Subj : Re: DBOLCLIP
To   : Alexander Grotewohl
From : Tim Whitson
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 17:51:45

  Re: Re: DBOLCLIP
  By: Alexander Grotewohl to Jas Hud on Mon Jun 19 2023 05:04 pm

 > On 19 Jun 2023, Jas Hud said the following...
 > 
 >  JH>  > I recently installed a door game called Charlie's Baseball by Charle
 >  JH>  > Crawford. The game is free, however it uses a program called DBOLCLI
 >  JH>  > for game file management.  This program requires registering.  It ha
 >  JH>  > copyright of 1993 by Merlin Systems Inc.  Or maybe even DBONLINE, th
 >  JH>  > not sure.  Anyone know of a way to register this program?
 > 
 >  JH> whats the filename
 > 
 > cbb-v11.zip is the game data, which includes one of the doors from...
 > 
 > the "door kit" it uses:
 > http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/cotc-3/BBS/DBONLINE.ZIP
 > 
 > it's litearally a door intended to use with dBase/clipper/foxpro stuff.. i'd
 > guess the author imagined people creating order forms with it they could the
 > pull with their accounting system.. and this guy made a baseball game out of
 > lol
 > 
 > it seems the binary contains both the unregistered and fully registered
 > versions at least.. it opens dbonline.key and attempts to verify if it's
 > registered or not, but that's as far as i got (it was late)
 > 
 > from the docs he made it sound like the game is permanently broken though.. 
 > took steps to prevent running into the database limitation so even with a
 > registered version of the "parent" door, it would still limit itself

The game actually runs all nine innings.  It's rather different, but it works
with the patch.  The problem I have is when you get to the end a screen pops
up stating the DBONLINE is not registered and it quits and hangs up the BBS so
you have to ALT-H out.  I can do without the game but it'd be nice to still
have it.
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