Just asking the general concensus here, what are some good door games or doors you like? I'm adding some new ones to my bbs so I thought I'd better get some ideas
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Re: Doors
By: Greywolf to All on Thu Jul 10 2014 04:26:20

Just asking the general concensus here, what are some good door games or doors you like? I'm adding some new ones to my bbs so I thought I'd
better get some ideas

Legend of the Red Dragon, Barren Realms Elite, Operation: Overkill II, and Land of Devastation all seem popular. I also like Planets: TEOS, Tournament Trivia, and there are a couple Tetris doors I like.

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Re: Doors
By: Greywolf to All on Thu Jul 10 2014 04:26 am

Just asking the general concensus here, what are some good door games or doors you like? I'm adding some new ones to my bbs so I thought I'd better get some ideas

I enjoy Solomoriah's War, it's like Civilization, but without the tech tree or resource management, so it's move armies, conquer cities, set production for each city, done. First person to capture 28 cities, wins. Only good if you have a lot of regular callers.

Every BBS has LORD, Usurper, DoorMUD, Barren Realms, etc. All those games are fine, but everyone has em it seems. If you're looking for something different do you have a genre you want to stick too, are there any games you like so we could suggest something similar?


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Re: Doors
By: Greywolf to All on Thu Jul 10 2014 04:26 am

LORD is definitely the most popular here. I recommend checking out bbslink.net and adding the doors they have. It's a super easy way for multiple boards to all be playing the same games and the best thing is that users play a different charachter from each board in the same game so it encourages them to call all the boards if they're really into the game. :)

If I remember correctly Mark has set up LORD, LORD2, Pimpwars, Operation Overkill 2, and TEOS. All registered versions as well (not cracked!)

Some that I like are Darkness, Star Trek, Lunatix, and BarneySplat :)

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Just asking the general concensus here, what are some good door games
or doors you like? I'm adding some new ones to my bbs so I thought I'd better get some ideas

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Re: Doors
By: Greywolf to All on Thu Jul 10 2014 04:26 am

I love LORD but the game is only really fun when there other people actively playing along.

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Re: Doors
By: Vectorgamer to All on Fri Jul 11 2014 10:13 am

I love LORD but the game is only really fun when there other people actively playing along.

That's what I like about the bbslink.net games - it's like having a interbbs game, but without relying on networks - they're real-time interbbs games. Just need more people using it. :) I'm thinking about donating some registered games to Mark so he can run them on the server - just want to get permission from the developer(s) first since I just registered them recently.

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On 7/10/2014 4:26 AM, Greywolf wrote:

Just asking the general concensus here, what are some good door games or doors
you like? I'm adding some new ones to my bbs so I thought I'd better get some ideas

I was always a fan of Lands of Devastation and Ultimate Universe. :o

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Re: Doors
By: Android8675 to Greywolf on Thu Jul 10 2014 07:50 am

I enjoy Solomoriah's War, it's like Civilization, but without the tech tree

never heard of it. i found the guy's personal website but he doesnt
have it on his projects page. where can i check it out?

Every BBS has LORD, Usurper, DoorMUD, Barren Realms, etc. All those games are fine, but everyone has em it seems. If you're looking for something

you can tweak ALL those games and make them more easy/difficult or enjoyable. you can even change their appearance in most cases.

just like anybody can run a bbs nowadays, anybody can make their bbs look different, act different, and give the user a different experience.
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Re: Doors
By: nolageek to Greywolf on Thu Jul 10 2014 11:33 am

Some that I like are Darkness, Star Trek, Lunatix, and BarneySplat :)

i never played 'star trek', where can i get that?

i like lunatix but it runs like crap on my computers. i even have it
registered by a user and i asked the author to refund the guy.
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Re: Doors
By: Vectorgamer to All on Fri Jul 11 2014 10:13 am

Re: Doors
By: Greywolf to All on Thu Jul 10 2014 04:26 am

I love LORD but the game is only really fun when there other people
actively playing along.

that's true for any game, isnt it?
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Re: Re: Doors
By: Mindless Automaton to Greywolf on Fri Jul 11 2014 02:43 pm

better get some ideas

I was always a fan of Lands of Devastation and Ultimate Universe. :o

yeah, me too. but i heard that ultimate universe has to be carefully watched or the AI and other routines make the game go out of control.

i think the game needs routine resets if a certain amount of people are not actively playing UU.
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Re: Doors
By: Android8675 to Greywolf on Thu Jul 10 2014 07:50 am

I enjoy Solomoriah's War, it's like Civilization, but without the tech tree or resource management, so it's move armies, conquer cities, set production

okay, i found it. it's on github. seems very rough around the edges
and only works as a doorgame using stdio redirection and you have to pass a command line onto it.

i'm not sure how he thinks he can call it a doorgame when it doesnt have dropfile support or even support to display to the caller.

i forgot my pw so i couldnt check it out on your system
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Re: Doors
By: Greywolf to All on Thu Jul 10 2014 04:26 am

My personal favorites are Falcon's Eye and Solar Realms Elite. I'm also partial to LoRD and Planets: TEOS.

I'd encourage you to check out Synchronet's newer JS games, too. My family has enjoyed Bubble Boggle, Uber Blox, Star Trek, and Chicken Delivery.

I released my own JS game for Synchronet recently, as well. It's called "Doubles," and it's an ANSI adaptation of "2048" which is popular for iOS and Android. You can grab it here:

http://github.com/kirkman/doubles

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Re: Doors
By: Mro to Vectorgamer on Sat Jul 12 2014 03:54:34

I love LORD but the game is only really fun when there other people
actively playing along.

that's true for any game, isnt it?

There are single-player doors too, and some multi-player doors are also fun when played single-player. I've seen some puzzle door games based on Tetris, Chain Reaction, etc..

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Re: Doors
By: Greywolf to All on Thu Jul 10 2014 04:26 am

My personal favorites are Falcon's Eye and Solar Realms Elite. I'm also partial to LoRD and Planets: TEOS.

I liked Planets:TEOs the most I think, of all those.

I released my own JS game for Synchronet recently, as well. It's called "Doubles," and it's an ANSI adaptation of "2048" which is popular for
iOS and Android. You can grab it here:

http://github.com/kirkman/doubles

I saw you notification on this several weeks ago, (maybe even a few months)
and I realized that I needed one on my BBS. So I wrote one myself for Mystic BBS. I call mine "DoubleUp!" and it's available for play and download on my BBS.

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Re: Doors
By: Mro to Android8675 on Sat Jul 12 2014 03:50:45

just like anybody can run a bbs nowadays, anybody can make their bbs look different, act different, and give the user a different experience.

Goddamn overgeneralization is still a specialty of yrs, bruh. The caveat to your statement being, in this case, of course, [provided they have software development, or lower scripting/programming, or even simple config file editing experience]. Has that become the majority of people on this planet now? Or is it just your exclusive nerdbase of fellow fed contractor jackasses that think rage and aspergers are features, not bugs?

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TradeWars 2002

Yeah, but I would like to find it so that I do NOT have to use the TWGS package and just run TW2002 from within the BBS itself as it should be
run *smiles*.

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TradeWars 2002

Yeah, but I would like to find it so that I do NOT have to use the TWGS package and just run TW2002 from within the BBS itself as it should be
run *smiles*.

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TradeWars 2002 can be run as a door without using TWGS.
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Re: Doors
By: Mro to Android8675 on Sat Jul 12 2014 03:50 am

I enjoy Solomoriah's War, it's like Civilization, but without the tech
tree

never heard of it. i found the guy's personal website but he doesnt
have it on his projects page. where can i check it out?

There's a javascript version on cvs.synchro.net under xtrn/war. I have it running on my board, but no one's playing and without players the game i a bit boring. Not to mention I think my data got corrupted somehow. The turns are
not advancing correctly on some planets.

May reset it soon. I may push some other boards to connect to my game via rlogin, see if I can drum up some interest.


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Re: Doors
By: Android8675 to Mro on Mon Jul 21 2014 10:33 am

never heard of it. i found the guy's personal website but he doesnt have it on his projects page. where can i check it out?

There's a javascript version on cvs.synchro.net under xtrn/war. I have it running on my board, but no one's playing and without players the game i a bit boring. Not to mention I think my data got corrupted somehow. The turns

yeah, no game is fun unless there's people playing it.

i've noticed an overall decrease in bbs users since last year summer.
i've been watching this closely. i havent seen it this bad before.

i think we should do our best to make our systems easier for new users and accessable on the web. i know most of us are using ftelnet so that's a good start. we should also probably post on facebook and forums.

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Re: Doors
By: Mro to Android8675 on Thu Jul 24 2014 12:39 am

i think we should do our best to make our systems easier for new users and accessable on the web. i know most of us are using ftelnet so that's a good start. we should also probably post on facebook and forums.

Since you mentioned forums, I'm working on bbs-forum.com, mainly cause I have yet to find a forum for bbs folks. Perhaps there's one that I'm not aware of, but even for help setting up doors and games - LORD has one... tradewars, and that's about it. Not sure if it's needed or stepping on any toes - but it's been public for about a week and I'm working on a few mods at the moment. :)

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Since you mentioned forums, I'm working on bbs-forum.com, mainly cause I hav
yet to find a forum for bbs folks. Perhaps there's one that I'm not aware of
but even for help setting up doors and games - LORD has one... tradewars, an
that's about it. Not sure if it's needed or stepping on any toes - but it's
been public for about a week and I'm working on a few mods at the moment.

:)

I am sure you can find a BBS with any number of message areas :) Fido
has some BBS echos, as well as do others. :)

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Re: Doors
By: nolageek to Mro on Thu Jul 24 2014 11:49 am

Since you mentioned forums, I'm working on bbs-forum.com, mainly cause I have yet to find a forum for bbs folks. Perhaps there's one that I'm not aware of, but even for help setting up doors and games - LORD has one...

i dunno. do sysops need to talk to other sysops even more? synchronet people have dovenet, and then there's the other nets.
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Re: Doors
By: nolageek to Mro on Thu Jul 24 2014 11:49:02

Since you mentioned forums, I'm working on bbs-forum.com, mainly cause I hav yet to find a forum for bbs folks. Perhaps there's one that I'm not aware of but even for help setting up doors and games - LORD has one... tradewars, an that's about it. Not sure if it's needed or stepping on any toes - but it's been public for about a week and I'm working on a few mods at the moment. :)

Well, I know of a couple on facebook (unfortunately). The one that comes to mind first is 604 BBS'ers, chatboarders, and 'modemmers' in general. Looks like it was created just for 604 area code at first, but it seems to have quasi-regular posts and some readership. You can hit it at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2316899757/ .
I'll try to remember to look for a few more, later. I also got a few bumps on twitter and tumblr from advertising; it helps when someone with a huge following bumps your message and comments on it, of course.

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Re: Doors
By: Mro to nolageek on Thu Jul 24 2014 07:32 pm

i dunno. do sysops need to talk to other sysops even more? synchronet people have dovenet, and then there's the other nets.

Yeah, but when setting things up it can be easier with a web presence since 99% of the time we're downloading things from websites. Plus, if support (even community based) is 100% confined to the boards, then how would one get to them... remember, not everyone has done this before. The web is where newbies feel comfortable these days so that's where they'll look for help ... at least until they get into the swing of things. :) I'm just trying to help grow the community; get the word out, etc..

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Re: BBS influx (was Re: Doors)
By: Khelair to nolageek on Fri Jul 25 2014 03:48 am

Well, I know of a couple on facebook (unfortunately). The one that
it at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2316899757/ .
I'll try to remember to look for a few more, later. I also got a few

Definately. I'm adding sticky posts to the different categories about where to find more information (including facebook groups, forums, documentation, etc..)

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Re: BBS influx (was Re: Doors)
By: Khelair to nolageek on Fri Jul 25 2014 03:48 am

Well, I know of a couple on facebook (unfortunately). The one that
comes to mind first is 604 BBS'ers, chatboarders, and 'modemmers' in general. Looks like it was created just for 604 area code at first, but it seems to have quasi-regular posts and some readership. You can hit

There's a similar FB group for the St. Louis area (314/618), which I created many years ago as a "sibling" to a St. Louis BBSers group I had created on MySpace even earlier.

Anyway, this year there was a spontaneous eruption of activity,
which lasted a couple months. It was very strange. There were hundreds of (legitimate) comments a day for a while. But, like all things, it petered out eventually.

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Re: BBS influx (was Re: Doors)
By: nolageek to Khelair on Fri Jul 25 2014 11:32:03

Definately. I'm adding sticky posts to the different categories about where to find more information (including facebook groups, forums, documentation, etc..)

Awesome. I'll step up my effort a bit, too. :)
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Re: BBS influx (was Re: Doors)
By: Kirkman to Khelair on Sat Jul 26 2014 17:10:50

There's a similar FB group for the St. Louis area (314/618), which I created many years ago as a "sibling" to a St. Louis BBSers group I had created on MySpace even earlier.

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of them seem to be based on area codes, but when I've posted randomly about different telnet/ssh systems they haven't gotten anally retentive about that, or anything. Pretty sure they all know that the area codes are irrelevant these days. If I remember I'll look and see if there are any generalized ones for TCP connection systems; if not I'll try to make one up on FB, and the like. I suppose I should hunt for some forums soon here, too.

Anyway, this year there was a spontaneous eruption of activity,
which lasted a couple months. It was very strange. There were hundreds of (legitimate) comments a day for a while. But, like all things, it petered out eventually.

There was pretty steady flow, when I got my system first online two or three years ago. It didn't seem to be ebbing, or anything... Then my system went down for quite awhile, due to my recurrent homelessness in NoDak. Now that I'm back, and for the brief period of a couple of months that I was on from Minot, ND, it's definitely lacking. Seems like even the devs have a lot less time on their hands for such... Maybe it's the capitalist screws being tightened more on the public, maybe people are all starting to totally lose interest at the same time for some reason. I'm certainly hoping its not the latter, but even if it is, my system is staying up. I'm very much looking forward to customizing mine to the point where it will be a good communication hub even in the event of serious internet lockdown.
Wish I wouldn't have missed that burst. :P
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