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Carpesimia wrote: > Ok, so I found the thread for running WG on win 10, so thats cool. But, my > question remains. I wanna take some old 6.25 code and make WG dlls. Has > anyone done with this modern tools? You would need BC++ 5.01 to compile modules for WGNT. Ref: http://bbsdocumentary.com/software...

Thanks for the question. My general stance on BBS security: They are random internet databases, opened up by random joe sysops, over unencrypted Telnet. As such, they should be approached as "not secure", no matter how many holes are patched. These days, BBS shouldn't collect and hoard &qu...

Yes seems that version works only with a galactiboard. Tested with default COM1-4 ports in dosbox, and unlike other version, the channels would always stays not operational (---) An interesting excerpt from the README: You will probably not be able to actually DO a whole lot with this copy of MAJORB...

Questman wrote:
> WG 3.0 is a calamity. I don't support it.

Yes thats a terrible fork, as-if there wasn't enough fragmentation already.

The general rule I understand for btrieve:
5 for all dos. (even wg3d)
6 for win32

daniel_spain wrote: > Questman wrote: > > Hmm. I thought Btrieve 6 was for WG2 as well. I don't recall ever having > > to have different version of Btrieve files for those two. I'll look into. > > i use 5 for wg2 <shrug> thought i had too since 6.15 was a windows app > but im sure 6.15 was wg3d as w...

Questman wrote: > Swords & Sorcery source is gone forever. There was a lawsuit by, I > think, Kesmai which nixed the module and Don Arnel of Logicom literally > torched his last backups in a bonfire of Major BBS era stuff. > > This game is definitely unfinished but quite playable and a lot of th...

Kracken wrote: > daniel_spain wrote: > (chopped) > > > > change unsigned to binary and set the alternate=y to alternate=n for that key > and > > change page to 1024 or less. for only 34 i would set to like 256 > > Yes I noticed that alternate force to specify the collation name=, which is not > spec...

daniel_spain wrote: (chopped) > > change unsigned to binary and set the alternate=y to alternate=n for that key and > change page to 1024 or less. for only 34 i would set to like 256 Yes I noticed that alternate force to specify the collation name=, which is not specified here, so this issue behind....

daniel_spain wrote: > daniel_spain wrote: > > Kracken wrote: > > > killdash9 wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > > > > > All of Elwynor's Add-ons are currently available for download on > Dreamline > > > > (din.elwynor.com) both for WG 3.3NT and WG2.0 Dos > > > > > > > > -kd9 > > > > > > Thanks for publis...

daniel_spain wrote: > > reminiscent of swords and sorcery? wold love to get that source and port it. swords > of chaos too. something about that game was mysterious as well. WOD is graphical, but it's more 3D. I think the closest match on the door side are "Dungeon Master" or "Mines o...