Renegade (BBS)
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Renegade is a bulletin board system (BBS) written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS. It was written in Pascal by Cott Lang and gained popularity among hobbyist bbses in the early to mid 1990s.
Renegade is based on the source code to Telegard (which was based on an earlier WWIV source), and was available free of charge. This was one of the reasons it became the most popular BBS software in use at the time.
Renegade BBS was an easy to use, stable, user and operator friendly bbs package that was widely used by many different types of System Operators.
Many SysOps started out on Renegade BBS, before switching to more advanced softwares. Users enjoyed renegade bbs because of its intuitive interface.
After the decline of BBS usage in the late 1990s, on April 23, 1997, Cott Lang ceased development work on Renegade and passed it on to Renegade BBS utility authors (Patrick Spence and Gary Hall). These two didn't get along to well, and after time it was pretty evident that Hall was the brains of the operation, and Spence could not even program in Pascal, if at all.
In 2000, Patrick Spence and Gary Hall handed the source code to Jeff Herrings whom was responsible for its Y2K fixes.
On October 7, 2001, Jeff Herrings resigned as the Renegade programmer after writing his resignation letter and attempt to lay the project to rest. see it here
Since then, renegade had been passed to several authors, most of them not bearing any fruit, one of these being an author named Corey Snow, who decided he would create an entirely NEW version of Renegade, based on Java.
Corey Snow abandoned the Renegade project, though before leaving the project, passed on the Renegade source code to Chris Hoppman & T.J. McMillian. Chris Hoppman & T.J. McMillian produced a few releases which added some features as well as corrected bugs within the software. In 2004, Chris Hoppman left the Renegade project due to time restraints as well as a lack of interest in pursuing the Renegade project, leaving the project solely in T.J. McMillian's hands.
On September 25, 2005, former Renegade programmer, Jeff Herrings, released (the long tightly guarded and never before released) source code to the Y2Ka2 version of Renegade BBS software. Herrings also released a statement regarding his decision to release it. Read it at textfiles.com.
On message networks Jeff also shed some light [finally] on the whole situation regarding renegade and its various authors, and the various discrepancies regarding Renegade bbs's history.