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Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS X

Postby buggs1a » Thu Sep 13, 2001 4:01 pm

Please someone port the nntp news group apps News Bin Pro and News Pro to mac os x. Those 2 apps are the best in the world in my opinion for accessing news groups. currently the mac has crud for news groups. no app is worth using in my opinion. <A HREF="http://www.newsbin.com" TARGET=_blank>www.newsbin.com</A> is for news bin pro and <A HREF="http://www.usenetopia.com" TARGET=_blank>www.usenetopia.com</A> is for news pro.
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby buggs1a » Thu Sep 13, 2001 4:39 pm

Here's the url for download page for news bin pro. and the actual download url with file. Same for news pro. <A HREF="http://www.newsbin.com/downloads.htm" TARGET=_blank>http://www.newsbin.com/downloads.htm</A>
news pro download link - <A HREF="http://www.usenetopia.com/npr305tr.zip" TARGET=_blank>http://www.usenetopia.com/npr305tr.zip</A>
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby buggs1a » Sat Sep 15, 2001 3:16 pm

Why does no one reply yet they reply to posts made after mine?
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby apex » Sat Sep 15, 2001 8:34 pm

I'm working on it, but it will be awhile.
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby buggs1a » Sun Sep 16, 2001 2:39 pm

Apex, you are really working to port those 2 apps to mac os x?
could you please tell me what all that means you have to do and stuff?
I'd like to start learning to program in mac os x, but as I have no idea how to program and stuff, not sure where to start. the os x dev tools cd has stuff. is that ok to start with? I need something really easy and easy to understand. just to get started.
any thoughts?
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby buggs1a » Mon Sep 24, 2001 11:38 pm

So are you truely working on making news bin pro <A HREF="http://www.newsbin.com" TARGET=_blank>www.newsbin.com</A> or news pro <A HREF="http://www.usenetopia.com" TARGET=_blank>www.usenetopia.com</A> work in mac os x? i don't think you are. you said yer working on it however i doubt it. i think you told me to leave it alone and not ask again. cus they haven't made their windows 9x code available as open.
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby buggs1a » Fri Oct 12, 2001 3:39 pm

10-12-2001
So are you truely working on making news bin pro <A HREF="http://www.newsbin.com" TARGET=_blank>www.newsbin.com</A> or news pro <A HREF="http://www.usenetopia.com" TARGET=_blank>www.usenetopia.com</A> work in mac os x? i don't think you are. you said yer working on it however i doubt it. i think you told me to leave it alone and not ask again. cus they haven't made their windows 9x code available as open.
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby apex » Fri Oct 12, 2001 9:24 pm

When i posted i was 'working' on it i should have said i'd downloaded it and it was in my todo list. It is not open-sourced afaik so there is no way to port it. Contact the developers and tell them you want a version for Mac OS X. Good luck, and I'm sorry for any confusion.
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby buggs1a » Mon Oct 15, 2001 7:46 am

already did. they will not touch mac as they hate the mac.
what you could do is add features to newsflash. how bout that? newsflash is open source. newsflash is already made for mac os x and open source. it just needs some features to make it complete. would you please do that?? i can give you a list of what features to add. you do this then you could sell it and corner the market as it would be the best news group program in the world on any platform with my help and suggestions.
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby apex » Mon Oct 15, 2001 7:59 am

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but what you need is a software developer, which I am not. Try tin or trn <A HREF="http://macosx.forked.net/ports/trn-4.0-test76.pkg.tgz" TARGET=_blank>http://macosx.forked.net/ports/trn-4.0-test76.pkg.tgz</A> .
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby buggs1a » Tue Oct 16, 2001 8:31 pm

what is trn? i have never heard of it.
what does it do etc? what kind of app is it?
Umm, could you give me url for it to read on what it is etc?
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby dexter » Sun Nov 10, 2002 4:26 pm

It's not that we hate Mac. We are real close to buying a new G4 because we like OSX. Once we get a linux port of NewsBin working, it may work on OSX right away or with some minor tweaks. Be patient.

Now, BINHEX, we hate. It is a major pain to implement. But we will do it when we get an OSX version running.

Have you tried running NewsBin in a windows emulator on the Mac?
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby DMCrimson » Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:23 am

wow, dexter, that was a good one [img]images/icons/smile.gif"%20border="0[/img] I'm not trying to troll here or nothing, but just voice my thoughts [img]images/icons/smile.gif"%20border="0[/img] OS X is a really good platform IMO, and while I'm not a coder myself, I like to compile stuff myself from sources...
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Re: Please someone port News Bin Pro and News Pro to Mac OS

Postby daSilVetZ » Sat Dec 21, 2002 6:58 pm

NewsbinPro is definitly the greatest news prog out there. I had it on Windows, and now that Im on OS X it is definitly on the top of my missing-apps list. A port of it would be great, and definitly would get a hell load of registrations, I know I would [img]images/icons/smile.gif"%20border="0[/img]
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