Subj : Re: Daydream rexx help
To   : Stephen Walsh
From : Ryan Fantus
Date : Tue Jan 02 2024 22:55:58

 SW> Did you document what you did? Care to share? I've never seen a Daydream
 SW> system. It also didn't help that rudi did his usual tricks with the
 SW> latest versions. That put me off even trying it out, as there is no
 SW> chance of getting past the restrictions.

I really don't know what I did but I may spin a new instance up (workbench and
all) just for the sake of documenting it.

However...

I actually texted Rudi earlier today because the person who purchased the
Daydream source from him told me many moons ago that he lost the source and
then stopped responding to my emails when I offered to buy it from him if he
could track it down. So I asked Rudi if he had the source and I was told that
BBSes are dead and he has nothing from BBSes any more and he just uses FidoNet
on his phone. He said he has no source backup or anything.

So basically this means two things:

1. Daydream for Amiga is, for all intents and purposes, completely dead. Unless
 someone has a source for it somewhere.
2. Aside from v1.30b (or any of the cracked earlier versions), Daydream will
always be crippled, since there is no way to get a key made.

But yeah, the full 8.55 installer is missing quite a few pieces. The docs were
originally in AmigaGuide and they were turned into a text doc for some reason.
The base 8.55 install has a userbase with user passwords (fortunately encrypted
 but still...).

Also don't get me started on how it went from 1.0 to 1.30b in a matter of
years, just to jump to 2.50, 4.00, 5.00, 7.00, 8.00, 8.50, and finally 8.55.
What the heck kind of versioning logic is this?

Anyway as you can see I'm pretty heated about this whole thing. I'm offering
money to people and they still couldn't be bothered. It's frustrating.
Especially considering how popular the new and up-to-date /X package is.
Daydream could be super cool. I guess it wasn't meant to be.

Anyone have a line to the Mad Virgin folks who wrote 1.30b? Perhaps I can get
in touch with some of them to find a pre-Rudi source and try to forget about
the whole era which followed, and do some maintenance and possibly future
releases.

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