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/* History */
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/* 85Jun13 HAW History updated for networking. */
/* 85Apr27 HAW Citadel-86 history added. */
/* 82Dec07 CrT Substantial editing re V2 etc. */
/* 82Nov dwm Created. */
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/* Audience */
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/* Just general folks. */
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/* Purpose */
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/* Reveal our glorious past. */
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Citadel
Bulletin Board System
Citadel was written in mid-December 1981 by CrT.
Miraculously, it ran three days unattended over
New Year's, collecting some remarkably favorable reactions.
During the months that it ran at 633-3282 (ODD-DATA),
Citadel became one of the more popular BBs in town, and
there was some disappointment when a hardware failure forced the system
down in February of 1982. But in January CrT had published the
source code in BDS C, putting it in the public domain.
David Mitchell brought up the next incarnation of the Citadel
program in April of 1982, running on hardware provided by Richard
Knox. Called the Island Communication System, it is located on
Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. ICS has about 30 regular users
and about 120 log entries. Newcomers find it easy to learn, and
often leave messages praising it. Some of the system's daily
users are in Boston.
Citadel is descended from DandD.pas, an adventure game editor/driver.
It is arranged as a series of rooms, starting with the LOBBY. In each
room the user can read existing messages and leave more.
There may be up to 128 rooms in the current implementation.
The system was brought up
with only one room, the LOBBY. Additional rooms were created by
the users, with room names appropriate to the topics covered.
This is being written (82Dec07) as the Version 2 beta-test goes out.
Version 1 got a friendly reception and had relatively few bugs. We'll
see if this is a trend or fluctuation...
Environment: Citadel has had a checkered past. It first ran
on a 64K Heath H89 with Magnolia CP/M, Hayes Smartmodem (plus
an acoustic on another port) and BDS C V1.32.
Further development was done under BDS C 1.4x
on a TRS-80 with Omikron CP/M, a Teletek FDC-1, and a Furgeson
Big Board. At present the ICS implementation runs on the FDC-1,
while development is done on the Big Board.
Version 2 was tested on the original H89, now with dual 8" SSDD drives :-)
and a printer, Magnolia CP/M V2.223 :-( , and BDS C 1.46.
Starting with the 82Jan posting on Seattle's MailBoard (thanks John!),
various fragments of Version 1 seem to have percolated around the country.
This version 2 release should supercede them and save people the frustration
of trying to make sense out of them.
David Mitchell
CrT
85Apr27
Having obtained Citadel 2.10 from CUG through SuperComp, and then having
helped upgrade it to Citadel 2.40 using, at various times, a H89 and a Z-100,
Citadel-86 for MS-DOS 2.xx was developed in order to ... um. Well, in any
case, the first version of Citadel-86 went up on the 8088 side of a Z-100
in the Fall of '84, using MS-DOS 2.13.
As the months passed and as the whims hit the translator, Citadel-86 came
closer and closer to being functionally identical to Citadel 2.40, and in
January '85 the final downloading stuff was added, thus coming close 'nuff
to Citadel 2.40's main programs for the translator. During March and April
of '85, the utilities of Citadel 2.40 underwent translation and by mid-April,
the last of these utilities had been translated and at least superficially
tested, thus completing the Citadel translation process (thank ghod).
Now all that remains is isolating and killing the final few bugs, some
of which the translator is certain are resident in the compiler in use
(otherwise he'd have to admit to having made mistakes, lord forbid!).
Oh, and by the way, the name Citadel-86 was the suggestion of a certain
Lord Castleregh, and was selected after a polling process of the first
Citadel-86 system (Test System).
Hue, Jr.
85Jun13
Ha Ha Ha. Here we are, thinking we only have a few more bugs to hit? Silly
me, I decided to add in the auto-networking stuff on a whim. WHAT have I
created? Whom knows ...
Hue, Jr.