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Patching Wildcat! BBS for Y2K in 2026

Posted in bbs, vintage on Jan 3rd, 2026

TL;DR: re-re-patching vintage Turbo Pascal programs so they work in modern times on modern hardware Wildcat! v4, a MS-DOS based bulletin board system was written in the 1990s in Borland Turbo Pascal and was not completely Y2k compatible. Internally the Wildcat! database understands the four-digit year just fine. (Wildcat! was not the only BBS software […]

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