Renegade (BBS)

Renegade is a bulletin board system (BBS) written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS. It was written in Pascal by Cott Lang and gained popularity in the early 1990s. Renegade is based on the source code to Telegard, and was available free of charge. This was one of the reasons it became the most popular BBS software in use at the time. http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org/bbshist.html

Related Topics:
Bulletin board system - IBM PC - MS-DOS - Pascal - Telegard

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After the decline of BBS usage in the late 1990s, on April 23, 1997, Cott Lang ceased development work on Renegade and passed it on to other programmers (Patrick Spence and Gary Hall). In 2000, Patrick Spence and Gary Hall handed the source code to Jeff Herrings whom was responsible for its Y2K fixes. On October 7, 2001, Jeff Herrings resigned as the Renegade programmer after writing his resignation letter and attempt to lay the project to rest. http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/RENEGADE/herrings.txt

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Soon there after, Patrick Spence was confronted by Corey Snow whom offered the revitalization of the software. Patrick Spence requested the current source code from Jeff Herrings, after which he provided Corey Snow with it. Corey Snow produced no progress on the project though was managing a project to rewrite Renegade as open source software, though while not sharing the original source code as promised to Patrick Spence.

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Corey Snow abandoned the Renegade project, though before leaving the project, passed on the Renegade source code to Chris Hoppman & T.J. McMillian. Chris Hoppman & T.J. McMillian produced a few releases which added some features as well as corrected bugs within the software. In 2005, Chris Hoppman left the Renegade project due to time restraints as well as a lack of interest in persuing the Renegade project, leaving the project solely in T.J. McMillian's hands.

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On September 25, 2005, former Renegade programmer, Jeff Herrings, released (the long tightly guarded and never before released) source code to the Y2Ka2 version of Renegade BBS software. http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/RENEGADE/rgy2ksrc.txt

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