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Cloverskull, as I noted above, I am in touch with him, but I suspect that there are too few serious Hermes SysOps remaining to influence him to invest so much of his time into updating such an old technology for macOS. But, you never know. Hermes is still dear to his heart, and it was difficult...

Byte, you know, I had thought the same thing. That is, maybe, just maybe, if we could convince Michael that there are a substantial number of old school Hermes SysOps who are still interested in running Hermes II, he might have a change of heart. I mean, for some of us, it is just a nostalgia...

Cloverskull, as I told Byte Knight, right now I am still getting just one error when trying to translate the Hermes source on the macOS Sonoma side. I won't know if it will prevent me from compiling Hermes in THINK Pascal until I actually try it a bit later today. If it does stop me, I will be...

Oh man! This is so cool! Wow, Byte Knight! You found my old Hermes II compilation guide! You know, I was looking for that thing all over my hard drive, and realized that I must have trashed it some time ago, because I figured that my BBSing days were finally over with BBSing being pretty much...

Oh man, Byte Knight! A ton of questions? Maybe I should go back into hiding before I regret having ever resurfaced. :) Although, to be honest, I haven't been hiding anywhere. I have been in plain sight all these years on up to as many as 18 different social networks where I syndicate my work...

Oh, wow! Thank you so much! That really makes my day! As I mentioned earlier, I've been struggling over the past day to compile 3.5.11 again myself, as I did nine years ago, but something is wrong with one of the files in the THINK Pascal "Rez Utilities" folder which is preventing the...

Please disregard my last message. I was finally able to log on to your BBS via web page, but the font was so awfully, awfully tiny for a 70-year-old like me! :) However, I did manage to download Black Night, and I now have it running under Mac OS 9.0.4 in SheepShaver. My gosh! What an...

Greetings Byte Knight! Well, seeing all of these recent posts regarding Hermes II comes as quite a surprise to me, and a happy surprise at that! I first set up my Hermes II BBS on a Mac LC III back in 1993. I ran it for a number of years until the late 90s as I recall. I was simultaneously...

Yes, and it might arrive by the time that you are old and ready to die! :) BTW, folks, be warned! Do not ever let any postal clerk tell you that something will arrive on Guam quicker if you use express mail, registered mail, Federal Express. A lot of people have the mistaken impression that...

Hey, I am in my 60's, so I am slowly running out of time. :) I just had to crack another time joke! :D

Thanks aplmak. I just noticed that you joined the Armageddon BBS while I was sleeping. Much appreciated. Your membership now evens out our number to exactly three dozen. We are slowly rising . . . or should that be s-l-o-w-l-y. :D

Oh well, olePigeon, then I guess that my Hermes II BBS is not really a BBS after all, because I don't have any games or any doors/externals installed of any kind. :) However, it is not that I don't want to. If one uses Hermes II 3.5.9 or earlier, there are piles of externals/doors available...

Thanks for the info. The Apple IIgs was a little before my computing days began. I didn't touch a computer until I was 37 years old. In fact, personal computers did not even exist when I was in high school. That wouldn't happen until well over a decade later! :)

1) You are correct. Some Macintosh BBS packages were indeed ported from their PC counterparts. Even Hermes II -- the software that I use -- was ported from, and improved upon, WWIV. 2) You noted: "The BBS is a dead concept, almost completely." Agreed. That was precisely the point of my...

Excuse me, but I think that you are a little confused in your facts. First of all, PC-ANSI-based Macintosh BBS packages PRECEDED by years First Class, Telefinder, Hotline and other iterations of the graphic-oriented BBS. Second, I don't think that it is wise for you to speak for Macintosh...

The big question, in my view, is this: How many Macintosh-based BBS packages are still being developed and updated on a regular or semi-regular basis, and how many are being used by a large number of  people? I think answering this three-part question really tells the tale regarding Macintosh...

Wow, Bunsen! My eyes almost popped out of my head when I read that statement! Then I conducted some quick online research and realized that you were in fact just talking about the Quad Core Mac Mini being discontinued. It made no sense to me that Apple would discontinue the Quad Core line as a...

I just realized that I made a typo in my previous response to you. I wrote "unless in the Classic environment where the bomb freezes up the entire system". I mean to say "unlike in the Classic environment where the bomb freezes up the entire system" But I bet you already caught that. :)

Yes, I am familiar with First Class, as well as with TeleFinder, and with just about every other Macintosh-oriented BBS package, whether it had a graphical interface or not. In fact, I collected them all, along with piles of add-on modules and externals, documentation, etc. Years ago, I offered...