For Russell Tiedt:  

> 19 Jul 03 21:43, you wrote to me:
RT>>> All suggestions/pointers welcome, got LORD (ver. 4.06) running from
RT>>> it's BAT file, but am not having any luck getting it to run from
RT>>> the DOORS menu. (MBSE    BBS - Linux)

Try writing Email to Michael Preslar -- mike{at}lordlegacy.com, and he will be
the best at assisting you with getting Lord to run on your system,
probably.  He's also the one you have to write to anyway if you want to try
the LORD 4.07 beta, which is a lot more stable than LORD 4.06 is. v4.06 is
the only official version of LORD at this time, but it has various
usability problems.  Such as the "text-eating bug" and the
"cpu monopolization bug".  Both of which are now fixed, along
with the "lord crashes when maint.bat runs bug".  At least the
latter is fixed if you are running Lord in local mode.  

>> Max:  There is also a >> huge selection of IGMs for LORD (they add 
in the "Other Places" menu), >> you'd have to drop a note
to Donald Tidmore  for suggestions, but I'd >> definitally go with
Barak's House, Turgon's  House, Felicity's Temple, > Warrior Graveyard,
and a few more.

Did I notice my name?  Yep.  OK-dokey.  Will try to be short (for me). See
http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/camelot6.htm.  Every program listed
on that page is fully usable on a BBS.  Although I can't promise they all
work under Linux, since I've never used Linux.  But if you are able to run
most MS-Dos programs, they should all work.  Majority of them need either
the DOS ANSI.SYS device driver, the LINUX-equivalent if there is one, or
the PC Magazine ANSI.COM utility program.  You'll only need the latter if
you use Windows NT-based operating systems.

If someone needs ANSI.COM, it is available in MiscFile directory on the
Camelot LordNews FDN - www.filegate.net/camelot.  Or you can wade through a
lot of pages on the PC Magazine - www.pcmag.com - web-site searching for 
it.  You only need it if you use a Windows-NT based O/S or Windows ME.

> IGM's I gather are like "plugin's" for BBS door games, do
these also have to
> be registered like LORD, if so, could make this a expensive
"trip", quiet
> quickly. 

The majority of the LORD igms are not supported. Therefore you won't be
able to register them, even if you wanted to do so.  For the most part,
something like 60+ percent of the shareware-based igms for LORd can not be
registered because one can not find the author.  There are a couple of
dozen Lord authors who can be contacted, most of whom will happily take
your money.  You will find some of them right here, such as Bryan Turner,
Marty Blankenship, Paul Koukos, and Ken Weitzel, to name a few.

All of my personal Lord programs are totally free.  As are the igms that I
am developing for Jason Brown and Chris MacPherson.  If you want a lot more
details on Lord situation, do the following things.

1) Starting with Lordnews #13, which I will eventually officially publish,
you can read up on current (October 2002 - June 2003) Lord news events.
http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/ccigm-13.htm

Then moving backward, read the previous issues.  There are 13 in all. If
you are REALLY into Lord news, then read the issues that Bryan Turner
prepared.  Copies are available from my Lord web-pages, in two archives.

2) Send me Netmail at 1:123/450 in Fidonet.  Or write me via Email, using
one of these addresses.  dtidmore{at}hiwaay.net, ktidmore{at}bellsouth.net, or
donald.tidmore{at}usa.net.  

3 and 4)  Visit the Castle Camelot web-site and check all the LORD-related
web-pages.  Then visit my Kiteria's Korner web-site, which I maintain for
my old friend Suzanne Franklin.  If anyone besides me, Preslar, or Bryan
Turner can be called Lord "gurus", it is Suzanne.  But she is not
available these days due to poor health.  see
http://www.fidotel.com/public/kiteria/.

I'm moving back to full use of the usa.net account for most of my mail, but
will be using the hiwaay.net account for Lord-related mail in most cases.  

I started out composing a response in Wordpad for your message.  It ended
up at 19 Kb, and I decided to try it again.  I tend to write long messages
a lot of the time, which everyone on this echo can attest to .

Am still on "siesta" from Lord programming.  Am struggling to get
used to the various glitches one has to deal with from Windows XP.  The
biggest aggravation being the failure of pkzip/pkunzip to handle long
filenames. Which is just plain maddening.  I think they (PKware) like the
situation, since it probably means more people will have to register/buy
the Pkzip for Windows Command Line/GUI programs now.  Donald

http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/lordapps.htm - Lord Apps Page.
-- Officially released IGms by myself or maintained for others by me.

http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/igm-beta.htm - Castle Camelot Lord
betas page.  If you don't mind being a guinea pig, you'll find this page
worth visiting.  But I'm biased, so of course I'd think that .
Donald.

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