Can anyone name some good IGM's for LORD? Preferably ones that are for all ages.
Can anyone name some good IGM's for LORD? Preferably ones that are for all ages. > Thanks, > Scott > Lord Blue > The Realms Of Blue BBS
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Can anyone name some good IGM's for LORD? Preferably ones that are for all ages.
Thanks,
Scott
Lord Blue
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It's a tough call on what are good current IGM's. :) I started
getting on these lists since I play on some LORD games (a regular one
and a WT-LORD one on the Prison Board BBS telnet://rdfig.net.
Got with my sysop to register some of the IGM's and said I was willing
to help pay the money, but then he came back and said "Well I would, but
I can't find them." I was like "Whhhaaa?!"
It's a tough call on what are good current IGM's. :) I started
getting on these lists since I play on some LORD games (a regular one
and a WT-LORD one on the Prison Board BBS telnet://rdfig.net.
Got with my sysop to register some of the IGM's and said I was willing
to help pay the money, but then he came back and said "Well I would, but
I can't find them." I was like "Whhhaaa?!"
yeah most igm authors have thrown away the source to their igms.
all the good ones anyways. :D
yeah most igm authors have thrown away the source to their igms.
all the good ones anyways. :D
Man that is a shame. Are there established keys to some of these? Or
ways to hack them into a registration mode?
Man that is a shame. Are there established keys to some of these? OrGot with my sysop to register some of the IGM's and said I was willing to help pay the money, but then he came back and said "Well I would, but I can't find them." I was like "Whhhaaa?!"yeah most igm authors have thrown away the source to their igms.
all the good ones anyways. :D
ways to hack them into a registration mode? > Doc Clu
A lot of people blame Preslar for that situation since he stopped encouraging people to write Lord programs.
A lot of that blame though
also has to be
placed on Metropolis Gameport who provide absolutely no support whatsoever to people who register the LORD games. They take the money and then do nothing for you. They don't pay Michael Preslar much, if anything, so he has little motivation to work on the LORD games. Donald
Thanks for pointing at least one active WT LORD Door game author out
there. Hard to believe so many of them have just poofed!
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Thanks for pointing at least one active WT LORD Door game author out
there. Hard to believe so many of them have just poofed!
some cases that people come to rely on. I often wonder how many programs are out there that BBS sysops rely on for which they can't get tech support.
Thanks for pointing at least one active WT LORD Door game author out there. Hard to believe so many of them have just poofed!
You're welcome for the info about Joseph Watson. The saddest thing about the BBS door games "world" is that probably only 10-25 percent or less of the games that are still in use have real technical support available
today. And by "real", I mean stuff like an author who actually RESPONDS to feedback on his/her programs regardless of whether its good or bad. An author you can actually TALK to via email, ICQ/Trillian, or BBS/web-site. Authors who actually release updates to their programs periodically in response to bug reports.
One of the sad facts about a lot of door games is how the programmers won't respond to requests for help from registered users. Or how they outright ignore any bug reports that come from people who use a game in its Local Mode. Then there are the programmers who continue to require you to pay for registrations for igms/door games, but who won't ever release new versions. What's the point in paying for a program if the programmer doesn't provide technical support for it? In many cases, you can easily find another program that does the same stuff that is freeware or whose programmer does respond to requests for help. We all can probably think of several programmers
who don't give a damn about providing support, but who still want you to send them money for their programs. Most of which are in the BBS programs category. But there are also Internet utilities that have been abandoned
in some cases that people come to rely on. I often wonder how many programs are out there that BBS sysops rely on for which they can't get
tech support. Donald.
some cases that people come to rely on. I often wonder how many programs are out there that BBS sysops rely on for which they can't get tech support.
I think aside from Syncronet and NTServer/Wildcat most of the other BBS sysops just dig into what they have knowing they will not get much support.
And it is a shame that there are so many door games that lack support.
Jas Hud mentioned the state of BBS's in the last ten years, which is the time I gauge on how long the Newton has been gone.
In that case we have about 25% of the development companies still responding, and a few that don't, and everything in between in now freeware or the source is available.
I get the feeling the trend to "release source code for the good of the community" was something that tended to catch on with departing people
in the Newton scene but not so much the BBS scene. Shame really.
My only gripe is some of those good products that you WANT to use, and WANT to register. I don't mind that improvements are not there, but it would be nice to actually be able to use it. Now those are a shame.
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