Subj : Re: Daydream rexx help To : Ryan Fantus From : Stephen Walsh Date : Sat Jan 06 2024 13:08:42 Hi Ryan, On Tuesday January 02 2024, Ryan Fantus said to Stephen Walsh: SW>> Did you document what you did? Care to share? I've never seen a SW>> Daydream system. It also didn't help that rudi did his usual tricks SW>> with the latest versions. That put me off even trying it out, as there SW>> is no chance of getting past the restrictions. RF> I really don't know what I did but I may spin a new instance up RF> (workbench and all) just for the sake of documenting it. You held your left toe to the right just enough, while spining around in your chair three times? [...] RF> I actually texted Rudi earlier today because the person who purchased RF> the Daydream source from him told me many moons ago that he lost the RF> source and then stopped responding to my emails when I offered to buy RF> it from him if he could track it down. So much software has been lost this way... In my search for the connect line software, I managed to track down two people that was apart of the project. One didn't have any Amiga gear anymore, and the other hasn't touched Amiga's in 25+ years and doesn't know what he has. But said he prob didn't have the source. RF> So I asked Rudi if he had the source and I was told that BBSes are dead and he has nothing from RF> BBSes any more and he just uses FidoNet on his phone. He said he has no RF> source backup or anything. A few people got fedup with him taking opensouce programs, making minor changes to them and then releasing crippled shareware versions. Binkd is a prime example. He says bugs got fixed, but it was a huge mess. I do have a working Amibink setup on this node though. Having a stack of 100000 though, as 50000 is just way to small. It sits for a week without the server function crashing (It'll do that now @-) ). This node dosn't get many inbound connections, as it mainly polls the hub setup. I use a cron even to make the poll to the hub, and use the same size stack. when setting it up, I thought that with all the reports of issues with crashes, why not just double the stack figure. The machine afterall has heaps of ram for a Amiga! (128Mb on the CPU card, and 8 on the MB) RF> 1. Daydream for Amiga is, for all intents and purposes, completely RF> dead. Unless someone has a source for it somewhere. 2. Aside from v1.30b (or any of RF> the cracked earlier versions), Daydream will always be crippled, since RF> there is no way to get a key made. Lots of software has gone into that foggy realm. #-( RF> But yeah, the full 8.55 installer is missing quite a few pieces. The [...] RF> Also don't get me started on how it went from 1.0 to 1.30b in a matter RF> of years, just to jump to 2.50, 4.00, 5.00, 7.00, 8.00, 8.50, and RF> finally 8.55. What the heck kind of versioning logic is this? Rudi hoping people think that it's had some majour work done on it. RF> Anyway as you can see I'm pretty heated about this whole thing. I'm RF> offering money to people and they still couldn't be bothered. It's RF> frustrating. Especially considering how popular the new and up-to-date RF> /X package is. Daydream could be super cool. I guess it wasn't meant to RF> be. R got in a huf and puff about the responses to his sh*t and left destroying everything in the process. RF> Anyone have a line to the Mad Virgin folks who wrote 1.30b? Perhaps I RF> can get in touch with some of them to find a pre-Rudi source and try to RF> forget about the whole era which followed, and do some maintenance and RF> possibly future releases. Hehee! Ami/X has just had version 5.60 released to aminet... If I didn't have so much time and effort into Zeus, and what I have done on my system. Ami/x would be the software I'd run.... just can't stand the Cnet user interface, and I'd hate to see the sysop side.... -- Stephen -- Rocking Amiganet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS. --- Zeus BBS 1.5 * Origin: -:-- Dragon's Lair --:- dragon.vk3heg.net Prt: 6800 (39:901/281.0) .