Hey all,

I am looking for a really good RPG door. I'm thinking along the lines of a Roguelike or Moria style interface and game.

I used to play all the Goldbox TSR AD&D games and anything that plays like those would be fun.

Does anyone know of a game like this?

Thanks

Fjolsvith

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On 07/02/14, Fjolsvith said the following...

Hey all,

I am looking for a really good RPG door. I'm thinking along the lines
of a Roguelike or Moria style interface and game.

I used to play all the Goldbox TSR AD&D games and anything that plays
like those would be fun.

Does anyone know of a gamelike this?

Thanks

Fjolsvith

Why don't you just run nethack or moria as a door?

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Re: Good RPG Door
By: Fjolsvith to All on Tue Jul 01 2014 10:40 pm

I am looking for a really good RPG door. I'm thinking along the lines of a Roguelike or Moria style interface and game.

Best-a-luck to ya. I figured out how to get Nethack running with dgamelaunch which is a linux frontend for roguelikes, you have to telnet in. I stopped working on it because I couldn't get SBBS to rlogin connect (I wanted the server to know who was connecting, for some reason, the rlogin/telgate.js routines don't seem to like connecting to this server for some reason.)

dgamelaunch doesn't come compiled and doesn't easily explain how to compile nethack to work with it, you really have to look around online. You can start your research here: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Dgamelaunch

If you'd like to see what it's like, point your telnet client to nethack.alt.org (probably the biggest nethack server these days), or you can try shodan.synchro.net:2323
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I should also add, that I've tried to get a lot of "Other" Rogue/Moria/Manglikes to compile and run as a BBS door and have not been sucessful yet. Let me know if you get somethink cool figured out that'll work as a SBBS door, and document it.


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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 12:39 pm

On 07/02/14, Fjolsvith said the following...

Hey all,

I am looking for a really good RPG door. I'm thinking along the lines of a Roguelike or Moria style interface and game.

I used to play all the Goldbox TSR AD&D games and anything that plays like those would be fun.

Does anyone know of a gamelike this?

Thanks

Fjolsvith

Why don't you just run nethack or moria as a door?

They aren't multi-player. :(

Fjolsvith

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Re: Good RPG Door
By: Android8675 to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 08:42 am

I should also add, that I've tried to get a lot of "Other" Rogue/Moria/Manglikes to compile and run as a BBS door and have not been sucessful yet. Let me know if you get somethink cool figured out that'll wor as a SBBS door, and document it.

I am a bit of a hobbyist programmer and I have an unfinished RPG project that
I could turn into a door RPG like what I'm wanting. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time right now - I'm working two jobs to put my wife through
RN school.

I've basically been coding a combat engine with the D&D 4.0 rules. The
engine is designed as a DOTNET DLL library.

I told my wife when she gets her RN job at $40/hour I was going to retire and become a househusband. Really, I'm going to tinker with BBS's and code! XD

Fjolsvith

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On 07/03/14, Fjolsvith said the following...

Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 12:39 pm

On 07/02/14, Fjolsvith said the following...

Hey all,

I am looking for a really good RPG door. I'm thinking along the of a Roguelike or Moria style interface and game.

I used to play all the Goldbox TSR AD&D games and anything that p
like those would be fun.

Does anyone know of a gamelike this?

Thanks

Fjolsvith

Why don't you just run nethack or moria as a door?

They aren't multi-player. :(

Fjolsvith

What level of multi-player activity are you looking for? The best I can
find is that they have a scores file that lists the different player
outcomes. Are you looking for a game where the players can interact with
each other?

I've found that 'slashem' can do multiple players with the same login. Just use 'slashem -u <playername>'.

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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 12:39 pm

Why don't you just run nethack or moria as a door?

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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 12:39 pm

Why don't you just run nethack or moria as a door?

What's hilarious, is you can't... While nethack or any roguelike looks simple enough, it's just text right? yeah, but the way the output is displayed is not a stdout type situation. I don't know how it works because I'm not a coder, but you can't just compile the tty version of nethack for windows and run it as a door. Even Synchronet's redirector doesn't work with it. (At least my attempts failed when I tried), which is why I suggested dgamelaunch, it'll make roguelikes work online.

Also it makes nethack so you can watch other people playing live, and send them chat messages.

If you're looking for true multiplayer roguelikes, take a look at Mangband or TomeNet.


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On 07/07/14, Android8675 said the following...

Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 12:39 pm

Why don't you just run nethack or moria asa door?

What's hilarious, is you can't... While nethack or any roguelike looks simple enough, it's just text right? yeah, but the way the output is displayed is not a stdout type situation. I don't know how it works because I'm not a coder, but you can'tjust compile the tty version of nethack for windows and run it as a door. Even Synchronet's redirector doesn't work with it. (At least my attempts failed when I tried), which
is why I suggested dgamelaunch, it'll make roguelikes work online.

Also it makes nethack so you can watch other people playing live, and
send them chat messages.

If you're looking for true multiplayer roguelikes, take a look at
Mangband or TomeNet.

Does Synchronet run native WWIV doors? There was a roguelike door called Dungeons of Doom by Elihu Fuestal. Maybe that would work.

I had a short conversation with Elihu a few months ago. I was working on a
RL doorgame for Mystic. I tracked him down he gave me a few pointers.

I have my RL running here, but it's FAR FAR FAR from being done. Just
another reason to switch to Mystic :)

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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Android8675 to Gryphon on Mon Jul 07 2014 03:28 pm

If you're looking for true multiplayer roguelikes, take a look at Mangband o TomeNet.

OMG! you should have never told me about those games....

I once was addicted to roguelikes....

my mouse hand is starting to twitch uncontrollably!

Fjolsvith

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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Android8675 to Gryphon on Mon Jul 07 2014 03:28 pm

If you're looking for true multiplayer roguelikes, take a look at Mangband or TomeNet.

What's the best way to get those running as doors? :)

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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Android8675 on Mon Jul 07 2014 10:23 pm

Does Synchronet run native WWIV doors? There was a roguelike door called Dungeons of Doom by Elihu Fuestal. Maybe that would work.

I'm actually trying to get that one working now (Doom of Drenzilor) but I keep getting Runtime Error 003 (I think that's Path not found?) but there's no way listed to pass it the chain.txt file location... I had to enable I/O redirection in order to see it from the board, but cant get much futher than that without the 003 error.

|01-|03nolageek


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On 7/7/2014 6:28 PM, Android8675 wrote:

Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 12:39 pm

Gr> Why don't you just run nethack or moria as a door?

What's hilarious, is you can't... While nethack or any roguelike looks simple enough, it's just text right? yeah, but the way the output is displayed is not

A lot of these roguelikes use SDL and emulate(?) terminal. Any that use ncurses should be able to display stdout.
(Not a programmer, so I dont really know what I'm talking about or maybe
you already know :P)

Some programmers include a switch so you can set the interface mode(?).
Like with scfg you can set it up as a door using scfg -iC
Not sure how often that happens anymore though..

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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Android8675 on Mon Jul 07 2014 10:23 pm

Does Synchronet run native WWIV doors? There was a roguelike door called Dungeons of Doom by Elihu Fuestal. Maybe that would work.

I had a short conversation with Elihu a few months ago. I was working on a RL doorgame for Mystic. I tracked him down he gave me a few pointers.

I have my RL running here, but it's FAR FAR FAR from being done. Just another reason to switch to Mystic :)

What I would like to see is an interface for a BBS that loads a door as a
DLL, preferably using DOTNET.

I'd write a door in JS if I could control its distribution.

Which language are you using on Mystic?

Fjolsvith

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On 07/09/14, Fjolsvith said the following...

Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Android8675 on Mon Jul 07 2014 10:23 pm

Does Synchronet run native WWIV doors? There was a roguelike door cal Dungeons of Doom by Elihu Fuestal. Maybe that would work.

I had a short conversation with Elihu a few months ago. I was working RL doorgame for Mystic. I tracked him down he gave me a few pointers.

I have my RL running here, but it's FAR FAR FAR from being done. Just another reason to switch to Mystic :)

What I would like to see is an interface for a BBS that loads a door as a DLL, preferably using DOTNET.

I'd write a door in JS if I could control its distribution.

Which language are you using on Mystic?

Fjolsvith

I'm using Mystic's native programming language. It only runs on Mystic BBSes. Sorry.

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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: nolageek to Android8675 on Tue Jul 08 2014 02:20 pm

If you're looking for true multiplayer roguelikes, take a look at
Mangband or TomeNet.

What's the best way to get those running as doors? :)

You'd have to re-write the clients to work as a front-end for the server. I know Tomenet's client opens like 8 status windows to display inventory, player chat and a ton of other data. Not to mention TomeNet has a really nice soundtrack that makes the game not as awesome without it.

It'd be a lot of work. What I'd do is just have a link that fires off the client to connect to your server. I think you can poll status files from the server and put them on your board in realtime, give people an idea on the board what's going on in the game.

I haven't thought about Mangband games in a while, but I did have a server running TomeNet that I was goofing around on. It's a really robust game.


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Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Mindless Automaton to Android8675 on Tue Jul 08 2014 08:53 am

A lot of these roguelikes use SDL and emulate(?) terminal. Any that use
ncurses should be able to display stdout.

Some programmers include a switch so you can set the interface mode(?).
Like with scfg you can set it up as a door using scfg -iC
Not sure how often that happens anymore though..

Even Nethack 3.4.3, if you compile the TTY version, it still won't work as a door, everything displays locally, but doesn't send anything over a telnet connection. Tried a lot of various methods to try and get it working to no avail.


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Re: Good RPG Door
By: Fjolsvith to All on Tue Jul 01 2014 22:40:16

Ahoy Fjolsvith,

Does anyone know of a game like this?

I've been working in the past on something like that:

http://art.poorcoding.com/synchack

It's not complete, but is something similar to a MMORPG. A handful of testing boards are running it already. Players across any of the boards connect to a single global server, providing real-time multiplayer inter-BBS excitement.

Regards,

art@fatcatsbbsdotcom

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Computer, what is the nature of the universe ?"
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Android8675 wrote to Mindless Automaton <=-

Even Nethack 3.4.3, if you compile the TTY version, it still won't work
as a door, everything displays locally, but doesn't send anything over
a telnet connection. Tried a lot of various methods to try and get it working to no avail.

Nethack 3.4.3 works fine over telnet here, standard Ubuntu server build from the repo..

Sampsa


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Re: Good RPG Door
By: Fjolsvith to All on Tue Jul 01 2014 10:40 pm

I am looking for a really good RPG door. I'm thinking along the lines of a Roguelike or Moria style interface and game.

I used to play all the Goldbox TSR AD&D games and anything that plays like those would be fun.

Does anyone know of a game like this?

The Beast's Domain comes with Synchronet (xtrn/tbd) and is somewhat Rougelike.

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On 07/07/14, Android8675 said the following...

Re: Re: Good RPG Door
By: Gryphon to Fjolsvith on Wed Jul 02 2014 12:39 pm

Why don't you just run nethack or moria asa door?

What's hilarious, is you can't... While nethack or any roguelike looks simple enough, it's just text right? yeah, but the way the output is displayed is not a stdout type situation. I don't know how it works because I'm not a coder, but you can'tjust compile the tty version of nethack for windows and run it as a door. Even Synchronet's redirector doesn't work with it. (At least my attempts failed when I tried), which
is why I suggested dgamelaunch, it'll make roguelikes work online.

Is this problem specific to SBBS on windows? I run Mystic on Linux, and I
have no problems running Nethack on the BBS.

Also it makes nethack so you can watch other people playing live, and
send them chat messages.

Because of this post, and this request, I've looked into adding a snoop
feature into my Mystic roguelike game. Just to be clear, this ability only allows another BBS user to snoop on another users' game. Is there more functions that people like to see?

Also, I do have a different shell for my BBS that allows the bbs
users to interat with another, in a rougelike manner. You can send messages
to all the users in a room, and watch what it is that they are doing. They
can see what you do too :)

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Hello, art!

Saw this post on the Fidonet Synchronet. Can SyncHack be ported to other BBS software as a door? or are there hooks for a non-Synchronet BBS to work with it
already?


11 Jul 14 16:57, from art -> Fjolsvith:

Re: Good RPG Door
By: Fjolsvith to All on Tue Jul 01 2014 22:40:16

Ahoy Fjolsvith,

Does anyone know of a game like this?

I've been working in the past on something like that:

http://art.poorcoding.com/synchack

It's not complete, but is something similar to a MMORPG. A handful of testing boards are running it already. Players across any of the
boards connect to a single global server, providing real-time
multiplayer inter-BBS excitement.

Regards,

art@fatcatsbbsdotcom

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Computer, what is the nature of the universe ?"
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diameter." -- Beverly and Computer in ST:TNG "Remember Me"

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