Dave's Own Citadel

Dave's Own Citadel

Written in	C
Platform	UNIX, PA-RISC
Child of	Citadel/UX
Parent to	Saturn, JayDOC

Dave's Own Citadel

citadel.h includes the comment:

/* citadel.h 3.11 -- see copyright.doc for copyright information */

However, there is no copyright.doc!

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Patricia Mergen-Adams indicates that DAVECODE is an early revision of Dave's Own Citadel (DOC BBS). The canonical version is DOCBBS software.

From Wikipedia

Dave's own version of Citadel (DOC) is a variant of the Citadel/UX BBS software which was developed specifically to run ISCA BBS in the late 1980s. It is based on Citadel/UX 3.0 but very heavily modified to suit the specific needs of ISCA BBS, which at its peak was a massive system supporting hundreds of simultaneous users.

DOC and its further descendants is now used by a number of Internet BBSes, including some in Latin America which have been heavily modified, support 8-bit characters and are presented in Spanish.

Along with its offshoots DOC has inspired at least four clone codebases, including YAWC, which is likely the oldest, Jammin, which has since become WeIrDo, bbs100 (which is under GPL), and A better Citadel (ABC).

After a number of years, the DOC source code was finally released under the GNU GPL. It is presented mainly for 'academic interest' due to its complexity, specificity to ISCA BBSes PA-RISC hardware, and poor documentation; however, at least one branch from an earlier version of DOC is being developed under the name vDOC (or variant DOC). vDOC is known to work on Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD systems.

Partial list of DOC BBSes

Unless otherwise noted, all these BBSes may be accessed by telnet.

• Renaissance BBS, (telnet gilyeat.com)
• ISCABBS, formerly bbs.isca.uiowa.edu, now at bbs.iscabbs.com, home of DOC
• Eschwa BBS, bbs.eschwa.com
• ITESO BBS, club.gdl.iteso.mx (in Spanish) <-- BBS Dead
• Club BBS, club.bbseros.org (in fact the line above at ITESO BBS is not longer valid, this is the new name and address for that BBS) <-- BBS Dead
• Smart BBS, smartbbs.org port 23 (telnet://smartbbs.org) (in Spanish) Derivative of Club BBS.
• Matrixbbs, matrixbbs.org (in Spanish)
• Utopia Dammit! BBS, telnet://bbs.utopiadammit.com (also available via ssh), home of vDOC
• Inara BBS, bbs.inarabbs.com port 23 ( telnet://bbs.inarabbs.com/ )

External links

• ISCABBS.com, home of the DOC source and information about ISCA BBS
• Home of vDOC

Dave's Own Citadel Files

File	Size	Date
Dave's Own Citadel source code (davecode.gz)	97,641 bytes	October, 1993
D.O.C. source code (21Feb2021 web.archive.org)	89,805 bytes	2009?
ISCABBS Client 2.3.8 source code	152,929 bytes	January, 2003
ISCABBS Client 2.3.8a source code	157,744 bytes	February, 2003
ISCABBS Client 2.3.8b source code	160,072 bytes	October, 2003
ISCABBS Client 2.3.8 for Mac OS X 10.2 - 10.5 (PPC Only)	310,016 bytes	January, 2003
ISCABBS Client 2.3.8 for Mac OS X 10.6 and later (Intel Only) (mac_os_10.6-2.3.8.dmg.bin) (Need a copy!)		January, 2003 (seems unlikely)
ISCABBS Client for 32-bit Windows	617,727 bytes	February, 2003
ISCABBS Client 2.3.9 source code (iscabbs-2.3.9.tar.gz) (Need a copy!)
ISCABBS Client 2.3.9b source code (iscabbs-2.3.9b.tar.gz) (Need a copy!)
ISCABBS Client 2.3.9c source code (iscabbs-2.3.9c.tar.gz) (Need a copy!)
ISCABBS Client 2.3.9c for OS X Intel source code and binary (iscabbs-2.3.9c-osx.tar.gz) (Need a copy!)		January, 2003 (seems unlikely)
ISCABBS Client 2.3.9d source code (iscabbs-2.3.9d.tar.gz) (Need a copy!)		September, 2014
ISCABBS Client 2.3.9d for OS X Intel source code and binary (iscabbs-2.3.9d-osx.tar.gz) (Need a copy!)		November, 2015
ISCABBS Client for 32-bit Windows (setup-2.3.9.exe) (Need a copy!)		January, 2003 (seems likely... that'd be older than 2.3.8!)