@beewyz.com to alt.bbs.pcboard on Wed Jun 2 22:18:03 2010
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    On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:23:35 -0700 (PDT), Corey Blake
    <mrbuttonman@gmail.com> wrote:

    fred is long gone.

    Then what are you talking about



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  • From Dan C@youmustbejoking@lan.invalid to alt.bbs.pcboard on Thu Jun 3 01:05:19 2010
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:23:35 -0700, Corey Blake wrote:

    beats me, I never released any saltair bulletins. fred is long gone.

    A: Because it destroys the logical flow of a thread of comments,
    and makes it difficult to keep up with a conversation.

    Q: Why do so many people object to top posting?

    A: Writing your reply to a message above what you are referring to
    rather than below it.

    Q: What is "top posting"?



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  • From MRoblivious1bmf@mroblivious1bmf@eob-bbs.com.remove-e0v-this to Corey Blake on Thu Jun 3 12:56:20 2010
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    To: Corey Blake
    .,: This is something about PcBoard Source Code?,
    Corey Blake said it to alt.bbs.pcboard on Wed Jun 02 2010 08:46 am --ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
    Ok, this is to put to rest the mystery of PCBoard Source Code. That
    Was My Source Code to my 15.3 10 node version. those zip files with
    the passowrd of pcb153 are mine. they were stolen off my bbs computer
    by a friend I trusted to make mods for me. the source code out WONT
    compile! it is missing some librarys which lock it to my serial
    number and node count. and some other miss librarys too. I have
    since lost my original cdroms from clark so I am also dead in the
    water with PCBoard myself. so once again, The PCBoard Source Code
    out there will NEVER compile. unless a person tracted 100's of
    library calls and patched it all back together, serial and node
    routines and all. sorry. PCBoard is really dead, unless Fred ever
    gets his property back.



    ah well there's better options avaliable for people nowadays if they
    want to run a bbs.

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  • From Corey Blake@mrbuttonman@gmail.com to alt.bbs.pcboard on Sun Jun 6 09:34:29 2010
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    On Jun 3, 10:56 am, "MRoblivious1bmf" <mroblivious1...@eob- bbs.com.remove-e0v-this> wrote:
      To: Corey Blake
    .,: This is something about PcBoard Source Code?,
     Corey Blake said it to alt.bbs.pcboard on Wed Jun 02 2010 08:46 am --ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ-ÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
    Ok, this is to put to rest the mystery of PCBoard Source Code. That
    Was My Source Code to my 15.3 10 node version. those zip files with
    the passowrd of pcb153 are mine. they were stolen off my bbs computer
    by a friend I trusted to make mods for me. the source code out WONT compile! it is missing some librarys which lock it to my serial
    number and node count. and some other miss librarys too. I have
    since lost my original cdroms from clark so I am also dead in the
    water with PCBoard myself. so once again, The PCBoard Source Code
    out there will NEVER compile. unless a person tracted 100's of
    library calls and patched it all back together, serial and node
    routines and all. sorry. PCBoard is really dead, unless Fred ever
    gets his property back.

    ah well there's better options avaliable for people nowadays if they
    want to run a bbs.
    very true. I think this is why no one ever bought the source code
    rights from the bank. too much for source code that was too old. first
    thing they would have to practicly rewrite the whole thing to
    modernize it.
    It would be cheaper to just write your own.
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  • From Trifle Menot@triflemenot@beewyz.com to alt.bbs.pcboard on Mon Mar 28 19:20:12 2011
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

    On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT), Corey Blake
    <mrbuttonman@gmail.com> wrote:

    Ok, this is to put to rest the mystery of PCBoard Source Code. That
    Was My Source Code to my 15.3 10 node version. those zip files with
    the passowrd of pcb153 are mine.

    They were floating around on the net for a while. The link where I got
    them seems to be dead now though.


    the source code out WONT compile! it is missing some librarys which
    lock it to my serial number and node count.

    They omitted source code for the serial number functions such as:
    setcollect(SERIAL)

    But they only check the serial number in init.c, and with source code,
    the checks were not hard to work around.


    and some other miss librarys too.

    The COMMDRV source is missing, but that's not important nowadays.


    The PCBoard Source Code out there will NEVER compile unless a person
    tracted 100's of library calls

    Tracing calls was not necessary. I used the main makefile and let the
    linker complain about missing object references. It took a while, but eventually I identified all the library modules needed for building the
    main executable.

    There were no makefiles for the library source code, but the C source
    code was all there. So I hacked together library makefiles good enough
    to get it all built.


    and patch it all back together, serial and node routines and all.

    Done.


    sorry.

    Putting it back together was a chore, but doable.


    PCBoard is really dead, unless Fred ever gets his property back.

    It appears there is no one to defend the PCBoard source code copyrights. Copyrights can only be transferred by written document, so unless they
    were transferred in writing before CDC went out of business, there is no
    one possessing them. They did not magically transfer from CDC to Fred.
    A written document would be needed.


    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware i.e.,

    Commercial software owned by a company no longer in business: Often,
    no entity defends the copyright if such software is put onto abandonware websites. An example of this is Digital Research's original PL/I compiler
    for DOS. The rights to the software can not be bought by another company, therefore there is no possibility for a lawsuit.



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