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The Major BBS was a popular DOS based multinode BBS software last released in 1994. Individuals known as "sysops" utilized the platform to host many popular multiuser text games over dialup modem and the internet via telnet. The software featured built in multitasking routines that allowed a single computer to serve up to 255 concurrent users via modem, X.25, IPX or TCP/IP.

However due to its unique design the software is quite troublesome to run on any operating system released in the past 10 years. Several attempts were made to run it under ntvdm on 2K/XP/W7 with some success but the system always suffered some degree of instability. The resulting crashes required constant "babysitting" and made it difficult to run a reliable system.

DOSBox is a open source DOS emulator software for Windows, Linux, OS X and many other operating systems. Initial attempts showed MajorBBS ran under DOSBox but access was limited to 4 virtual modems each on a seperate TCP port. In 2008 HAL9000 released a patch for DOSBox that added NE2000 network support that was compatible with MajorTCP. Shortly after members of the community began testing and came up with a DOSBox configuation that MajorBBS ran very well under.

This release of mbbsbox v1 is the culmination of those efforts. The goal was to come up with a stable system that passed nightly clean ups and ran for extended periods of time without all of the ntvdm issues. The resulting MajorBBS system is highly stable and is no longer limited to windows only. The configs have been tested under Linux, 2K, XP, Windows 7 and should run on practically any operating system supported by DOSBox.

The MajorBBS install and much of the included documentation was taken from the MBBS4EVER GOLD release. No additional modules were added but some were disabled for stability reasons and the included menus modified to reflect those changes. Also the included Flash Games and installer were created by a member of the community and allow 8 different multiuser Flash Games to be easily played via DOSBox in the entertainment teleconference.