• Door programming

    From Captain Kirk@VERT/GARGOYLE to All on Friday, January 25, 2013 10:12:00
    Interesting discussion about door programming!

    FWIW - I am putting together a series of interviews with BBS door game authors. The first is being conducted with Amit Patel, the creator of SRE. Of course he wrote SRE in Turbo Pascal.

    Anyone know how to get in touch with the authors of the game "Assassin"? Kevin MacFarland and Wayne Myers... I have tried looking for them and so far have come up empty, but I wonder if anyone out there has a connection with either of them.

    --Josh

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  • From Mindless Automaton@VERT/ELDRITCH to Captain Kirk on Friday, January 25, 2013 13:17:58
    On 1/25/2013 10:12 AM, Captain Kirk wrote:
    Interesting discussion about door programming!

    FWIW - I am putting together a series of interviews with BBS door game authors.
    The first is being conducted with Amit Patel, the creator of SRE. Of course he
    wrote SRE in Turbo Pascal.

    Anyone know how to get in touch with the authors of the game "Assassin"? Kevin
    MacFarland and Wayne Myers... I have tried looking for them and so far have come up empty, but I wonder if anyone out there has a connection with either of
    them.


    Check with Doug at BBSFiles. http://www.bbsfiles.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=94&highlight=assassin&sid=973bf4ab11c050aa4565e44c646f2c72

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  • From Gryphon@VERT/CYBERIA to Captain Kirk on Friday, January 25, 2013 14:47:00
    On 01-25-13, Captain Kirk said the following...

    Interesting discussion about door programming!

    FWIW - I am putting together a series of interviews with BBS door game authors. The first is being conducted with Amit Patel, the creator of
    SRE. Of course he wrote SRE in Turbo Pascal.

    Anyone know how to get in touch with the authors of the game "Assassin"? Kevin MacFarland and Wayne Myers... I have tried looking for them and so far have come up empty, but I wonder if anyone out there has a connection with either of them.

    --Josh

    Did the bbs documentary already interview them?

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Gryphon on Saturday, January 26, 2013 13:04:50
    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: Gryphon to Captain Kirk on Fri Jan 25 2013 02:47 pm

    Anyone know how to get in touch with the authors of the game
    "Assassin"? Kevin MacFarland and Wayne Myers... I have tried looking
    for them and so far have come up empty, but I wonder if anyone out
    there has a connection with either of them.

    Did the bbs documentary already interview them?


    who knows. the bbs doc had like a minute of face time for devs, the rest were his buddies. i dont know if the bbs software developers were THAT bad of an interview. i wouldnt have driven across the country to just use a minute of footage.
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  • From Captain Kirk@VERT/GARGOYLE to Mindless Automaton on Sunday, January 27, 2013 16:48:00
    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: Mindless Automaton to Captain Kirk on Fri Jan 25 2013 01:17 pm

    Check with Doug at BBSFiles. http://www.bbsfiles.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=94&highlight=assassin&sid=973

    That's a great resource! Thanks for the link, I'll get in touch with him.

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  • From Captain Kirk@VERT/GARGOYLE to Gryphon on Sunday, January 27, 2013 16:49:00
    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: Gryphon to Captain Kirk on Fri Jan 25 2013 02:47 pm

    Did the bbs documentary already interview them?

    No, not that recall. Games were mentioned, but mostly in passing in the documentary. The focus was on personal stories about sysops, users, and pioneers. That's why I think interviews with game authors would be a valuable contribution to preserving BBS history.

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  • From Captain Kirk@VERT/CAVEBBS to Mro on Thursday, January 31, 2013 16:54:00
    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: Mro to Gryphon on Sat Jan 26 2013 01:04 pm

    Did the bbs documentary already interview them?

    who knows. the bbs doc had like a minute of face time for devs, the rest wer his buddies. i dont know if the bbs software developers were THAT bad of an interview. i wouldnt have driven across the country to just use a minute of footage.

    Seriously? He interviewed BBS software developers. Wayne Bell was there, Rob Swindell, Ward Christenson, Frank La Rosa, etc.

    The BBS doc covered a lot of ground *and* managed to tell a number of stories very well (Compression, etc).

    Despite its epic length, it couldn't possibly tell *every* story, or it get into every BBS software or whatever. That wouldn't be entertaining to watch anyway.

    But yeah, 200 interviews? Five and a half hours? It wasn't just his buddies.

    (and regarding one minute of footage: most of the interviews have been posted to the Internet Archive, uncut. Anyone can grab 'em)

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT/PARKAVE to Captain Kirk on Thursday, January 31, 2013 19:27:18
    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: Captain Kirk to Mro on Thu Jan 31 2013 04:54 pm

    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: Mro to Gryphon on Sat Jan 26 2013 01:04 pm

    Did the bbs documentary already interview them?

    who knows. the bbs doc had like a minute of face time for devs, the rest wer his buddies. i dont know if the bbs software developers were THAT
    bad of an interview. i wouldnt have driven across the country to just
    use a minute of footage.

    Seriously? He interviewed BBS software developers. Wayne Bell was there,
    Rob Swindell, Ward Christenson, Frank La Rosa, etc.

    The BBS doc covered a lot of ground *and* managed to tell a number of stories very well (Compression, etc).

    Despite its epic length, it couldn't possibly tell *every* story, or it get into every BBS software or whatever. That wouldn't be entertaining to watch anyway.

    But yeah, 200 interviews? Five and a half hours? It wasn't just his
    buddies.

    (and regarding one minute of footage: most of the interviews have been posted to the Internet Archive, uncut. Anyone can grab 'em)


    I wish they would have shown some visuals instead of 5 hours of talking. I mean
    it was a great documentary and such by Jason but it would have made things a little more interestingly enough.


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  • From Gryphon@VERT/CYBERIA to Captain Kirk on Thursday, January 31, 2013 22:40:00
    On 01-31-13, Captain Kirk said the following...

    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: Mro to Gryphon on Sat Jan 26 2013 01:04 pm

    Did the bbs documentary already interview them?

    who knows. the bbs doc had like a minute of face time for devs, the rest his buddies. i dont know if the bbs software developers were THAT bad of interview. i wouldnt have driven across the country to just use a minute footage.

    Seriously? He interviewed BBS software developers. Wayne Bell was there, Rob Swindell, Ward Christenson, Frank La Rosa, etc.

    The BBS doc covered a lot of ground *and* managed to tell a number of stories very well (Compression, etc).

    Despite its epic length, it couldn't possibly tell *every* story, or it
    get into every BBS software or whatever. That wouldn't be entertaining to watch anyway.

    But yeah, 200 interviews? Five and a half hours? It wasn't just his buddies.

    (and regarding one minute of footage: most of the interviews have been posted to the Internet Archive, uncut. Anyone can grab 'em)

    What is the Internet Archive? You don't mean Youtube,do you?

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to The Millionaire on Saturday, February 02, 2013 08:06:02
    Re: Re: Door programming
    By: The Millionaire to Captain Kirk on Thu Jan 31 2013 07:27 pm

    I wish they would have shown some visuals instead of 5 hours of talking. I mean it was a great documentary and such by Jason but it would have made things a little more interestingly enough.

    If the raw footage is on the internet archives, make your own! That would be an interesting project if the licensing allowed it.

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  • From Captain Kirk@VERT/HZBBS to Gryphon on Monday, February 04, 2013 12:24:44

    (and regarding one minute of footage: most of the interviews have been posted to the Internet Archive, uncut. Anyone can grab 'em)

    What is the Internet Archive? You don't mean Youtube,do you?

    Try http://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary. You'll find all the
    interviews there.

    The Internet Archive is like a giant repository of digital stuff. It's the home ofthe Wayback Machine (archives of websites) and more. Jason Scott (the BBS Documentary and "Get Lamp" director) works there now and is in the
    process of uploading tons of old magazines and documents.


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  • From Captain Kirk@VERT/HZBBS to Poindexter Fortran on Monday, February 04, 2013 12:26:50

    If the raw footage is on the internet archives, make your own! That would be interesting project if the licensing allowed it.

    The licensing *does* allow it. Jason released the documentary with a very liberal creative commons, allowing anyone to legally distribute the film over filesharing networks, etc. And that is one of the reasons he put the interviews up on the Internet Archive, to enable people to make their own doc , focusing onwhatever aspects of BBSing they felt he didn't address adequately. It's a win win for everyone.


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  • From rpreston@VERT/LINGNET to Captain Kirkobobobobobobo on Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:30:31
    Re: Door programming
    By: Captain Kirk to All on Fri Jan 25 2013 10:12:00

    Interesting discussion about door programming!

    FWIW - I am putting together a series of interviews with BBS door game authors. The first
    is being conducted with Amit Patel, the creator of SRE. Of course he wrote SRE in Turbo
    Pascal.

    Anyone know how to get in touch with the authors of the game "Assassin"? Kevin MacFarland
    and Wayne Myers... I have tried looking for them and so far have come up empty, but I
    wonder if anyone out there has a connection with either of them.

    --Josh
















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