> Donald...
> I got the runtime patched versions of Maldorf's Mountain, and Talent
> For The Skill. But, even though they're freeware, the registration
> information isn't showing up for my BBS. Will just your name and Castle
> Camelot work for those??
> ---
> ¤ OLX 1.53 ¤ Real Sysops put a BBS up as a service...NOT an ego trip!!

Maldorf's Mountain is also a dead igm.  It, along with Aladdin's Palace IGM
and Show Conversations utility, were written by Devon Brooks.  I have been
unable to locate him anywhere in the past 2+ years of searching for lost
Lord/BBS authors.  At any rate, even if he had been found, he could not
legally authorize me or anyone else to distribute updates of any kind for
his programs.  He had sold everything he did BBS-wise to Korombos, who is
in prison for attempted murder in Arizona.  No one knows what Korombos did
with his computer software.  Doug Rhea tried to contact him in the prison
and never got any response.  If I recall right, his real name is David
Lambert or something like that.

I simply made RTE200 patches of various Lord programs and made them
available for others to use.  Over time, most of them have been authorized
for official distribution by Lord authors I've found, who found me, or who
Doug Rhea located.  If my patch archives save someone the hassle of dealing
with EXE files that are sometimes compressed with PKllite, etc, and  which
have RTE200, then my work was worthwhile to someone.

Don't assume that I am the author of programs unless I specifically say
that I am, just because I did rte200 patches of  Lord programs.  These
igms, that I will list below, have Non-Distribute status.  Some were
patched for RTE200 and  verified as working either by myself or by other
Lord users to sent their patched 
archives to me.

I repeat, I do NOT have legal right to distribute these, but will allow others to
have them upon email request.  They are available online at the Nightfall
Games server Lord site because its owner, Michael Everett, had no problem
with hosting
ALL of my RTE200 patch programs unless their author made objection.  Since those
authors, with three exceptions noted below, can't be located to this day, no one 
has made any such objections.

Aladdin's Palace 2.01 patch, Dragon's breath Mountain v7.4 patch, The Graveyard

3.40 patch, Jenny's Kitchen 1.5 patch, Kanen's Lotto Hut 1.10 patch,
Maldorf's  Mountain 2.60 patch, Pleasant Valley 1.00 beta (not rte200),
TeamLord rte200 patch, and Zephyr Town Square 0.9a patch.

Exceptions data:
I never got around to doing an RTE200 patch of the Kanen igm's v1.11
archive. Marc Ryan, the author of Pleasant Valley, was not satisfied with
his work and he
removed it from distribution a couple of years ago.  Plus he never finished its

development before losing interest in Lord programming.  TeamLord belongs
to  Michael Preslar.  He has copy of the Teamlord patch archive, but has
never posted it online for download anywhere that I know of.  He is the
only one with

the legal right to distribute TeamLord, therefore I don't try to do so with
the patch 
I have -- which I did not do personally.  Whether or not TeamLord is ever updated 
again, is up to Preslar to decide.  

I'm hoping I can find the author of the Zephyr igm and The Magic Shoppe - Stephen 
Oberholtzer - with Ken Davis's help, but to date have had no luck on that author.
I have minimal source code used with Magic Shoppe from Ken Davis, but it is
a skeleton framework that does nothing, which Ken used to create The
Village Hut.

The Graveyard's author was found by Doug Rhea and he lost the source code 
years ago.  Its a dead igm.  The author of Jenny's Kitchen requested that
NO ONE
distribute any versions of his igm which he was disappointed in.  Consider
it a dead igm as a result.

I am now the author of The Village Hut, which Ken Davis has turned over to
me, and I am working on updating it to use standard DDIGM/DDPLus coding.
The igm is available for beta testing if others wish to help with testing.
Contact me via email at ktidmore{at}bellsouth.net or gtidmore{at}hiwaay.net. If
neither address works for you, use donald.tidmore{at}usa.net which is my
long-term permanent email account.

Currently, Michael Preslar is handling update of LordNet program personally
as he has stated earlier this fall in this Lord echo, due to fact that a
whole lot
of it uses proprietry Lord coding.   I don't know the story on that unless
Seth Robinson allowed Joseph Masters special access to LORD source code to
create that program years ago.  I have no idea if Preslar has anyone else
working on updates of his other Lord programs that he acquired the rights
to from Joseph Masters.  He had entrusted all of the J.M. programs to Chris
Martino who as everyone should know by now disappeared from sight in late
May 2005.  His Oddware web-site then disappeared the next month. I don't
know if Chris kept Michael updated with source code from his work on the JM
programs, but I do know that he failed to do so with my programs that he
was doing Lord/32 versions of for me.  Martino was, and is, a huge
disappointment and a big example of how NOT to handle other people's
computer software.

If you want to bring old igms back to life, and are interested in updating Joseph
Masters's programs, you can always ask Preslar to let you update them.  He
can be reached in various ways, including through this LORD echo, and via
email at mike{at}lordlegacy.com.   Donald

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