Cool idea, too bad it seems to be abandoned (no git commits since May 2016 and the latest binaries on the website are from Aug 2014). Anyone interested in picking this up and maintaining it, or at least releasing a new "stable" build (other than just downloading the zip in the bin folder on github and hoping for the best)?
Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
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Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
#22This brings back some nice memories. I was into the Toronto BBS scene pretty heavily back before public internet access became affordable and readily available. As much as I love modern games, I have to admit I sort of miss some of the classics like TradeWars 2002 and L.O.R.D.
It sure does! Does anyone remember MUDs? Some of those boggled the mind with how creative some folks can be with text and symbols. Good times, great memories from back before being a nerd was en vogue.
Certainly do! Some of the oldest and most creative of the MUDs are still in operation, and still being continually updated. One still-running DIKUmud that is still in operation and is absolutely amazing in regards to the ~25 years of constant evolution is Duris Mud. If you have any interest in MUDs or MUD programming its definitely worth checking out.
http://www.durismud.com/ or telnet to mud.durismud.com 7777
Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
#23This article brings back some great memories from the glory days of dial-up BBSs in the 80s and early 90s. It also brings back some not-so-great memories of insanely high phone bills when you got massively surcharged for dialing outside of your immediate area, let alone your county or state.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
MajorMUD was a huge part of my youth and an introduction to programming via scripting it.
I'm working on websocket MUD based on MajorMUD in Elixir. There are quite a few people actively building new mud engines in modern languages in 2018. There's even a community with a slack org / newsletter etc at https://mudcoders.com/
> There are quite a few people actively building new mud engines in modern languages in 2018.
Sometimes the Internet is a wonderful place! Not always, but there's still a lot of good stuff around.
Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
#25And getting my board back online just became tomorrows project, yay fidonet