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Dexvertbot: Change telparia.com samples link to template

2023-12-28T02:56:07Z

Change telparia.com samples link to template

Sembiance: /* Sample files */

2020-07-26T20:53:03Z

‎Sample files

Sembiance: Added sample file

2020-05-26T15:07:20Z

Added sample file

Dan Tobias at 13:36, 29 December 2013

2013-12-29T13:36:08Z

Dan Tobias: /* PCBoard text graphics */

2013-12-07T18:17:53Z

‎PCBoard text graphics

Dan Tobias at 17:26, 7 December 2013

2013-12-07T17:26:07Z

Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums |extensions={{ext|pcb}} |released=1983 }} '''PCBoard''' was a popular bulletin board system (BBS) program in the 1980s ..."

2013-12-07T17:09:42Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums |extensions={{ext|pcb}} |released=1983 }} '''PCBoard''' was a popular bulletin board system (BBS) program in the 1980s ..."

New page

{{FormatInfo
|subcat=E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums
|extensions={{ext|pcb}}
|released=1983
}}
'''[[PCBoard]]''' was a popular bulletin board system (BBS) program in the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike some others (e.g., [[Fido BBS]] and [[Opus-CBCS]]), it was not free to use, but was commercial software that needed to be purchased and licensed for its intended use, with licensing fees increasing with the number of phone lines of the BBS. It was considered a high-end BBS program suited for professionally run BBSs. The final released version was version 15.3 in 1996, with a beta version of 15.4 coming out in 1997; like most BBS-related things, the widespread use of the Internet in the late 1990s put an end to it.

A format of text-based graphics similar to [[ANSI Art]] was used with PCBoard, with a .pcb extension. Finding documentation on this and other aspects of the PCBoard software is difficult, since searches on "PC Board" or "PCB" tend to give lots of results pertaining to printed circuit boards.

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:PCBoard|Wikipedia article]]
* [http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/IBM/DOS/PCBOARD/ Info and downloads at BBS Documentary site]
* [http://outer.reaches.dyndns.org/modules.php?name=Forums Forum discussing PCBoard]

[[Category:Graphics]]

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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/pcBoard/
+* {{DexvertSamples|image/pcBoard}}
 == Links ==

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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/test.pcb
+* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/pcBoard/
 == Links ==

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	The format was generally [[ASCII]], with embedded macros consisting of words in between two at signs (@), sometimes with parameters separated from the macro name with a colon (:). Colors were set using an at sign followed by X and two hex digits for the foreground and background colors (no closing @ was used after this). The CUSTBBS.DOC file in the PCBoard documentation lists these macros. (You can find that in [http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/IBM/DOS/PCBOARD/pcb15d_3.zip this file]; first, un[[ZIP]] the downloaded file, then the actual docs are within a self-extracting EXE; if your operating system can't natively run such old DOS executables, you can rename its extension to ZIP and unzip it to get the .DOC files, which are actually plain text rather than MS-Word.)		The format was generally [[ASCII]], with embedded macros consisting of words in between two at signs (@), sometimes with parameters separated from the macro name with a colon (:). Colors were set using an at sign followed by X and two hex digits for the foreground and background colors (no closing @ was used after this). The CUSTBBS.DOC file in the PCBoard documentation lists these macros. (You can find that in [http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/IBM/DOS/PCBOARD/pcb15d_3.zip this file]; first, un[[ZIP]] the downloaded file, then the actual docs are within a self-extracting EXE; if your operating system can't natively run such old DOS executables, you can rename its extension to ZIP and unzip it to get the .DOC files, which are actually plain text rather than MS-Word.)
		+
		+	== Sample files ==
		+	* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/test.pcb

	== Links ==		== Links ==

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	[[Category:Graphics]]		[[Category:Graphics]]
		+	[[Category:Bulletin board systems]]

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 A format of text-based graphics similar to [[ANSI Art]] was used with PCBoard, perhaps sometimes stored with a .pcb extension (though ones actually used in PCBoard BBSs, as mentioned in the program's documentation, had different extensions or no extension at all). Finding documentation on this and other aspects of the PCBoard software is difficult, since searches on "PC Board" or "PCB" tend to give lots of results pertaining to printed circuit boards.
-The format was generally [[ASCII]], with embedded macros consisting of words in between two at signs (@), sometimes with parameters separated from the macro name with a colon (:). Colors were set using an at sign followed by X and two hex digits for the foreground and background colors (no closing @ was used after this). The CUSTBBS.DOC file in the PCBoard documentation lists these macros.
+The format was generally [[ASCII]], with embedded macros consisting of words in between two at signs (@), sometimes with parameters separated from the macro name with a colon (:). Colors were set using an at sign followed by X and two hex digits for the foreground and background colors (no closing @ was used after this). The CUSTBBS.DOC file in the PCBoard documentation lists these macros. (You can find that in [http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/IBM/DOS/PCBOARD/pcb15d_3.zip this file]; first, un[[ZIP]] the downloaded file, then the actual docs are within a self-extracting EXE; if your operating system can't natively run such old DOS executables, you can rename its extension to ZIP and unzip it to get the .DOC files, which are actually plain text rather than MS-Word.)
 == Links ==

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 '''[[PCBoard]]''' was a popular bulletin board system (BBS) program in the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike some others (e.g., [[Fido BBS]] and [[Opus-CBCS]]), it was not free to use, but was commercial software that needed to be purchased and licensed for its intended use, with licensing fees increasing with the number of phone lines of the BBS. It was considered a high-end BBS program suited for professionally run BBSs. The final released version was version 15.3 in 1996, with a beta version of 15.4 coming out in 1997; like most BBS-related things, the widespread use of the Internet in the late 1990s put an end to it.
-A format of text-based graphics similar to [[ANSI Art]] was used with PCBoard, with a .pcb extension. Finding documentation on this and other aspects of the PCBoard software is difficult, since searches on "PC Board" or "PCB" tend to give lots of results pertaining to printed circuit boards.
+== PCBoard text graphics ==
 == Links ==