BeeBS

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

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

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 “Reply to msg” so using a combination of IF,INSTR,LEFT$,MID$,RIGHT$,STR$ and VAL it’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.

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

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

I’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!