DEAR READER: HERE IT IS, THE MUCH NEEDED DOCUMNETATION OF IMAGE 1.2A BBS - THIS IS AN OCR OF THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION, WHICH INCLUDED THE IMAGE 1.0 MANUAL AND ADDENDUM SHEETS FOR IMAGE 1.1 AND 1.2. IF YOU ARE SETTING UP 1.2 MAKE SURE TO READ THE 1.2 ADDENDUM AS WELL AS THE 1.0 MANUAL. NOTES: * I HAVE INDICATED THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT'S PAGE BREAKS TO MAKE FINDING SECTIONS WITH THE TABLE OF CONTENTS OR INDEX EASIER. * IF YOU ARE SETTING UP IMAGE, USE THE 1.0 DISKETTE, AND COPY OVER THE 1.2 FILES ONTO A COPY OF THE 1.0 DISKETTE (OVERWRITING THE OUTDATED 1.0 FILES). * THERE ARE SPECIAL NOTES IF YOU ARE USING A SUPRA 2400 BAUD MODEM AS WELL AS USING A CMD HARD DRIVE OR LT. KERNEL HARD DRIVE. * THE MODIFICATION DISKETTES FOR TURBORELS AND BBS-TO-BBS NETWORKING CONTAIN THEIR OWN INSTALL/USAGE DOCUMENTATION ON THE DISK IMAGE. (NOTE USING TURBORELS MESSAGE BASES ON A 1581 DRIVE MAY BE PROBLEMATIC - EMAIL ME IF YOU NEED MOR INFO ON IT.) * IN IT'S TIME - IMAGE BBS WAS ONE OF THE TOP-OF-THE LINE COMMODORE 64 BBS SYSTEMS EVEN COMPARED TO PC COUNTERPARTS OF THE DAY IMAGE HELD IT'S OWN IN FEATURES, AND ADAPTABILITY. * THE BBS NUMBERS IN THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTATION ARE ALL LONG GONE, PLEASE DO NOT TRY CALLING THEM. ENJOY! Larry Anderson - Sysop - Silicon Realms BBS mailto:larry@portcommodore.com == PACKAGE INTRO LETTER == New Image Software P.O. Box 525 Salem! UT 84653 801-423-1966 Dear Customer and Friend: We thank you very much for ordering IMAGE BBS v1.0!! We think that you will be very happy with your purchase, and intend to fully support our customers in any way that we can. If you need any help whatsoever in setting up your BBS or maintaining it, please feel free to contact us by mail, phone, or BBS, and we will do what we can. This version was "supposed" to be released long ago, but due to problems in relocating our offices' and other things, it is late. (Ever have 5000 screaming sysops on YOUR phone line?!?) We apologize immensely for this! but feel that the quality of the program will make you forget about this very soon! Read the manual through and see the options that you have with this BBS program! Please also notice that we have added a few things that are not documented in the manual. The "L"ist function in the subsystems now shows to the user if the subboard/library is a "special" one, highlighting the library in color, and also showing an abbreviation at the beginning! "N-An" means a non-anonymous subboard! "Anon" means anonymous subboard, "Pass" means password subboard, and "Free" means a free UD/UX library. See the manual for more information on these. Also, please note that the support BBS and voice numbers for the northern (Michigan) region are no longer valid. The new BBS support line for the north! (Lyon's Den BBS) is 313-453-2576. 24 hrs--300-1200 baud. The new main voice support line will be located in Utah, as listed in the manual, 801-423-1966. The new southern (Florida) support lines are: voice: 904-756-1206 - Ron Fitch, and the Tec-Net BBS is 904-756-2700. Night Flight BBS listed in the manual is no longer associated with US' the rest of the numbers are all still valid. Add these variables to the list on page 53: bf,ch$,po$,kp%,mm. Our plans for the future: There is no programmers manual for the software available yet, but we DO plan to write one in the near future. YOU will be seeing many modules available for IMAGE soon, both translated from old popular winners, and brand new' You will also see utilities for running your BBS, both in module form, and runnable in BASIC to make things easier for you. We plan to write a terminal program that will interact with IMAGE to allow full sound, high res graphics and sprites for the user, that will have the same module routines as the BBS does. This will allow you to write a module (plus file) for BOTH the term and the BBS that will interact. A 128 version of IMAGE is also planned. As is our policy, NO release announcements will be made until the new products are ready. As always! we welcome comments, suggestions, and criticism at any time, EO please let us know what you think! Looking forward to a long, happy, and mutually satisfying relationship with you! Keep in touch! Don Gladden New Image Software == COVER PAGE == I M A G E B B S V 1 . 0 Copyright 1988 (c) New Image Software == TABLE OF CONTENTS == Chapter Page PREFACE I PRODUCT INFORMATION III 1 SETTINGUP YOUR IMAGE BBS SETTING UP 1 Hardware considerations 1 Disk drives 1 Modems 1 RAM expanders 2 Printers 2 Interfaces 2 Fastload cartridges 2 GETTING THINGS GOING 2 Designating drives 2 Copying files 4 Boot disk 4 THE CONFIGURATION EDITOR 5 How to configure a new system 5 Device/drive assignments 5 Message base, Upload download setups 5 Subboards 6 Upload/download libraries 6 UD exchange libraries 6 Editing access groups 7 Entering BBS information 7 Converting from 12.0/12.1 8 Reloading configuration files 9 Writing configuration files 9 2 ON-LINE BOOTING UP 10 The idle screen 10 The checkline 12 The bottom line 13 LOGON 14 RES Users 15 NEW Users 15 The top screen after logon 15 Editing system info files 16 Bulletin boards/libraries 17 Access groups 18 Access functions 18 3 GENERALCOMMANDS GENERAL COMMANDS 20 Chat request/chat mode 20 Feedback 20 Help menus 20 System information 20 Last call date 21 Logoff 21 Quitting to main level 21 Time and date information 21 Baud change 21 Edit parameters 21 Prompt mode 21 Status 21 == TABLE OF CONTENTS == SY (Saying) 21 Log/B.A.R. screen viewing 21 C/G-ASCII toggle 22 Expert mode 22 New user message 22 Password change 22 Pseudo local mode 22 ENTERING/CHANGING SUBSYSTEMS 22 COMMAND STACKING 22 4 SUBBOARDS BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM (SUBBOARDS) 23 Moving to another subboard 23 Listing subboards 23 Scanning bulletins 23 About bulletins 23 Reading bulletins 23 New messages 24 Posting new bulletins 24 Killing bulletins 24 Editing bulletins 24 Frozen bulletins 25 Subops 25 Anonymous/password/non-anonymous boards 25 5 UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD/EXCHANGE SUBSYSTEM UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD SYSTEM 26 Moving to another library 26 Upload/Download protocol 26 Single file upload 26 ...
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