Kinda an off the wall question with out much context. But given that what would the degree of difficulty be to implement fossil capabilities into a non-fossil BBS program. Like, say. Spitfire BBS.

^ if you had to guess. Again, I know w/ out seeing the SC one would really
not know 100%.

Spitfire was program written in Borland's Turbo Pascal and interfaced
with assembler code compiled by Borland's Turbo Assembler.

Thanks :)

... Oh, no. Borg taglines again :-).
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On 16 Apr 2021, xbit said the following...

what would the degree of difficulty be to implement fossil capabilities into a non-fossil BBS program. Like, say. Spitfire BBS.

the fossil "api" isn't incredibly complicated. it somewhat mirrors how the serial routines would work. i believe the filename is like "fossil.cht.txt"
or similar for a nice chart. you can probably get away with not implementing quite a bit of it nowadays .. for example baud changes for a virtual fossil driver probably always respond "success" .. and at some point they tacked on
a bunch of screen writing routines you wouldn't need to learn/use.

there's a very nice selection of example code in the SWAG archive here: http://swag.outpostbbs.net/COMM/index.html

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Re: fossil implementation difficulty
By: xbit to All on Fri Apr 16 2021 06:56 am

Spitfire was program written in Borland's Turbo Pascal and interfaced
with assembler code compiled by Borland's Turbo Assembler.

It also saved England from the Nazi's. ;-)

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Re: fossil implementation difficulty
By: HusTler to xbit on Fri Apr 16 2021 08:42 pm

It also saved England from the Nazi's. ;-)

LO 'eff'ing L =D
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Re: fossil implementation difficulty
By: xbit to All on Fri Apr 16 2021 06:56 am

Kinda an off the wall question with out much context. But given that what would the degree of difficulty be to implement fossil capabilities into a non-fossil BBS program. Like, say. Spitfire BBS.

^ if you had to guess. Again, I know w/ out seeing the SC one would really not know 100%.

Spitfire was program written in Borland's Turbo Pascal and interfaced
with assembler code compiled by Borland's Turbo Assembler.

i suppose you could use netfoss?
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