Are there ANY problems running SBBS on Windows Vista or Win 7?

I have a couple of computers to choose from, and since it is running now on XP SP3 (just slogging along) I thought I'd upgrade. But if it doesn't do better, I'm not gonna waste my time.

Thanks
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Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Bill Gordon to All on Sun Sep 27 2015 02:33 pm

Are there ANY problems running SBBS on Windows Vista or Win 7?

I have a couple of computers to choose from, and since it is running now on XP SP3 (just slogging along) I thought I'd upgrade. But if it doesn't do better, I'm not gonna waste my time.

As of Windows Vista, the sbbsexec.dll file must be copied to the Windows/System32 directory. The new (v3.16) installer does this for you, otherwise you have to copy the file. http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win#sbbsexecdll

Other than that, there's the usual problem with 64-bit versions of Windows not supporting 16-bit DOS programs, so you may want to say away from a 64-bit version (your choice).

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Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Bill Gordon to All on Sun Sep 27 2015 02:33 pm

Are there ANY problems running SBBS on Windows Vista or Win 7?

I have a couple of computers to choose from, and since it is running now on XP SP3 (just slogging along) I thought I'd upgrade. But if it doesn't do better, I'm not gonna waste my time.

nope, just follow instructions and copy the fossil to windows\system32
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Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Bill Gordon to All on Sun Sep 27 2015 02:33 pm

Are there ANY problems running SBBS on Windows Vista or Win 7?
I have a couple of computers to choose from, and since it is running now on SP3 (just slogging along) I thought I'd upgrade. But if it doesn't do better I'm not gonna waste my time.

I just upgraded from Windows XP sp3 to Windows 7 32 bit and it runs great. The built in powershell is worth the upgrade. Although, i think you cand install it for XP as well.

Lith,

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Other than that, there's the usual problem with 64-bit versions of
Windows not supporting 16-bit DOS programs, so you may want to say away from a 64-bit version (your choice).

/shamelessplug

Mark Mearns runs a door server and we've created some scripts so that you c
an replace SBBS's door menu and whilst the doors look like they're running locally, in fact you're connected to BBSLink, the game server network.

Check out this screenshot at: http://sampsa.com/doormenu.png

Finally, since we have >30 system connected to BBSlink it's more likely
that your users will find more opponents on a BBSlink rather than a
locally installed one

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Lith wrote to Bill Gordon <=-

I just upgraded from Windows XP sp3 to Windows 7 32 bit and it runs
great. The built in powershell is worth the upgrade. Although, i
think you cand install it for XP as well.

I've never used Powershell, I'm running my system on Win2k3 Server (32bit)
and it runs just fine.

For serious scripting I just Cygwin and all the cool UNIX tools that come
with it - I've looked at PowerShell but since I'm basically a UNIX guy,
I prefer Cygwin.

sampsa

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Digital Man on Mon Sep 28 2015 11:36:00

This was meant for Bill Gordon, reposting it so he sees his name on the message.

Digital Man wrote to Bill Gordon <=-

Other than that, there's the usual problem with 64-bit versions of Windows not supporting 16-bit DOS programs, so you may want to say away from a 64-bit version (your choice).

/shamelessplug

Mark Mearns runs a door server and we've created some scripts so that you c an replace SBBS's door menu and whilst the doors look like they're running locally, in fact you're connected to BBSLink, the game server network.

Check out this screenshot at: http://sampsa.com/doormenu.png

Finally, since we have >30 system connected to BBSlink it's more likely
that your users will find more opponents on a BBSlink rather than a
locally installed one

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Lith on Mon Sep 28 2015 11:40 am

I've never used Powershell, I'm running my system on Win2k3 Server (32bit) and it runs just fine.

For serious scripting I just Cygwin and all the cool UNIX tools that come with it - I've looked at PowerShell but since I'm basically a UNIX guy,
I prefer Cygwin.

I'm old school DOS. Batch, all the way. :)

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Digital Man on Mon Sep 28 2015 11:36 am

Finally, since we have >30 system connected to BBSlink it's more likely
that your users will find more opponents on a BBSlink rather than a
locally installed one

are there any users using it yet and did he work on the lord game? lord is
one of the more popular doorgame with users but it didnt have any custom menus or igms.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Poindexter Fortran to Sampsa on Mon Sep 28 2015 06:57 am

For serious scripting I just Cygwin and all the cool UNIX tools that come with it - I've looked at PowerShell but since I'm basically a
UNIX guy, I prefer Cygwin.

I'm old school DOS. Batch, all the way. :)

i like both. also i've had unix utils for dos for a loooong time.
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Mro wrote to Sampsa <=-

are there any users using it yet and did he work on the lord game? lord
is one of the more popular doorgame with users but it didnt have any custom menus or igms.

We have over 50 registered systems and 400 or so users from those systems
have used the doors so far.

Both LORD and LORD2 are installed.

Not sure about any customisations made to them, you're better off asking
Mark Mearns about that.

sampsa

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Mro wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

For serious scripting I just Cygwin and all the cool UNIX tools that come with it - I've looked at PowerShell but since I'm basically a
UNIX guy, I prefer Cygwin.

I'm old school DOS. Batch, all the way. :)

I think you'll find UNIX predates DOS by about 20 years so I guess I'm a bit more old-skool :P

As for DOS's batch "language", IMHO it sucks. No proper loops, control structures - it's basically CP/M's 8-bit SUB ported to DOS in like 5 days.

The only thing it has going for it is that it is pre-installed on pretty
much all MSFT OSes.

UNIX scripting does have a fairly steep learning curve but try doing the following in a .BAT file:

"Take the file foo.txt, sort it, remove duplicate lines and print every 2nd word with -FOO added to the end"

In UNIX that would be:

cat foo.txt | sort | uniq | awk '{printf("%s-FOO\n",$2);}'

Try doing that in a DOS BAT file lol..

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Mro on Tue Sep 29 2015 03:50 pm

are there any users using it yet and did he work on the lord game?
lord is one of the more popular doorgame with users but it didnt have any custom menus or igms.

We have over 50 registered systems and 400 or so users from those systems have used the doors so far.

Both LORD and LORD2 are installed.

Not sure about any customisations made to them, you're better off asking Mark Mearns about that.

what about the actual activity of the doorgames?
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Mro to Sampsa on Tue Sep 29 2015 15:45:20

what about the actual activity of the doorgames?

The only IGM I have added to LORD is Barak's House. The problem with a lot of IGMs is that they can quite easily ruin a LORD game. There would be the option of two separate games, one with IGMs, one without but I think all that would end up achieving is splitting the user base between two games and making each game less populated.

As for the activity of the doors, LORD currently has 26 players, 14 of them at level 3 or above which as you will know cannot be achieved in just one play. You can see the activity at http://games.bbslink.net/score.php?door=lord&type=i mage

I'm always open to suggestions, I want as many players and as many systems on as possible, but not at the expense of ruining the games.

Mark.


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Are there ANY problems running SBBS on Windows Vista or Win 7?

not sure about vista, but under win. 7 no problems (have a good next to new computer and next to max out memmory)

I have a couple of computers to choose from, and since it is running now on XP SP3 (just slogging along) I thought I'd upgrade. But if it doesn't do better, I'm not gonna waste my time.

I did run under xp sp3, until something (maybe motherboard?) started re-booting the bbs computer, even on a new format job (no setting change yep) - main bbs h-d, even the back-up h-d. I got a new bbs computer

your welcome to logon to mine, I even have a few other things running, but you can't notice them


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what about the actual activity of the doorgames?

Door Num runs
LORD 2378
TW2K 583
LORD2 300
PIMP 276
TEOS 270
LUNA 255
OOII 232
BBSC 189
GWAR 149
DMUD 121
MEGA 84
GGAM 73
POKE 50

sampsa

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Rob Starr
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Are you still running VADV? I'm having problems with my VADV and can't get anyone to respond.

don't think so, running sbbs 3.17 (build date 9/2815)


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your welcome to logon to mine, I even have a few other things running, but you can't notice them
Rob Starr
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Are you still running VADV? I'm having problems with my VADV and can't get anyone to respond.

don't think so, running sbbs 3.17 (build date 9/2815)

Whoa.... back the the future for you... :)


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Lord Time wrote to Bill Gordon <=-

your welcome to logon to mine, I even have a few other things running, but you can't notice them
Rob Starr
Time Warp of the Future BBS

Are you still running VADV? I'm having problems with my VADV and can't get anyone to respond.

don't think so, running sbbs 3.17 (build date 9/2815)

Whoa.... back the the future for you... :)

opps, it should be 9/28/15, so I forgot the / (didn't check it before I posted it)


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Lord Time wrote to Bill Gordon <=-

your welcome to logon to mine, I even have a few other things running, but you can't notice them
Rob Starr
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Are you still running VADV? I'm having problems with my VADV and can't get anyone to respond.

don't think so, running sbbs 3.17 (build date 9/2815)

Whoa.... back the the future for you... :)

opps, it should be 9/28/15, so I forgot the / (didn't check it before I posted it)

:)


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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Lab Rat to Mro on Wed Sep 30 2015 04:13 am

The only IGM I have added to LORD is Barak's House. The problem with a lot of IGMs is that they can quite easily ruin a LORD game. There would be the option of two separate games, one with IGMs, one without but I think all that would end up achieving is splitting the user base between two games
and making each game less populated.

i think that's a cop out.if you do your homework you can find igms that expand the game and dont slant it.

yes cheating can ruin a game, but not all igms are about cheating.
what you have there is a boring lord game that isnt as good as what most bbses today have.

if you're going to run the most popular doorgame in your doorserver you should attempt to juice it up a bit. then there's npc programs, anti cheat programs, igm rotators, and custom menu sets.

it's your deal, do what you want to do though. i always thought that igms made lord more fun when used correctly.

i've looked at your system a few times and i havent seen much activity. granted, we are in of the biggest slumps.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Bill Gordon to Lord Time on Wed Sep 30 2015 07:57 am

your welcome to logon to mine, I even have a few other things running, but you can't notice them
Rob Starr
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Are you still running VADV? I'm having problems with my VADV and can't get anyone to respond.

what about steve wynn? he's always helpful.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Mro on Wed Sep 30 2015 02:02 pm

what about the actual activity of the doorgames?

Door Num runs
LORD 2378
TW2K 583
LORD2 300
PIMP 276
TEOS 270
LUNA 255
OOII 232
BBSC 189
GWAR 149
DMUD 121
MEGA 84
GGAM 73
POKE 50

whats the time frame and are these just people coming and going, or are they playing the games?
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Are you still running VADV? I'm having problems with my VADV and can't get anyone to respond.

I ran VADV with VADV32 for a couple of years (2006-2008). It was installed on Windows XP with WAMP installed (for PHP and Apache web server). There was very little maintenance and proved to be very stable.

The only problem with VADV is that Roland never would give the code up so there's not much development aside from the web/vadv32 tools. With this said, the tools are nice.

If you like VADV, maybe you should look in WWIV. It appears to be some new interest in the software and is in active development.

For VADV, I would start by installing it only on Windows XP.

Lith,

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Mro on Wed Sep 30 2015 02:02 pm

what about the actual activity of the doorgames?

Door Num runs
LORD 2378
TW2K 583
LORD2 300
PIMP 276
TEOS 270
LUNA 255
OOII 232
BBSC 189
GWAR 149
DMUD 121
MEGA 84
GGAM 73
POKE 50

whats the time frame and are these just people coming and going, or are they playing the games?

I have no idea since the logs don't give me that information.

sampsa


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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Mro to Lab Rat on Thu Oct 01 2015 22:50:10

Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Lab Rat to Mro on Wed Sep 30 2015 04:13 am

The only IGM I have added to LORD is Barak's House. The problem with a lo of IGMs is that they can quite easily ruin a LORD game. There would be th option of two separate games, one with IGMs, one without but I think all that would end up achieving is splitting the user base between two games and making each game less populated.

i think that's a cop out.if you do your homework you can find igms that expa the game and dont slant it.

yes cheating can ruin a game, but not all igms are about cheating.
what you have there is a boring lord game that isnt as good as what most bbs today have.

if you're going to run the most popular doorgame in your doorserver you shou attempt to juice it up a bit. then there's npc programs, anti cheat program igm rotators, and custom menu sets.

it's your deal, do what you want to do though. i always thought that igms m lord more fun when used correctly.

i've looked at your system a few times and i havent seen much activity. granted, we are in of the biggest slumps.

So don't join!

I think your torrent site sucks and Clamav reported malware in about 4 out
of 5 downloads..

sampsa

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Mro to Sampsa on Thu Oct 01 2015 22:51:37

Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Mro on Wed Sep 30 2015 02:02 pm

what about the actual activity of the doorgames?

Door Num runs
LORD 2378
TW2K 583
LORD2 300
PIMP 276
TEOS 270
LUNA 255
OOII 232
BBSC 189
GWAR 149
DMUD 121
MEGA 84
GGAM 73
POKE 50

whats the time frame and are these just people coming and going, or are they playing the games?

That's for last 6 weeks or so..

Sampsa

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02 Oct 15 14:16, you wrote to Mro:

I think your torrent site sucks and Clamav reported malware in about 4
out of 5 downloads..

have you verified that with other scanners? everything i've seen was a FP but i
haven't pulled everything that's available over there...

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Mro on Fri Oct 02 2015 02:16 pm

So don't join!

i didnt

I think your torrent site sucks and Clamav reported malware in about 4 out of 5 downloads..

yeah well, my torrent site thinks YOU suck, and you are full of it.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Sampsa to Mro on Fri Oct 02 2015 02:19 pm

whats the time frame and are these just people coming and going, or are they playing the games?

That's for last 6 weeks or so..

so is this you lying or telling the truth
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Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: mark lewis to Sampsa on Fri Oct 02 2015 03:06 pm

02 Oct 15 14:16, you wrote to Mro:

I think your torrent site sucks and Clamav reported malware in about 4 out of 5 downloads..

have you verified that with other scanners? everything i've seen was a FP but i haven't pulled everything that's available over there...

he's just joking. his isp uses sandvine or something and he can't download using torrent tech.

i let him download all my files directly but he didnt use the current version of rar (rar 5) so he thought they were all corrupted.
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By: mark lewis to Sampsa on Fri Oct 02 2015 03:06 pm

i let him download all my files directly but he didnt use the current version of rar (rar 5) so he thought they were all corrupted.

Don't care for rar/winrar... I just use 7-zip to extract everything...
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: tracker1 to Mro on Fri Oct 09 2015 07:22 pm

By: mark lewis to Sampsa on Fri Oct 02 2015 03:06 pm

i let him download all my files directly but he didnt use the current version of rar (rar 5) so he thought they were all corrupted.

Don't care for rar/winrar... I just use 7-zip to extract everything...

i've always liked winrar and rar for cli and linux. i've never liked 7zip. seems slower and i think the interface is rinky dink looking.

i even paid for a rar license. works for all flavors.
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I see that your bbs is back up, new install or the old one, with the sbbs updates?


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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Lord Time to tracker1 on Fri Oct 09 2015 08:20 pm

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I see that your bbs is back up, new install or the old one, with the sbbs updates?

you could visit it yourself and see.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Mro to tracker1 on Fri Oct 09 2015 23:04:08

i've always liked winrar and rar for cli and linux. i've never liked 7zip. seems slower and i think the interface is rinky dink looking.

I like WinRAR and its interface, and I paid for a WinRAR license as well. However, not too long ago I started using 7-zip, and I found that it seems to have better compression than RAR (at least when using LZMA2 with Ultra compression). 7-zip doesn't really seem to be much slower to me than RAR, if at all. Sometimes I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of speed if its compression makes significantly smaller archives.

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Lord Time to tracker1 on Fri Oct 09 2015 08:20 pm

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I see that your bbs is back up, new install or the old one, with the sbbs updates?

you could visit it yourself and see.

I sort-of did that (web side)


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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sat Oct 10 2015 10:48 am

I like WinRAR and its interface, and I paid for a WinRAR license as well. However, not too long ago I started using 7-zip, and I found that it seems to have better compression than RAR (at least when using LZMA2 with Ultra compression). 7-zip doesn't really seem to be much slower to me than RAR, if at all. Sometimes I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of speed if its compression makes significantly smaller archives.

is this better compression compared against rar4 or the rar5 format?
also in today's age with large disk space, a tiny bit of size isnt really a big deal.

i'm pretty sure most of us use archivers for their non-compression features for the most part. like if an archive program is feature rich and has many options for backing up files and encryption,etc etc

they're all pretty much the same now, give or take a little bit of performance. it's pretty much personal preference now.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Lord Time to Mro on Sat Oct 10 2015 11:21 am

I see that your bbs is back up, new install or the old one, with the sbbs updates?

you could visit it yourself and see.

I sort-of did that (web side)

not good enough!
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Mro to Nightfox on Sat Oct 10 2015 17:20:06

well. However, not too long ago I started using 7-zip, and I found
that it seems to have better compression than RAR (at least when using
LZMA2 with Ultra compression). 7-zip doesn't really seem to be much

is this better compression compared against rar4 or the rar5 format?

Not sure; I'll have to experiment with that a bit.

also in today's age with large disk space, a tiny bit of size isnt really a big deal.

I figure that archiving a particular set of files is typically only done once (to make a backup or to make available for download), so you might as well use the best compression. Also, if you keep a lot of archives, the space adds up.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sat Oct 10 2015 10:48:50

Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Mro to tracker1 on Fri Oct 09 2015 23:04:08

i've always liked winrar and rar for cli and linux. i've never liked
7zip. seems slower and i think the interface is rinky dink looking.

I like WinRAR and its interface, and I paid for a WinRAR license as well. However, not too long ago I started using 7-zip, and I found that it seems to have better compression than RAR (at least when using LZMA2 with Ultra compression). 7-zip doesn't really seem to be much slower to me than RAR, if at all. Sometimes I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of speed if its compression makes significantly smaller archives.

Try Nanozip
http://nanozip.net/

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sat Oct 10 2015 06:48 pm

also in today's age with large disk space, a tiny bit of size isnt really a big deal.

I figure that archiving a particular set of files is typically only done once (to make a backup or to make available for download), so you might as well use the best compression. Also, if you keep a lot of archives, the space adds up.

yeah but if you are in a jam and have to extract files real quick, the amount and type of compression can add to the wait. i've had to extract files and due to the compression type, the program has had to go through and read everything before getting those few files out.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: spacesst to Nightfox on Sat Oct 10 2015 20:34:12

Try Nanozip
http://nanozip.net/

It says Nanozip is experimental software and "use at your own risk".. I'll pass on it for now - I'll probably wait until it reaches a stable version.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Nightfox to spacesst on Sun Oct 11 2015 05:30 pm

Try Nanozip
http://nanozip.net/

It says Nanozip is experimental software and "use at your own risk".. I'll pass on it for now - I'll probably wait until it reaches a stable version.

i'm sure it's safe to use. it's mostly using the libs of other archivers.
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Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: Nightfox to spacesst on Sun Oct 11 2015 17:30:18

Re: Re: SBBS on Vista or Win7
By: spacesst to Nightfox on Sat Oct 10 2015 20:34:12

Try Nanozip
http://nanozip.net/

It says Nanozip is experimental software and "use at your own risk".. I'll pass on it for now - I'll probably wait until it reaches a stable version.

I try it for many Mouth , Not bad , pack more , but very slow
to compress/uncompress

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Try Nanozip
http://nanozip.net/

It says Nanozip is experimental software and "use at your own risk"..
I'll pass on it for now - I'll probably wait until it reaches a stable
version.

I try it for many Mouth , Not bad , pack more , but very slow
to compress/uncompress

Pretty font of 7-zip myself... extracts everything under the sun.
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