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Oh, Renegade. What would so many have done without Cott Lang democratizing creating BBSes without commercial software.

• EarlKing 5y ago
  ...run any of the 50+ other non-commercial BBS softwares instead, including Telegard, the software Renegade was a literal hack of.
  • j45 5y ago
    Telegard was pretty old in comparison at the time iirc. There were a lot of non-commercial options but Renegade was one of the early ones to bring in a lot of the commercial features into it.
    • EarlKing 5y ago
      As someone who used both Telegard and Renegade... no. Just no. Renegade literally just lifted the Telegard 2.5i source code, added a few trivial changes, and made a few bugfixes. Disagree? Name five of these 'commercial features' it added. It's a sad truth of bulletin board software that sysops often didn't know what other software was capable of and blindly engaged in the sort of bit-bashing people engaged in when it comes to hardware... not because the other guy's stuff was genuinely bad, but because the sysop didn't want to admit that maybe they wasted a bunch of time and effort on a piece of shit.
      • j45 5y ago
        http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/RENEGADE/whatdone.zip http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/RENEGADE/whatdone...