AmyBW lets you read and write your BBS mail offline: call the BBS, download a mail packet, hang up, read and reply at leisure, and upload the replies next time. It is fully Blue Wave compatible, and it also reads QWK packets. It is free: you may copy it and pass it on, as long as you do not change the program or the archive.

Features

• Reads and writes Blue Wave mail packets, and converts QWK packets (and replies) to and from Blue Wave
• Works with Zeus's Phoenix door, and with any other Blue Wave or QWK door
• Taglines, including macros such as the recipient's name, the date and the area title
• Keyword scanning, to find the messages you care about
• File requests, bulletins and a nodelist lookup (with traplist.library)
• Run your own programs and scripts on messages from the Commands menu
• ARexx port, with example scripts included
• Support Fidonet time zones
• Runs from Kickstart 2.04 on 1MB of memory

New in 2.18

The last public release of AmyBW was 2.16, Zeus Developments was passed the source code many years ago and has now picked up development again. 2.18 is a reliability and security update: 325 potential problems, mostly buffer overruns, have been corrected, packet data is now validated, and silent failures fixed. There is one new feature - timezone support. It is released as a companion to Zeus and is the reader used to test Zeus's Phoenix offline reader.

See the release announcement.

Requirements

• Kickstart 2.04 and 1MB of memory; a hard disk is recommended
• reqtools.library 38+ and diskfont.library 37+; EAGUI.library is included
• traplist.library 4+ for the nodelist function (optional)
• A text editor for your replies, and an archiver such as LhA

AmyBW was written by Leon Makkink, Jos van Oijen and Richard de Vos, and is now maintained by Neil Williams.