ANNOUNCING COLOR 64 NETWORK!

 Allow your Color 64 BBS to network between other Color 64 BBS's around the
 country or around the block.

 Here's how the system works....

 The system consists mainly of two main add-on modules, a network setup
 program, all the necessary merge files to convert your existing modules, all
 booter and auto-boot loaders for the 1700, 1750 and 1764 ram expansion
 cartridges, several network utilities and easy step by step documentation to
 help along the way.

 You decide which BBS's you would like to include in your system.  There is
 NO central node.  If you would like to be able to communicate with say the
 "ABC BBS" and perhaps the "XYZ BBS", all you'll need to do, is set those two
 BBS's with your network setup file.  Then a user will be able to either send
 E-Mail or a public message to any of these boards.  You can select a maximum
 of 200 boards!

 Sending is done in an extremely efficient manner.  You have several options
 you can choose.  You can set the network so that messages will be stored on
 your disk until you have a sufficient amount to warrant a "send".  To insure
 that it's not going to take too long, you can also select how many days you
 would like to wait before the messages are sent regardless of the quantity.

 Sending can be done anytime you like.  The "receiver" will accept a node any
 time.  You must select a "window" in which all calls will go out.  If there
 is anything due to go out that day, calls will be attempted only within
 these hours which you select.

 Your BBS will NOT be down during this "open" window time.  It will accept
 normal calls just as it always does.  After 5 minutes of inactivity (no
 calls), THEN the network will take over, and auto-dial EACH node that is due
 to go out.  It will auto-dial just once per node.  If a connection is not
 made, control is returned to the normal BBS and then after another 5 minutes
 of inactivity it will repeat the procedure until either the window closes or
 it makes the connection.  Amazingly as it may seem, in the testing stages
 between two very busy BBS's, we have yet to fail to make a connection on any
 day that messages were due to go out!

 Messages for each node are combined into a "packet" to make the transferring
 much more efficient rather than sending one after another.  After the
 receiver gets the packet, the two disconnect and the packet is disassembled
 and all messages are sent to their proper destination.  Any messages that
 are undeliverable (i.e. A user is deleted at the same time a message was
 sent to him/her), will be delivered to YOUR mailbox so that you may decide
 what you want to do with it.

 The system is almost 100% self-operational.  There is very little
 maintenance to perform.

 There is a complete billing system included with the network for those that
 want to charge for this service.  EACH individual node is allowed its own
 charge.  You set two variables.  The charge for the first 1000 bytes, and
 the charge for each additional 100 bytes.  This closely reflects the way
 your telephone billing is done, so you can more or less set up the charges
 to reflect closely to your actual costs.  Since 1000 bytes alone will take
 less than 1 minute to send at 1200 baud, this is a great way to keep the
 costs in line.  Remember, you don't HAVE to charge anything if you don't
 want to.

 All the billing data is stored on a small relative file.  Great pains were
 taken to make sure that under almost any circumstances this data would not
 become lost.  The relative file is backed up at midnight each night, and a
 separate disk based log is maintained with all network transactions in it. 
 Unless your house burns down, or a giant magnet crashes through your roof
 onto your drive(s), you are pretty much safe with these backup systems. 
 There is also a full featured editor for editing the main billing file.

 Currently the system supports only Punter protocol.  If there is a need,
 X-Modem may be added as an update.  This also means that the network will
 not work with PC Pursuit.  If I get enough feedback about this, I will
 surely attempt to include it in a future update.

 The system will work with any drive that currently works on Color 64 BBS. 
 The network requires very little memory.  In fact most on-line games require
 more memory than this network does!  Baud rates of 300, 1200 & 2400 are
 possible.  Now for the bad news (maybe).  Due to the fact that in order for
 this whole system to work as efficiently as possible, it is REQUIRED that
 you have any of the three ram expansion cartridges (1700, 1750 or 1764).  If
 you don't have one, you should consider getting one anyway.  Running this
 BBS without one is like driving a car with no air in the tires (in my
 opinion).

 When outgoing messages are sent, the sender can also pick up a specially
 made membership list at the same time.  This list will include all users on
 that BBS which have the capability to post messages.  It is regenerated each
 night at midnight to provide a fresh new listing.  Since you may not want to
 have to receive this file every time you have messages to send out, you can
 specify the number of days you would like to wait before the network will
 request a new one.

 Network messages can be auto-replied to PROVIDED that the node which sent
 the mail is set up on your system as an outgoing node.  In other words, it
 is possible that someone wanted to include you in their network while you,
 for some reason, did not want the ability to be able to send to them.  In
 that case obviously an auto-reply is impossible.

 Any public messages that come into your system can be dealt with in one of
 two ways.  You can define in the network setup program to which category you
 would like the message to go.  Then when you receive these messages, and
 they are disassembled, the network will automatically insert them properly
 into the public message base in the category you chose.  The second choice
 is to hold all incoming public messages for previewing.  There is a built-in
 feature that allows you (or a co-sysop) to view each public message, and
 decide whether you want to HOLD, DELETE or RELEASE it into the public
 message bases.  This way you can screen any objectionable material before
 anyone sees it.

 That's about it.  There are many other handy options and features to make
 running the network as enjoyable and efficient as possible.

 Color 64 Network is copyrighted with permission from Greg Pfountz, author of
 Color 64 BBS.  The selling price is only $15 with all future updates free.

 As of this writing, the software testing is almost complete.  Delivery is
 expected in early to mid November, however delays are sometimes inevitable. 
 Please keep this in mind.

 If you have any further questions, please feel free to write, or call my
 BBS.  Also note that although Greg Pfountz has helped me along tremendously,
 I'm sure he would appreciate it by not being bothered with questions
 regarding Color 64 Network.  I'm sure he has his hands full!

           2118 Emerson St.         TERRAPIN TRANSIT
           Berkeley, CA 94705       415-486-1160

 Please include your BBS name, number, hours of operation, and any special
 features so that we can put together a national listing of networks.

 Happy Networking!

 Sam Lewit

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