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  • IceEdit (DOS) with PCBoard?

    From J0hnny A1pha@21:4/158.1 to All on Tue Sep 30 14:05:55 2025
    I've been trying to get IceEdit to work with PCBoard 15.4, but unsure how to pass it from a new CMD. And actually unsure if it's compatable. I've got IceEdit 2.3. Anyone familiar with this setup? Cheers!


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  • From Nightfox to J0hnny A1pha on Tue Sep 30 16:30:55 2025
    Re: IceEdit (DOS) with PCBoard?
    By: J0hnny A1pha to All on Tue Sep 30 2025 02:05 pm

    I've been trying to get IceEdit to work with PCBoard 15.4, but unsure how to pass it from a new CMD. And actually unsure if it's compatable. I've got IceEdit 2.3. Anyone familiar with this setup? Cheers!

    I haven't worked with PCBoard, but apparently IceEdit changed ownership at some point, and there are a couple newer versions (2.40 and 2.41) under the name QuikEdit. I had set up both on my BBS, and it seems QuikEdit behaves better than IceEdit with my Synchronet Linux setup using dosemu2. I have a couple of download links on my BBS:

    http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/files/BBS/DOS_CHAT/QEDIT240.ZIP

    http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/files/BBS/DOS_CHAT/QKED241.ZIP

    Nightfox
  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to J0hnny A1pha on Tue Sep 30 18:26:46 2025
    I've been trying to get IceEdit to work with PCBoard 15.4, but unsure
    how to pass it from a new CMD. And actually unsure if it's compatable. I've got IceEdit 2.3. Anyone familiar with this setup? Cheers!

    Darnit - I always hijack threads... can IceEdit be used w/ Mystic??? I would love that. :P

    Previously, we had talked about writing an IceEdit clone in MPL - so I don't think so.



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  • From J0hnny A1pha@21:4/158.1 to Nightfox on Wed Oct 1 07:33:30 2025

    On 09/30/2025 4:30 pm Nightfox said...
    I haven't worked with PCBoard, but apparently IceEdit changed ownership at some point, and there are a couple newer versions (2.40 and 2.41) under the name QuikEdit. I had set up both on my BBS, and it seems QuikEdit behaves better than IceEdit with my Synchronet Linux setup using dosemu2. I have a couple of download links on my BBS:

    Thanks, Nightfox! I'll check 'em out.


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  • From J0hnny A1pha@21:4/158.1 to paulie420 on Wed Oct 1 07:50:51 2025

    On 09/30/2025 6:26 pm paulie420 said...
    Darnit - I always hijack threads... can IceEdit be used w/ Mystic??? I would love that. :P

    Previously, we had talked about writing an IceEdit clone in MPL - so I don't think so.

    I'm not a Mystic/MPL expert, but I wonder why it couldn't be done? Would be awesome if it was built as a door program (like IceEdit) with compatibility with modern BBS systems. Would def. require custom scripting for each BBS and ways to inject the message into the db, etc.



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  • From Nightfox to J0hnny A1pha on Wed Oct 1 09:10:49 2025
    Re: Re: IceEdit (DOS) with PCBoard?
    By: J0hnny A1pha to paulie420 on Wed Oct 01 2025 07:50 am

    Previously, we had talked about writing an IceEdit clone in MPL - so I
    don't think so.

    I'm not a Mystic/MPL expert, but I wonder why it couldn't be done? Would be awesome if it was built as a door program (like IceEdit) with compatibility with modern BBS systems. Would def. require custom scripting for each BBS and ways to inject the message into the db, etc.

    I basically did that for Synchronet, writing SlyEdit as an IceEdit clone (it also has a mode to run as a DCT Edit clone); however, SlyEdit is written in JavaScript for Synchronet, and currently wouldn't work for other BBS packages. I've had a look at using DorKit to allow it to run for other BBS packages, though I remember DorKit not having support for some of the things SlyEdit does.

    Nightfox