have I missed something, are there actually a lot of bbs games.
Bbs stuff was usually dos based, I have not as such mucked round much
with stuff though over the weekend I have taken a break from my usual
onlim duties to read a few ren py novels and run dosbox and beatstar mainly.
Its sertainly good that we have a talkingdosbbox now though.
When my old toshiba keynote gold modified 1850 finally died, I really
felt sad about it.
I spent time digging out old synths then computers from trade sites
and other stuff.
I almost got there but it was just to hard to get what I really wanted.
The issue for me was that keynotes really needed a 386 or 386 sx to run.
You couldn't run the traditional synth on anything faster because it
wouldn't load for keynote spaciffic apps.
After a long 5 year search and getting some free bees and paying over
500 bucks on various thing pluss another thousand to despose of it
all when it was not usefull I decided that enough was enough and that
I'd never really obtain what I wanted.
My next try was linux but bar an introductery course at university I
had little idea how to access the interface or at least well enough.
My other issue was desk space.
I in fact have enough on here if all I had was computers to have 2
computers side by side with a printer.
And while this was true when I had dos and up till windows xp, its
not the case anymore.
I have a shelf with lots of stuff on it taking up half the right
corner of the desk.
2 hard drives and cables, a protection box, a usb hub and several other things.
In short I don't have the space.
Shortly after I went xp I started with a cd writer then hard drivves
and flash media.
I now have a coolent desk for my laptop and after some work I did I
was able to get the funds to get a second from the top pair of
logitech z100 speakers and a mouse for games like swamp when I still
played it a joystick which I sold and a few other things.
As I pulled myself into audio games my interest of games even
interactive fiction slid itself into utter crapville.
Not because it itself was crap but because I just had lost any idea
of having dos games and while the windows interpriters did work I
prefured the dos ones since you could get stuck into a game without
remembering to review the screen.
Though inform7 and glulx and sound in interactive fiction and renpy
have got me back into this now the fact was that dos games were just
not on my plate and I was willing to leave them back in crapville
where they like all other old tech belonged.
Because all old stuff is crap if it has no use.
2 things changed that.
Firstly I got word about eamon deluxe.
While I had disreguarded old dosgames myself I hadn't abandoned old
tech as such it still partly interested me, as I had got on the chip
scene with music and such.
The problem still was there.
Then along came eamon deluxe.
Over emails frank black mentioned he was going to try to write his
own dos emulator though he reconed that if he got the code that he
may beable to hack dosbox maybe.
He didn't know c though so he needed to learn that first and it was
always on his list.
This prompted me to get out my dusty usb floppy drive which was
needed when I used jaws with the old reg disk system.
My disks while stored ok were well used and I had to force them to
the point of breaking to get a few f of them to run right.
I backed up all the data about 120mb of it and forgot about the entire thing.
I knew a lot of the utilities quemm norton7 and such were useless
under windows at any rate.
This would have stayed like this till well daumdosbox was modded by us.
I guess I should be thanking pitermach and the rest of the guys at
pg13lp for all their work.
Sadly there were a few things I have lost that I hhad like wasteland
wrebbles which I may try to find later on and a few other things.
The emulator is not always the most stabble thing in existance but it
emulates dos 5 which was what I started off with.
I'd actually like it to emulate eventually dos 6.22 with the advanced
memmory features and stuff it did have.
I'd also like it emulate a full autoexec and config.sys so I could
maybe run quemm and some of the older utilities on it.
Failing it I'd like a version for the stripped down dos 7.1 which is
the last version written for win9x as you do get the support for
longer file names, pluss a few extras like fat32 support though in
this case it probably doesn't matter.
At 06:45 a.m. 23/05/2015, you wrote:
So what games are on there dark? I did go to the page but there didn't seem
to be a games index.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark
Sent: 22 May 2015 19:42
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] bbs games was RE: anacrion game
Nope, some people tried vipmud or other mud clients and it didn't work.
On xp I had no problems accessing telnet, it's just a dos style console
window though you'd not want to use it for muds because of the text coming
in in real time.
if your using Windows 7 or whatever, the link I gave has instructions on
how to connect.
All the best,
Dark.
There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast
and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even
the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
----- Original Message -----
From: "darren harris" <darren_g_har...@btinternet.com>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 4:39 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] bbs games was RE: anacrion game
> Hi,
>
> Could I not use vip mud to connect to this? I didn't think telnet was that
> accessible?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark
> Sent: 22 May 2015 15:20
> To: Gamers Discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] anacrion game
>
> Hi Josh.
>
> I'd be interested if someone did make the game more accessible at some
> point.
>
> I went to http://www.neurohack.com/anacreon/index.html which is the
> developer's own site and looked at the windows version a few years ago.
> There was nothing specifically wrong! with the access but a lot of the
> ways
> information was displayed were a bit wonky from a screen reader
> perspective,
> such as for example displaying all your stats in rows, I also found the
> main
> starmap a bit weerd though I admit I probably didn't check out as much of
> the game as I could've done.
>
> Two things that really stood out for me about the game however and which i
> thought sounded fascinating were firstly that combat was rather more
> complex
> and tactical than just slamming your preprepared fleet against your
> opponents and letting the random number generator do the rest, it involved
> things like tactics around taking out planetary artilliary, ground troops,
> what type of planet it was and lots of other things.
>
> Secondly, I did like the idea that you could play single player against
> the
> computer and didn't have to play against others either online or not.
>
> Btw, if anyone wants to play tradewars, along with lots of other old bbs
> games such as usurper, legend of the red dragon, yanky trader and barren
> realms, if you connect to nerbbs.com a lot are being run in accessible
> form
> just for Vi users.
>
> It was setup by a user called Ner and lots of people have had fun with it.
>
> More info on connecting can be found at :
> http://wiki.nerbbs.com/
>
> Including how to connect with windows other than xp that doesn't have
> telnet.
>
> actually I did always mean to get into trade wars sinse the game looked
> like
> lots of fun.
>
> All the best,
>
> Dark.
> There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is
> vast
> and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even
> the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh K" <joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:57 PM
> Subject: [Audyssey] anacrion game
>
>
>> from tony
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the oldgames.7z archive, I found a game called Anacreon. It looked
>> interesting, but it appeared to be missing files. I did some looking
>> on Google and found that not only is the DOS game still around, but it
>> had some new developments and the source has been released.
>> Therefore, I present two versions of Anacreon, including Pascal
>> sources and a manual. If there are any Turbo Pascal programmers out
>> there, please let me know as I have a question for you. Anyway, if
>> you have no idea what the game is about, it's similar to Tradewars
>> 2002 back in the BBS era. You build an empire by conquering various
>> planets and star systems. There are several included scenarios or you
>> can write your own. The only problem is it uses direct screen writes,
>> so you'll probably need to use your screen review mode to read the
>> text. As I say, the sources are available, so feel free to make it
>> more accessible. If strategy games are your thing, give this one a try.
>>
>> http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox/
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