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BeeBS


The BBS designed for the BBC Micro


                           Updates


Dur-du! dur-du!


6 July 2024 Updates

Mode 7 Shark


Finding an event to base Julyb s splash (haha) screen around was slim
pickinb s however I eventually opted for Shark week/month! In terms of
updates to BeeBS Ib ve finally got all menus and screens to have VT52/100,
Mode 7 and ANSI support so no matter what youb re connecting with you have
the option of ASCII/ANSI/Teletext art.

ASCII Shark


I would love to take the credit for this amazing ASCII shark however it
goes to snd (accessed from ascii.co.uk).

ANSI Shark


Improvements have been made to message navigation, you now have the
ability to backtrack through message threads with the - key. This was not
too difficult to implement as if a message is a reply the subject of is
changed to b Reply to msgb so using a combination of
IF,INSTR,LEFT$,MID$,RIGHT$,STR$ and VAL itb s possible to detect if the
message is part of a thread and if it is allow the user to backtrack to
the previous message number and then display said message.

Message Threads


The message header formatting has had a slight upgrade in Mode 7 (although
currently remains the same in ANSI).

Following Thread


Finally I got a little fed-up of entering the time each time I started
OBBS, Ib ve cobbled together a work around so that OBBS will instead use
the Master 128b s RTC.

Date using the Masters RTC


Ib m confident that there is a much more efficient way to do this however
within the confines of the existing OBBS code this was the best I could
think of. If you have any ideas on how to reduce the length of FNnmonth
please let me know so I can save some precious bytes!

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