Ezycom

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Ezycom
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Ezycom's "waiting for caller" screen
Developed by Stephen Gibbs
Latest release v2.00 / 5 March 2003
Preview release v2.15g0 / August 2007
OS MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, eComStation
Genre Bulletin board system
License Proprietary
Website Official Ezycom Website

Ezycom (EzyBBS) is a shareware bulletin board system (BBS) application first introduced for MS-DOS by Peter Davies. It is still in active development and currently being developed by Stephen Gibbs and the Ezycom Development Team. The current version of Ezycom is v2.15g0.

[edit] Features

Ezycom supports several features that make it "easy" to use (hence the name) including: multinode operation (up to 255 nodes depending on license type), network and multitasker support, Fidonet-compatible message base, built-in echomail and netmail tossers, built-in file transfer protocols and QWK/Blue Wave offline mail support (including offline netmail support). Ezycom is being used with the Windows, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems with success.

[edit] History

Peter Davies originally developed Ezycom BBS as part of his master's degree dissertation in 1990. Due to lack of time to devote to Ezycom's development, Peter handed over the development reins to Stephen Gibbs in 1997. The next official release of Ezycom was v2.00 in 2003, which included several Y2K bug fixes. Gibbs has since done all Ezycom development and is planning to release version 2.15 of Ezycom sometime in 2008.