was an
MS-DOS /
OS/2 Bulletin Board System (BBS) software package first created by the Clark Development Corporation, and originally introduced in
1983 . PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems.
Clark Development pioneered the
FILE_ID.DIZ format as well as a powerful
Scripting Language (PPL) which supported modifications called PPEs (
PCBoard Programming Executable ).
The last full release of PCBoard by Clark Development was version 15.3 in September of
1996 . The final release was 15.4 beta, which had a one-month trial period. Later, the lead software engineer from Clark Development released information on how to bypass the trial period timeout
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Clark Development went
Bankrupt in July
1997 .
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