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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.
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|Wikipedia]] ==
'''Dave's own version of Citadel (DOC)''' is a variant of the [[Citadel/UX]] [[wikipedia:Bulletin board system|BBS]] software which was developed specifically to run [[wikipedia:ISCABBS|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 [[wikipedia:Latin America|Latin America]] which have been heavily modified, support 8-bit [[wikipedia:character (computing)|characters]] and are presented in [[wikipedia:Spanish language|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 [[wikipedia:GNU General Public License|GPL]]), and [[A better Citadel|A better Citadel (ABC)]].
After a number of years, the DOC [[source code]] was finally released under the [[GNU]] [[GNU General Public License|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 (operating system)|Solaris]], and [[FreeBSD]] systems.
===Partial list of DOC BBSes===
Unless otherwise noted, all these BBSes may be accessed by [[wikipedia:telnet|telnet]].
* Renaissance BBS, (telnet gilyeat.com)
* [[wikipedia:ISCABBS|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 [[wikipedia:Spanish language|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 [[wikipedia:Spanish language|Spanish]]) Derivative of Club BBS.
* Matrixbbs, matrixbbs.org (in [[wikipedia:Spanish language|Spanish]])
* Utopia Dammit! BBS, telnet://bbs.utopiadammit.com (also available via [[wikipedia:ssh|ssh]]), home of vDOC
* Inara BBS, bbs.inarabbs.com port 23 ( telnet://bbs.inarabbs.com/ )
===External links===
* [http://www.iscabbs.com/ ISCABBS.com, home of the DOC source and information about ISCA BBS]
* [http://vdoc.evernex.com/ Home of vDOC]


== Dave's Own Citadel Files ==
== Dave's Own Citadel Files ==

Revision as of 03:31, 29 August 2010

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!


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

Dave's Own Citadel Files

File Size Date
Dave's Own Citadel source code (davecode.gz) 97,641 bytes October, 1993