I have been digging around quite a bit, but haven't found anything about this door game. Food Fight! was one of my favorite games back in the late 80s to mid-90s era on BBSes. I would love to find this game up and running again somewhere, and ideally find a place to download it from. Has anyone seen it about or know if its still distributed?


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Hi! Dmxrob,

On 16 Apr 18 18:30, you wrote to All:

Has anyone seen it about or know if its still
distributed?

I don't have the original distribution archive but I have a copy of version 3.3
'frozen in time', from just before I shut down my first BBS back in '98. It was a hasty backup to floppy, just before the *big bang* that took out the entire PC. It was the most favoured game on the BBS at the time.

There is a download of a later version available at:

http://archives.thebbs.org/ra92a.htm

Look for "ffb456.zip", towards the bottom. Enjoy.

Cheers,
Paul.

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I have been digging around quite a bit, but haven't found anything about this D>door game. Food Fight! was one of my favorite games back in the late 80s to D>mid-90s era on BBSes. I would love to find this game up and running again D>somewhere, and ideally find a place to download it from. Has anyone seen it D>about or know if its still distributed?

I have it for download over here, but I don't know if it's
registerable anymore or not.

I do have a similar game called FoodWars, and it's freeware. You're a
student at Microlimp Junior High School, and you get in food wars with
the other students and staff. If you lose, you get apprehended by "Fat
Edna", and sent to Principal Gates office. <G>

Daryl

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Dmxrob to All on Mon Apr 16 2018 06:30 pm

I have been digging around quite a bit, but haven't found anything about this door game. Food Fight! was one of my favorite games back in the late 80s to mid-90s era on BBSes. I would love to find this game up and running again somewhere, and ideally find a place to download it from. Has anyone seen it about or know if its still distributed?

There's a couple different flavors of Food Fight.

I'm most familiar with the version made for WWIV BBSes by Rigor Mortis. I used to include a copy of with Synchronet installs so you can find it running on a lot of Synchronet BBSes (e.g. bbs.synchro.net).

And then there's the more generic version for multiple BBS programs. You can find them both available for download on Vertrauen: ftp://vert.synchro.net/main/BBS/00index.html

digital man

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Dmxrob to All on Mon Apr 16 2018 18:30:08

I have been digging around quite a bit, but haven't found anything about this door game. Food Fight! was one of my favorite games back in the late 80s to mid-90s era on BBSes. I would love to find this game up and running again somewhere, and ideally find a place to download it from. Has anyone seen it about or know if its still distributed?

If I'm not mistaken this is/was in the CVS repo.

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Digital Man to Dmxrob on Mon Apr 16 2018 06:16 pm

There's a couple different flavors of Food Fight.

I'm most familiar with the version made for WWIV BBSes by Rigor Mortis. I used to include a copy of with Synchronet installs so you can find it running on a lot of Synchronet BBSes (e.g. bbs.synchro.net).

Thanks for that, DM.

Years ago I tried to find the Rigor Mortis version, but all I could find were the Michael Wilson versions. Not sure how I missed checking your FTP. Too bad the archive doesn't have the original sysop documentation.

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This is all I got in your message. Did it <SLAP!> my QWK Reader, then
sprint away?? <G>

Daryl
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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Kirkman to Digital Man on Tue Apr 17 2018 07:57 am

Years ago I tried to find the Rigor Mortis version, but all I could find were the Michael Wilson versions. Not sure how I missed checking your FTP. Too bad the archive doesn't have the original sysop documentation.

Do you need help setting it up?

digital man

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Digital Man to Dmxrob on Mon Apr 16 2018 06:16 pm

I'm most familiar with the version made for WWIV BBSes by Rigor Mortis. I used to include a copy of with Synchronet installs so you can find it running on a lot of Synchronet BBSes (e.g. bbs.synchro.net).

I called around to a bunch of WWIV BBSes this morning and managed to find another copy of Rigor Mortis' Food Fight, which *does* have the original sysop instructions file. I'm going to attach the ZIP file to the Downloads section of my FF article stub on Break Into Chat:

http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Food_Fight

--Josh

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Tue Apr 17 2018 11:04 am

Years ago I tried to find the Rigor Mortis version, but all I could
find were the Michael Wilson versions. Not sure how I missed checking
your FTP. Too bad the archive doesn't have the original sysop
documentation.

Do you need help setting it up?

I did post one question (with a lengthy setup) in IRC. What it boils down to:

I can make the game work if I manually edit the EXTERNAL.BAT and CHAIN.TXT files to use mapped drives. (e.g. "D:/CHAIN.TXT" instead of "/sbbs/node1/CHAIN.TXT")

But since Sync creates these files automatically, how can I tell it to use the mapped drives instead of the linux paths?

--Josh

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Kirkman wrote to Digital Man on 04-17-18 13:55 <=-

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Tue Apr 17 2018 11:04 am

Years ago I tried to find the Rigor Mortis version, but all I could
find were the Michael Wilson versions. Not sure how I missed checking
your FTP. Too bad the archive doesn't have the original sysop
documentation.

Do you need help setting it up?

I did post one question (with a lengthy setup) in IRC. What it boils
down to:

I can make the game work if I manually edit the EXTERNAL.BAT and
CHAIN.TXT files to use mapped drives. (e.g. "D:/CHAIN.TXT" instead of "/sbbs/node1/CHAIN.TXT")

But since Sync creates these files automatically, how can I tell it to
use the mapped drives instead of the linux paths?

Like this Josh...

¦Name FoodFite
¦Internal Code FOODFITE
¦Start-up Directory ../xtrn/foodfite
¦Command Line foodfite %f
¦Clean-up Command Line
¦Execution Cost None
¦Access Requirements
¦Execution Requirements
¦Multiple Concurrent Users Yes
¦Intercept I/O Standard, WWIV Color
¦Native Executable No
¦Use Shell to Execute Yes
¦Modify User Data No
¦Execute on Event No
¦Pause After Execution No
¦BBS Drop File Type WWIV CHAIN.TXT
 ¦Place Drop File In Node Directory


At least it works here... :)


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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Kirkman to Digital Man on Tue Apr 17 2018 01:40 pm

Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Digital Man to Dmxrob on Mon Apr 16 2018 06:16 pm

I'm most familiar with the version made for WWIV BBSes by Rigor Mortis. I used to include a copy of with Synchronet installs so you can find it running on a lot of Synchronet BBSes (e.g. bbs.synchro.net).

I called around to a bunch of WWIV BBSes this morning and managed to find another copy of Rigor Mortis' Food Fight, which *does* have the original sysop instructions file. I'm going to attach the ZIP file to the Downloads section of my FF article stub on Break Into Chat:

http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Food_Fight

Cool! You may want to add "foodfight 2004" (by Oddware Productions, Chris Martino) to that page too:
ftp://vert.synchro.net/main/bbs/ff2004v22.zip

digital man

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Kirkman to Digital Man on Tue Apr 17 2018 01:55 pm

Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Tue Apr 17 2018 11:04 am

Years ago I tried to find the Rigor Mortis version, but all I could
find were the Michael Wilson versions. Not sure how I missed checking
your FTP. Too bad the archive doesn't have the original sysop
documentation.

Do you need help setting it up?

I did post one question (with a lengthy setup) in IRC. What it boils down to:

I can make the game work if I manually edit the EXTERNAL.BAT and CHAIN.TXT files to use mapped drives. (e.g. "D:/CHAIN.TXT" instead of "/sbbs/node1/CHAIN.TXT")

Those appears to all be DOSEMU-specific issues. You may be the first one to try to run it under DOSEMU (at least with Synchronet)?

But since Sync creates these files automatically, how can I tell it to use the mapped drives instead of the linux paths?

No, there's no such option. :-( A DOSEMU-specific mod/patch could be made, but it'd most easily be done for *all* DOS doors (not just one in particular).

digital man

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Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

This is all I got in your message. Did it <SLAP!> my QWK Reader, then sprint away?? <G>

Haha ya gotta be quick (as opposed to QWK). :P


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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Tue Apr 17 2018 02:01 pm

I can make the game work if I manually edit the EXTERNAL.BAT and CHAIN.TXT files to use mapped drives. (e.g. "D:/CHAIN.TXT" instead of "/sbbs/node1/CHAIN.TXT")

Those appears to all be DOSEMU-specific issues. You may be the first one to try to run it under DOSEMU (at least with Synchronet)?

But since Sync creates these files automatically, how can I tell it to use the mapped drives instead of the linux paths?

No, there's no such option. :-( A DOSEMU-specific mod/patch could be made, but it'd most easily be done for *all* DOS doors (not just one in particular).

I just committed a change to xtrn_sec.cpp (part of the USE_DOSEMU patch set) to replace full paths with drive-letter-mappings for non-native doors on Linux (when USE_DOSEMU is defined). Try that and let me know how it works for ya.

digital man

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Paul Quinn to Dmxrob on Tue Apr 17 2018 10:48 am

There is a download of a later version available at:

http://archives.thebbs.org/ra92a.htm

Look for "ffb456.zip", towards the bottom. Enjoy.

Thanks Paul!

I tried to grab it from there, but it appears that their FTP server and/or site is having issues. This game brings back so many memories, and was truly one of the best ones I can remember for being simple and so much fun during the golden years of BBSing!

þdmxrobþ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Kirkman to Digital Man on Tue Apr 17 2018 01:40 pm

I called around to a bunch of WWIV BBSes this morning and managed to find another copy of Rigor Mortis' Food Fight, which *does* have the original sysop instructions file. I'm going to attach the ZIP file to the Downloads section of my FF article stub on Break Into Chat:

http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Food_Fight

Thanks a ton for tracking this down! So glad to find an old favorite once again!


þdmxrobþ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

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Tony,

This is all I got in your message. Did it <SLAP!> my QWK Reader, then sprint away?? <G>

Haha ya gotta be quick (as opposed to QWK). :P

I guess I better REP up my page on logic, then. <G>

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Like the picture of the cat next to a hammer. The caption says "Dog
has a concussion?? I have no idea how it happened"!! :P

Or like this blooper...and you can appreciate it, being in
firefighting...

"The fire chief determined that something hot came into contact with something flammable, which resulted in the fire which destroyed the
meeting hall kitchen".

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE??!! <G>

Daryl

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Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Dmxrob to All on Mon Apr 16 2018 06:30 pm

I have been digging around quite a bit, but haven't found anything about this door game. Food Fight! was one of my favorite games back in the late 80s to mid-90s era on BBSes. I would love to find this game up and running again somewhere, and ideally find a place to download it from. Has anyone seen it about or know if its still distributed?

I have it running on Valhalla

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Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

Haha ya gotta be quick (as opposed to QWK). :P

I guess I better REP up my page on logic, then. <G>

Oh dear. :D

... Headline: "Blow to Head is Common Cause of Brain Injury"

Like the picture of the cat next to a hammer. The caption says "Dog
has a concussion?? I have no idea how it happened"!! :P

Funny that. :)

Or like this blooper...and you can appreciate it, being in firefighting...

"The fire chief determined that something hot came into contact with something flammable, which resulted in the fire which destroyed the meeting hall kitchen".

You don't say! :D


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Tony,

Haha ya gotta be quick (as opposed to QWK). :P

I guess I better REP up my page on logic, then. <G>

Oh dear. :D

Or I could do like one of the Volunteer Examiners (VE's) at a local
ham radio license exam session. He went to separate the carbons on the Certificate Of Successful Completion Of Examination (CSCE), and he tore
the whole thing to bits!!

Two other VE's and myself were roaring in laughter. A third older VE
quipped "His wife needs to have him practice tearing the perforations on
the roll of toilet paper".

The "shredding VE" growled "I'm going to have to get a whole new VE
Team. <G> It proves "with friends like us (ham radio operators), you
don't need any enemies".

... Headline: "Blow to Head is Common Cause of Brain Injury"

Like the picture of the cat next to a hammer. The caption says "Dog has a concussion?? I have no idea how it happened"!! :P

Funny that. :)

If that's not a confession, I don't know what is. It's like the
picture of the dachshund, saying to his owner "I'm so glad you're home.
Someone pooped in the hallway"!! <G>

Or like this blooper...and you can appreciate it, being in firefighting...

"The fire chief determined that something hot came into contact with something flammable, which resulted in the fire which destroyed the meeting hall kitchen".

You don't say! :D

Or "What was your first clue??!!". :P

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I have a constant hangover...my belly hangs over my belt. Got to have a
shed for the tool.

Remember...dirty old Sysops (and ham radio operators) need love, too.


Daryl

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On 04/17/18, KK4QBN said the following...

I have been digging around quite a bit, but haven't found anything ab this door game. Food Fight! was one of my favorite games back in the 80s to mid-90s era on BBSes. I would love to find this game up and ru again somewhere, and ideally find a place to download it from. Has an

I'm almost sure I have it here in my file area..

Regards

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Re: Re: Food Fight Door Game
By: Charles Stephenson to KK4QBN on Tue May 29 2018 07:02 pm

On 04/17/18, KK4QBN said the following...

I have been digging around quite a bit, but haven't found anything this door game. Food Fight! was one of my favorite games back in t 80s to mid-90s era on BBSes. I would love to find this game up and again somewhere, and ideally find a place to download it from. Has

I'm almost sure I have it here in my file area..

Regards

I know I run it on my board, so I'm sure there are quite a few boards who still have it. If you can't find it anywhere else come on over to section1bbs.com

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