<s>
AmiExpress	B-Protocol
-	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
/X	B-Protocol
-	O
by	O
Synthetic	O
Technologies	O
was	O
a	O
popular	O
BBS	B-Application
software	O
application	O
for	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
line	O
of	O
computers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AmiExpress	B-Protocol
was	O
extremely	O
popular	O
among	O
the	O
warez	B-Application
scene	I-Application
for	O
trading	O
(	O
exchanging	O
)	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AmiExpress	B-Protocol
was	O
created	O
and	O
updated	O
between	O
1992	O
and	O
1995	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mike	O
Thomas	O
worked	O
on	O
AmiExpress	B-Protocol
for	O
about	O
two	O
years	O
,	O
modelling	O
the	O
software	O
after	O
the	O
commercial	O
PC	O
BBS	B-Application
software	O
PCBoard	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
first	O
ran	O
a	O
BBS	B-Application
on	O
PCBoard	B-Protocol
on	O
a	O
PC	O
himself	O
,	O
but	O
he	O
was	O
not	O
happy	O
with	O
the	O
PC	O
platform	O
in	O
general	O
and	O
decided	O
to	O
make	O
a	O
comparable	O
product	O
on	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Usenet	O
post	O
(	O
by	O
/X	B-Protocol
author	O
Joseph	O
Hodge	O
)	O
later	O
stated	O
that	O
both	O
programming	O
on	O
/X	B-Protocol
and	O
the	O
developer	O
company	O
(	O
LightSpeed	O
Technologies	O
Inc	O
.	O
)	O
were	O
to	O
be	O
dissolved	O
,	O
with	O
plans	O
for	O
a	O
new	O
bulletin	B-Application
board	I-Application
system	I-Application
-	O
Millennium	O
BBS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2018	O
AmiExpress	B-Protocol
was	O
revived	O
by	O
Darren	O
Coles	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
obtained	O
permission	O
from	O
Joseph	O
Hodge	O
to	O
continue	O
development	O
of	O
the	O
product	O
and	O
to	O
continue	O
using	O
the	O
name	O
AmiExpress	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
version	O
was	O
re-written	O
in	O
Amiga-E	O
by	O
taking	O
the	O
publicly	O
released	O
source	O
code	O
for	O
v3	O
and	O
reverse	O
engineering	O
the	O
new	O
functionality	O
present	O
in	O
v4.20	O
.	O
</s>
