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Another version, 2.30c, was released in December 1999, fixing Y2K bugs and introducing some minor new features from the upcoming 3.x series.

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In April 1999, Swindell revived Synchronet development, revamping it considerably and converting much of the code to C++. In 1997, version 2.30 of Synchronet was released as freeware, and the source code was released into the public domain later that year. In August 1996, Swindell announced the uncertainty of Synchronet's future. Despite this, a beta version of version 2.30 of Synchronet for MS-DOS and an alpha version for OS/2 were released in early 1996. Digital Dynamics effectively went bankrupt in the fall of 1995. Interest in Synchronet began to dwindle in late 1994, finally becoming nonexistent in 1995. It was also the first BBS package with RIP support, in version 1b revision 1, released January 23, 1993. Synchronet was the first BBS package to support QWK message networking natively without requiring any external utilities, in version 1a revision 10, released June 25, 1992.

The first copy of Synchronet sold through the magazine ads was in June 1992. In April 1992, Swindell's employer went out of business and he began to rely exclusively on commercial sales of Synchronet for his livelihood, placing advertisements in the BBS-related magazines Boardwatch and BBS Callers Digest.

#Syncterm windows software#

Initially, he had no intention of releasing Synchronet publicly, but as word of his software spread and he received offers to buy copies of Synchronet, he eventually relented, formed a company called Digital Dynamics, and sold copies of Synchronet at a price of $100 without source code, and $200 with source code. In July 1991, the author began running his own BBS, Vertrauen, on Synchronet. The software was named for its ability to run synchronously on a network. The bulk of the programming for the first version of Synchronet was done during a two-month period in 1991 when Swindell was house-ridden while he recovered from surgery. Digital Man) due to his desire for certain features which WWIV lacked, such as support for multiple simultaneous nodes, batch uploads and bidirectional file transfer.

Synchronet was originally written by Rob Swindell ( a.k.a.