Hey Alan!

Jun 15 17:06 06, Alan Ianson wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 AI> That would be a good place to look too.. I did run the hangman from 
 AI> the
 AI> bsd games package as a door here at one time. It runs fine. It would 
 AI> just
 AI> need a bit of nice ansi color and the ability to keep a score file so
 AI> I guess it would need to read door.sys.

That shouldn't be too hard to do.  Why the need for door.sys?  The only
things that need that are broken and/or abandonware dos door stuff.  I
thought you were running a linux BBS?!?!?!?!?!  What gives?

Heh, heh.  I know, I am a bad, bad boy.

Anyhow the ansi output could be achieved methinks.  Same with the score
file.  I doubt anyone really needs a door.sys file.  That just complicates
things when there are far better ways of achieving a better result using
native linux apps yeilding the exactly needed information as opposed to a
faked out silly control type file.  DOS-think.  Tsk, tsk.  Shame on you!!!

 AI> Going a little further if we could share the score file among 
 AI> intersted
 AI> nodes we'd have an interbbs hangman game.

Should be easily doable.  If fortune can be ftn networked then why not hangman?

 AI> Someone would have to keep
 AI> score, take in score files from connected boards and send out updated
 AI> scores.

Sounds to me like you're talking yourself into a job.

 AI> Taking it one step further it could communicate via the chat server
 AI> (or something like that) and players on different boards could play
 AI> in real time. How are your coding skills? :)

Not bad.  To be honest I think this might be good practice and testing for
the new 64-bit Arena I need to do yet.  I could use that to initially write
the code and test it, then once we're all happy with it, turn it over to
gcc and let it chew on it for awhile.

 MK>> I miss him.

 AI> Yep, so do I. He was an intersting sort, very helpful if anyone was
 AI> having difficulty with anything.

Yeah.  The only help he gave me was suckering me back into the nodelist and
letting me play with BC sysop's message base.  I doubt too many would be
thankful about that eh?  Having said that, he was definetly one of the good
guys.  No doubt about that here.

Life is good,
Maurice

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