DBSoft History
1990 -
Came into existance and was named after a catch-phrase coined for the
Chicago Bulls 1990-1991 championship run.
Electronic Bulletin Board Software was started and was named DBSBBS.
1991 -
DBCram and DBUncram 1.0 released based on the LZ compression
algorithm.
1993 -
Sound Blaster WAVE and MIDI kit released.
BMP2DAT bitmap file converter released.
1994 -
Allfiles released to index bulletin board files.
AnsiTrim released to clean extraneous ANSI codes from files.
Config released to provide a menu driven interface for configuring DBSBBS.
DBSTerm released which is a modem terminal emulator for connecting to DBSBBS or other systems.
DBSTime released to calculate time spent in BBS Door external applications to keep time alotment accurate.
DB-OS was started which was a 32-bit graphical operating system that boot-strapped from DOS.
Security Manager a keystroke handler for DOS released.
1995 -
DBSBBS renamed to Infiniti BBS.
Infiniti FIDO mail tosser started.
DBSoft VGA/SVGA/VESA graphical animation kit released.
Manage file manager for Infiniti BBS released.
Menu Maker ANSI interactive menu creater for Infiniti BBS released.
Battle Tide VGA fighting game started.
1996 -
Nuclear Search a CGI based search engine and web crawler started.
SysUsage released which generates statistics of the Infiniti BBS usage.
Infilman a new file manager for Infiniti BBS released and later incorporated into Config for Infiniti.
DBSTerm is revamped and released completely menu driven.
1997 -
Final versions of these applications are released:
Infiniti BBS - DOS ANSI/RIP Bullentin Board System
Addcomnt - File commenter for Infiniti
Allfiles - Generates a list of all files with FILE_ID info
Average - Calculates Infiniti system averages
Compact - Compacts Infiniti mail databases
Config - Menu driven configuration program for Infiniti
DBAccess - Menu driven Point of Sale system for Century Computers
DBSDir - Directory display utility for use with Infiniti
Install - Menu driven Installation system for DOS
Offcdrom - Generates offline CD-ROM databases
Oldusers - Cleans the Infiniti user database removing
old user
Pal2Dos - Converts PAL palette files to DOS VGA format
SStats - Generates an ANSI page of viewable system statistics
TopU&D - Generates an ANSI page of top uploaders and downloaders
Usernote - Updates the users file with level note information
1998 -
Installer/2 1.0 released to install OS/2 applications graphically.
OS/2 ports of Unix software started including BitchX and the soon to be PMBitchX and gtkBitchX.
Everblue PM version of Xlib started.
1999 -
HandyFTP based on the cell toolkit started.
Dynamic Windows cross-platform graphical application toolkit started.
2000 -
HandyFTP based on Dynamic Windows re-started.
Nuclear Visuals plugin for PM123 released.
Installer a cross-platform Dynamic Windows based installer started.
Linux network intermediate driver started.
Nuke's Virtual Terminal OS/2 PM terminal emulator started.
OpenOffice/2 port started.
2001 -
Logview cross-platform Dynamic Windows log file viewer
started.
Windows NT/2K/XP virtual and intermediate network drivers started.
Makever cross-platform build packaging system started.
Firewall GUI cross-platform Dynamic Windows firewall monitor started.
Control Center clone of Stardock's Control Center started.
Netgraph ATM FreeBSD support started.
2002 -
FAT32.ifs project taken over.
PHP/MySQL comic book database project started.
JFS4BSD project started.
ProNews/2 yEnc patches encorporated.
FreeBSD netgraph network stack interface implemented.
2003 -
Dynamic Mail cross-platform Dynamic Windows PMMail clone
started.
PHP/MySQL contact management system started.
Dynamic Windows based interactive application system started.
2004 -
DWIDE cross-platform application development system started..
DBSoft Consulting web site goes live.