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  posted by hdonner 3240 days ago

• New developer wanted

  I need someone to take over the project. I have just started college again (15 credit hours) and am working 29 hours per week on top of it. I had hoped to be able to do an independent study to develop it, but I just don't have near enough time to do so. If you: - are interested yourself and have Delphi, - know someone who might be interested, - know of a project which might benefit from some good code added, please contact me at <A HREF="mailto:damien@mc-kenna.com">damien@mc-kenna.com</A>. Thank you. Damien

  posted by damienmckenna 3349 days ago

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  posted by martinf 3452 days ago

• bonzo 1.3.3.5 file released: Bonzo1335.zip

  1.3.3.5 - Initial public release of Dan's last compile.

  posted 3505 days ago

• File released: /bonzo/1.3.3.5/Bonzo1335.zip

  posted 3506 days ago

• Current project plans, 4-Apr-2000

  The current plans for this project are: 1. Get support of developers with the time to help the project. 2. Remove all of the custom plugins from the project. 3. Get the project back on track. Bonzo currently exists as two separate projects: - Bonzo 1 - needs to be bug-tested. - needs docs. - small features added. - Bonzo 2: - needs to have its custom components removed so it will run easier. - bug fixes. - docs. - features added to make it usable. I have not managed to get either program to compile on my system, mainly due to all of the components that Dan had used, so cleaning up both projects needs to be the first goal. I strongly suggest patching up Bonzo 1 for a temporary release and then get working on making Bonzo 2 the killer it should be.

  posted by damienmckenna 3506 days ago

• Project History, 1 to 2000 AD

  Bonzo was originally started in 1996 by Dan Brooke who had just moved from his Amiga to a new Windows-based computer. Back then Windows 95 was still kind of new and the only Fidonet reader software was DOS-based, so Dan set out to fix this. In the summer of '96 he released Bonzo 1 to a small group of beta testers, including Damien Mc Kenna, and the Fidonet public grew interested in the project. Realizing that to add many of the features requested by users, after a short semi-public testing period, Dan started Bonzo 2, which was to add Internet (EMail and Usenet) features. Unfortunately Dan never finished it and owing to an increased work load and a shrinking Fidonet scene, never went back. In the summer of 1997 Damien bugged Dan enough to let him take over the project. The problem at the time was that Damien didn't have the required development software, and it took a good deal of time before this happened. By that time Damien had gotten married and his objectives in life changed somewhat. Cut to April 2nd, 2000, when, after over 2 1/2 years of the code sitting on his harddrive, Damien decides to offer the code to public via SourceForge. Tada!

  posted by damienmckenna 3506 days ago