Crazy Boy Productions: L.O.R.D. IGMs and Utilities
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Dragon's Claw Tavern 2.01
Wise One 2.00
Dragon's Den Casino 0.25
Caldor's Orphanage 0.05
King Carnage's Castle Planning
Crazy Boy Command Center 1.0
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Looks like trouble ahead....
December 30th, 2001 03:09:19 PM

Oh boy.

I loaded up Syncronet on my machine today to see if Dragon's Claw Tavern would work in a telnet BBS setting. Nothing. It didn't work.

So I spent a few hours searching the net for updates to the Door Library that I was using, Rickie W. Belitz's CKIT - DOOR Toolkit v2.58, nothing found.

So I loaded up a FOSSIL driver, X00. Nothing

So I loaded up a virtual modem package called NetModem/32. Nothing.

Then I stripped all of the CKIT code out of WiseOne, my smalled IGM, thinking that it make work then. Nothing.

Unless I can figure something out, no updates will be made to the IGMs.. no point really. DailUp BBS's are finished. If I can't get the IGM's to work in a telnet setting... well.. what use will they be? Local only with no other player interaction sucks.


Planning Stages...
December 28th, 2001 03:50:23 PM

After thinking about that I wanted to do with Carnage, I remembered some things that I thought about back in '95. Of all the things I wanted to do with the IGM, the more I thought it should be it's own door. I mean, this IGM is going to be bigger than LORD itself. I don't want to give away all the details right now, but if I do get around to writing this beast, you can forget about all of the other IGM's out there.

I'm serious.


Retire DOS Based CBCC...
December 28th, 2001 03:43:37 PM

I'm really starting to think that retiring the DOS Based CBCC and creating a Windows application in its place. I can make the Win App in a day and it will function properly and work well. The only downside will be file size, since I would be making the app in VB and VB needs all these dlls and other crap.

I guess I just have to see which is more important, file size and a few weeks, or a working app in hours.


playext.dat and playext2.dat..
December 27th, 2001 11:03:42 PM

Noticed something odd tonight in my LORD directory. playext.dat and playext2.dat. Wonder what they hold. Hex Editor isn't much help, looks like crap.

Do you know whats in there? Email me.


Prepping WiseOne...
December 27th, 2001 06:09:29 PM

As with Dragon's Claw Tavern, split Wise One's source into separate files to increase readability and functionality. The only development that is planned is to make the IGM use it's own directory and not clutter up the main LORD dir.

Working on Development version 2.1


Dragon's Claw Tavern Update
December 27th, 2001 10:22:42 PM

Currently coding is going well..  cleaning up old bad coding practices (all of the code in one file), so I'm currently splitting up the code into smaller, more manageable files and then its on to adding some more items into DCLord:

           
  • Marry Wendy (create a Wendy LORD player?)
    If possible, children for the player who is married to Wendy...
  • Fix CBCC (Crazy Boy Command Center) to handle up to 99 IGMs, or whatever the latest limit is.
  • Fix the display of ANSI characters when ANSI.SYS isn't loaded
    In other words, don't display them. -OR- find an ANSI engine to use.

I think when the above is completed, the IGM will be "finished" and will only be updated for LORD changes in the player structure or if a bug is found. Got to move on to new IGMs sometime...


Starting things off..
December 27th, 2001 12:40:03 PM

Welcome to the new site of Crazy Boy Production's L.O.R.D. IGM and Utilities page.

All of this started because Donald Tidmore, Castle Camelot author and webmaster, contacted me asking if I was still supporting the IGMs that I had created.  Not having seen the code I had written for over 5 years I told him that if I can find the code, I'd be willing to support the IGMs.

It's been a long time since I last updated anything for my LORD IGM's and have recently found all of my old code for the IGMs and the compiler so I'm back in business.


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