Third Party Developers / Independent Software Vendors (TPDs/ISVs)
One of the reasons so many purchased The Major BBS and Worldgroup was the wealth of add-on modules produced by a large, diverse group of developers. This started almost immediately, with Moonshae Telecomm, Logicom, and Tessier Technologies in south Florida in the mid to late 1980s. As the software grew in popularity, the list of developers and add-ons grew with it.
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- Capture as much information about as many of the developers as possible
- Locate and offer for download as many of the products produced as possible
ISVs
Here are a few ways into learning about the developers. Their products will be linked from their page. There will be some indexing by label in the future as the site content gets filled in, to provide some views into the module catalog.
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- Full List of Developers - a list of all of the developers that we are aware of
- Early TPDs - the early TPDs - from the version 5.x era
- v6/WG1/WG2 Era ISVs - the DOS DLL era ISVs, from version 6.x, Worldgroup 1, and Worldgroup 2.
- WG3 Era ISVs - the Win32 DLL era ISVs; Worldgroup 3.x including developers working on The Major BBS V10!