Welcome to Volume 2, Issue 1, of my LORD IGM Authors Newsletter.
This is the fifth issue, and marks the anniversary of the newsletter's
renewal by me in November 1999. The purpose of this newsletter is to
let people interested in the BBS door games LORD, LORD II, and Tournament
LORD know about the various active authors, and info on recent LORD program
releases. Entries are on or by the various LORD authors and webmasters,
and are listed in alphabetical order, by last name, or web-site title.
When development is finished, a text version will be created of this HTML
web-page and released on my LordNews mailing list. Those who wish to
receive it by email should register using the Listbot LordNews subscription
section, located on my LORD Links Page --
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/5389/camelot5.html. Issue #5
covers September 20 through December 31, 2000, and is the last quarterly
issue. Special Notes: If you know of any new or updated Lord
programs, that are not listed on one of my LORD web-pages, please send
it to me by Email. I'm especially looking for these IGMs: The Jeweler's
Shoppe, Old Skill Center, and Market Place.
12/23 Update: Bobby's web-site status is still considered Inactive,
but he is still available by Email. The site's last update was made in
late August 2000. 12/25 Update: Various parts of this issue
have been rewritten, to incorporate information received from Bobby Queen,
Paul Koukos, and Ruth Argust. The Recent Lord Releases and LordNews
Issues Sections have also been updated. 12/31/00 Update: LordNews
Issue #3 web-page updated and released.
04/15/01 Update: LordNews Issues #1-#5 revised and updated,
as part of overall re-release of all old newsletter issues. The Listbot
text files have been moved on my web-site to an Lordnews subdirectory..
LordNews Issue #6 will be released Monday,
April 16, 2001. See it for current updates on people listed here.
02/09/2002: Stopped usage of
the drag-109.jpg dragon picture. Checked over issue for any needed
updates.
This is a summary of LORD programming this year, through November. LORD has not had any work done on it, to my knowledge, since the v4.05 beta was released in March. Michael Preslar is hard to reach by email, and has been kept busy by his paid work. I have not seen a single IGM released since Seth Robinson released LORD v4.00, that uses any of the features added to LORD by him or Michael. LORD II has not been worked on by anyone since Seth released v1.01a in July 1997, except for two patch files released through January 1998. To date, I have seen three LORD II utilities and four LORD utilities released this year. No menuset or play guide files were released this year. There have been fifteen LORD IGMs, that I know of, released to date. Eight of the IGMs were Y2K updates. The list of active LORD/LORD II IGM authors is currently limited to Bryan Turner, Rick Parrish, Jason Brown, Tien Lung, Lloyd Hannesson, Ken Weitzel, and Marc Ryan. There were six LORD II IGMs released this year, most by Tien Lung and Michael Bujold. No Lord II New World programs were released this year. However, a couple are known to be in progress. Only two LORD II utilities were released this year.
The Official LORD II IGM Archive site has been inactive most of the
year, due to Bobby Queen's personal/family health problems, and has not
seen any new IGM reviews added in over a year, other than ones made by
Codax Dragon. This has had a freezing effect I have been told on many
authors producing LORD II programs. Also, the IGM authors are unable to
easily avoid program conflicts due to the lack of an up-to-date LORD II
block address record FAQ, which Bobby has been unable to provide to them.
Due to my inability to contact Bobby by email anymore, I'm listing his
web-sites in the Fully Inactive and "Dead Sites" sections currently. His
site has been completely inactive since late August 2000.
04/15/01 Update: Bobby's web-site remains inactive, but was
updated by Bobby after this issue's release. He is recovering from surgery
currently at home, since mid-March 2001. Both Bobby and his web-sites are
classified, until he recovers enough to resume site updates, as Fully
inactive. For more information, see LordNews
Issue #6.
Some good news is that Lloyd Hannesson is continuing to post all of
the LORD IGMs on his Tech'N Software site, and will eventually have them
tested for Y2K compliance, and other problems. So people looking for a
single source for the LORD IGMs should thank him for doing this for us.
Here is my take on LORD's future. With the exception of Joseph Watson's
IGMs work, and his friends' work, WT-LORD programming has stopped. There
is NO work of any kind done to support Worldgroup T-LORD, so it can be
considered as deceased. LORD II is viewable as being in a coma, with
brief signs of life, from the few active LORD II IGM authors. And classic
LORD is on life support, with occasional IGMs getting released for it.
This is an analogy. LORD had three doctors in residence. Dr. Preslar
has been away from his patient for eight months in essence. Dr.
Marcelletti killed his patient, in my opinion. And Dr. nobody at Gameport
has left LORD II in its coma. I am thankful though that there are still
over a dozen of us who have continued to care for our beloved LORD
programs. As long as that continues, there is always hope for LORD's
future to improve.
04/15/01 Update: Lord II was updated by Preslar in February
2001, in a cosmetic update, which included recompiled L2.exe/L2cfg.exe
files which fixed the problems Lord2 had running on fast systems. For
full details, see LordNews #6.
Tournament LORD's Worldgroup version has been abandoned as far as I can tell by everyone. No one writes IGMs for it, and no one is working on the Worldgroup version for Gameport. The Wildcat version (WT-LORD) was abandoned this summer by IceRage (Marceletti) when they apparently went out of business, so the ownership rights have returned to Gameport. With the exception of a patch release in December 1999, WT-LORD had not seen any work done to it by IceRage. The only author to produce IGMs for WT-LORD continues to be Joseph Watson, although I've heard there is one other person working on an IGM for it. Gameport does not seem to care about any of the LORD programs, and is known to be completely hostile to anyone producing a 32-bit Windows or OS/2 version of LORD. Joseph has, to date, released twelve IGMs this year, three of them brand new.
04/15/01 Update: Preslar was authorized by Gameport to
do 32-bit versions of LORD for Windows, OS/2, and Linux. Gameport
is also trying to contact Icerage personnel to obtain the source code
for Wildcat T-Lord. For full info on this, see LordNews #6.
01/29/02 Notes: The LORD II rewrite is still underway by Preslar;
the 100% CPU usage problem has been solved. He will be working on Worldgroup
Tournament Lord when he can. IceRage is reopened, but the WT-Lord source
code was lost, so no program updates are possible. For information on
IceRage reopening, see LordNews Issues #7 through #10. For information
on updates made to date on LORD 4.07, LORD II, and TEOS, see the same
issues.
02/09/02: Thanks to the efforts of Janet Terry, Joe has
started WT-Lord v3.00. He is rewriting WT-Lord, using source code that he
had sold years ago to Janet as a starting point. Work also underway on
bi-column Other Places menu, either as integral part of WT-Lord, or as
an add-on Utility.
April 2001 Summary for above section:
The following authors are no longer actively writing for LORD or LORD
II: Bryan Turner, Rick Parrish, Jason Brown, and Tien Lung. Info on
LORD/Lord2/WT-Lord programs released since December 2000 may be seen
in ccigm-6.html. Codax Dragon continues to work on his Cruises
Lord2 IGM, and Duncan Idaho is still working on his DuneLord and Wheel
of Time Lord2 new world programs. The primary impetus in Lord II
programming at this time is by Joel Gathercole. Lloyd Hannesson
continues to work away at listing/hosting LORD IGMs on his site.
One person other than Joseph Watson is known to be working on
WT-Lord igms, and two others are maintaining qualily WT-Lord igm hints
pages. On the doctor analogy, Lord and Lord II are alive and kicking,
other than in the IGMs production department, where classic Lord remains
fairly comatose. The WG Tournament LORD programming area remains
totally dead. Dr. Preslar and "Doctor" Gathercole are doing good work
on the Lord II patient, but no Lord2 igm authors are responding to
their medical care so far. Lastly, Gameport *IS* now going full-speed
on development of 32-bit LORD games, LORD II development, and even
Planets: TEOS. Also WebLord, for Internet sites play, is under
development at this time - April 2001.
Thanks to the few friends who participated in my survey to determine the future of this newsletter. Here are the results, all effective immediately: The newsletter will be produced three times per year, or every four months. I have streamlined this page to use one single barline graphic. As some indicated would be appreciated, I have added a dragon art picture to this issue, and will select another later on for Issue #6. The Listbot Text version of this issue will no longer have the author entries edited to include email/website addresses. If you need them, see this web-page (ccigm-5.html). This issue's HTML web-page will be Emailed to those who wish to include it directly as some have requested, via a new Mailing List I have set up in Eudora. If you wish to be included, let me know, and I will add you to it. I am not planning to make any changes to the Listbot LordNews mailing list. This issue, when distributed through it, will be transmitted in two sections. As for questions about the future of this newsletter, as long as there are twelve or more Lord friends who remain interested, and provide contributions, there will be a new Issue each four months. The original LordNews survey message is archived inside ccigm-5h.zip, as cci-1122.txt. 01/29/02: Renamed file to cc05-note2.txt. Archived most of Other Notes paragraph inside cc05-note3.txt.
Other Notes, reworded 01/29/02: The Text version files for
Issues #1-#5 are being stored on the Lord Legacy FTP server, in the
Lordnews subdirectory. The text version archives will continue to
be available on my site. The issue #1-#5 Text Version files were all
brought up to date, as part of the relocation process done to move the
newsletter's text files into a LordNews directory. Issues #6-#9 were
later released and placed there.
12/23-12/25 Update: Kiteria's Korner has not been updated since early August, due to Bobby Queen's health and family problems. Also, the majority of the site is not updated unless new Lord articles are provided for it. I have been in contact with Bobby, and he plans to keep hosting Kiteria's Korner. (Deleted several lines of text here on 4/16/01. I dropped the idea of setting up a separate version of Kiteria's Korner on my web-site.) There is now a new mirror of the Official Lord II IGM Archive and Kiteria's Korner sites on the Lord Legacy server, thanks to Joel Gathercole and Michael Preslar. Also there is no longer any need to worry about Bobby Queen's ISP shutting him down, so other than our still needing to help him occasionally with the sites' updating, all that is needed is for everyone to "nudge" him at times into doing site updates.
For those who ask "What is Kiteria's Korner?": It is a storehouse of articles on LORD created by Bryan Turner and Suzanne Franklin over several years. It doesn't cover Lord II or Tournament Lord, other than listing the web-sites that relate to them, in its Lord Links page, which is based upon my Lord Links Summary Page. I have been helping Suzanne with her site since 1998, when Bryan stopped working on it for her. Due to her own health problems, Suzanne felt the site would benefit from Bobby Queen taking over the site's hosting, development, and management, which happened in early May 1999. Since then, he and I jointly have taken care of her site. We completely redesigned and renovated Kiteria's Korner in June 2000. These changes are fully detailed in LordNews Issue #3.
With some exceptions, Bobby has been fully inactive for this entire year (2000), due to health problems. Then there has been the "dangling sword" situation, where since September 2000, we've been expecting his ISP to shut down his accounts at shelby.net. So far, that hasn't happened, as of mid-December 2000. And for the past month approximately, I've been unable to reach Bobby by Email, or through friends' messages on the Fidonet Lord echo. His primary email account appears to have been shut down, and it is not clear what the status of his secondary email account is. Bobby has backed up his Official Lord II IGM Archive site, and Kiteria's Korner, on his webjump.com mirror site.
April 2001 Notes: In late December, after this issue was
originally released, I was able to hear from Bobby. Shelby.net had been
losing his email, from me and many others. That problem was finally
resolved after nearly a month of aggravation, for all concerned. Over
the past four months, I've updated components of Bobby's Official Lord2
site, some of which has not yet been uploaded to the site. I have also
updated the Kiteria's Korner site with updated pages, which included
doing spell checking on several Article pages that seemed to need that
done. Bobby underwent surgery in March 2001, and has gone quiet on
people, while he recovers from that ordeal. So until he resurfaces,
both the Kiteria site and the Official Lord2 site will be fully inactive
once again. If the situation changes, it will be reported in one of
these ways: (1) Notice via my Lord Links page; (2) addendum notice
added to the LordNews issue #6 files; or (3) put into the LordNews
Issue #7 web-page.
Site Re-Openings: Lord II: Complete New World - new address.
Site closures: Frogland BBS site, Hellas BBS site, Help Port Lord
Petition page, Sunshine IGMs (Benjamin) and LitterBox sites.
Site Revamping: The Tech'N Software site has been redesigned by
Lloyd Hannesson. The Earthdrake Software site is undergoing redesign by
Elric currently. Lloyd is working on posting all of the known Lord IGMs on
his web-site, along with doing Y2K testing of each program over time. See
his Tech'N site for more details.
No new Lord sites are known of, for this issue's time period.
12/25/00 Update: Hellas BBS is back in operation at hellasbbs.com.
October Notes: 10/07: Replaced pictures on my Castle Camelot
LORD II IGMs Page. 10/13: Replaced pictures on
my LORD Links Page, and added link for this
issue development file to it. 10/20: Replaced pictures on my
HTML Resources Page. 10/28: Replaced pictures
on my Swimsuit Links Page. 10/31: Replaced
pictures on my Browser Resources Page.
November Notes: 11/01: Replaced pictures on my
LORD IGMs Page.
December News: 12/14: Replaced pictures on my
LORD Menusets Page. 12/16: Added dragon picture
to this page. 12/31/00 Update: Replaced the waterfall pictures on my
Tournament LORD IGMs Page.
Ruth Argust ---
DoorGames.Org - DDS on the Web
-- Standard Entry
All IGM/utility authors are invited to send their file(s) to
(ruth@doorgames.org) so that the file(s) can be sent to sysops all over
the world (and Internet webmasters). Please be certain that the file is
virus-free and DOES contain a FILE_ID.DIZ file. For more information on
having your file hatched, please see the DDS Web Page at
http://www.doorgames.org or contact me directly. This is a free service to
all in order to provide you with wide circulation of your programs. There
is also a ListServ for receiving all files hatched into DDSDOORS for those
who do not otherwise have a way to receive them. For more details, see the
ddsinfo.zip file.
Mike Dillon -
-- Crystalline Realms
10/10: I have almost completed a new Lord, Lord2, and TEOS utility.
It works under Windows 9x/ME, Linux, and DOS. It takes the player database
from those 3 games and creates an HTML file which can be posted on a web-
site by the sysop. 10/14: Crystalline Stats program released. It is
available either from Mike's site directly or from my
LORD Menusets Page in three versions. A
DOS/DPMI version, the Windows version, and a Linux ELF version. The
program takes player stats from LORD v3.55+, Lord II v1.01, Planets: TEOS
v2.0, and Avalon, such as player name, gender, experience, etc., and
creates HTML statistics pages. 12/19: Some new details on CStats: The new
binary is basically a bug fix, to fix problems with the program's output.
I've re-designed the core of CStats to be more flexible, so support for
new doors can be easily added. I'm expecting to add 3-5 more doors soon,
and don't have a date set for releasing the next version.
04/16/01 Note: Mike is still working on his Crystalline
Stats program. 01/29/02: Replaced Mike's email address.
Mike Ehlert ---
BBS Archives ---
PC Micro LORD Addons
Page
--- PC Micro
LORD Utilities Page ---
PC Micro Door Developer Kits Page
The BBS Archives have a large collection of Lord, Lord2, and T-Lord
IGMs and utilities, with over a thousand Lord-related files. The LORD
programs are primarily on these pages: archives.thebbs.org/ra98a.htm,
archives.thebbs.org/ra99a.htm, and archives.thebbs.org/ra102a.htm. Mike
supplies BBS/Lord authors with free web hosting, without annoying pop-up
ads and banners. You will get 20 megabytes of fast web space for free,
along with a web-page hits counter, guest-book, and link manager. See
http://thebbs.org/homepage for details. Authors and others may send BBS
programs to Mike for hosting on his web-site either by Email, or by
uploading them to his FTP server. For more info, read Mike's entry in
LordNews Issue #4.
Michael
Everett --- Bobo's BBS Lord site (currently closed)
10/30: I have a registration generator program for Baldur's Camp, and
will be putting it online soon. 11/15 Note: The Baldur's Camp registration
code generator is now available from my Lord
Menusets Page. 12/03: I have heard from Jay Cochrane
(mrmom3@earthlink.net) and he reports that he is still supporting his IGMs
(WonderLand Software) and that anyone needing help or registration can
email him. Also he will be doing a special for registrations due to the
current status of the BBS community. And he is thinking of putting his BBS
back up, and is still working on some BBS projects. He says he can put up
a web-site for his IGMs if there is a need. (So I think we should all
write him and ask him to do so. We always need more Lord web-sites. DGT).
Michael also reports that he and a friend are working on a new Lord IGM
named CC45, which will be released in a few months. Michael has a Telnet
site that offers Lord games at telnet://bobobbs.net, which has over 60
players now.
12/17: I've finished my exams, and I'm working a lot on some of the
projects that I couldn't give much attention to during the school year.
I am working with KDrive and KLord to make my first Lord IGM. Which isn't
too easy since I know C++ and Java, and not a lick of Pascal
Joel
Gathercole --- Lord II: Complete New World (Closed down) --
In development: http://www.lordii.net
11/23: New email/website address entry created, thanks to information
from Mike Ehlert. Joel has lost his old copies of the Lord II: CNW files,
so those who have older versions are asked to send them to him. 11/26 -
Joel: I've recently registered my own domain at greenmachinebbs.com, and I
was able to locate the v136.0 CNW file in my lord2@egroups mailing list.
Which is a mailing list for Lord II authors, players, etc. I was unable to
locate my CNW files on the darktech.org server, and their administrator no
longer had them. I've been working on rebuilding my web-site, and joining
various Lord related webrings. I will be working on updating the CNW
program soon.
11/27: Hello everyone, I must apologize for my bad URLs I've had in
the past, I've been trying to find a suitable dynamic DNS address. I ended
up with some sort of problem with each one I tried. So, I decided to
register my own domain name for my webBBS. I also had moved all my web-
sites to my own server. Meaning ALL my old addresses no longer exist.
Please, if you have in your links section a link to LORD2: Complete New
World, please make the link to: http://greenmachinebbs.com/lord2 -- this is
where the site will rest. I will now be working on more releases of the
CNW packages. I will be now responding to ideas and to bug reports. As in
the past 6 months or so, I've had no time what-so-ever for this. Now, I
would like to hear about any new or updated Lord2 IGMs that have been
released in the past 8 to 10 months. Please email me at
greenie@darktech.org or on the lord2@egroups.com mailing list. REMINDER,
join the lord2@egroups.com mailing list if you haven't yet!
04/16/01 Note: Joel has been very busy the past few months. Just
read LordNews #6 to find out about his activities. 01/29/02:
Removed CNW web-site links, site is still closed.
Lloyd
Hannesson --- Tech'N Software
Warrior's Graveyard v1.70 was released in late September, and
Felicity's Temple v2.00 was released in mid-October. Lloyd also has
redesigned his site, including the new Lord IGM Archive, that he is
still working on. This will contain all of the known Lord IGMs when
finished, which will be tested for Y2K problems as well. Lloyd also
is planning to list and host the Lord Menusets/Utility files, and
Lord II programs eventually. 12/19: Lloyd has been busy with moving
to a new apartment in early December and getting a new DSL line installed
and working. If you've been waiting for him to respond to your email,
he's working his way through a month of messages.
04/16/01 Update: Lloyd continues to work on listing Lord
igms on his Tech'N Software site. He has not started listing non-IGM
Lord programs.
Robert Olsen --
Lord II: The Awakening
Project
10/22: The Awakening Project is a multi-player online game under
development, which will have an engine demo available publicly soon. My
BBS is temporarily down and relocating. Since I run one, Reflection chose
to make a Lord modification that is based on the Awakening Project
Gameworld.
Joseph Watson
-- joeCODE WT-LORD
IGM Page --- Alternate Email: jmwatson@cox-internet.com
10/21: Trader Vic's is almost ready for release, and a new program
in development is called Lady Cara's Tea Parlor. Another project is an
IGM that is a menuset program to allow more IGMs in WT-Lord. The Ask
Clinton IGM will be renamed and updated to relate to current events, and
to the next President. A friend, Bobby Thornton, is working on an adult
IGM named Bubba's Strip Club. Lastly, Joe has added a WT-Lord players
gallery page, which will list some info on players using his BBS. 10/29:
I've set up a discussion board for WT-Lord IGM tips, etc, on my site.
Visit http://www.farpointbbs.com/wtlord/ and use the link under the
poster to access it. I've released a new IGM, Lady Cara's Tea Parlor.
It's a little trinket for the guys, but is written for the girls so they
can get back at guys who are harassing them online. Ladies, you can now
go kick the guys in the crotch, call them names, and stuff like that.
11/15: The Trader Vic's IGM is now available, either from Joe's site, or
from my Tournament Lord IGMs Page. 12/15 Note:
The Twilight Zone v1.20 IGM update has been released on Joe's site.
04/16/01 Update: Joseph has been busy in the last four months.
See LordNews Issue #6 for changes since December 2000. 02/09/02: For
material after April 2001, see his entries in Issues #7 - #10.
Marty Blankenship
--- The GameMaster BBS Web Site
12/19: Marty is planning on a mid-January release of his Marty's
Mercantile IGM update. He's dealing at the moment with family Christmas
planning, and raising his three pre-teen daughters as a single parent.
04/16/01: No news received from Marty since December
2000 issue was released.
Jason
Brown ---
Jason Brown's IGMs Page
Alternate Email: jmbrown@pcisys.net
Inactive, going to college. He's considering releasing his Lord
IGMs and Utilities as open source, retaining control over version
releases as an administrator. He wishes to know if anyone is interested
in this idea, so if you are, please write him. 11/26: Jason has started
development of RHPScript version 2. 11/28: With your recent view on the
future of LORD, perhaps all of us programmers on the list can get together
and start something new? Something that could start out as a "clone" of
LORD, but perhaps with grander ideals later on? Such as making it Internet
based. Just a thought, before everyone goes their own ways. I'd be
interested in the project, personally. I can do the scripting language.
:) Note: I think this is a wonderful idea, Jason has, so hope some of the
rest of you can look into doing this with him. 12/12: RHPScript v2.0 is
new scripting language to replace/augment features in my IGMs, and make
them more robust. And I may be updating LordStat soon.
04/14/01: Updated Jason's email address. 04/16/01: Jason
has quit Lord programming, and is working on other projects. He's
graduating from college in May 2001.
Duncan
Idaho -- VisualMatrix
Homepage --
Current Projects
12/11: Work on DuneLord is going slow due to college work, required
by the government, and several personal problems. Marriage plans and
move to Sweden cancelled. I'm planning on getting the new Brian Herbert
Dune novels -- House Atreides and House Harkonnen, and seeing if they
have anything useful for DuneLord.
04/16/01: Duncan is still working on his DuneLord and L2:WoT
programs. 01/29/02: Fixed web-site links. DuneLord beta was released
on December 24, 2001.
Jay "Elric" Weber
-- EarthDrake
Software
10/05: I'm currently on inactive status. I should be getting a
new, faster computer sometime next month, as well as a bigger hard drive.
This will give me plenty of room to work on all my projects, so hopefully I
should return to active status by Christmas, or at the latest, early next
year. Newsletter Contribution: For those of you who are still interested
in LORD/LORD 2, you can visit my Message Board and discuss it. Currently,
I only have 2 areas set up: one to discuss the various LORD 2 programs I've
made, and one to discuss my new world. I'll set up areas for general LORD
and LORD 2 discussions if enough people show interest. The message board
is powered by ezBoards, so you might want to register an account. It's
free, but it's not required to use the board. You can find the main
message board here: http://pub5.ezboard.com/btheearthdrakesforum. 10/31:
I've got my main page redesigned so, and am working on fixing the rest of
my site. 11/24: Yahoo is continuing to screw up the various webrings, so
if someone is dropped from the Lord II webring, they will have to rejoin,
since they have made it very hard for me to work on webring site info.
My hard drive has died on me, on Nov. 15, so my computer/Internet access
is limited to a laptop computer. Work on my web-site is stopped until I
get a new hard drive or computer, probably after Christmas. 01/29/02:
Fixed email address link. See LordNews Issue #9 and #10 for current info
regarding Elric.
04/16/01: Elric remains inactive Lord-wise. Still waiting
for a new computer system. Is a busy beaver otherwise, via wife's
laptop, running multiple BBS web-pages and message boards.
Orion Elder
-- SMAUG
site -- KnyteHawk's LORD II IGM Programming
12/18: I'm currently looking to find some MUD builders interested in
doing a few areas based on the LORD game. For example, creating an Inn
with Violet, Seth, and the bunch, or a training area with Barak, and the
like. Founder of Crimson Oracles MUD. darkcosmos.dhs.org.
04/16/01: See LordNews #6 for details on Orion Elder's
contributions to that issue.
Michael
Preslar --- Alternate email: e_maus@covingtononline.com
LORD Legacy ---
LORD Legacy FTP ---
Elysium Software: http://www.elysoft.net/
11/10: Well folks, I've heard from our friend Michael, and here
is his entry for this issue: So what all have I been up to.. Let's see ...
to put it simple: tons. The company I work for has kept me incredibly
busy.. Apparently, I've done well enough that I got a promotion a few weeks
ago to head programmer. No need for details on the work they've got me
doing, as everyone knows how it is.. Soon as you meet one deadline, they
give you another.. As far as lord stuffs go.. Unfortunately, my 486 died..
That machine has all of my BBS programming, including lord, on it. So until
i can recover it.. Not sure when I'll be able to do that either.. More than
like, I'll replace the machine.. But won't be able to afford that until
Christmas. I've recently took on a couple of side-project contracts to
bring in a bit more income.. But my server has been doing rather well,
other than the hard drive crash in October. I've slacked a bit in updating
the lord site, and the LORD2 and TEOS sites are on the way back burner..
Maybe one day. I'd like to think that the lord site (the skeleton I'll
follow for the LORD2 and TEOS sites) is setup in such a way that most
anyone could come in and make use of it.. There's not a lot to say other
than I've been a very busy code monkey over the past year or so. 12/19
Note: The Lord Legacy site has been inactive since August 2000.
04/16/01: Extensive work was done by Michael in the last four
months, including Lord v4.06. The Lord/Linux program is in progress, and
WebLord is in progress. See ccigm-6.html for details. 01/29/02:
Lord Legacy site is active again. Fixed Elysium site link.
Tien Lung ---
Godlike Productions
Tien has discontinued working on the CALiB Lord2 new world. However,
he is considering having it published by a software company. He is still
working on the Nightmare's Gate Lord2 IGM. 12/12: My Lord2-related news is
that I am no longer working on any of my IGMs. I've decided to walk away
from the BBS and door games scene due to the lack of public interest. My
focuses are now centered around the Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition game
and on finishing my PSX demo for Activision.
04/16/01: All of Tien's Lord2 projects, including CALiB and
Nightmare's Gate were abandoned.
Ken Weitzel: No email contact since previous issue. The Seasons 2000 Lord IGM has been released, and is available from the DDS web-site and FidoNet. 04/16/01: Ken has no plans for Lord programming until its time to do the next Seasons IGM. Proceeds from its registration fees help support charities he cares about. 01/29/02: Replaced email address. See LordNews Issue #10 for current information on Ken.
Paul Koukos
-- Hellas BBS
-- Hellas BBS
Files Page -- Telnet: hellasbbs.com
12/25/00 Addition: Hellas BBS is back in operation after rebuilding
from a hard drive failure. Paul is an inactive Lord author, who offers
Lord games online on his site, and wrote the Robin Hood Lord IGM.
Black Omen --
Page
of Omen
11/11: I currently am unable to update my web-page, due to my computer
system having died, and I no longer have Internet access. However, I plan
on fixing those problems soon. As soon as I regain my computer and
Internet access, I will be back and kicking. During the downtime, I am
working on a new Lord II new world program, that is rather complex.
04/02/01 Note: Still working on Lord2 program. Semi-Inactive.
Codax Dragon
--
Codax's Dragon's Den Ultd Homepage
12/17: I'm sorry for having gone another year without putting out an
IGM. I just got my system back recently, and have started doing a major
overhaul of everything. I feel so close to finishing my Cruise IGM, that
it's painful! That and I haven't gotten any response on anyone wanting to
do some of the ASCII animations with me, so progress is... less than
satisfactory. What I really need to do, is sit down one weekend, and do
some hard-core coding. I hope to get a chance like that when I go home for
Christmas, but time will only tell. The only definite thing I can say is
that this will be my final IGM. In order to make time for my new art
venues, I've had to make several changes to the things I do. My getting an
actual job also had a hand in this. This won't be my last update, and if
anyone sends me an Lord II IGM, I'll still review/test it. Happy Holidays
to all and I appreciate everyone's support. 04/02/01 Note: Still
working on Lord2 program. Semi-active.
Korombos --- SharkWare (Closed down)
12/17: I've been extremely busy lately. Had a tooth removed as an
emergency, and family has been busy. And it's "Christmas" time, when we
all rush around like a headless chicken
04/16/01 Note: KDrive, KLord, IGM-X, Haunted Mansion, and
Fun and Games updates all released this past weekend. For details,
see LordNews Issue #6. 01/29/02: Korombos disappeared in early
summer 2001 and is still missing. Email address and web-site address
both removed from entry.
Bobby Queen --
Alternate email: puppies@shelby.net --
Official Lord
II IGM Archive Site
Kiteria's Korner ---
Mirror Sites: Kiteria's Korner
--- Lord2 IGM Archive
Fully inactive due to family health problems. As of September 2000, he was
active as moderator of the FidoNet LORD echoes. His primary web-sites at
shelby.net continue to be available, but have been expected to be closed at
anytime for over two months now by the ISP. He stopped reviewing Lord II
IGMs last year. His web-site has been fully inactive since August 30. Due
to his becoming inaccessible by Email, Lord II authors who wish to have
their programs distributed and/or hosted on the Internet, need to send them
to Ruth Argust. She will post them on the Fidonet for you, and on the DDS
Lord/Lord II page, located at http://www.doorgames.org.
11/23: Reclassified Bobby and his web-sites in the "Dead Sites"
category, due to loss of email contact, and the long-term inactive status
of his Official Lord II site. ... Note: The puppies@shelby.net address
seems valid, but I've not received any response from Bobby using it. My
last contact with Bobby was on November 16, when he told me he had surgery
scheduled on his right hand, for nerve problems, on Nov. 28. And he was
still dealing with taking care of his grandmother.
04/02/01 Note: See previous notes regarding Bobby in LORD Programming
Situation section. And see ccigm-6.html. 04/16: The hand surgery
was cancelled. Email contact regained with Bobby until mid-March 2001,
after which he's been quiet on everyone, while recovering from major
surgery. Possibility of his ISP shutting him down disappeared around
January 2001. Codax Dragon has agreed to do additional IGM reviews of
programs listed on Bobby's Untested IGMs page.
Seth Robinson ---
Robinson Technologies
10/21: I received an interesting ICQ conversation log from a friend.
I've placed it in the file ICQ-0909.TXT, inside the ccigm-5h.zip archive of
this newsletter issue. It is too long and cumbersome to try to reword into
paragraph format, but I feel that others might find some value in it. The
topic is the early origins of the LORD game. 12/11: Seth has created at an
unknown date a LORD/TEOS FAQ page on his web-site that answers many
questions people are asking him about Lord, Lord II, Tournament Lord, or
Planets: Teos. See http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/lordfaq.htm.
Others who are Fully Inactive: Suzanne Franklin, Bryan Stanbridge,
David Simmons, and Chet Rhodes. Semi-Inactive: Michael Bujold,
as of April 2001. Paul Koukos is considered active for web-site
management, and fully inactive for Lord programming work. Becky
Benjamin's site closed sometime after January 2001. Eric Vinson is
considered a Dead site author, due to lack of a valid email address.
And Bryan Turner, Tien Lung, and Jason Brown have all quit Lord/Lord2
programming, as has been previously noted. And as noted, Bobby Queen
is back on full inactive status, until he recovers from his surgery.
Notes: I've decided to incorporate into this issue a full listing of the Lord programs I've found during this year. Some were actually released in a previous year and are marked accordingly. I've separated the files released, or discovered by myself, since LordNews Issue #4 was released on September 20, 2000.
------------ Lord IGM Programming files:
RDCOM ZIP 7892 3-15-00 Lord2 REC Decompiler - Eric Vinson
LSTRUCTC ZIP 8394 8-20-00 Lord C/C++ Structures
L2STRUCT ZIP 3284 8-20-00 Lord 2 C/C++ Structures
TSTRUCTC ZIP 4092 8-20-00 Planets:TEOS C/C++ Structures
LATSRC ZIP 658580 9-08-00 Latrine IGM source code.
-- Note: Released in 1998 by author, Vamsi Tadepalli. No programming
files known to be released in October-December 2000 coverage period.
------------ LORD IGM files:
V0REA200 ZIP 178529 1-01-00 Vanadia's Arena of Warriors v2.00
V1BAN200 ZIP 273738 1-01-00 Banda's Boardinghouse of Vanadia 2.0
V2GYP200 ZIP 270260 1-01-00 Gypsy Camp of Vanadia v2.00
V3FOR200 ZIP 288659 1-01-00 Haunted Forest of Vanadia v2.00
V4DIS200 ZIP 209868 1-01-00 Shepley's Distractions of Vanadia 2.0
V5MED200 ZIP 194175 1-01-00 Medieval Tournament of Vanadia v2.00
-- Note: Vanadia IGMs all released on Dec. 31, 1999.
------------
ILORD210 ZIP 371991 1-22-00 InterLord v2.10
LORDNET ZIP 125721 3-15-00 LordNet Y2K update
CAVE14B ZIP 93516 8-16-00 Lord Cavern v1.40b
OUTS13A ZIP 96396 8-16-00 The Outlands Tavern v1.30a
GATE10B ZIP 79063 8-16-00 The Gateway v1.00b
PVALLEY ZIP 153679 9-17-00 Pleasant Valley v1.00 (1998)
-------------------
GRA1_7 ZIP 109880 9-22-00 Warrior's Graveyard v1.70
FEL2_0 ZIP 120978 10-20-00 Felicity's Temple v2.00
RGWRLDV2 ZIP 57575 11-14-00 Rodger World v0.1 (October 97)
RHPSV5 ZIP 75113 11-14-00 Rocky Horror v0.5 (January 99)
SEAS2000 ZIP 87356 11-30-00 Tis the Season Xmas 2000
------------ Lord II IGM files:
BONEFORT ZIP 5267 1-11-00 Bonetown Fortress v1.0 (1999)
TEMPLE ZIP 19024 1-11-00 The Sysop's Temple v1.0 (1999)
XENA200 ZIP 11663 1-11-00 Xena's House v2.0 (1999)
LAW201 ZIP 14249 6-28-00 Lawyer's World v2.01
TMHSK3 ZIP 9101 7-05-00 Frostglint Keep v3.00
ORC300 ZIP 7811 7-06-00 The Oracle of What's to Come v3.0
-------------------
FRANKS10 ZIP 20141 10-04-00 Frank's Firearms v1.00
TOMS15 ZIP 100366 10-04-00 Crazy Tom's Hut v1.50
VIOLET12 ZIP 11719 10-04-00 Flirt With Seth Able/Violet v1.20
------------ Lord Menuset files:
TLORD20 ZIP 41772 10-04-00 Star Trek: OS LORD v2.00
VLORD15 ZIP 18123 10-04-00 Star Trek: Voyager Lord v1.50
------------ Lord II: CNW and LORD v4.05 files:
CNW-1360 ZIP 2334660 3-11-00 Lord II: Complete New World v136.0
LORD405P ZIP 341174 3-17-00 LORD v4.05 Public Beta
------------ Lord/Lord II Utility files:
WEDIT10 ZIP 17365 1-12-00 BDSoft World Editor v1.0 (1999)
LORDHTM ZIP 57057 2-24-00 LORD HTML page generation utility
LORDST16 ZIP 37135 5-10-00 LordStat v1.60
MEDIT1_4 ZIP 149671 5-10-00 Map Editor v1.4 (MEDIT)
RHPTEST1 ZIP 45019 5-16-00 RHPTest v1.0
MPARSE ZIP 80470 5-17-00 Mparse v1.0
FLUXED ZIP 36381 6-12-00 Fluxed v1.00 (1999)
REFSM098 ZIP 13937 7-09-00 Lord 2: The Awakening files
LORDT_11 ZIP 6517 8-30-00 LordType v1.1
-------------------
CS012D ZIP 89697 10-18-00 Crystalline Stats v0.1.2 for DOS
Note: Requires a DPMI Server.
CS012W ZIP 97438 10-18-00 Crystalline Stats v0.1.2 for Windows
CS012L TGZ 179 KB 10-18-00 Crystalline Stats v0.1.2 for Linux/ELF
REGGER ZIP 26716 11-15-00 Baldur's Camp IGM Registration Code
Generator w/source code (January 99)
------------ Wildcat Tournament Lord IGM files: (current versions)
WITCH29 ZIP 112041 2-09-00 The Witch Doctor's Hut v2.90
RUE16 ZIP 273133 2-09-00 The Rue Morgue v1.60
MADM26 ZIP 69782 5-01-00 The Mad Mage's Tavern v2.60
MADDOG16 ZIP 34848 5-31-00 The Mad Dog v1.60
OTOWN30 ZIP 252783 5-31-00 Our Town v3.0
BLACK29 ZIP 17069 8-03-00 Blacksmith's Shop v2.90
BOBS29 ZIP 56878 8-03-00 Bob's Beer v2.90
BREW10 ZIP 76780 9-13-00 The Brewery v1.00
CLINTN22 ZIP 56921 8-03-00 Ask Clinton v2.20
BREW10 ZIP 76780 9-13-00 The Brewery v1.00
-------------------
CARA10 ZIP 21284 10-30-00 Lady Cara's Tea Parlor v1.00
DODGE12 ZIP 349314 11-10-00 Dodge City v1.20
FOL11 ZIP 15476 11-10-00 Fountain of Life v1.10
VICS10 ZIP 53024 11-10-00 Trader Vic's v1.00
TZONE12 ZIP 357087 12-15-00 The Twilight Zone v1.20
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Lord programs released this year, then updated by author:
------------ Lord IGMs:
CAVE14A ZIP 91,731 04-22-00 L.O.R.D. Cavern v1.40a
GATE10 ZIP 76,982 04-26-00 The Gateway v1.0
------------ Lord II IGMs:
TOMS16 ZIP 8,547 02-25-00 Crazy Tom's Hut v1.60
LAW200 ZIP 13,627 06-28-00 Lawyer's World v2.0
------------ Wildcat T-Lord igms:
OTOWN29 ZIP 224,565 02-09-00 Our Town v2.90
DODGE10 ZIP 338,796 04-26-00 Dodge City v1.0
FOL10 ZIP 15,735 05-01-00 Fountain of Life v1.0
GRA1_6 ZIP 107,964 08-14-00 Warrior's Graveyard v1.60
DODGE11 ZIP 349,532 09-13-00 Dodge City v1.10
TZONE11 ZIP 334,998 08-03-00 The Twilight Zone v1.10
------------------------------------------------------------
Post-Release Updates: Added on Dec. 25, 2000.
CHRIST26 ZIP 19896 12-23-00 Merry Christmas v2.60 WT-Lord IGM
------------
CCIGM-05 ZIP 18251 12-20-00 LordNews Issue #5 - Text archive
CCIGM-5H ZIP 35447 12-20-00 LordNews Issue #5 - HTML archive
CCIGM-5P ZIP 40177 12-20-00 LordNews Issue #5 - Graphics archive
Available from my web-site, and through the Fidonet Lord Echo.
------------------------------------------------------------
These authors are currently considered to be either Partially or Fully Active: Jason Brown - farlander@mailandnews.com, Joel Gathercole - greenie@darktech.org, Joseph Watson - jmwatson@cox-internet.com, Ken Weitzel - dfactory@ilos.net, Lloyd Hannesson - dasme@dasme.org -OR- Lloyd_Hannesson@umanitoba.ca, Michael Everett - meverett@goldsboro.net, Mike Dillon - gsvalore@arn.net, Mike Ehlert - mike@pcmicro.com, and Ruth Argust - ruth@petpride.org. 04/02/01: Replaced email address for Jason Brown and Duncan Idaho (below). 01/29/02: Replaced email address for Ken Weitzel, Bryan Stanbridge, Seth Robinson. Dropped Tom Toothman and Korombos addresses, both were invalid.
These authors are either Partially or Fully Inactive: Black Omen - b_omen@yahoo.com, Bryan Stanbridge - sorcerer@geocities.com, Codax Dragon - codax_dragon@juno.com, David Simmons - dfsimmons55@earthlink.net, Dawn Bidot - dawnavon@juno.com, Duncan Idaho - midori@quickslver.net.nz, Marc Ryan - MMFan@rocketmail.com, Marty Blankenship - marty@atcc.net, Michael Preslar - mpreslar@mailcity.com, Orion Elder - knytehawk@geocities.com, Robert Olsen - rjolsen@bard.net, Sallee Huber - mallard500@hotmail.com, Seth Robinson - seth@rtsoft.com, Suzanne Franklin - fuzzykin@flash.net, Tien Lung - tienlung@hwcn.org, Tom Toothman (no valid email), Elric - afn63169@afn.org, and Korombos (no valid email). Also Inactive: Bobby Queen, Bryan Turner - vagabond@darktech.org. 04/02/01: Michael Bujold on semi-active list: mnbujold@geocities.com. Paul Koukos also semi-active: pkoukos@mindspring.com.
Current listing of authors in "Dead Sites" classification: Eric Vinson - esvinson@home.com, Mike Snyder - wyndo@prowler-pro.com, and Steve Gargolinski - bdsoft@hotmail.com. The following have been labeled "Dead Sites" in past issues, but their web-sites are still in operation, so I'm listing them here in summary. Spencer Vickers, Tony Brown (TonyTown Software), Mad Systems (Purcell), Michael Adams, Chet Rhodes (Fully Inactive), Ben Tiefert, John Elson (3dham), Arctic Productions, Billy England, Mike Collard (FX), Carlton Griffin, No Name Productions (Padgett), Shaun Thibault, phsoft (Barrientos), Purple Haze site, Eric Richardson, Colby Reich (Lord Neko), and Rick Troiano (Fully inactive for years now).
Note: If anyone is listed in a section they don't feel they belong
in, let me know. Everyone listed in the Dead Sites section are there
because of one of these reasons: (1) Unable to reach by email for
at least 2 months, or never responds to email inquiries; and (2) the
web-site has not been updated in over 6 months, or appears to have been
abandoned. I'm also now classifying as "Dead" the LORD Domain Web Ring
and Michael Preslar's LORD Ring. All of the listed email addresses are
believed to be valid, as of December 19, 2000. Section updated in
April 2001.
02/06/02 Note: Around April, I will be relocating the .TXT files
for Issues #6 and #7 to the Lord Legacy FTP server. So if the links
don't work, check the Lordnews directory at ftp.lordlegacy.org/. The
primary .ZIP archive files for all issues, HTML or Text, will ALWAYS
be kept on my web-site. The full URL is:
ftp://ftp.lordlegacy.org/lordlegacy/lordnews/.
Future issues of my newsletter, effective Dec. 31, 2000, will cover four months per issue, approximately. This issue's coverage period is for mid-September through December 19, 2000. LordNews Issue #6, when started, will cover January-April 2001 LORD author contributions, program releases, and other Lord news. Remember to subscribe to the LordNews mailing list via my LORD Links Page. You can also request HTML page delivery by Email for this and subsequent issues. Photo credits: 12/16/00 - The drag-109.jpg, original name 109.jpg, is from the The Dragon Archives site, an excellent source of public domain dragon graphics and poetry.
This issue was started on Oct. 06, 2000. Any Lord authors who wish to stop supporting and developing their programs are asked to contact Lloyd Hannesson, who along with Bryan Turner and Korombos, are interested in taking them over. And old WT-Lord authors are asked to contact Joseph Watson, and let him take over development and support of your old programs. The following faithful supporters are thanked once again for their continued support and participation. Ruth Argust, Marty Blankenship, Jason Brown, Mike Dillon, Codax Dragon, Mike Ehlert, Michael Everett, Joel Gathercole, Lloyd Hannesson, Duncan Idaho, Tien Lung, Michael Preslar, Joseph Watson, Elric (Jay Weber), Codax Dragon, and Michael Preslar. Thanks also to others who have been supportive in the past, including Suzanne Franklin, Sallee Huber, Bobby Queen, and Seth Robinson. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. This web-page was created using the Qedit v3.0 DOS text editor, and developed using Netscape Navigator v4.72-v4.76.
Final development notes: Added link to my Castle Camelot Guestbook,
and did Listbot Text version file creation work. I hope you all enjoy
reading the newsletter, and remember the HTML page is the primary version,
for those reading the Text version file(s). 12/20/2000 Note: I
have provided Ruth Argust and Mike Ehlert with a third LordNews Issue
#5 archive, ccigm-5p.zip, which contains the three graphics files used
by the HTML newsletter issue. This Issue's text version was released
via Listbot in two sections.
Post-Development Notes: 12/23 and 12/25: Newsletter sections relating to Bobby Queen and to Kiteria's Korner status have been rewritten, to cover late arriving information received from Bobby Queen and Paul Koukos. The original newsletter files are also now available from the DDS Lord/Lord II page. 12/31: Released updated LordNews Issue #3 web-page; modified LordNews issue links section. Newsletter length: 14 pages, using MS Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator.
Starting on March 27, 2001, LordNews Issues #1-#5, text versions, have been brought up-to-date with notations and/or updated information, preparatory for release of LordNews Issue #6 web-page, in mid-April 2001. 04/14/01: Started update of ccigm-5.htm by replacing LordNews issues links section. Finished update of Issue #5 files on 4/16/01. 10/31/01: Replaced LordNews Links Section. 01/29/02: Did various entry updates, email address changes; Replaced LordNews Links section. Will do Link Check of page soon. Added -NOSPAM to my email address due to increase in SPAM last year. 02/09: Various entry update notes revised; stopped usage of drag-109.jpg picture. 02/23: Posted issue archive to Fidonet.
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