[Lazarus] Creating a "Widget Type" using a Lazarus packet.

[Michael Schnell]

Thanksm but back in the day i was on the vision/2 programming team, and as much as i would love to use the old tp code, i don't want to not the effect i am going for

--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Peter Williams <pewslinuxvault at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Williams <pewslinuxvault at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lazarus] help with bulletin board software...
> To: "Lazarus mailing list" <lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org>
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 12:42 AM
> G'day Dennis,
> 
> Back when I was a teenager, in the 1980's and into my 20s
> in later
> years (I was born in 1961), WE (the Williams family) had
> different
> computers to access BBS's. I used many models of Commodores
> (C=)
> starting with the C= PET 4016/32 in 1977 (circa). We moved
> to C=64,
> C=128 and C= Amigas (with 2x HD floppy drives, NO HDD!).
> Then models
> of IBM clone PC's etc.
> 
> They were amazing! And had modems (naturally). We used
> BBS's -- before
> the Internet !!!
> 
> http://www.masqueradebbs.com/  -- Masquerade BBS.
> 
> In the 1980s and 1990s, I personally got to email, chat and
> know the
> man developing & programming the Masquerade BBS... We
> both lived in
> Canberra, Australia. He programmed with Turbo Pascal, then
> Delphi. The
> main features of Masquerade BBS software were the
> configuration
> scripts to be make it look however you wanted it to look.
> *GRIN* --
> very clever!!!
> 
> Many BBS packages are written in Turbo Pascal, Delphi &
> Lasarus. Many
> are FOSS. I suggest that you check:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=Bulletin+Board+Software&search=Search
> 
> Look for Delphi Open Source (FOSS) packages. Lots of
> excellent FOSS
> BBS's there. I think of the *Time* you'd SAVE !!!
> 
> With Luv from PEW ;-)))
> XOXOX
> 
> With Best Regards,
>    PEW { Peter Eric Williams }
> from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
> 
> My FREE Websites:  http://pewink.org
> 
> ---------------
> On 15 March 2010 10:41, dennis martin <visionstaff at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I used to program back in the early 90's in turbo
> pascal , and later in delphi 1 and 2, I am currently working
> on porting a old bbs software I helped write to lazarus/fpc
> for telnet , and would love any help I can get with porting
> it , and or idea's on how todo certain area's of the source
> code, please email me with any ideas if your interested
> >
> >
> > dennis martin
> > visionstaff at yahoo.com
> >
> 
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