Mulling over Donald Tidmore to Steve Asher 02 Aug 2004

Hi Donald...

>> You can get copy of lord406.zip from the 
>> www.nightfallgames.com/files/ web-site, from its Programs
>> directory.

> I will check it out.

Hmm... I tried that address, but no lord406.zip, but a google search
did locate it elsewhere.

 DT> One thing I ought to mention is that I patched my personal copies
 DT> of the LORD version archives a couple of years ago when I got into 
 DT> Lord game playing again. At a later time, the Lordlegacy site was 
 DT> closed down permanently by Preslar, and there was at
 DT> that time, no central location to obtain Lord programs from any
 DT> more.  Michael Everett and I discussed that situation and he 
 DT> offered to host a new Lord Archives site, and I took care of 
 DT> posting my entire, non-private, Lord collection to the new server,
 DT> which is http://www.nightfallgames.com/files/ .  

 DT> That included my personal copies of the Lord versions.  So when 
 DT> someone gets those files, they don't have to mess with
 DT> rte200 patching themselves, since those lord versions are already
 DT> patched.   

 DT> I noticed that you run DOS apps under OS/2.  Unless things changed
 DT> since the last time Preslar told me anything on situation, there 
 DT> will never be an OS/2 version of LORD. For the simple reason, that 
 DT> as I understand things, Metropolis Gameport would not authorize
 DT> work on an OS/2 Lord since they saw no sign of a large customer
 DT> base there.

I'm quite content just to let the BBS continue to run as a DOS program;
I found it too much hassle to set up the Maximus OS/2 version to coexist
with DOS doors etc when I moved it to OS/2 some years ago.

> The current ones are: Barak's House V2.02; Players Market V0.13 (patched);
>The Jeweller V1.2 (patched); TimeLord V1.0b (patched); Marty's
>Mercantile V2.2
> Outlands Tavern V1.5a & The Pawnshop V3.40.

 DT> Regarding those IGMs, Players Market and TimeLord are abandoned
 DT> status igms, whose authors could not be located.  Seth Able 
 DT> created Barak's House and allows its support to be handled by 
 DT> Bryan Turner, at my request.

(snip)

 DT> The other igms still in beta are Violet's Cottage II, which I need
 DT> to get finished up this week and released officially.  Hiding in 
 DT> the Shadows is nearly ready for 2.00 release.  Lord Cavern 1.6c 
 DT> beta is fully updated now, along with RHP Toolkit 1.6c
 DT> beta.  But they won't be released officially until I'm able to
 DT> release O.Tavern also.

The LORD FDN is still connected here, & a few IGMs have arrived in
the last year, & I will check out anything that arrives in future.

> former & new users telnetting to play LORD etc. I registered Lord with
> Seth 9 years ago, & recently sent off a money order to Metropolis /
> Gameport for Lord 2 & Planets:TEOS, but no response yet )

 DT> again anytime soon.  As for Gameport stuff, when I got my
 DT> registration for Lord, about two years ago, they sent it to me in
 DT> about a week's time.  If you don't get something by the end of a 
 DT> week, I suggest you follow through with registered mail
 DT> letter to the company asking them why they are not sending you your
 DT> reg. codes.

It is into the fourth week now, so I will contact them if I hear nothing
in the next few days. I'm not so worried about Lord II, as it is not as
active as Lord, but I do want Planets registered fairly soon, as it has
quite a few features disabled. I always enjoyed Starquest on TBBS systems,
& Planets gameplay is reasonably close to that, & there are a few users
playing, despite the limitations.

 DT>  And you might carbon copy the letter to the Federal
 DT> Trade Commission - it never hurts to have the FTC aware of
 DT> companies that may be screwing the consumer  in an interstate
 DT> commerce situation.   I continually hope someday that someone will
 DT> buy Lord from them, and give it the full attention it really
 DT> deserves.   

I can understand Gameport not worrying too much about doors, if they
are not a core product, but it is in their interest to respond promptly,
as most shareware authors (including Seth) have in the past.

 DT> BTW, I hope this message does not get duplicated.  But as you've
 DT> probably noticed, this echo along with DoorGames echo, has a bad 
 DT> tendency to duplicate messages from at least a dozen participants. 

I did notice I got 3 copies of your earlier message, but only the one
this time.

 DT> Why that is, I have no idea.

Not to worry.

Cheers, Steve..

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