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- | The MajorBBS was a DOS Bulletin Board Software (BBS) written by Timothy Striker in 1986. Tim had previously written several multiuser gaming systems and used his experience to create both the Galacticomm Software Breakthrough Library (GSBL) and Model 16 Modem Card. The GSBL was a set of x86 Assembler communication routines that helped facilitate the rapid development of multiuser applications on the Model 16, which was a single ISA card that contained 16 1200 baud modems. Both were quite revolutionary and focused on using Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware at a time, when these types of multiuser applications existed primarily on mainframes, mini' | + | ====== History of Galacticomm, |
- | Initially created | + | The MajorBBS was a DOS Bulletin Board Software (BBS) written by Timothy Striker in 1986. Tim had previously written several multi user gaming systems and used his experience |
- | In 1992 The MajorBBS | + | While initially created to showcase the GSBL and Model 16, by 1988 Tim was licensing more copies of The MajorBBS |
- | 1995 also saw the rapid growth of public Internet access which drew a large percentage of its users from the BBS community. Like many BBS companies of the time, Galacticomm held delusions that they could compete with the growing popularity of the Internet. | + | In 1992 The MajorBBS v6 was released and with the addition of loadable module support it's user-base sky-rocketed. By the end of 1994 Galacticomm had reportedly sold over 15,000 copies of the software, and would go on to release eight revisions that year. In December 1994, CEO Scott Brinker was interviewed by Inter@ctive magazine and publicly announced their new multimedia BBS software named “Project Victory”. The MajorBBS v6.25 was finally released on January 11th, 1995 and would be the last version retaining the “MajorBBS'' |
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+ | 1995 also saw the rapid growth of public Internet access which drew a large percentage of its users from the BBS community. Like many BBS companies of the time, Galacticomm held delusions that they could compete with the growing popularity of the Internet. | ||
1996 was a very turbulent year for BBSing and Galacticomm would see the exit of many long time ISV/ | 1996 was a very turbulent year for BBSing and Galacticomm would see the exit of many long time ISV/ | ||
- | After Tim's passing, Galacticomm struggled on but with the loss of their visionary as well as droves of users leaving BBS's for the Internet. The company was destined for failure. Galacticomm would go on to release Worldgroup v3 for DOS in 1997 and v3.12 in 1998 before abandoning DOS entirely. In 1999, Worldgroup v3.2 was released for Windows but before the end of the year Galacticomm would shut its doors. Over the next few years, leadership of Galacticomm would change many times, but none never able to regain the momentum they once had with The MajorBBS. | + | After Tim's passing, Galacticomm struggled on but with the loss of their visionary as well as droves of users leaving BBS's for the Internet. The company was destined for failure. Galacticomm would go on to release Worldgroup v3 for DOS in 1997 and v3.12 in 1998 before abandoning DOS entirely. In 1999, Worldgroup v3.2 was released for Windows but before the end of the year Galacticomm would shut its doors. Over the next few years, leadership of Galacticomm would change many times, but none was able to regain the momentum they once had with The MajorBBS. |
In 2002 the company would ultimately file for bankruptcy and fade into the annals of time. | In 2002 the company would ultimately file for bankruptcy and fade into the annals of time. | ||
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