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Les Bird
Les Bird was a programmer who had his own ISV. He eventually went to work for Galacticomm, but nobody can recall what the actual name of his ISV was! He wrote Super Lotto and SuperNova, which were later integrated into Galacticomm's Entertainment Edition.
Mages Inn, The
The Mages Inn was run by Michael Wiese of Omaha, NE. They developed two products for version 5.x that we're aware of: Fortune Cookie, which was freeware and included source code, and displayed a saying when a user logged on to the BBS; and Userlist, which was shareware, which let the SysOp look up information stored in the USRACC.DAT file and display it on the screen. Registration provided the ability to specify search criteria such as "display all males over 21 with IBM-compatible systems".
Medcom Information Systems
Medcom was actually one of the largest systems running Major BBS 5.x, and was a systems integrator. Located in Placentia, CA and run by Stephen Grande and Ray Burns, Medcom was an offshoot of the Midcom corporation. They hired a SysOp by the name of Jeff Reeder who developed many custom modifications to their system. Eventually, Jeff took over the system and moved it and renamed it ArenaBBS, and started a TPD called CovyWare. But while Medcom was in operation, they actually produced some saleable products - language addon packs - Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Vietnamese. In addition, Medcom released the very first open source addon for The Major BBS 5.0, called QandA. It was a simple Question and Answer module, and was released as a tutorial for programmers to develop addons for The Major BBS.
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Phoenix Resource Technologies / Psycho Software
Phoenix Resource Technologies was, I think, the company behind the BBS O.L.G.A. in south Florida. Psycho Software was none other than Jeff Kobal, who worked for Moonshae/Galactic Innovations. Only two products were released under the Psycho banner: Board Games, a fully configurable and easily-modifiable module for The Major BBS which pits users against each other in classic games of skill and strategy like Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Reversi, Penta, Outwit, Tic-Tac-Toe and many more. Full ANSI and IBM character support, allows game spectators; and Mystery!, an interactive, multi-user, text adventure game complete with murder and mayhem, suspects and clues, and bad humor. Players look for incriminating evidence, interrogate game characters, and try to solve the murder mystery like private detectives. Mystery! was somewhat a sequel to Moonshae's Whodunit?. We hope to resurrect these two games in the near future.
ProStar Software
ProStar was run by Rob Michnick and was located in Auburn, WA. ProStar was primarily a reseller and integrator, and resold not only The Major BBS, but selected products from several TPDs.
Public Data Network
Public Data Network was run by Tony Javoric of Grants Pass, OR. It developed the addon ChatLink, which was a system interlinking module similar to Interlink, The Compass Chat, and Worldlink. It was eventually incorporated into The Major BBS' Entertainment Edition, but was later replaced by Worldlink.
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