Subj : New PCBoard->Icy Board
To   : All
From : Omnibrain
Date : Wed May 15 2024 01:03 am

I've been working on PPE (The scripting language of PCBoard) tooling as side project and it has grown a bit so I decided to finish that and it'll end up as a BBS system.

I know that there are probably more BBS authors than users left these days but it's a project for fun and testing out what's possible.
(The same applies for my other projects :))

IcyBoard is still months from beeing an alpha - however it's shaping up:
+ Can convert old PCBOARD installations (I'm interested in getting some for testing purposes.
+ Can run .PPE files (even 15.4 ones)
+ Has basically all PCBOARD commands implemented 

First demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjBUZVtrzWk

Files:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWq2iFDUbp8

Running a PPE & sysop screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWytQHRvutM

Writing mail with extern PPE editor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKc7fwmPZas

I set up a blog today. First post is about the menu system I'm working on:
https://icytools.blogspot.com/2024/05/icy-board-menu-system.html

In that state I can really need input in all areas. Everything helps.
The main goal is to provide a base to run the old .PPE ecosystem and to modernize the PPL programming language.

I've a working compiler, decompiler, disassembler and language server. However I can need help/input on getting the language server running on editors.
Is there one editor I should try to plug the lsp into (beside VS Code of course).

The LSP works in vs code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNV9mrnn-Ms
It provides syntax highlighting, on the fly errors, tooltips, completion.

I want to add formatting & refactorings and want to target at least vs code (still need to learn a bit about it) and zed (if it's ready).

I've been extending PPL a bit if anyone is interested in discussing that I would like to get feedback on PPL. 
The plan for PPL is to bring it not only to icy_board but to icy_draw as plugin & animation language as well.
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