BBS Express 850 1.0
BBS Express 850 was the first release of BBS Express by Keith Ledbetter and his company Orion Systems, in the spring of 1986. It was written in ACTION! and has a reputation of being extremely reliable.
While the first version of BBS Express! had support for up to 26 separate boards + E-Mail, it only had support for a single file section, with file extensions being used to categorize files and provide a simple security level. In addition, passwords are automatically generated. There is no support for external modules, which would come with the Pro version of the software.
Keith has long since put this version of the BBS into the public domain. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
A pre-made disk image with this BBS has been made available on atari-apps.irata.online in the BBS folder. To use it:
- Cold start FujiNet and go into CONFIG.
- Mount BBS-Express-850-1.0.atr into D1:
- Create a new disk image on your SD card, Custom, 4004 sectors, 256 byte sectors. This gives an 8 inch disk storing 1 megabyte of data. Mount into D2:
- Hold OPTION and boot without BASIC.
- At SpartaDOS prompt, type DOS>DUPDSK to duplicate the disk from 1 to 2.
- Once done, Reset the Fujinet and the Atari
- Eject slots 1 and 2.
- Mount your disk image as D1: and boot.
- Hold OPTION to boot.
- Once at SpartaDOS prompt, type -BBS to start BBS Express!
Yes, Copy and read BBS Express 850 1.0 Documentation.