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After Birznieks stopped working with Commodore computers some time after the release of C*Base 3.1, he transferred control of the program to Jerome P. Yoner living in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada at the time. Copyright and maintenance of C*Base were later entrusted to David Weinehall of
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C*Base proved popular for a number of reasons, not least of which was its almost limitless configurability and its support for a wide range of standard and third-party peripherals.
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In version 3.1, full networking support for message bases was introduced, making C*Base one of the only Commodore bulletin boards capable of networking.
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baud rates up to 2400 are supported through the user port, and up to 9600 through the cartridge port. The program is fully compatible with
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The program interoperates well with both Commodore and non-Commodore terminal programs; it supports
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floppy and hard drives are supported, as well as the
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2.0, with some speed-critical routines hand-coded in
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bulletin board system
Commodore 64
Gunther Birznieks
Bethesda, Maryland
Commodore BASIC
6502
machine language
compiled
Blitz!
CMBBS
Color64
Tavelsjö
Sweden
GNU GPL-2.0-or-later
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
CBM
CMD
Lt. Kernal
Modem
CPU
TurboMaster
JiffyDOS
ASCII
ANSI
PETSCII
Punter
XMODEM
Free and open-source software portal
C*Base official web page

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