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    From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to All on Sat May 15 00:05:10 2021
    Hello All,

    Somewhere around 2000 after the Maximus and Squish source was released I remember reading about a windows build of Squish.

    It wasn't built by Lanius but it was built from the Squish sources.

    Does anyone use that build or know anywhere that it can be found today?

    I wonder if that build is fit for use?

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.3 to andrew clarke on Sat Jun 12 22:47:12 2021
    I have these:

    sq111n-2002-10-28.zip Windows NT port of Squish 1.11 by Serguei Trouchelle msgapint.zip Squish MsgAPI DLL for Windows NT, from the Maximus 3.02 release squish_n.zip Windows NT port of Squish 1.11. No documentation. Binaries only. sqwin32.zip Squish MSGAPI API for Windows NT. Headers, libraries (MSGAPINT.LIB & MSGAPINT.DLL) and documentation, from Dylan Griffiths.

    That's what I was looking for. I had read folks talking about them but I have never come across them myself.

    http://blizzard.ozzmosis.com:8080/bbs/

    I have them now too.. thank you!

    I can't vouch for any of them. Beware of potential Y2K bugs, at minimum.

    Will do.

    Though from what I recall the 3.02 release of Maximus for Windows NT was Y2K-compliant, which included MSGAPINT.DLL. However the DLL might not necessarily be compatible with the unofficial NT port of Squish. You'll need to experiment a bit and report back to us :)

    The best I could do is wine and I don't think that's a good test environment.

    Incidentally there's the TUB echo, for Squish users. I believe it's still vaguely active.

    Yes, it is. Quiet maybe but it is linked.

    I was actually seeking these files on behalf of a node here about running squish. I think these will do nicely.
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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Alan Ianson on Sun Jun 13 08:12:32 2021
    Alan wrote (2021-05-15):

    Hello All,

    Somewhere around 2000 after the Maximus and Squish source was released I remember reading about a windows build of Squish.

    It wasn't built by Lanius but it was built from the Squish sources.

    Does anyone use that build or know anywhere that it can be found today?

    I wonder if that build is fit for use?

    There are also modified sources from 2016:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/maximus/files/maximus/maximus3.02-lanius/dev/maxs_302.1.20161022.zip/download

    changes.txt says:

    Significantly updated MaximusSourceDoc.
    Added convenience build scripts for all targets.

    Needs Watcom as a compiler, maybe works with OpenWatcom too.

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.3 to Oli on Sun Jun 13 00:28:08 2021
    I wonder if that build is fit for use?

    There are also modified sources from 2016:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/maximus/files/maximus/maximus3.02-lanius/dev/
    axs_302.1.20161022.zip/download

    That's very interesting. I wonder who's been updating?

    I'll have a look and see.

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