Hello Donald.

27 Dec 04 22:36, you wrote to me:

 >>> You can download the two igms from the following web-site page:
 >>> http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/lordapps.htm

 >> I have these, downloaded from this URL 2+ days ago ...

 >> It might be Linux related, tho I doudt it, would a corrupt config
 >> file cause a occurence like I described?

 DT> Some important questions that I forgot to write in the previous
 DT> messages. Are you playing the igms from a BBS or on your system in
 DT> Local Mode?  As to the corrupt config file question, that might cause
 DT> the igm to declare the shop without an owner.  But if the data file in
 DT> question is the igm's, it should not have any effect that would wipe
 DT> out a Lord character.  But if the corruption is in the player.dat
 DT> file, that could indeed cause you to lose one or more characters.  You
 DT> really need to get in touch with Michael Preslar and see if he can
 DT> help you.  But you'll have to use Lord 4.07 beta.  He can only work
 DT> with a current compilation of the most current Lord game, since the
 DT> code for 4.06 is "Locked" by Metropolis Gameport and not
change-able.
 DT> You might also try using Lord/Linux beta which you can get from
 DT> Michael directly via email request I think. However, it does not work
 DT> with IGMs.

Currently only Marty's Mecantile and Barak's House, work from the BBS via 
telnet.

So I am playing The PawnShop and Gemtrader in local mode, I seem to have 
problems with LORD, as a second install, ver 4.06, in another directory, does 
not want to run properley.

 DT> If you are playing the IGM in local mode, then you can protect
 DT> yourself from losing characters fairly easily.  Copy player.dat to a
 DT> player.bkp file before you run Lord.  If something happens to a
 DT> character after using an igm, such as Pawn Shop, just exit LORD.  Then
 DT> replace player.dat which is now corrupted with the player.bkp file.
 DT> But if you are using Lord on a bbs, the only fix for a lost character
 DT> is to get the sysop to rebuild your character.  And to get it as close
 DT> as possible to what you had before you lost the character, he/she
 DT> would need a copy of the Stats Lord screen.  Which probably would be
 DT> in the capture log of your comm program or telnet browser, if you use
 DT> capture logs.

Thanks for this tip ...

 >> Hmmm in all cases the user had more than 240 minutes time when he
 >> started the game, a gamelasts 10-12 minutes normally, if no IGM's
 >> played ...

 DT> Some IGMs like Pawn Shop will let you play a long time.  And others
 DT> don't let you stay around a long time.  You can get into and out of an
 DT> igm such as my Violet's Cottage ii program in just a few minutes.
 DT> Lord is very "fussy" about dumping you if you spend more
than a couple
 DT> of minutes without keyboard activity while you are playing.  Now that
 DT> is very aggravating I think.

That could be a problem ..., and aggravating, yes ...

 >> Running the latest versions of the igm's downled 2-3 days ago from
 >> you site. It is not possible to test using a DOS boot disk, as DOS
 >> does not understand the file system, but it would probably be
 >> possible to zip the directories, and transfer them to a WIN98
 >> system, and see what happens there.

 DT> That is a good idea.  Let me know if you try it, as to what the
 DT> results are.

Will do ...

 >> Many thanks for your reply, it has given me something to consider,
 >> and think
 >> about. > Am now prepared to sacrifice my last level 10 player to see
 >> about. > if it
 DT> will happen >again, especially after the newly created player has
 DT> survived - in local mode. > Am looking forward to The Pawnshop working
 DT> as it seems to be a very useful > place. > Again thank you for your
 DT> time and the IGM's > Russell

New player crashed and burned after trying the gemtrader again ... , but I am 
not happy with the way LORD itself is running at present, especially after, 
trying another copy in a new directory ...

 DT> Thank you for the compliments.  And I hope you don't have more
 DT> problems while using Pawn Shop (or Gem Trader).  There will be new
 DT> betas of both available sometime after New year's Day, that you can
 DT> download from my web-site, using
 DT> http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/igm-beta.htm web-page.

Will do thank you ...

 DT> Let me know if you need any more assistance. DOnald.

Thanks, will do.

Russell

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