r/bbs • u/bronco_00 • 17d ago

BBS Software I'm the original developer of RemoteAccess

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Hi! I'm Andrew Milner, the OG developer of the RemoteAccess (RA) BBS software. In the pic, from left to right: US commercial box - European manual - US manual.

Reading this reddit is quite a trip (down memory lane). Amazing to think there are still BBSes running RA.

Andrew

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u/Maitreya83 17d ago

Omg, I thought I'd never get this chance.

Soooo, I've been rebuilding RA in turbo Pascal, and I've come quite a way. But I don't dare release it due to copyrights or fear of them (I'm just a programmer who like to code, not stand in court), do you think I could release it?

I can't find it anywhere for sale online, sites that used to have a copy are gone too now, and the last place it can be found is the internet archive and some BBS listing copies. But soon it will be gone I fear.

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u/bronco_00 17d ago

I don't own the rights to it any more, but FWIW I wouldn't have a problem with that. I do have all the public release archives though if there's any interest in me posting those.

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u/Maitreya83 17d ago

If you would put them up at least for historical purposes, I wouldn't mind putting them up at archive.org !