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h2. History

The Announcer was a very small and inexpensive 

History

The Announcer was a very small and inexpensive add-on

which

created

a

menu

option

that

read

a

text

file

on

the

BBS

disk.

As

a

result,

changing

the

information

displayed

by

the

module

was

easily

done

while

the

system

was

on-line.

The

module,

when

selected

from

the

main

menu,

would

simply

output

the

text

in

the

file

to

the

user.

What

was

in

the

text

was

up

to

the

Sysop.

The

Announcer

became

unnecessary

with

the

introduction

of

the

MenuMan

Edition

of

The

Major

BBS

,

which

allowed

for

the

creation

of

menu

options

to

reference

text

files.

In

addition,

other,

more

advanced

add-ons

like

The

Gateway

by

Parallax

allowed

for

text

files

in

menus.

Module Information

The announcer is a low cost module which permits you to easily announce new features and functions coming to your system. By simply changing the text file you can add a main menu function to announce such things as new games coming to your system, upcoming social events, special prizes or price changes, or any other important bulletin you like. It can even serve as a community calendar of events on your system.