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Way back when, I developed an external utility for Maximus that allowed sysops to chat with users yelling on the BBS across a Novell Netware IPX network. Kinda handy when the BBS was in the computer room, and the sysop was enjoying the peace and quiet of the office down the hall.
I would like to donate the utility plus source, how do I best make it available? Is there a repository for such...
2009-10-06 10:06:21 UTC by scsirob
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I am glad to see that people got Maximus working on Linux. The bugs niels refers to is new to me. After I used several weeks on finding the MEX bug, my energy disappeared. But I may fix the remaining bugs in near future.
But I really think that MAX needs a complete rewrite for being well-integrated with the UNIX platform. I am not sure what areas of the code will be affected by such a...
2009-10-04 14:40:07 UTC by paltas
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Scott is admittedly surprised that *anyone* is even looking at this stuff anymore! But he still thinks it's great that some people have had success getting things to compile under a recent Linux distro.
2009-10-04 06:14:37 UTC by sdudley
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Using Ubuntu 8.04 and gcc-3.3 will do the trick. So far, the whole software is doing very well on my home server. Some minor bugs, like [sys_name] and [sysop_name] labels in *.mec files are unknown to mecca. Also, there's an exception thrown sometimes when a user logs off (I think it's duplicate free() call somewhere in the code).
Yes, BBSes had their time, but it's a pity that development...
2009-09-24 10:18:50 UTC by niels
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If you use the code from the CVS repository (see "Code" tab) and compile that on an Ubuntu 8.04 server system, it'll work. Don't forget to set the MAXIMUS and MEX_INCLUDE variables as well as compile all the *.mex files in the <MAX>/m directory. Doing so will lead to a positive result!
2009-09-22 21:25:37 UTC by niels
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Scott would never have released this code while it made money. Right now there's more of a business selling buggy-whips, and spare parts for steam locomotives than there is in BBS software.
So why not indulge in a little nostalgia. I downloaded it, and was unable to get it running on my machine.
Warren.
2009-06-30 14:04:38 UTC by wpostma
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Whoa, Maximus and Squish! I remember those.
It's been 12 years now since I shut down my little four line Maximus BBS, Fidonet hub and Usenet gateway. 12 years...
I thought Maximus, Squish, Fidonet and BBSes in general had long ago died and been forgotten. What would be the point in bringing them back now? Misplaced nostalgia?
It's too bad Scott didn't release this code back in '96...
2009-06-30 01:43:51 UTC by astrodanco
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Well, the sourceforge downloads page has Unix sourcecode in .tar.gz format. The port appears to have been abandoned some time in 2006.
Warren.
2009-05-08 15:46:52 UTC by wpostma
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Hi, the last time I tried to build this was back in 2005. I think I got it to build back then but I recall having to change some code. I don't think I even have the source code any more. As I recall, the code was ported from the OS/2 code. So depending on the compiler you are using, you may need to change some code to get it to compile.
Back then I was interested in setting up a telnet BBS. As...
2009-05-08 15:45:12 UTC by xucaen
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Hi, this project seems rather dead.
I tried to build the latest sources on Ubuntu, and "make maximus" dies building maximus/util/maid.c
/usr/bin/gcc ... ..../maximus/util/maid.c
maid.c:50: error: static declaration of ‘version’ follows non-static declaration
/home/wpostma/maximus/maximus/max/max_vr.h:68: error: previous declaration of ‘version’ was here
make[1]...
2009-05-08 14:52:03 UTC by wpostma
