>> I've had that happen before, in a fairly old version. . . what ver. you
>> running?
> L.O.R.D. 4.07 -- the latest one. I know that 4.08 is in beta, but I'm
> not beta testing anything L.O.R.D. Related...except for the L.O.R.D.
> Holidays IGM that Donald Tidmore is doing.  > Daryl

It would be hard for anyone to update to LORD's various v4.08 betas,
including DOS LORD, since it appears that Michael Preslar is no longer
sending beta archives to anyone, I have been told.  At least one person who
wanted to update from v4.07 to v4.08 never got any assistance from Michael,
who  appears to have abandoned all support of the LORD games.  And no one
who does have a v4.08 LORD beta is allowed to distribute their copy to
others.

It has been over six months since LORD was re-released as 4.08 beta, for
DOS LORD, LORD for Windows, LORD for OS/2, and LORD for Linux, back in the
last week of September 2006.  Since that time, no one seems to know why the
games seem to have been abandoned, and are not being worked on  at all. 
And no one can get any answers from the Lordlegacy web-site I have noticed,
which has not been updated since June 2006 as to its News page.

It took one registered LORD user several months to get their logon ID info
from Preslar for access to the LordLegacy Forums, which also appear to have
been left unattended in recent months.  It is possible that Metropolis
Gameport did not want LORD to be worked on any more for some reason.  There
are a lot of unanswered questions being asked about this situation by many
people.

And there are several glitches in v4.08 beta that need to be fixed that
should have been taken care of months ago.  There are several parts of LORD
that are not functional because of programming glitches, which are related
to the problem you have encountered in LORD 4.07 about it crashing when it
could not find an LORDANSI.DAT file.  Which is not inside any of the LORD
archives, either for DOS LORD 4.07 or DOS LORD 4.08 beta.

In the Dark Cloak Tavern in the LORD Forest, for instance, it is impossible
to change your Skill Class with its bartender.  When one tries to use that
menu option, nothing happens.  The ansi code for that skill class change
appears to be intact in the LORD 4.08 beta LORDTXT.DAT file, but for some
reason LORD fails to make use of it.  Things like that may not be major
problems, but the users of LORD deserve to have them fixed eventually.

If we are lucky, maybe we will learn answers some day as to why the LORD
games have been left unattended for all these months.  In the meantime, we
are all forced to just live with the glitches and LORD crashes. Donald.

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