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Toyduck

good news for those sysops that been having trouble sending smtp email from their wg system.

i updated the GALSMTP addon to now support authentication to your isp smtp server to send emails.

i tested this using comcast and did it as follows:

in your smarthost field put: smtp.comcast.net

then ...

Toyduck

good news for those sysops that been having trouble sending smtp email from their wg system.

i updated the GALSMTP addon to now support authentication to your isp smtp server to send emails.

i tested this using comcast and did it as follows:

in your smarthost field put: smtp.comcast.net

then ...

Toyduck

dspain wrote:i am lookign for people who are familiar with some of the earlier TW games created by Chris Sherrick and John Morris, i created a TW2 module using the basic source, and the pascal source and want someone to test it that was familiar with the game.

Do you have it up and running somewhere?

Toyduck

cool as soon as i finish up the Tradewars II addon ill compile a fresh build.

Great, say when

Toyduck

i did but not alot of interest in someone wanting to test it.

it was basic with a small town all shops working and a small path to a graveyard and a graveyard where you could fight zombies and skeletons.

added alot of custom systems not found in alot of existng muds for wg like crafting and ...

Toyduck

Did you ever finish your general MUD engine? Not related to any of the existing MUDs?

i did but not alot of interest in someone wanting to test it.

it was basic with a small town all shops working and a small path to a graveyard and a graveyard where you could fight zombies and skeletons ...

Toyduck

not stuck with the stock world too lazy to make a new one, i actually put together a story, created on paper a brand new world, new races, new classes, etc.... and was gonna collaberate with Rick to release Tele-Arena III: The Aftermath in which a cataclysmic event wiped out the old world storms ...

Toyduck

frcorey wrote:that site bbs documentary has post that 125 meg hacked mbbs setup on the file area.
didnt know they posted hacked and cracked versions.

It's been online for quite some time, at least a couple of years.

Toyduck

Montroze wrote:
Toyduck wrote:
Montroze wrote: (yep back to 3096)

3096?

Stock rooms 3096.

Oh, ok, now I'm back with ya...

Toyduck

Montroze wrote:Would anyone happen to have a clean editor, taking out Sean's Red X'ed cells and possibly empty cells. Have to start over seeing I may have a spare 5 years! lol (yep back to 3096)

3096?

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rmaniac wrote: Thank you for all that stuck with me through this post.

Thanks for the post. Although it is a might long to quote

You bring up a lot of good points. I just hope some of this 'old school' software lasts long enough for the new generation to finally discover it.

Toyduck

Montroze wrote:Damm, I thought that was the problem, still getting ' incorrect dos version' any ideas

What version of WG are you running?

Toyduck

Pen wrote:I am still running an old VopMail ver 5 server and wish to move it to a new virtual PC.

Does anyone have a copy of the "How to move VopMail" instructions?

Thanks.

Is this usefull?

http://kbase.vircom.com/kbase/default.a ... ang=1&SID=

Toyduck

Yes its from an icon. I'm aware of the service icon thing. This I believe has something to do with it running on a 64bit os I believe.

Interesting. I don't have a 64bit server running, but I don't remember the same problem with 64bit XP which I ran for awhile on a desktop. I will have to recheck ...

Toyduck

Ok so I installed Worldgroup on a Windows 2008 R2 server 64 Bit. Which it works fine but when I go to do the old school console window reg hack its not where it says it is located its under the wow64 section and if I put the key in there it doesnt change the console. Anyone experience this and is ...

Toyduck

I see a lot of open source software that is no longer being developed or even worked on. Open source isn't always the answer.

Besides, open sourcing WG, if that happened, doesn't solve the problem ISV modules that are no longer being updated, such as MajorMUD.

I think you missed my point. It's ...

Toyduck

Hey folks! It has been a long time but I thought I'd poke my head in and see how things are going.

All I can do is shake my head and laugh at all the legal issues and money grabbing that are happening in this community. ALTHOUGH super interesting, it makes me sad to see that things haven't changed ...

Toyduck

Here are a couple of links detailing the trademarks and company that owns them (Gameport, Metro, plus a few more)

http://www.trademarkia.com/majormud-75731103.html

http://www.trademarkia.com/company-ms-electronics-llc-834439-page-1-2

Those are for MajorMUD... I'm looking for MegaMUD... the ...

Toyduck

Well I have tried with countless rejected emails, wrong phone numbers, and lost trails from where others have directed me... so I'm hoping someone knows who wrote MegaMUD, and how to get a hold of the guy...

I have a user or two every week asking me how to register the program because they can't ...

Toyduck

Iceman wrote:
My single dialup modem left still works perfect though! good ole USRobotics courier external box of love! 20 years its the only thing that hasn't failed me... 9600 baud if you must know.

I love it! I still have 3 external USRobitcs 2400 baud modems that work great...

Toyduck

There are workarounds. I do believe the 256 users is program limited, it might be because of the old 16 bit system support. I am not sure. Questman or someone else might be able to answer that question.

I'm not sure where the fix should be, the GSBL or the actual BBS code. Moving to 32bit NT did ...

Toyduck

So I had to do something to give everyone a chance at getting items, and having a reason to play half the game...

I call it... MajorMUD Lite... casually play without frustration... it does remove some risk/reward aspects but these days I see there is a larger crowd who wants one easy thing in ...

Toyduck

This is the part where not being a programmer puts me at the mercy of others heh... from my knowledge the past few decades, the limit was always a DOS limit carried over with btrieve... I was even checking out the unix version which in theory should break away from this entirely, but it appears ...

Toyduck

You are the one being Arrogant Boogoo, trust me. I simply asked what support are you willing to offer and how to help the community and you replied nothing. How is that me being arrogant? Trust me I have done extremely a lot for this community esp. in the area of Majormud, as well as built ...

Toyduck

I am one of those ISVs from the past that cause a lot of lot of bandwidth to be consumed as folk discuss their problems with WG modules, their need for activation codes, support, etc. I recently discovered this site by accident and though I would take a peek to see what goes on in here.

Hi and ...

Toyduck

Various answers for various people... mostly so they can get larger characters and go on boss hunts with other people... the larger you are the bigger the bosses you can socially go attack... some systems let people get 2x 4x 10x the exp normally provided just so people can get the instant ...

Toyduck

I'm certain 99% of majormud players use scripts... http://ods.ods.net/megamud.html is basically what most are using... I tweaked the install package to be configured to telnet immediately and added my bbs so all they have to do is click connect... before it was setup by default to use dialup ...

Toyduck

Well all this still requires running multiple worldgroups... worldgroup has a 256 user limit, so all the modules have a 256 user limit... I just don't want to run multiple systems, one is time consuming enough with this many users, I don't want to double the work with a second... plus none of the ...

Toyduck

Do you have the ability to run a second system yourself? I'm not sure how the licensing for MajorMUD works in that respect.

There are a number of other free systems active; however their worlds/environments may be different.

Well as far as I always understood all of the license agreements... I ...

Toyduck

So anyone have any ideas on what to do once I hit 256 users sometime in the next couple months it appears if the trend keeps going...

Is there a list of free BBS's still active (all I can find is turbosentry.org) so I can at least add some message when someone signs up as new and is rejected, so ...

Toyduck

@toyduck: Yep, the jungle.net looks like a netvillage, but the terminal version is actually a nice BBS first impression...

Actually, both the web and terminal interface's are pretty nice. It's obvious some work has been put into it.

Yea, I would hate to send $$ for MMUD to Metro only to have ...

Toyduck

- Metro (crosswordz@239$ says it all)

Oh the "2012 copyright" on metros pages is just something that appears on lots of their websites automatically... mod9 is so old it went off to college and called saying it can't find a job and is moving back home now to live in the basement.

Agreed. All ...

Toyduck

"marc@jungle.net" replied back, but he referred me to nate hammond @ netvillage.com. Maybe a buyout ?

Waiting for a reply from nate.

BTW, if anyone knows how to extract the (encrypted?) PAK file inside dialsoft demos, I just can't even test them, you need an activation code....

Maybe, if you ...

Toyduck

Actually no I haven't even tried contacting Metro....prices way too high, I understand their "strategy", but ...

I know they are active b/c:
- MODULE 9: Prophecy of Plague is 2012
- Majormud is still hugely popular (ODS knows about it :-D

I'm more interested from all the less-known ISVs (if any ...

Toyduck

I have a hard time trying to reach whoever selling away WG stuff...

My list of active ISV stops at:
- Elwynor (rick's pretty busy, but responds)
- Metro (crosswordz@239$ says it all)
- Arctic (dan really responsive !)

My question: Anyone else still selling/giving stuff ?

- Tried contacting ...

Toyduck

dspain wrote: the mud engine i got, got several actually.

my latest i did before i did the tele-arena remake actually supports web and terminal.

Does it allow play via the web in lieu of terminal mode?

How much and details?

Toyduck

problem is noone puts out any ideas of something they want, all ya get is titles of old products, and there isnt too many developers gonna invest too much time into something new if there is no audience for it, ya get the same ole requests ...

Trivia, Tele-Arena, MajorMud.

Actually I would ...

Toyduck

problem is noone puts out any ideas of something they want, all ya get is titles of old products, and there isnt too many developers gonna invest too much time into something new if there is no audience for it, ya get the same ole requests ...

Trivia, Tele-Arena, MajorMud.

Actually I would ...

Toyduck

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 ...

Toyduck

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

The slowness I experience seems to conincide with network use here in Vegas; evenings when most are home and probably online is when it seems the slowest. Mornings the fastest.

Toyduck

Well, it's back up now!

Toyduck

Montroze wrote:Anyone else noticing the slow loading of the forums? Thought it might have been from my wireless laptop, but on mainputer still slow ??

Yes, I've noticed it off and on for the past week. Particularly mid afternoon PST.

Toyduck

Well that worked using the IP of the server, it just doesn't work with my no-ip address (?) but this should be ok doing it this way, at least I can use the programs. Thanks

Are you working behind a router only? If both computers (server and workstation) are behind the same router, you would need ...

Toyduck

actually my board is sort of private for now, it's really plain ugly, just playing with it :-)

I updated the nntpimport.py some more with a very-beta Post functionality.
It seems that when users (R)eply to msgs forums, a new file is dropped in folder c:\wgserv\nntpout and WG try to send it to ...

Toyduck

Hi Toyduck,

Sent you both utilities on your BBS yesterday (gmail refuses me to send you a package containing an EXE, I shipped UNZIP.EXE with galfilin_helper because it needs it to extract fileId.diz and desc.sdi...

BTW while testing w/ different news server, I found one causing bugs with ...

Toyduck

Hi Toyduck,

I agree, it's not worth it to invest any effort into tinkering with old CD-BBS imports into MajorBBS...
That's why I wanted something that automate the process..

Of course, even the whole point of using file libs today is arguable... I don't think much people still use syncterm ...

Toyduck

Hi guys,

I just got my account yesterday, thanks Rick, these forums are really useful for WG fans.

BTW, I have done two little utilities, no big deal but I'd say they help me appreciate what I always didn't like in majorbbs: filelibs and forums.
Just ask if you want a copy !

1- GALFILIN ...

Toyduck

Nevermind. Working now, not sure why it wasn't before.

Sometimes I think it's the ISP, although I have no idea why. At one location (my server room) I can only connect using the original module for Worldlink, not Questman's new one.

Yet I took (with some effort) my WG machine to my office and a ...

Toyduck

Montroze wrote:Well I'm not so lucky and am basically broke, I guess if I opened these type of emails I couldbe set for life...but I never open this garbage and delete it.!
I don't open spam.

Aren't we all basically broke? Otherwise we would be cruising the Caribbean eh?

Toyduck

Wait until they ask you for a small "release" fee up front.

Release Fee :cry:

Oh my :shock:

yeah, last year I won 26 million in a email lottery.
but they wouldnt release the funds to me until I paid a transfer fee of 2500.00 up front.
I bet they just found another sucker and took thier money ...

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