Charles Stephenson wrote to All:
I did build Maximus under linux shortly after the souece was released, I think I did that around 2005. It did build at the time but it wasn't a
simple process and I'm not sure it will build easily today.
Maximus is a dial-up BBS package, there is no telnet or any internet servers built into it. I was able to run Max following the instructions that came with the source using inetd answering with telnet.. one node at a time. I never worked out how to get it to answer a second time or get more than one node going at a time but I think that is doable with a little (or a lot of) work.
Squish built fine. There was some visual glitch and I don't remember what it was but it seemed to work as I remember it working under DOS and OS/2.
It was not possible to use mex under linux. I forget if mex scripts wouldn't compile or if they wouldn't run but mex was not working when I tried it. It's possible that could be fixed if someone with the skills worked on the code but I don't know if that has or will happen.
Ttyl :-),
Al
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I donâ Öt think MAX has been developed since 2005. It needs a rewrite to updat
to 2020. Itâ Ös really behind.
Behind what?
Maximus was way ahead of it's time when it was released back around '95.
Lanius released the source so others can pick it up and develop it further if that's what they want to do.
I don't know but I don't think a lot of folks care to develop BBS software today so we don't have the large pool of developers we once did.
If you want a currently developed BBS software there are a few. Synchronet, Mystic, MagickaBBS and ENiGMA come quickly to mind and there are others I'm sure.
There are still a couple Maximus BBSs running out there..
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Well you said you had problems getting MAX to work properly.
Well you said you had problems getting MAX to work properly.
That was under linux. Maximus still runs as always on the platforms it
was originally built for DOS, OS/2 and Windows.
I got it running just fine in OS2 I just couldnt get os2 to
answer and pass telnet connections to Maximus unfortunately
or I would run it for sure.
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