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Questman

Hi,

We upgraded the forum software from 2.0.x to 3.3. About 15 years of upgrades. Enjoy!

Questman

Dan: spot on. We need to combine forces not splinter into individual projects for individual reasons. That's always been the thing that kept this from moving forward. Everyone had their own agenda and goals.

Questman

Not a ton. We are trying to get things back to normal and make everything available again. It'd be nice to have a single download with all the updated DLLs and such in place, so there's some work toward that.

Honestly, if I could raise 6-8k I would open source the entire baseline and widen the ...

Questman

Hey folks... the failure of the server that was hosting us was two fold - the drive died, they didn't have a mirror... and worse, they never setup backup despite us requesting it.

So I had to rebuild everything from the backups that fortunately I saved when I build THAT server. But it cost us 2 ...

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Yes. I'm working with the ISP on it. Known issue, but seems to be intermittent. Really fast right now, for example.

Questman

Note that the copyright is Soft Arts' ...

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Quest of the Alchemists I and II are mine, too, as is Quest for Magic (and Robowars as I said in my other post) which has been available for WGNT for years

. Check my website.

Questman

just finished portinf forbidden lands to wgnt.

currently working on porting:

Forbidden Lands II, Sea Battle, RoboWars, Tetris, Trivia, Grafitti Wall, and Global Commands.

Oops, wish you had spoken to me. I've ported all of these already.

Note: Robowars is an Elwynor product -- already ...

Questman

No. Make sure that Sysop grants you access to the Sysop forums too -- that's what I'm really interested in

Questman

It's not working. I think I have to bounce the entire server - Hurricane Sandy DID knock out the datacenter briefly and when it came back up it was messed up.

I'm just too lazy to bounce it right now

Questman

I know, totally. It's gotten slowed down repeatedly. Then, this summer I had a lot of travel. Still have travel each month through end of January 2013, too, and quite a bit on my plate.

I agree with you on the changes although right now, priority 1 is just to get the original game out on the ...

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I wrote an NNTP toss specifically for dovenet a few years ago and it was working nicely. Let me dig and see if I can find it.

I hate to offer anything free because everyone in the Worldgroup Niche tends to want $9000,0000,000 for everything. I might work with some trades or something.

That's ...

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Hmm - do you have your DNS server's IP address in GALDNS.MSG?

Questman

When did the board go down and when did it come back online? What could have changed between then and now? What are the time periods in each case?

Just odd that this is happening of a sudden. How often is this happening?

Questman

Joe (CCS) had it working via NNTP but he hasn't been on the boards in a while.

Questman

Most people on the WL server are 3.3...

Questman

I could but then I couldn't get through the day. I get a TON of email.

Questman

But, 5.5 is hardly "modern"

Ideally it'd work with gcc since that'd provide better cross-platform support.

Questman

Excellent progress. I'm hoping once we sort the code out completely and it's working 100% we can perhaps extend the map and do some work toward adding more stuff. Will get with you ASAP - sorry, I know I'm slow.

Questman

Wait, TA2 is functional. Just has a short map. Arenas work.

TA1 on the same codebase requires changes. I have TA1 latest maps working on my test box with all 3 town arenas working (didn't test 4th town) but there's an issue where TA2's engine reduces stats on resurrection from death where TA1 didn ...

Questman

MailLink was MajorNet. It's no different, really, than Worldlink so it's been superseded at this point.

DBSMail was a great module that tossed Fido networks while the BBS was up but the author looked for it and alas it was lost.

Questman

Did you be sure to set the DNS server IP address in the configuration? It won't dial without it.

You don't need approval to use worldlink.themajorbbs.com - the first time you connect it'll create the account for your BBS.

Questman

Dan - I know I have too many f'ing email addresses!!!!!!

Questman

5.5 compiles the entire 3.3 system. I've used it for some time.

Questman

We gotta find time to sit down again and finish this off, Ven.

Questman

We gotta find time to sit down again and finish this off, Ven.

Questman

My thing is that I want to have the "original" games out there. The purpose of the restoration project was to find, restore, and make available all of the old original modules that I could find.

A new game engine is well and good and familiar weapons, monsters, rooms, etc is good too, but it still ...

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I'm going to reach out to Nate. There's got to be a good solution that makes everyone happy and serves all comers.

It's just a matter of whether or not he's willing. I know what I'm willing to offer.

Questman

Yep. Would appreciate your feedback, for sure.

Questman

I think you're both right, but we should try to moderate topics enough so that people interested in reading a topic know what to expect. We should try to keep focused on Galacticomm software too.

TWGS etc still is relevant, but mainly with running it with/from WG. I'm not out to do what NetVillage ...

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No, Don was going to work on it but he's been very ill. Do you have something for us on Wilderlands?

Mutants - I'm hesitant to do clones because while the gameplay may look similar the actual routines are the nerve center of the game. If we do different routines that calculate things differently or ...

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If you are, or you know someone who is, an experienced C AND C++ developer, please get in touch with us. There are a great many things we'd like to do with the software and for the community but while we have lots of enthusiasm the one place where we lack a depth is the C/C++ team.

There's likely ...

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Arena's don't all work yet - we know the solution from when you and I were working on this last time but we're testing individual changes one at a time.

Questman

you need to send me all of em and let me fix em, just saying but to make your priority list short here we go:

Tele-Arena 5.6d (GOLD) - i have recreated this module just need to get Rick around to getting it distributed on all platforms

I know, we have to work it out. But it is NOT 5.6d -- 5.6d ...

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Anyone who disputes easily discovered facts... well, I don't know what to say to them.

I've provided the entire chain. Since the early/mid 90s, Tim Stryker signed all of the company as collateral on major loans to expand Galacticomm's business. When he died and his widow sold to Yannick Tessier and ...

Questman

dspain wrote:
Questman wrote:Note that if your BBS connects to WorldLink you can use the forums! You don't need prior approval. We're just trying to keep track of who is who.
sent ya an email at your gmail on a unrelated matter.
try and get back to me as soon as ya got a free sec.

I didn't get it?

Questman

Note that if your BBS connects to WorldLink you can use the forums! You don't need prior approval. We're just trying to keep track of who is who.

Questman

Oh, I forwarded it to OhASys. Don't send the info to me... I'm too backlogged. OhASys was handling this.

Rick

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Yes. This is not the v5.6c code that is available on the Internet nor the 5.6d source that was the basis for the popular 5.6d "gold" edition that people know of. It's a later iteration of the same code. Tele-Arena II exclusively used this code base, but the BBS world died before TA1 world was ...

Questman

No. Worldlink is fairly complicated; it's an extension of the stock teleconference. It'd take significant modification to make it run in another teleconference.

Questman

JSON is easy. Superior storage format to relational, especially if you're using C++ and objects.

Questman

Dan that's cool if you send me yours I will add what I changed so yours will work too.

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List updated.

Questman

I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just making statements in general.

As for Mutants, they refuse to sell. I've tried, as I have it and have it working on NT.

Questman

Hate Flash and Flex. Awful.

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I do sell new licenses for a nominal fee to hobbyists.

Questman

oh and btw theres not alot of people out there that have done for wg what i have done, the contributions, the hours of modifying some baseline code for a specific sysops needs, trust me i do my part to revive the product, but the community itself is dying off slowly cause we waste too much time ...

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1) what part of the "leaked" (god i laugh at the term leaked as does Sean)
source code runs outside of the worldgroup api?

I'm glad you and Sean are buddy-buddy.

It's not relevant that the code doesn't run outside of Worldgroup; the essence of the game are the routines and the things they do ...

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