> Can anyone name some good IGM's for LORD? Preferably ones that are for all
> ages.  > Thanks, > Scott > Lord Blue > The Realms Of Blue BBS
> blues.zapto.org

Send me an email at either gtidmore (at) hiwaay.net or ktidmore (at)
bellsouth.net, and I'll prepare a list of good igms for you.  If you want
igms that are still supported by their authors, there are only a few dozen.
Most of which belong either to me, Lloyd Hannesson, Marty Blankenship, Jay
Hodges, or to Bryan Turner.  Pretty much every other LORD author has given
up on supporting their igms.  Its been over two years now since anyone
besides me (and Jay Hodges) released any igms for the DOS LORD game.

All of my igms are for all ages of LORD users.  Some might need to be
played with LORD in Clean Mode if the users are children.  On the other
hand, if they can handle LORD itself, then they should be able to handle my
igms.  Otherwise, they have no business playing the LORD game I believe. 
It was pretty much created for teenagers and adults if I recall correctly.

There are something around 250 or so LORD IGms counting only their last
released versions.  Of those igms, though, pretty much 80 percent of them
are either 100% dead igms or abandoned igms.  Their authors can't be
located or they don't provide support for their programs.  In some cases,
the authors of dead igms have been found by me or others, but reported that
they no longer had the program's source code.  If you want only igms that
can be registered, there are around a dozen LORD IGm authors that you can
rely  upon.  And the number keeps dwindling as time goes by, and people get
the impression that the LORD game has been abandoned by both Michael
Preslar and by Gameport.  Many have had so much hassle getting LORD 4.07 to
work under DOS/Windows or under OS/2 that they simply gave up on the game,
after they found it impossible to get technical support for the game. This
is based on what I've read here on Fidonet, and on Preslar's web-site.
Basically since Gameport doesn't really care about LORD since it makes
little money form the game, they won't even try to give you technical
support.  At least that's how I've heard things from a lot of people over
the last couple of years.

The situation with LORD II and Wildcat Tournament Lord is even worse, where
both games are considered to be dead by many people.  WT-Lord is definitely
dead since the author can't recreate the game, due to having lost pretty
much all of its source code over the years.  Plus no one now makes any
WT-Lord igms at all, since Joseph Watson disappeared over 18 months ago.

Give me some idea of your criteria for what a "good igm" is when
you respond. If its an igm that is supported by someone today, expect the
list to be around 3 to 4 dozen igms in all.  And of those authors, I have
not heard a thing from over half of them in well over a year.  Pretty much
every one of them has officially retired from doing BBS programming of any
kind. Donald

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