Re: Legion - need coders
By: Corey to Mro on Sun Dec 02 2012 09:36 am

Re: Legion - need coders

you shouldnt ask for keys or cracks to actively developed / actively
sold programs here.

Originally I was just curious if we were honoring said registration since I guess there was some conflict about Metro kindda being jerks or something. Been a week I kindda forgot. Planning to register the moment I get some green to do it with.

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On 12-02-12, Mro said the following...

Re: Legion - need coders
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sun Dec 02 2012 02:29 pm

I don't think there is a 4.8 or even a 4.6 version of LORD. The highest they have listed on their web site ( http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lord.ht ) is 4.07. And I've seen a 4.08 beta floating around too.

yes there is lord 4.8 which he accidentially released to fix a dosemu issue. it's a stable release.

Ah, maybe that's why it fails for me. I have to check again to see what version I'm running.

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On 12-02-12, Gryphon said the following...

On 12-02-12, Mro said the following...

Re: Legion - need coders
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sun Dec 02 2012 02:29 pm

I don't think there is a 4.8 or even a 4.6 version of LORD. The hig they have listed on their web site ( http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lor ) is 4.07. And I've seen a 4.08 beta floating around too.

yes there is lord 4.8 which he accidentially released to fix a dosemu issue. it's a stable release.

Ah, maybe that's why it fails for me. I have to check again to see what version I'm running.

Ok, I just checked. I'm running Lord 4.08 beta in dosemu. I can run
lordcfg and lord in local mode, but when I try to run it from one of my
nodes, it gives an error:

ERROR : 201 Range check error
Error Address: 374B:050C

I've tried both CHAIN.TXT and DOOR.SYS dropfiles.
I'm using the Linux version of Mystic 1.10.a21

Does anybody know what could be causing this? I suppose I could try an
older version and see if that works.

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Re: Legion - need coders
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sun Dec 02 2012 02:29 pm

I don't think there is a 4.8 or even a 4.6 version of LORD. The highest they have listed on their web site ( http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lord.html
) is 4.07. And I've seen a 4.08 beta floating around too.

You can download what looks to be the 4.8 beta files from Presslar's site or
at least an upgrade to 4.07. It's just the executable files. http://lord.lordlegacy.com/dosemu/


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Re: Legion - need coders
By: Captain Obvious to Mro on Sun Dec 02 2012 05:50 pm

Re: Legion - need coders
By: Mro to Captain Obvious on Sun Dec 02 2012 09:07 am

do a whois on the domain name and call them up

Duh. Too easy of a solution <g>. I'll be calling them tomorrow. Thanks.

just so you know, metro appears to be owned by a guy who works at multiservice. or maybe he is a part owner. you will get the run around but they might get you to the right person.

it's a weird situation. and you know how bbs people can be weird.

i know a guy who called them up a few years ago and got his code after paying.

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Re: Legion - need coders
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sun Dec 02 2012 04:23 pm

yes there is lord 4.8 which he accidentially released to fix a dosemu issue. it's a stable release.

That's a big jump in the version number. Do you know where it's available?

he went from version 4.7 to 4.8
http://lord.lordlegacy.com/dosemu/

yes i know it says 4.7. it's 4.8

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Re: Re: Legion - need coders
By: Gryphon to Gryphon on Sun Dec 02 2012 07:47 pm

Ok, I just checked. I'm running Lord 4.08 beta in dosemu. I can run lordcfg and lord in local mode, but when I try to run it from one of my nodes, it gives an error:

ERROR : 201 Range check error
Error Address: 374B:050C

no clue what that is. try reinstalling

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Hello Nightfox,

On 02 Dec 12 at 14:29, you wrote to Mro:

@h@bRe@n@b: @h@cLegion - need coders
@bBy@n@b: @h@cMro @bto @cCorey @bon @cSat Dec 01 2012 12:57:44@n

well i think with v4.8 those keymakers no longer work.
there is a crack for 4.8 but i believe it's lost.

i would recommend using v4.6 anyways.

I don't think there is a 4.8 or even a 4.6 version of LORD. The
highest they have listed on their web site ( http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lord.html ) is 4.07. And I've seen a 4.08 beta floating around too.

There's a 4.6 version of LORD. That's what both Scinet and Agoranet use by default in the league games. Remember I had to ask you to switch to 4.6 because you were creating errors? Did you ever to that yet? :)

4.08 only made it to a beta version, with a bunch of ansi added to it. It's very buggy, and had tons of spelling mistakes.

Regards,
Nick


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In a reply from Nightfox on 14:29 about Legion - need coders

well i think with v4.8 those keymakers no longer work.
there is a crack for 4.8 but i believe it's lost.

i would recommend using v4.6 anyways.

I don't think there is a 4.8 or even a 4.6 version of LORD. The highest they have listed on their web site ( http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lord.html ) is 4.07. And I've seen a 4.08 beta floating around too.

I belive there was a 4.06 version of lord (I should have runing, in my bbs), but if you want to find a copy, look on my bbs ftp side, in the bbs stuff area to door I - P, file name of LORD406.ZIP

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Re: Legion - need coders
By: Access Denied to Nightfox on Sun Dec 02 2012 07:58 pm

4.08 only made it to a beta version, with a bunch of ansi added to it. It's very buggy, and had tons of spelling mistakes.

i think you are talking about some 4.7 version. that's when he added the new ansis. then preslar said people were complaining about then and he released another 4.7 with the old lord menus. i'm not sure if he taked on a new version number or not.

he then went on to take out some of the crashing,etc issues with 4.7 and i think 4.8 (or call it 4.08 if you or anybody wants to) is pretty stable except for a few clear screen issues.

i released a 4.8 pack with an executable i hex edited [fixed display issues] and i included both the old menus and the ansi art menus so people could choose.

the 4.8 i have doesnt have spelling issues. i also think there were a few v4.8's out there because i was working with him and datastream's users were reporting lord problems.

but you have people like lordtime who distribute betas when they arent supposed to and that may be why some people have this 4.8 with spelling errors.
i'm not sure the current one on that website has those errors. it's also possible that i have a 4.8 someplace that nobody else has on my bbses and that's why i've only had a few problems.

to sum it up, it's a messy situation! :D

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Hello Gryphon,

On 02 Dec 12 at 19:47, you wrote to you:

Ok, I just checked. I'm running Lord 4.08 beta in dosemu. I can run lordcfg and lord in local mode, but when I try to run it from one of
my nodes, it gives an error:

ERROR : 201 Range check error
Error Address: 374B:050C

I've tried both CHAIN.TXT and DOOR.SYS dropfiles.
I'm using the Linux version of Mystic 1.10.a21

Does anybody know what could be causing this? I suppose I could try
an older version and see if that works.

Are you by chance using MIS as your telnet server? If so, it won't work for some odd reason. Most linux users are still using ddtelnetd and xinetd because of this problem with the door games.

Regards,
Nick


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Hello Mro,

On 03 Dec 12 at 17:35, you wrote to me:

i think you are talking about some 4.7 version. that's when he added
the new ansis. then preslar said people were complaining about then
and he released another 4.7 with the old lord menus. i'm not sure if
he taked on a new version number or not.

I supplied him with most of the ansis. It was definitely a 4.08 beta. I have it running here. His plan was to release two versions, long before anyone ever thought about complaining, though, so I don't know where that came from.

he then went on to take out some of the crashing,etc issues with 4.7
and i think 4.8 (or call it 4.08 if you or anybody wants to) is pretty stable except for a few clear screen issues.

Yeah, that's one of the major things I remember. Lots of text overwriting text. And a lot of spelling errors that weren't in 4.06.

i released a 4.8 pack with an executable i hex edited [fixed display issues] and i included both the old menus and the ansi art menus so
people could choose.

Where'd Michael run off to these days anyways? When is the last time you talked to Brian even? Haven't seen those guys around in quite some time now.

the 4.8 i have doesnt have spelling issues. i also think there were a
few v4.8's out there because i was working with him and datastream's users were reporting lord problems.

Must've been after I stopped messing with the betas, because the 4.07s and 4.08s I have running here are terrible compared to 4.06. Also, some of the colors were changed that made some of the display annoying.

but you have people like lordtime who distribute betas when they arent supposed to and that may be why some people have this 4.8 with
spelling errors. i'm not sure the current one on that website has
those errors. it's also possible that i have a 4.8 someplace that
nobody else has on my bbses and that's why i've only had a few
problems.

Yeah that's true. That's why I just stuck with 4.06. There's really nothing major added to the two newer versions, and seems to me to be the most stable.

to sum it up, it's a messy situation! :D

Very. Too bad Michael gave up on it. I would've rather seen him say "screw Gameport" and just start releasing his own stuff. :)

Regards,
Nick


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On 12-04-12, Nicholas Boel said the following...

Hello Gryphon,

On 02 Dec 12 at 19:47, you wrote to you:

Ok, I just checked. I'm running Lord 4.08 beta in dosemu. I can run lordcfg and lord in local mode, but when I try to run it from one of my nodes, it gives an error:

ERROR : 201 Range check error
Error Address: 374B:050C

I've tried both CHAIN.TXT and DOOR.SYS dropfiles.
I'm using the Linux version of Mystic 1.10.a21

Does anybody know what could be causing this? I suppose I could try an older version and see if that works.

Are you by chance using MIS as your telnet server? If so, it won't work
for some odd reason. Most linux users are still using ddtelnetd and
xinetd because of this problem with the door games.

Nope, I'm using ddtelnetd, not MIS.



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Re: Legion - need coders
By: Nicholas Boel to Mro on Mon Dec 03 2012 06:50 pm

I supplied him with most of the ansis. It was definitely a 4.08 beta. I
have it running here. His plan was to release two versions, long before anyone ever thought about complaining, though, so I don't know where that came from.

well i was getting files directly from him and on datastream i set it up so users could fill out a bug report and i would send it to him via email.
i dont think there was a full 4.08beta with ansis, i think it was just an executable.

I'm not sure when he added those ansis you gave him. i could have sworn it was some version of 4.07. and i'm pretty sure there were a couple of fixes and changes and no version number change.

and i think 4.8 (or call it 4.08 if you or anybody wants to) is pretty stable except for a few clear screen issues.

Yeah, that's one of the major things I remember. Lots of text overwriting text. And a lot of spelling errors that weren't in 4.06.

there's also some bug in darkcloak tavern that was an exploit. some user told me about it but i cant remember what. i do know the game then would crash and pop the user out and his stats would be upped or something.

Where'd Michael run off to these days anyways? When is the last time you

last i heard he finally got his life together and got a decent job. i think you remember the situation he was living in and it was pretty crazy and he was just stuck there in a miserable situation. i dont want to go into it much since it'll be recorded forever on the internet if i post it here.

talked to Brian even? Haven't seen those guys around in quite some time
now.

bryan was on my irc server for a while but he hasnt been on in a while. he wanted to run a bbs again and he put it up but i'm not sure if it's up now. he got married and went through some job changes and he's pretty cryptic so i dont know his situation. he is very active on facebook and is into hardcore mountain biking and animal rescue with his wife.

Must've been after I stopped messing with the betas, because the 4.07s and 4.08s I have running here are terrible compared to 4.06. Also, some of the colors were changed that made some of the display annoying.

i would recommend most people run 4.06. i'm not a big lord player or doorgame player anymore but 4.08 betta is fine for me. i did make some changes to the executables to clean things up, like i said.

Yeah that's true. That's why I just stuck with 4.06. There's really nothing major added to the two newer versions, and seems to me to be the most stable.

i dont like how he regulated what weapons you could have at what level. i guess it's cause back in the day there was a guy who used to pick on everybody and i learned how to 'cheat' in lord [like he was but better]and taught him a lesson. that was back when you'd wait until 12am so you can logon and be alive.

Very. Too bad Michael gave up on it. I would've rather seen him say "screw Gameport" and just start releasing his own stuff. :)

i tried to buy lord for 3,000usd [last 3 years]. i was going to release seth's source and let preslar keep what he made. metro gameport never replied.
in the past thorox, bryan, and mike tried to buy the source and they almost had it but the mystery man behind metrogameport fired all his staff and that ended that.

i dont blame him for giving up on lord. seth had a lot of respect from the bbs community and people didnt give mike any respect [myself too at times].
more importanly metro had a deal where mike would get a small cut out of each registration and they stopped doing so when registrations peaked.

i would like an open source lord, infact i'd like something like allen usher's door toolkit where you can pretty much copy every door and use a scripting system. i tried to get into txds but it was a bit confusing and convoluted in its methods.

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Hello Gryphon,

On 04 Dec 12 at 01:34, you wrote to me:

Are you by chance using MIS as your telnet server? If so, it won't
work for some odd reason. Most linux users are still using
ddtelnetd and xinetd because of this problem with the door games.

Nope, I'm using ddtelnetd, not MIS.

Then it's most like something configured on your end. If you can type 'dosemu' from the command prompt and end up at C:\, we'll need a snippet of your batch file and script to run dosemu.

Regards,
Nick


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On 12-05-12, Nicholas Boel said the following...

Hello Gryphon,

On 04 Dec 12 at 01:34, you wrote to me:

Are you by chance using MIS as your telnet server? If so, it won't
work for some odd reason. Most linux users are still using
ddtelnetd and xinetd because of this problem with the door games.

Nope, I'm using ddtelnetd, not MIS.

Then it's most like something configured on your end. If you can type 'dosemu' from the command prompt and end up at C:\, we'll need a snippet
of your batch file and script to run dosemu.

Regards,
Nick

Snippet? How's about my whole script?

I've tried running it with both door.sys and chain.txt. I've changed the
lord settings many times.

#!/bin/ksh

DOOR=$1
NODE=$2

export HOME=/home/bbs/doors
export BTMP=/home/bbs/temp${NODE}

#cp -f $BTMP/* /home/bbs/doors/temp${NODE} > /dev/null 2>&1

if [ -f $BTMP/DOOR.SYS ]; then
unix2dos -q ${BTMP}/DOOR.SYS
chown bbs:bbs $BTMP/DOOR.SYS
chmod 666 $BTMP/DOOR.SYS
fi
if [ -f ${BTMP}/CHAIN.TXT ]; then
unix2dos -q $BTMP/CHAIN.TXT
chown bbs:bbs $BTMP/CHAIN.TXT
chmod 666 $BTMP/CHAIN.TXT
fi
if [ -f $BTMP/DOOR32.SYS ]; then
unix2dos -q ${BTMP}/DOOR32.SYS
chown bbs:bbs $BTMP/DOOR32.SYS
chmod 666 $BTMP/DOOR32.SYS
fi

case $DOOR in
LORD)
echo "@echo off" > $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "M:" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "CD \DOORS\LORD" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "CALL START ${NODE}" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "exitemu" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
chown bbs:bbs $HOME/dodoor.bat
;;
BRE)
echo "@echo off" > $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "M:" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "CD \DOORS\BRE" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "SRDOOR -f SETUP.$NODE" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "BRE" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "exitemu" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
chown bbs:bbs $HOME/dodoor.bat
;;
PIT)
echo "@echo off" > $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "M:" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "CD \DOORS\THEPIT" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "PIT /NODE=$NODE" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "exitemu" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
chown bbs:bbs $HOME/dodoor.bat
;;
PLANETS)
echo "@echo off" > $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "M:" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "CD \DOORS\plan" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "M:\DOORS\PLAN\PLANETS.EXE /pM:\temp%NODE" >> $HOME/dodoor
echo "exitemu" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
chown bbs:bbs $HOME/dodoor.bat
;;

DOS)
echo "@echo off" > $HOME/dodoor.bat
;;
esac
TERM=ansi

case $DOOR in
DOS) /usr/bin/dosemu -I 'keystroke "\r"' ;;
# LORD) /usr/bin/dosemu -I 'keystroke "\r"' ;;
*) /usr/bin/dosemu -I 'keystroke "\r"' -u virtual;;
esac

if [ -f $BTMP/DOOR.SYS ]; then
rm -f $BTMP/DOOR.SYS
fi
if [ -f $BTMP/CHAIN.TXT ]; then
rm -f $BTMP/CHAIN.TXT
fi
if [ -f $HOME/dodoor.bat ]; then
rm $HOME/dodoor.bat
fi

#####
And my autoexec.bat file too
#####
@echo off
rem autoexec.bat for DOSEMU + FreeDOS
path z:\bin;z:\gnu;z:\dosemu;M:\
set HELPPATH=z:\help
set TEMP=c:\tmp
prompt $P$G
unix -s /home/bbs
lredir M: linux\fs/home/bbs
unix -s DOSEMU_VERSION
REM echo "Welcome to dosemu %DOSEMU_VERSION%!"
M:
M:\BIN\BNU\BNU.COM /L0:38400,8N1 /F
M:
CD \DOORS
DODOOR.BAT
unix -e

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Hello Gryphon,

On 04 Dec 12 at 21:02, you wrote to me:

Snippet? How's about my whole script?

Sure. That's what I meant, I just like using the word "snippet" since I don't get to use it very often. :)

I've tried running it with both door.sys and chain.txt. I've changed
the lord settings many times.

I don't know what (if any) uses chain.txt).. I believe I can get away with most games using door.sys.

#!/bin/ksh

DOOR=$1
NODE=$2

export HOME=/home/bbs/doors
export BTMP=/home/bbs/temp${NODE}

#cp -f $BTMP/* /home/bbs/doors/temp${NODE} > /dev/null 2>&1

if [ -f $BTMP/DOOR.SYS ]; then
unix2dos -q ${BTMP}/DOOR.SYS

I don't believe this is necessary anymore if you use the /DOS option when running the script from the menu editor, but it's definitely not why you're having issues here.

case $DOOR in
LORD)
echo "@echo off" > $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "M:" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "CD \DOORS\LORD" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "CALL START ${NODE}" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
echo "exitemu" >> $HOME/dodoor.bat
chown bbs:bbs $HOME/dodoor.bat
;;

Do you have to type the entire batch file's name (ie: START.BAT) when you call it? I don't know any better, as I've always wrote out the entire filename. *shrug*

TERM=ansi

case $DOOR in
DOS) /usr/bin/dosemu -I 'keystroke "\r"' ;;
# LORD) /usr/bin/dosemu -I 'keystroke "\r"' ;;
*) /usr/bin/dosemu -I 'keystroke "\r"' -u virtual;;
esac

Here it doesn't look like you're passing any variables into dosemu. My execution of dosemu looks more like this:

/usr/bin/dosemu -u virtual -I 'keystroke "\r"' NODE=$1 DOOR=$2 BBS=1 >/dev/null

Though you probably don't need the BBS=1 (my setup was a little different from yours).

if [ -f $BTMP/DOOR.SYS ]; then
rm -f $BTMP/DOOR.SYS
fi
if [ -f $BTMP/CHAIN.TXT ]; then
rm -f $BTMP/CHAIN.TXT
fi
if [ -f $HOME/dodoor.bat ]; then
rm $HOME/dodoor.bat
fi

And here, doesn't Mystic/Linux give you lowercase dropfiles?

#####
And my autoexec.bat file too
#####
@echo off
rem autoexec.bat for DOSEMU + FreeDOS
path z:\bin;z:\gnu;z:\dosemu;M:\
set HELPPATH=z:\help
set TEMP=c:\tmp
prompt $P$G
unix -s /home/bbs
lredir M: linux\fs/home/bbs
unix -s DOSEMU_VERSION
REM echo "Welcome to dosemu %DOSEMU_VERSION%!"
M:
M:\BIN\BNU\BNU.COM /L0:38400,8N1 /F
M:
CD \DOORS
DODOOR.BAT
unix -e

Your autoexec.bat is definitely not the problem. Everything there looks fine.

####
If you need more, let me know.

What more is there? :)

Also, most of the above were just thoughts that went through my head at the time I looked over it. You may very well be right on those. I was just trying to locate any possibilities. Hopefully one of them caught the issue. *crosses fingers*

Regards,
Nick


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Cool can i get the keymaker for Lord?

You should not need the keymaker and you should be able to find one that already exist on the internet.

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