Re: Projects
By: Nightfox to Mercyful Fate on Tue Mar 11 2014 18:52:11
It's good to have you here. :) I've been curious about Enthral myself but haven't tried it yet.
Glad to be here, it's awesome to see a network dedicates to coders and stuff, i tend to get bored on most of the other networks with general rambelings i tend to not jump into much of that discussion as much.
Enthral is a little something i started a long time, not excatly as a need for another softare, but more for something i wanted for myself and to have work and do the things i wanted explore in my own software. I don't know how different it is, i know it's still lacking many features in alot of areas but i tend to work on it and learn as i go. Originally back in 2002 i picked up Illusion bbs written in pascal and was updating and modding it when i was laid off of work for a year. But after a while i got a bit bored of coding in DOS with BP7, and wanted to expand the features more and figure i'd just start on writting my own in c++ since i was more comfortable with it. I started Enthral back in 2004 and have had many rewrite and ripped the guts out several times, to redo things in a more logical manner. Of course it's a never end work in progress i must say.. but i do enjoy it. And would reccomend it to anyone.
I know there has been some interst in play around with the softawre, since the last release i've done some major changes but still have to iron out alot of hard caoded testing items before i get an open release for people to play with. It's only been a couple months since i came back from a long break and got my board up so i've been slowly smoothly out things and just got my board up and running again. And everyone is welcome to drop by htc.zapto.org to check out the latest version, feedback is always more then welcome.
I do software development & testing professionally and occasionally work on various things in my free time when I have the motivation to do it.. Lately I've mostly worked on Synchronet mods (since I use Synchronet for my BBS), but occasionally I like to mess around with other projects if I have an idea I want to work on. Several years ago, I had an idea for sending live MIDI signals (for music) over a network and created a program to do that - but as I suspected, network latency caused the MIDI signals not to all play back at the same rate they were played from the source machine.. That was still a cool little project to work on though. Another thing I worked on several years ago was a C# WAV file class, which would let you read & write WAV files from C# code, as well as a little app using that class which could mix multiple WAV files together (such as for a musician to record multiple tracks and mix them all into a single .WAV file): http://bit.ly/1haWTfd
That was based on an earlier project I did in C++ to allow someone to record different audio tracks and mix them together. My C# app didn't record though, it just did the mixing.
Thats one thigns i've always thought was lacking in bbs's. Music, nothings like some ambiance to help give a system a unique feel i must say. I've played with the idea myself several times to write a custom client interface that would transform the ansi graphic to open gl so you can do all sorta of animation and lighting effects and even have sound over a client. One day i plan to work on it more.. but as things go it always gets pusted a side due to time and enegry to work on it. :)
Occasionally I've thought about what it would be like to create my own BBS software or programming language, but then I think there are already many available, and I'm not sure what I'd do to make one unique or improve on what's already available.
Well i would say it should matter about whats already out there, if all about you and want you want to do. and nothing wrong with making something unique to your ideals and tastes. That part of the fun. :)
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