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When I was younger I used to play BBS games. Things like LORD, ArrowBridge, Usurper et al. It would be cool to get those running again as a website.
by maerF0x0 9y ago
When I was younger I used to play BBS games. Things like LORD, ArrowBridge, Usurper et al. It would be cool to get those running again as a website.
- Erlangolem 9y agoI was absolutely obsessed with LORD, the greatest of door games. Looking back on it, even more than early Atari, BBS games are what turned me into a committed gamer for life. They’re the major reason why I got so into sims and RPG’s, on computers and P&P; D&D and Shadowrun in particular. I think it’s a piece of history that really deserves preserving.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- unscaled 9y agoWell, it's already been done for LORD: http://lotgd.net/ http://lotgd.net/ I can see other ways you could do that generically for every door game: 1. Run the game in local mode inside a DOSBox running under WASM in a webpage. 2. Run a classic BBS software in DOSBox using nullmodem and a virtual FOSSIL driver and have a telnet server listen and redirect connections to BBS nodes (you'd need multiple nodes). There seem to be already classic telnet BBSs doing exactly that. 3. Run a more modern BBS software like Synchronet on a modern OS and shell out to DOSBox with a nullmodem connection (and possibly a FOSSIL driver) every time someone creates a connection. Options 2 and 3 are much more computationally expensive, but they will gave you proper multiplayer if you share folders correctly between the nodes.