Excalibur BBS was a Windows-based GUI BBS

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developed by Excalibur Communications. it was released in 1993, but it has not been supported since 1999 when Excalibur Communications ceased operations.

Client Software

Users connected to the BBS by

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or over a

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connection with the Excalibur Client. For its time, the client provided a rich graphical environment allowing users access to

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, games, music, message boards, and web-like hyperlinked navigation screens. Excalibur provided the platform for add-on functions called plugins. These plugins included games with/without animation/sound and expanded functions for file searches, local and Internet e-mail, Fido net, Who's on, chat, changing handle/password, editing your account info, etc. Some systems used WAV files for background music incorporating a "jukebox" like interface with multiple music choices. Others used very clever screen changes to provide different degrees of visual input. Due to programming limitations, Excalibur BBS does not work properly on

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or newer. The original program was written in Borland C++ by Tim Robinson.

References

External links

Excalibur's Entry at the BBS Software Directory
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