- C*Base
C*Base is a popular
bulletin board system software for theCommodore 64 .History
C*Base was originally programmed by
Gunther Birznieks ofBethesda, Maryland . It was written inCommodore BASIC 2.0, with some speed-critical routines hand-coded in 6502machine language ; the BASIC portion was compiled with theBlitz! compiler. Birznieks citesCMBBS ,Color64 , andC-Net as his influences.After Birznieks stopped working with Commodore computers some time after the release of C*Base 3.1, he transferred control of the program to Jerome P. Yoner. Copyright and maintenance of C*Base were later entrusted to David Weinehall of
Tavelsjö ,Sweden , who rereleased the project under theGNU General Public License .As of 2005 , the current version is 3.3.Features
C*Base proved popular for a number of reasons, not least of which was its almost limitless configurability and its support for a wide range of standard and third-party peripherals.
Hardware
A
Commodore 64 (orCommodore 128 in 64 mode) is required to run C*Base. All CBM and CMD floppy and hard drives are supported, as well as theLt. Kernal hard drive.Modem baud rates up to 2400 are supported through the user port, and up to 9600 through the cartridge port. The program is fully compatible with CPU and disk accelerators such asTurboMaster andJiffyDOS .Communication
The program interoperates well with both Commodore and non-Commodore terminal programs; it supports
ASCII , ANSI, andPETSCII output in 40 or 80 columns. Punter andXMODEM protocols are used for file transfers.In version 3.1, full networking support for message bases was introduced, making C*Base one of the only Commodore bulletin boards capable of networking.
External links
* [http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/cbase/ C*Base official web page]
* [http://www.zimmers.net/bbs/cbbbs.html Review of C*Base by Bo Zimmerman]
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