> I'd appreciate it if you not spread unverified "rumors"
about people in this
>echo.  While I've heard the same story, it was never collaborated with facts t
> me and to this day, no one has yet to do it.  Suffice to say Korombos
> disappeared amongst suspicious circumstances.
> 

I got the information from two reliable sources several years ago.  I've
even got PDF files that I downloaded from the Internet 3-4 years ago from
his criminal trial.  Both of the sources were personal friends of Korombos,
so they most definitely knew what they were telling me was true.  So its
NOT rumors.  If you'd like to see those PDF files, let me know and I'll
send them to you by email.  The court cases were held in Phoenix, Arizona,
if I remember correctly.  I wrote once to Korombos via his lawyer but never
got any response.  If you want to know who my sources were/are, I can tell
you via netmail or private email.

> Both DDIGM and ANGEL require a FOSSIL driver for DOS.  I'm not sure concering
> ANGEL and Windows.  I tried ANGEL, found it to be a hassle, and started using
> FKFOSSIL.  Much simpler than ANGEL and other doorkits I've tried...and it
> works.  FKFOSSIL is a good doorkit; IceEdit, IceChat (I believe all the Ice
> Technology doors) and TGWave (a Blue Wave clone program for Telegard) are all
> written using FKFOSSIL.

Who is the developer of the FKFossil program, and where can I get a
reliable, virus-free copy of the program?  The trouble with relying on
Google for searches for computer programs is that you could easily find
yourself on some criminal's web-site and be in danger of getting a virus or
trojan horse that might not yet be covered by your antivirus program. 

Its not exactly relevant, but this week CNET and other news sources
reported that a LOT of developers around the world have been victims of a
new virus that slips into Delphi-based program compilations.  As a result,
a lot of those Delphi authors are scrambling to get rid of the virus -
which is rated as extremely dangerous by Symantec and others.  I hope none
of you guys have been victims of this new virus infiltration.

> As for supporting LORD IGMs/programs, you're the only one I know of.  Hell, I
>don't even know if LORD's still supported (Michael, you reading this?). Haven'
>heard any news on that front in quite some time.  I'm running 3.26 (registered
> with a "league" key) but do own a legal 4.07 registration
that I got last
> winter.

I've never been able to figure out the current situation with Gameport,
which became much harder to do when they eliminated their Message Forums a
year or two ago.  One used to be able to go there and ask questions about
their programs, but I don't know how to do that any more.  And I never
figured out the Preslar situation either.  Did he drop out of the US Army
training program, or is he actively serving in some war zone now? Pretty
much everyone who's in the military is getting funneled into either Iraq or
Afghanistan, I understand, if they are healthy and combat-ready.

At any rate, I'm told that LORD is still being developed.  But when the
public never gets to see new compilations of programs from an author, and
that author is not accessible by normal means (Fidonet echo, Email), its
very easy for people to believe a program is abandoned sometimes.  Which
probably applies to a great number of programmers who don't work for some
name-brand company like Microsoft, who don't allow the public access to
betas of their work.

Eventually I suppose we will all have to give up on our LORD games, when we
get forced into using either Vista or Windows 7.  I understand that Vista
won't run LORD programs at all under DOS and its probably going to be the
same situation with Windows 7 as well.  So what will all of the BBS
programmers do then?  Keep old systems around that can run DOS and just use
them for their programming?  Or will they only do Windows programming or
Linux.  I have no idea if there is still much activity in the OS/2
programming environment.   Donald

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