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(Please create a new topic if you have information about one of these ISVs - this thread should just be for a list of who we are looking for)...

Where possible the format below is Name - Company - Location - Addons

A. People whose names we know:

- Keith Miller (Cryalith, Firehopper), Ed Bush, Louis (unknown last name) - Logicom, worked with Don Arnel
- Robert E. Meyer - SilverWare (Prism BBS)
- Albert Boyle - Compass Rose - near San Francisco, CA
- Joe O'Brien or Scott Gualiardo - Cool Bear Software - Fountain Valley, CA
- Anyone from Cheersoft other than Ian Rintel or Russ Sprague
- Lauren Guimont - East Side Computing - Kirkland, WA
- Aaron Sundberg - Farwest - Victoria, BC
- Wayne Magill - Microcom Communications Services - Irvine, CA
- Pam Stewart, Andy, Al, Luke, Robin, B. Scarbrough - Nth Degree / Crystal Quill - Alexandria, VA - T-Warped, Fire Fighter, Lords of Chaos and Order, etc
- Tony Javoric - Public Data Network - Grants Pass, OR - ChatLink

B. Companies where we don't even have a name:

- BBS Solutions - Seattle, WA - Roulette, User Bomb, Horoscope & More
- Inner Circle - Groveport, OH - CamelTron, Wastelands
- Infinity Software - Huntington Beach, CA - Post Modern Ages, Mailer, etc
- Master Designs - Springfield, MO - Catacombs, Show Me, Major Log, etc
- Micro Seller - Ardsley, NY - Anzamation UTI
- Pangaea Software - unknown location - The Guild, Wordblaze, Multiguess, etc

C. People we were in touch with, but lost touch and need to talk to again:

- Bert Rozenberg - Mountain Rose
- Sean Puckett - Codesmiths
- Rich Smith - BSI Technologies

D. Addons I've heard of but never seen or don't know whose they are (or if they were typos where I found reference to them):

- BeastWars
- Dreams
- Global Conquest
- Phantasia
- Rites of Passage
- Shadows
- The Maze

Thanks for any help - if you know someone who might know someone above, that helps too!
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Questman wrote:(Please create a new topic if you have information about one of these ISVs - this thread should just be for a list of who we are looking for)...

Where possible the format below is Name - Company - Location - Addons

A. People whose names we know:

- David J. McCloskey - CompuTel - was on Kilborn Ave in Ottawa, Ontario Canada - Forbidden Lands, Buccaneers, Cybertech, First Contact, Shogun
- Keith Miller (Cryalith, Firehopper), Ed Bush, Louis (unknown last name) - Logicom, worked with Don Arnel
- Robert E. Meyer - SilverWare (Prism BBS)
- Frank LaPiana - HighWaterMark - Highland Park, NJ
- Albert Boyle - Compass Rose - near San Francisco, CA
- Joe O'Brien or Scott Gualiardo - Cool Bear Software - Fountain Valley, CA
- Kevin Runion - Cow Creations - Altamont, NY
- Anyone from Cheersoft other than Ian Rintel or Russ Sprague
- Lauren Guimont - East Side Computing - Kirkland, WA
- Aaron Sundberg - Farwest - Victoria, BC
- Dan Hanson - Parallax - Sherwood Park, Alberta
- Wayne Magill - Microcom Communications Services - Irvine, CA
- Pam Stewart, Andy, Al, Luke, Robin, B. Scarbrough - Nth Degree / Crystal Quill - Alexandria, VA - T-Warped, Fire Fighter, Lords of Chaos and Order, etc
- Tony Javoric - Public Data Network - Grants Pass, OR - ChatLink

B. Companies where we don't even have a name:

- BBS Solutions - Seattle, WA - Roulette, User Bomb, Horoscope & More
- Inner Circle - Groveport, OH - CamelTron, Wastelands
- Infinity Software - Huntington Beach, CA - Post Modern Ages, Mailer, etc
- Master Designs - Springfield, MO - Catacombs, Show Me, Major Log, etc
- Micro City Systems - Regina, SK - ArenaSafe, Solitaire, etc
- Micro Seller - Ardsley, NY - Anzamation UTI
- Pangaea Software - unknown location - The Guild, Wordblaze, Multiguess, etc

C. People we were in touch with, but lost touch and need to talk to again:

- Bert Rozenberg - Mountain Rose
- Jeff Kobal - Psycho Software, Moonshae Telecomm
- Sean Puckett - Codesmiths
- Rich Smith - BSI Technologies

Thanks for any help - if you know someone who might know someone above, that helps too!
rick i could be wong but is mcclosky the developer from cowlands?
i think released some stuff early as cow creations?

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No, that was Kevin Runion from upstate New York. McCloskey was always McCloskey and CompuTel. Forbidden Lands I was actually released as a single player text adventure for DOS first.

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Questman wrote:No, that was Kevin Runion from upstate New York. McCloskey was always McCloskey and CompuTel. Forbidden Lands I was actually released as a single player text adventure for DOS first.

aaah ok, cause i found this mbs- text game, it was ok but tried contacting the guy who wrote it if anything get myself a reg# and cow creations nolonger existed. i dont know why but i thought it was Forbidden lands.

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Questman wrote:(Please create a new topic if you have information about one of these ISVs - this thread should just be for a list of who we are looking for)...

- Bert Rozenberg - Mountain Rose
I'm not Bert, but I did develop a few of the Windows clients for MR.
Mountain Mail, Encryption Manager, and something I think wasn't released, but was close to a finished product.

--john

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If you could help me get back in touch with Bert - maybe you contact him and tell him I'd like to get back in touch with him, I'd really appreciate it.

I haven't heard back from him in ages, and I'm not sure why.

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Questman wrote:If you could help me get back in touch with Bert - maybe you contact him and tell him I'd like to get back in touch with him, I'd really appreciate it.

I haven't heard back from him in ages, and I'm not sure why.
I would bet that you heard from him after I did... I haven't talked to Bert in years. He is still around (somewhere)... I see a shareware product he released (I released one too), but he has not made efforts to contact me.

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Questman wrote:(Please create a new topic if you have information about one of these ISVs - this thread should just be for a list of who we are looking for)...


C. People we were in touch with, but lost touch and need to talk to again:

- Bert Rozenberg - Mountain Rose

Thanks for any help - if you know someone who might know someone above, that helps too!
Bert has a site:

http://bbs.lekkerthuis.com/mambo/

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schizoid wrote:
Questman wrote:If you could help me get back in touch with Bert - maybe you contact him and tell him I'd like to get back in touch with him, I'd really appreciate it.

I haven't heard back from him in ages, and I'm not sure why.
I would bet that you heard from him after I did... I haven't talked to Bert in years. He is still around (somewhere)... I see a shareware product he released (I released one too), but he has not made efforts to contact me.

--john
the MR Mail that came with the WG 3.30 baseline is that one of yalls products or is that something NV developed seperately?

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dspain wrote:
the MR Mail that came with the WG 3.30 baseline is that one of yalls products or is that something NV developed seperately?
Yes. I wrote the MR_MAIL Windows client. It was actually a very heavily modified version of the GComm email client. I remember spending quite a bit of time looking at the source code, trying to figure out what was going on, then trying to cram the MR_ features into it.

I threw an Easter Egg in there as well. Can't remember what you have to do to see it, but so far, in all these years, no one has ever mentioned it, so I think it still is undiscovered.

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We seem to have lost touch with Datasafe... they used to be very responsive.

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Questman wrote:We seem to have lost touch with Datasafe... they used to be very responsive.
This is the last thing I can find for Dean Kerl, but the # is no good.

Kerl, Dean
Job title: Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
Company: Websoft
1345 E Main St, Ste 111

Mesa, AZ 85203-8961

(602) 890-1773

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Have you ever seen a picture of Dean Kerl or met Him? I doing the Search I found places where Dean Kerl and David Kerl were both referenced to that company called WebSoft. Maybe they are related.

Employee Directory - [Cached Version]
Published on: 3/14/2002 Last Visited: 3/14/2002
Dean Kerl, President & CEO Dean Kerl is a co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Websoft, Inc. Dean Kerl has intuitive grasp of emergingelectronic commerce on the Internet lead to the formation in 1996 of Websoft, Inc.His keen awareness of what Web merchants need for the successful implementation of their electronic commerce sites has been the vision behind Websoft's growth.

Employee Directory - [Cached Version]
Published on: 3/14/2002 Last Visited: 3/14/2002
David Kerl, Vice President of Operations David Kerl is a co-founder and Vice President of Websoft, Inc., with the responsibility for managing new business development, clientrelations, support services, corporate marketing, public relations, andstrategic business alliances.


There is a David Kerl that appears to be working in Colorado and a Company called Moncor , Inc. (http://www.moncor.com). Here is the picture of the guy on the Contacts Page.

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Have you ever reached Jeff Moriarty from High Velocity Software?

I found him on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... ffmoriarty

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List updated.

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Bert Rozenberg

http://www.mrose.nl/

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