Kelleytoons wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:12 pm
I'm an old guy (WAY too old for this stuff anymore) who used to run three BBs using the Snitz software, mostly because it used the MS database as its engine and I could write queries and otherwise deal with it myself (as a former programmer).
If I understand correctly, your Snitz is using MS Access (or similar).
In a previous century (actually around 2004/2005) I transformed an Access forum to phpbb (version 2 something) (Actually Access to Access-phpBBstructure, which I then imported into an empty (SQL) phpBB2 database).
That should be fairly simple (whatever the structure). You should then have a phpBB2 board which can be converted to 3.0.12 with the phpBB-native convert system.
[ADDED] Upgrading from 3.0.x to the latest 3.3.x is then straightforward.
I'ld offer to do it (for free) but will be absent for about 3 weeks but since you have experience as a programmer (with MS products), you should be able to figure it out relatively easily (that is if you have experience with a personal webserver, an old version of easyphp or Xampp is needed to run phpBB2)
ADDED 10 minutes later: a quick search (why reinvent the wheel?) for a Snitz converter came up with
http://snitz2phpbb.sourceforge.net/. That could avoid the hassle of having to transform the data yourself.