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Forgot to add, I also developed a BlueWave-compatible offline-reader called Wolverine that worked for all Fido-style networks: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine

It was quite popular in Turkey in the 90's.

You can try it out in DOSBox here with some random HitNet packages: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine/releases/tag/2.32

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WOW! Your FatalVision (1) is absolutely shiny! Wish I'd had it in the 90s.

Respect for the file_id.diz (2)! I thought mine was the last one on GitHub.

1. https://github.com/ssg/fatalvision

2. https://github.com/ssg/fatalvision/blob/master/file_id.diz

Thanks! I loved working on it!

I'm 100% going to add file_id.diz to anything I release, how could I forget!

I've wished to have a reason to create my own FILE_ID.DIZ file ever since the BBS era.

https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno/blob/master/F...

I completely forgot about Wolverine, but you've reminded me I was using that back in the day to read my mail from Fidonet point (as well as Bluewave).

Wow, amazing! I didn't know it had caught on outside Turkey. Putting it on Simtel paid off I guess. :)

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