C-Net/New Image games? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MagicPhoenix · 2015-01-06 08:56 Anyone have any of these archived somewhere? I'm especially looking for the New Image "Empire 4.0", which was hugely improved over the original.. I had released a huge modification/improvement to that, known as Empire 5.0, but I doubt anyone outside of the Kalamazoo area ever saw it.. :-S ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinacolada459 · 2015-01-06 20:19 Yes! I have a web page with some Image BBS stuff. https://sites.google.com/site/pinacoladasprojects/image-bbs I don't have Empire 4.0, but I've got Empire 5.1, which I will upload as a .d64 disk image to the web page. You must be "Cyclone"? If you're interested, I have a Facebook group for Image BBS, which you're welcome to join to chit-chat about stuff: https://www.facebook.com/groups/141819789446/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinacolada459 · 2015-01-06 20:33 Come to think of it, there is a NISSA (New Image Sysop Support Association) telnettable BBS called "Commodore Image" which may have 4.0. Its address is available from the Commodore BBS Outpost: http://cbbsoutpost.servebbs.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MagicPhoenix · 2015-01-08 01:31 Maybe it was 5.0 that I picked up, and turned it into a 6.0 ... :-) I used to be known as The Magician. Awesome! I've always wanted to have a look back through a lot of this old stuff, for reference and inspiration for the future :-) Thanks! Actually, now that I'm really thinking about things that I haven't thought about since 1992 :-) .. I had ported the Empire 5 back to run on C-Net 12, and then started making huge enhancements for it. I don't think I ever got it ported back into Image... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinacolada459 · 2015-01-09 20:30 Cool. Yes, I was poking around on Commodore Image and there are several versions of Empire beyond the 1.0 that shipped with Image. I'd have to run them through a diff tool to find out what the differences were, though. I've worked on porting ShadowRun from Color64 I think it was, there are still a few bugs in the Image code though. Also ported "Hotel Manager," a public domain BASIC game. Recently (relatively speaking) I've begun fixing up Empire 5.1 to use the "mini plus file" feature of Image; reducing its code footprint and porting a few features of "Empire Deluxe" from Centipede 128 (islands, jousts, quests, and some other stuff). There's a ton of stuff on Commodore Image, he was one of the NISSA admins and he's got gobs of archives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinacolada459 · 2015-01-09 20:34 Do you remember which sorts of enhancements you'd made for the C-Net version? :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MagicPhoenix · 2015-01-28 23:22 I really don't.. i just started making all kinds of crazy changes to it, after I backported it to C-Net .. Jousts sounds really familiar. Too bad I don't have time to actually put together a running thing and look at it actually running.. :| It's been.. gosh.. 24 years? something like that... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinacolada459 · 2015-02-04 02:43 Ah, that's okay. Well, if you ever do get the time, I and other folks would be interested in looking at it!