From: Mark Firestone <nedry@...>
Date: 2003-06-02T22:10:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Named Pipes

I'm glad you like it.  I was planning on writing a clone of TW2002 in 
Pascal (about 10 years ago...) that project sat, about 1/8 done, on the 
shelf for years... then I revived it, got it to about 1/8 done again (cause 
I lost my original code) in Pascal, and then my friend said, "you should do 
that in Ruby..."

That project never got off the ground -- I ended up doing the BBS first (my 
TW clone was going to stand on it's own... as a telnetable app...)

They still sell TW2002... so I just bought a copy and made the 
connector.  Now I need a new PC.  Sigh.

Fancy a game?  I have to get some players now!

Take Care,

Mark

P.S. What games did you play/write...  I was mainly a TW player... I've 
been thinking about throwing together a multiplayer version of Super Star 
Trek... remember that?  I think that could be fun!


At 01:55 31/05/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>On Friday 30 May 2003 4:07 am, Mark Firestone wrote:
> > Well, the thing works now.  Thanks for everyone's help.
> >
> > If you want to see a DOS BBS door game (Tradewars 2002) run on a
> > Linux box, piped though a pseudo tty... then all you have to do is
> > telnet to:
> >
> > tardisbbs.ath.cx 2323
>
>Very cool. =) I used to run a BBS a long time ago and played Tradewars
>and tons of other doors all the time... (even helped write a couple...)
>very cool to see something like that alive.
>
>Boy, back in those days wouldn't it have been amazing to have Ruby? =)
>
>--
>Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@icecavern.net
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