Features

Here's a briefly annotated list of major features of Megistos.

• Freeware or Open Source (GPL).
• Small footprint (AcroBase is an AMD K6/233 and it's mostly idle).
• Multi-user.
• Multiple BBSs per host (this hasn'e been tested fully).
• Multiple connection types (serial and networking hardware).
• Multilingual.
• Terminal independent.
• Self-documenting (provides help almost everywhere).
• Easy to learn (especially if you've used the Major BBS before).
• Includes visual tools (screen editor, dialogue boxes).
• Administrator-friendly (good admin options).
• Unbelievably customisable (like any self-respecting UNIX application).
• Interfaces well with existing software (MUDs etc).
• Supports bots and scripts.
• Extensible with a good API.
• Enough functionality to support a large BBS with many areas.

And here's a list of features scheduled to be added to Megistos 1.1.x, the experimental version (still in the planning stage).

• Full migration to Unicode (will support all character sets used on the planet).
• Perl bindings for the API.
• Full migration to MySQL.
• XML for all configuration settings.
• ICQ gateway (experimental).
• Full operation on the WWW (with Hermes3/Megistos)

Bugs With (Almost) Seniority

Nothing's perfect. Here's a list of misfeatures, glorious feats of bad design, and other monstrosities. These are in the pipeline. They'll be fixed for the 1.0 stable release of Megistos.

• Source tree is a mess.
• Typhoon DBMS. Bugs-R-Us (in Megistos' ad hoc libraries, not Typhoon itself).
• Only tested on Linux/x86 (may compile on Solaris/sparc though).
• A few kludgy, hard-wired Greek-specific features.
• There aren't English versions of all the messages yet.
• All sorts of ugly, reinvent-the-wheel kludgery.