I have upgraded to the latest version of WebChes (0.9.0) that fixes several bugs. I have also added the standard header and footer to each of the pages. This makes the game look like the rest of the site.

There is still no activity in the message area, but with sites like yahoo groups around, it is difficult to expect much activity there.

I'm in the process of upgrading the machines that run everything. I'm upgrading my Windows NT4 Server to W2K3 and my Linux Redhat 7.2 to SUSE Linux 9.1. The switch will start happening in the next month or two.

The telnet games are still active. Even as we approach summer (which is typically a slow time for bbsing), I'm getting 15 different users playing games every day. Over the last 30 days, 30 people have played games 10 times or more.

Remember today is Mother's Day...

I've also been checking into Fidonet. I used to get the Fidonet echos in the early 90's, before the Internet came of age. There is not program that I can find to toss the FTN packets into phpBB, so I am writing my own. So far I am able to import messages and link them by subject line. The program works pretty well, but I still have a few more things to fix. I can then create the export of messages and send out packets. I've been using Squish to toss the mail and I just import each msg file. Hopefully, when I am done I will have a Fidonet ActiveX control and a phpBB ActiveX control. People should be able to use the Fidonet control and write their own BBS control to import and export messages. We'll see how it goes.