The Major BBS Restoration Project

Welcome!

The Major BBS by Galacticomm was the most successful commercial bulletin board system (BBS) software package. It was the brainchild of a brilliant computer science pioneer, Tim Stryker. His innovative assembler library called the Galacticomm Software Breakthrough Library (GSBL) allowed 256 simultaneous users to connect to a single DOS program on a single DOS-based computer. His multi-modem and X.25 hardware enabled operators to provide access for those users.

This project is dedicated to discussing and preserving the history of Galacticomm, The Major BBS, and other products, and resurrecting the software and vast library of third-party TPD/ISV add-ons, making them work with Worldgroup v3.3 for Win32 systems. In addition, we will preserve as much of the publications of Galacticomm and the ISVs, including files.

You may read more about the project background, or check the project status blog.

Get Involved!

If you can contribute any information, print ads, magazines, manuals, diskettes, software, source code, or anything at all to the project, please e-mail questman(at)themajorbbs.com.

If you'd like to join the e-mail mailing list with other fellow sysops and fans of The Major BBS/Worldgroup, send mail to sysops-subscribe@themajorbbs.com.

Also, please check out the Discussion Forums, where you can meet fellow users and get support, information, etc. But first, read the Forum Code of Conduct.

And, of course, sign up for an account here on the Wiki and contribute scans, screenshots, images, software, and, most importantly, information!

If you sign-up for the Wiki, send questman(at)themajorbbs.com an e-mail with your username and what sections of the site you would like to contribute to. Otherwise, you will be able to view pages and comment, but not contribute edits.

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