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C*Base is a popular bulletin board system software for the Commodore 64.
History C*Base was originally programmed by Gunther Birznieks of Bethesda,
Maryland. It was written in Commodore BASIC 2.0, with some speed-critical
routines hand-coded in 6502 machine language; the BASIC portion was
compiled with the Blitz! compiler. Birznieks cites CMBBS, Color64, and
C-Net as his influences.
After Birznieks stopped working with Commodore computers some time after
the release of C*Base 3.1, he transferred control of the program to Jerome
P. Yoner. Copyright and maintenance of C*Base were later entrusted to David
Weinehall of Tavelsjö, Sweden, who rereleased the project under the GNU
General Public License.
As of 2005, the current version is 3.3.
Features C*Base proved popular for a number of reasons, not least of which
was its almost limitless configurability and its support for a wide range
of standard and t
