Re: YOUR IGMs - Lord/32 versi
By: Donald Tidmore to Dantin Hart on Mon Aug 29 2005 02:02 am


No problems Donald your more than welcome. If your having a hard time setting dosbox up you can pop onto my BBS and I'll be happy to help ya through it. You can also use the FrontEnd for Dosbox to set it up which is a win32 app. I have that in my Downloads for BBSUtils. Http://ratsnest.synchro.net. Also I think I might be using one of your older IGM's on my Lord games. Type at ya later.

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Re: YOUR IGMs - Lord/32 versi
By: Donald Tidmore to Dantin Hart on Mon Aug 29 2005 02:02 am
No problems Donald your more than welcome. If your having a hard time setting
dosbox up you can pop onto my BBS and I'll be happy to help ya through it. You >can also use the FrontEnd for Dosbox to set it up which is a win32 app. I have >that in my Downloads for BBSUtils. Http://ratsnest.synchro.net. Also I think I
might be using one of your older IGM's on my Lord games. Type at ya later.

I looked at DOSBox stuff, but could not quite figure out what I was supposed to
download for usage in a Windows XP system. I noticed that DosBox is a linux program,
so I could more info on how it is able to work under MS Windows. Send me more info
on Dosbox please to my email account at gtidmore@hiwaay.net.

These are the LORD programs that I have created, adopted, or maintain for other
LORD authors (Chris MacPherson, Charlie Wardick, and Jason Brown). If you or anyone
else needs support for one or more, just contact me via Netmail (1:123/450) or via email
using above address or ktidmore@bellsouth.net or donald.tidmore@usa.net.

The Changeling. Created by Charlie Wardick. Frank Rauhaff was going to work on it,
but doesn't have time to work on DOS Lord apps, so he's turned it over to me for support.

Chasware Lpedit for DOS Lord. In active development now. Chasware Lpedit for Lord/32: in active development. The Gateway, Ruined Castle, The Nice Hag - not in development currently. The Gem Trader, Doofus the Gnome (both are IGMs) - in active development. Kiteria's Lord Bank - not in development currently.

LordStat - usable under DOS Lord AND Lord/32 - in slow development. Regarding Lordstat, I got some helpful info from friends in Pascal echo about how to
add support for basic HTML bulletin files to the utility. So I'll be doing that sometime
this month with the Lordstat utility.

The Pawn Shop, Love Shack II - in active development. Turgeon's House, Violet's
Cottage II, Werewolf II - in active development. Lord Gambling Casino - not in development. Will release new version later this year.
LORD Cavern, Forest Outhouse, Outlands Tavern, RHP Toolkit - not in development
currently.
Hiding in the Shadows - not in development currently.

Realm of Lore is unfinished development. I'll get back to work on it later this year.

After Chris Martino disappeared, I found that I can support his unfinished remake of the
Free World igm, so I am also handling that Lord/32 igm, which is called FreeWorld II.

I found some evidence online via Google a couple of months ago, that listed a George Batalias,
who used to be in Las Vegas, in an obituary notice. But I could not determine if he is the
same one who wrote that old igm, but it is probably him. At any rate, that's another old
igm that is getting a new start on life, whose original author can't be found or contacted.

Doug Rhea took over Lord Life igm from its author. Sometime this year, I will be working
on it for him, once he is not swamped by work from recent corporate mergers he is
involved in. Doug is the webmaster of the bbsfiles.com web-site, for those who
don't
know who he is. He's also taken over a bunch of other bbs door programs over time.

Sometime this year, I'll start a remake of Shauna, Princess of Sorcery. But have no
idea when I will be ready to do that project.

I am going to be converting the DDIGM igms The Forest Outhouse, The Gateway, Hiding in the Shadows, Lord Cavern, and Outlands Tavern, along with RHP Toolkit
over to the ANGEL toolkit
sometime this fall. Then all of my programs will either be using ANGEL or MannDoor.

Have not figured out way to make Lord/32 igms using ANGEL Toolkit yet, but hope
I can
do that by end of the year. In which case, I would start making Lord/32 versions of all of
my Lord programs. I don't do Linux, so there will not be Linux versions of my programs,
unless someone else wishes to handle those programming projects.

So if you are running any of those igms or utilities, and need support for them, just
let me know.

The Lord betas are kept updated about once, sometimes twice, a week on my web-site.
You can access all of them from my site's LORD Links page or from the IGM Betas
Page.

http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/igm-beta.htm - the IGMs Betas page. OR http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/camelot5.htm - LORD Links page.

Donald.

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Re: YOUR IGMs - Lord/32 versi
By: Donald Tidmore to Dantin Hart on Mon Sep 05 2005 08:46 pm


Dosbox is also ported to Windows XP. There are two files you need to download from my BBS. one is called DosBoxer.zip and the other is Dosbox.zip. Dosbox.zip is the win32 version. Just unzip to a directory and make a link to dosbox.exe in your desktop. Then unzip dosboxer into another directory and run the exe and it will configure the dosbox config file. Each area is as easy as a point and click. Type in your values and save. Then your ready to run the exe. Acts just like the old dos of the day. First thing you do is mount the C drive as specified with dosboxer or you can have it automatically mount the whole C drive by putting this in the autoexec in dosboxer: mount c c:\
That will allow you to use your whole harddrive. Then simply in the next line of the auto exec would be C: which will change to that drive letter.
Then you would do things normally from there ie.. cd game or cd c:\game then type run.exe <- name of the program. Pretty easy. Also they have a forum packed with info on most of the games and utils it can run. I got answers same day from the forum. Hope that helps. Download what I got on the BBS.

telnet://ratsnest.synchro.net
http://ratsnest.synchro.net (with validation full access to files) ftp://ratsnest.synchro.net (validate via telnet or http first)
E-Mail: sysop@ratsnest.synchro.net

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