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I been browsing this site for the last few months and finally decided to registered because the guy before my post did so too. One thing that needs to be fixed in these forums is something so stop these spams because they seem annoying from time to time.

Anyways I ran a WG2 system for a while but sold the license a long time ago after I sat it up and did a bunch of work to it and had several modules. I wouldn't mind running one again for giggles if I had a license at a data center that I own a rack of servers at but by browsing these forums it seems like WG is dead enough to waste the investment to spend thousands to get something decent going. If it was like a thousand for a decent amount of modules then it might just be worth doing as something to do.

Since setting up and running a BBS for a very short amount of time towards the end of the BBS times I been running a company taking some BBS idea's and putting them into the web to make things much more powerful and been very successful at doing so. Seems like now a days to me its hard getting a decent amount of people using a telnet to connect to see ANSI graphics or text when I have customers getting hundreds or even thousands of users signing in every day chatting, uploading/downloading files, posting forums, polls, classifieds and whatever else with just their web browser. Best of all there is no user limit on how many people can be signed in at once.

So what I am saying is there a way to get a WG system going for cheep these days for something to mess around with? I was a telearena guy, that game rocked for the time. I wouldn't mind helping people out for things I might know.

Well this post getting way to long, just rambling on, too many beers may do that sometimes, I'll let someone else respond or ignore me, hehe. Best of luck.

Dwagar wrote:I been browsing this site for the last few months and finally decided to registered because the guy before my post did so too. One thing that needs to be fixed in these forums is something so stop these spams because they seem annoying from time to time.

Anyways I ran a WG2 system for a while but sold the license a long time ago after I sat it up and did a bunch of work to it and had several modules. I wouldn't mind running one again for giggles if I had a license at a data center that I own a rack of servers at but by browsing these forums it seems like WG is dead enough to waste the investment to spend thousands to get something decent going. If it was like a thousand for a decent amount of modules then it might just be worth doing as something to do.

Since setting up and running a BBS for a very short amount of time towards the end of the BBS times I been running a company taking some BBS idea's and putting them into the web to make things much more powerful and been very successful at doing so. Seems like now a days to me its hard getting a decent amount of people using a telnet to connect to see ANSI graphics or text when I have customers getting hundreds or even thousands of users signing in every day chatting, uploading/downloading files, posting forums, polls, classifieds and whatever else with just their web browser. Best of all there is no user limit on how many people can be signed in at once.

So what I am saying is there a way to get a WG system going for cheep these days for something to mess around with? I was a telearena guy, that game rocked for the time. I wouldn't mind helping people out for things I might know.

Well this post getting way to long, just rambling on, too many beers may do that sometimes, I'll let someone else respond or ignore me, hehe. Best of luck.

coming back at the best time, i got a new tele-arena engine coming out that totally blows the old one out the water, but also have a wg2 version thats not got as many features but totally diff from the 1996 version.

Thanks, that sounds great. How much would it cost to get a WG NT version going these days anyways with a few games.

What I am thinking if I had a java based telnet client that can connect to a WG system built into our web community software so all of our clients can share the same game board BBS. That is one way to get some massive people on a BBS since we just sell the software and have a lot of hobby / entertainment customers with thousands of users and some of them will probably enjoy playing text games since we do not have many games, just a few simple flash games but nothing thats currently multi-player. That might be worth an investment to look at for the future.

Dwagar wrote:Thanks, that sounds great. How much would it cost to get a WG NT version going these days anyways with a few games.

What I am thinking if I had a java based telnet client that can connect to a WG system built into our web community software so all of our clients can share the same game board BBS. That is one way to get some massive people on a BBS since we just sell the software and have a lot of hobby / entertainment customers with thousands of users and some of them will probably enjoy playing text games since we do not have many games, just a few simple flash games but nothing thats currently multi-player. That might be worth an investment to look at for the future.

pricing for TA isnt ready yet til i get em 100% ready and ill send em to Elwynor Tech, [new owner of ta] and pricing will be set, i do have some other stuff for nt though like some globals, trivia, etc that isnt that expensive at all.