Remember the old BBS game Legend Of the Red Dragon? It's now owned by a company that keeps the source closed, and doesn't do very much development to it.
Since I run a very large LORD game on the net, I considered starting a fund raiser to buy LORD and commit it to open source. Not wanting to anger the current owners of LORD, since there are probably legal ways for them to shut down my game, I decided not to.
If there's anybody out there interested in donating money to purchase LORD and commit it to open source, please email me or post to my site's forum. If I get a big enough response (quite a longshot...), I might follow through with my original plans to do this.
Looks like some people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have their heads screwed on straight. They're offering grant money to those who buy alternative-fuel vehicles. The story was actually posted today on theautochannel.com.
Midnight Commander (aka GMC for gnome) has had the ability to do both of these things, for literally years.
Unfortunately, rather than fixing the bugs and making GMC a truly slick GUI version of the awesome terminal mode file manager, they decided to replace it with a program that takes 10 times as long to load. *grumble*.
I'm coordinating a rewrite of LORD using Perl and MySQL at the moment. The project was started just a few days ago. We're currently looking for anyone interested to help plan how it'll work.
All comments/ideas are welcome!:)
-Nuke Skyjumper
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I am hosting a Legend Of the Red Dragon system running from dosemu/linux. It's totally web based, and is pretty cool. I recommend all of you check it out. It can be found at http://lord.nuklear.org
I'm also coordinating an open-source rewrite of LORD using Perl. It is currently in active planning stages.
If anyone would like to contribute ideas/code to either the Nuklear LORD system, or the Free LORD project, it would be very welcome.
-Nuke Skyjumper
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(remove -NOSPAM to email me, obviously)
I've created http://lord.nuklear.org, a web based LORD game that runs under dosemu/Linux. I recommend you all check it out.
Also, I am coordinating an open-source rewrite of LORD. It is currently in active planning stages. We will be using Perl and MySQL, and it will be fully telnettable and designed for the Net.
If anyone's interested in participating in new features to the Nuklear LORD system, or coding the New Free LORD game, drop me an email.
-Nuke Skyjumper
nuklear@zxmail.com-NOSPAM
(remove -NOSPAM to email me, obviously.)
Anyone have a clue what's up with those gameboys in the picture? It would have been nice of nintendo to explain what purpose they serve in conjunction with the gamecube.
Well, that link to the Dew information was cool, but it seems they didn't take into account that Jolt Cola is out there, with roughly 100mg of caffeine per 12oz bottle.
Popular Mechanics is doing something similar to this. Here's an article called "Miracles of the next 50 years" This is really cool.. the article seems pretty level headed too, like it doesn't go into detail about "flying cars" or teleportation. Think reality, guys:) Click here
they just repin the IDE interface. it'll take the hardware hackers forever to find the real pinout. in fact, many hackers may stray away from even trying, for fear of destroying their hard drive.
it's really not about to happen. i've lived in the 'burgh all my life. i'm currently a student at one of the local colleges, and i have to say, my options are really limited in this city.
places like this are just not made for the technical types. Allegheny county (which contains the entire city) has the highest percentage of senior citizens of any county in the USA. and just like someone posted earlier, everyone around here sees computers as fancy typewriters. the cost of living space is really expensive, and the places in the city are all old and run down.
around this city, there are lots of young techie geeks who go to CMU and Pitt, then end up elsewhere. a geek really needs a city that's starving for them. my girlfriend lives in Springfield, MO, which is famous for really crappy education. just visiting there for two weeks, i was already offered a programming job with a company who was willing to pay for college almost in full.
IMO, a geek like me needs this kind of city: 1. one that doesn't produce geeks, and therefore needs us to move in 2. one where living is dirt cheap, and the pay is high 3. one with high speed net access 4. low crime rates 5. and very importantly, there MUST be life after midnight (the gearhead side of me also likes open highways and no state auto inspection:)
personally, my little visit to missouri was like dreamland. quite a break from pittsburgh.
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Since the topic is emulating old DOS games, here is the obligatory link:
http://lord.nuklear.org
It's a large multiplayer Legend Of the Red Dragon game running under the linux DOS emulator
Remember the old BBS game Legend Of the Red Dragon? It's now owned by a company that keeps the source closed, and doesn't do very much development to it.
Since I run a very large LORD game on the net, I considered starting a fund raiser to buy LORD and commit it to open source. Not wanting to anger the current owners of LORD, since there are probably legal ways for them to shut down my game, I decided not to.
If there's anybody out there interested in donating money to purchase LORD and commit it to open source, please email me or post to my site's forum. If I get a big enough response (quite a longshot...), I might follow through with my original plans to do this.
-Nuke
Looks like some people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have their heads screwed on straight. They're offering grant money to those who buy alternative-fuel vehicles. The story was actually posted today on theautochannel.com.
Since we're on the subject of old 286-era video games, I thought I'd mention that I run a LORD system under Linux via DOSemu.
The player list is currently maxed out, but if you log in just after midnight EST, you might get a spot just after old players are deleted.
Yeah, that guy's girlfriend is the type all of you lust for. [INSERT GEEK NOISES]
If you're into MUDs, MOOs, or just wanna relive BBS days, I run a web based game of LORD.
:)
It's powered by linux, dosemu, and perl. Gotta love open source software
Legend Of the Red Dragon is playable at this location:
:)
http://lord.nuklear.org
it's on the web, telnetable, and is powered by good old linux
LORD is available at http://lord.nuklear.org It is web based, or you can telnet to it in good old 80x25 console :)
Midnight Commander (aka GMC for gnome) has had the ability to do both of these things, for literally years.
Unfortunately, rather than fixing the bugs and making GMC a truly slick GUI version of the awesome terminal mode file manager, they decided to replace it with a program that takes 10 times as long to load. *grumble*.
see http://www.gnome.org/mc
LORD! LORD! LORD!
Here it is, back from the dead...
Play it in your browser, in an xterm, in the console, any way you want it.
http://lord.nuklear.org
PLAY LORD.
:)
you-know-you-want-to.
in your browser, in the console, in an xterm - your choice. LORD the way you want it
http://lord.nuklear.org
While we're discussing brought-back DOS games, take a gander at lord.nuklear.org. It's a web based version of Legend Of the Red Dragon.
:)
Runs on Linux with DosEmu too
I'm coordinating a rewrite of LORD using Perl and MySQL at the moment. The project was started just a few days ago. We're currently looking for anyone interested to help plan how it'll work. All comments/ideas are welcome! :)
-Nuke Skyjumper
nuklear@zxmail.com-NOSPAM
(remove -NOSPAM to email me, obviously.)
I am hosting a Legend Of the Red Dragon system running from dosemu/linux. It's totally web based, and is pretty cool. I recommend all of you check it out. It can be found at http://lord.nuklear.org
I'm also coordinating an open-source rewrite of LORD using Perl. It is currently in active planning stages.
If anyone would like to contribute ideas/code to either the Nuklear LORD system, or the Free LORD project, it would be very welcome.
-Nuke Skyjumper
nuklear@zxmail.com-NOSPAM
(remove -NOSPAM to email me, obviously)
I've created http://lord.nuklear.org, a web based LORD game that runs under dosemu/Linux. I recommend you all check it out.
Also, I am coordinating an open-source rewrite of LORD. It is currently in active planning stages. We will be using Perl and MySQL, and it will be fully telnettable and designed for the Net.
If anyone's interested in participating in new features to the Nuklear LORD system, or coding the New Free LORD game, drop me an email.
-Nuke Skyjumper
nuklear@zxmail.com-NOSPAM
(remove -NOSPAM to email me, obviously.)
Anyone have a clue what's up with those gameboys in the picture? It would have been nice of nintendo to explain what purpose they serve in conjunction with the gamecube.
...when a recording artist mistakenly sues SCO because they couldn't tell the difference between Tarantella and Gnutella.
"tarantella.. hmm.. tella.. that rings a bell! OH YEAH, PIRACY! LAWSUIT! LAWSUIT!" -Lars Ulrich, sometime in the future
Well, that link to the Dew information was cool, but it seems they didn't take into account that Jolt Cola is out there, with roughly 100mg of caffeine per 12oz bottle.
:)
Any other Jolt drinkers in the crowd?
Popular Mechanics is doing something similar to this. Here's an article called "Miracles of the next 50 years" This is really cool.. the article seems pretty level headed too, like it doesn't go into detail about "flying cars" or teleportation. Think reality, guys :) Click here
Simple:
they just repin the IDE interface. it'll take the hardware hackers forever to find the real pinout. in fact, many hackers may stray away from even trying, for fear of destroying their hard drive.
This product was Microsoft Netshow for Linux. this has been the only microsoft product so far to be run natively under linux (that i know of).
addeed note:
On the Windows platform, Netshow and Media Player merged to become Windows Media. Netshow's functionality is now a part of Media Player.
[... i still have microsoft_netshow installed on here. interesting.]
I'm quite sure the quote was:
"If microsoft is forced to create a quality product, then I've won." -Linus
It seems the screenshots link has been given a password. does anyone have this and/or a mirror of the page?
So, are the main branch maintainers going to merge the changes?
Do we have a list of things Corel has
improved/added in their private tree?
Could we see a merge of the trees sometime?
anyone who can answer these questions, i invite you to please reply.
it's really not about to happen. i've lived in the 'burgh all my life. i'm currently a student at one of the local colleges, and i have to say, my options are really limited in this city.
:)
places like this are just not made for the technical types. Allegheny county (which contains the entire city) has the highest percentage of senior citizens of any county in the USA. and just like someone posted earlier, everyone around here sees computers as fancy typewriters. the cost of living space is really expensive, and the places in the city are all old and run down.
around this city, there are lots of young techie geeks who go to CMU and Pitt, then end up elsewhere. a geek really needs a city that's starving for them. my girlfriend lives in Springfield, MO, which is famous for really crappy education. just visiting there for two weeks, i was already offered a programming job with a company who was willing to pay for college almost in full.
IMO, a geek like me needs this kind of city:
1. one that doesn't produce geeks, and therefore needs us to move in
2. one where living is dirt cheap, and the pay is high
3. one with high speed net access
4. low crime rates
5. and very importantly, there MUST be life after midnight
(the gearhead side of me also likes open highways and no state auto inspection
personally, my little visit to missouri was like dreamland. quite a break from pittsburgh.
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