I was actually lucky enough to communicate with Paul in the late 90s
and early noughties. I helped him a little bit with westfront pc. I
got on quite well with him. This is terribly sad news!
Horiffic to hear of his passing.
At 06:50 PM 4/24/2012, you wrote:
yes, according to an artical I found in Spag, Paul Panks is indeed
no longer with us.
I'm actually rather sorry I didn't find westfront earlier, or in
fact have time to communicate with him, since he had a real interest
in text rpgs and I think he would've been pleased to know his games
were appreciated.
Also, less altruistically, I can't quite determine which games of
his do what, since his site is a little disorganized, with betas for
different west front games as well as various other things, some in
zcode, some written for the c64 computer and goodness knows what
else, and it would've been nice to sort htese out and see which
could've been playable.
i also would've liked to ask how to actually survive combat in
trials of gilder, since it seems near impossible :D.
Sadly though he is in fact dead so none of this will happen.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen" <whocr...@internode.on.net>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Bavisoft
What? Paul Panks? No!!
RIP.
At 05:15 PM 4/24/2012, you wrote:
Well, I actually wonder now if it's something more serious.
I was a few years ago trying everything to get in touch with the
creator of the text rpg westfront, who's site and games are very
much still up. I E-mailed him, wrote on his blog, even tried to
join his forum but never got a response.
It actually turns out he died in a car crash in 2008.
Since we haven't heard from bavisoft since 2009, I am now
wondering if something similar has happened there. Unfortunately
though there's no way of finding that out either.
Beware the grue!
DArk.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lori Duncan" <lori_dunca...@hotmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Bavisoft
They seem to be just a con now I'm thinking, the only way you'll
get a response out of them is to threaten then with suing if you
haven't reieived a product. Maybe they have lazy itus or have
just fallen flat.
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 10:22 PM
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Bavisoft
Bavisoft's site was still up, but nobody has heard from them in
about five years. They haven't updated their games to work with
post xp windows, indeed I've heard of several people who tried
ordering from them and never recieved stuff.
i even tried to phone them at one point, since they werent'
answering my male (I did establish first that phoning new york
from Britain wouldn't rupture my bank), but no reply there either.
so for all intents and purposes they're a dead concern.
Michael barns however did write a very good guide for
chillingham, if you go to the chillingham entry on
audiogames.net (use the dropdown on the front of the site),
you'll find a link to where it is posted.
that should get you through the game if your having trouble,
though myself I actually found chillingham far too easy.
all the best,
Dark.
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