After boiling the ocean with Claude paired up with DOSBox-X I finally have a followup to the “10310 BTInitIsam” error I wrote about in https://binaryfury.wann.net/2026/01/patching-wildcat-bbs-for-y2k-in-2026/. This was about the PatchWC program that applies Y2K patches to the Wildcat! BBS v4 software not being able to run in DOSBox-X. This may be helpful for other DOSBox-X […]
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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 […]
