[olug] OT: Door games Was: Chrome

[T. J. Brumfield]

Synchronet was commercial, but it is now free and open source.  It
will still run under Linux, OS/2 and Windows.  It still has POTS
(Plain-Old-Telephone Support) and works over telnet.  It even has a
web server built in, to enable accessing BBS functions via a browser.

http://synchro.net

There are also new door games being developed, believe it or not, like
Ambrosia which is pretty impressive.  I always really liked Operation
Overkill 2, which was an underrated gem.

-- T. J.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:38 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I had no intention of attempting to write my own FOSSIL driver, so I
>> went with existing APIs for writing door games, which primarily were
>> in Pascal.
>
>
> Mmmm BRE, LORD, Usurper.
>
> I can't recall the name of what became the defacto FOSSIL driver under DOS.
>  Did it start with a B ?
>
> I do recall setting up a few BBS's and co-sysoping a few.  Renegade grew in
> popularity quickly in the Pensacola, FL region.  There were a couple other
> free ones that were popular (maximus or something ? v2.14 or something ?
> think Pro Board was free ? high version number like 15 or so ?).  Think
> there were only 3 in the area that ran a commercial backend.  Wonder if I
> still have the floppy backup of my old fave BBS setup :).
>
> /me shudders at the thought of logging into a dozen different BBS's and
> having to sit through the same god damn annoying Foxworthy joke each time
> with the same infernal red background.
>
> -Will
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