Anyone remember Ambroshia: Test of Time? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bifrons · 2015-05-15 19:17 From what I understand, it surfaced sometime in the mid '00s as a spiritual successor to Exitilus. I'm trying to find where to download the most recent version and possibly purchase it, but it appears that author stopped development and took down the various download links. Does anyone know much about this door game and where to get it? I'm having trouble locating a copy to download. Thanks! Update: I was able to contact the author via email and receive a registration key free of charge. Thanks, everyone, for your help! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MGJon · 2015-05-15 19:44 You've obviously done some Googling, so I won't be that guy. You don't mention, did you try emailing the guy listed at http://www.thebbs.org/ambroshia/? Or any of the folks here? http://www.thebbs.org/contact.htm I did find something to download here (in tar/gzip format): http://doors.bbsdev.net/. Here's the direct link: http://doors.bbsdev.net/ambroshia.tgz Good luck ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bifrons · 2015-05-15 19:59 I've tried contacting the guy at http://www.thebbs.org/ambroshia/, but his email bounced. I also sent an email to an address at a comcast mirror of the site back when v4.0 was released, which seemed to go through, but so far I haven't heard anything. I'll try emailing the folks at http://www.thebbs.org/contact.htm and see where that takes me. Thanks for the suggestion! Also, thanks for the download links! The link appears to be for v4.0. However, I saw v4.5 in the wild, which I may email that sysop to see if they could give me a copy, as theirs is unregistered. The first link in your reply appears to elude to a v5.0, which would be preferable. However, I don't know if that version exists, or if the site was made before releasing v5.0 in a "cart before the horse" type of situation. In any event, thanks for your help! I really appreciate it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bifrons · 2015-05-15 20:08 I had a chance to look at install.sh, and it looks very weird. From what I can tell, it copies files associated with the kernel into the directory the script is executed from, creates a symbolic link to the system's OpenDoors installation, deletes all of the game's binaries, then finally deletes itself... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MGJon · 2015-05-15 20:09 I did see [here](http://web.archive.org/web/20070220133235/ambroshia.p roboards30.com/index.cgi?board=general) that there's a v5 changelog with apparently lots of data. So, someone worked on it...it'd be nice if they would have made it available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MGJon · 2015-05-15 20:14 lol That's awesome. Wonder WTF the thought process was there... Well, it looks like at least 2 BBSs have v4.5: [Convolution](http://www.convolution.us/amb4.html) and [Battlestar BBS](http://battlestarbbs.dyndns.org/doorgames.ssjs). Maybe they can point you in the right direction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MGJon · 2015-05-15 20:20 Looks like GameSrv comes with the Windows version of v4: https://www.gamesrv.ca/downloads/ Still no 4.5...very elusive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2015-05-15 22:06 I have 4.5 at Capitol Shrill. I tried contacting the Dev a few times to register it but didn't hear back either. - let me check my, um, sources, maybe I can come up with something in the mean time. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bifrons · 2015-05-15 22:20 Awesome, thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2400bps · 2015-05-16 01:04 Some links that might be of use... Abandoned forum: http://ambroshiabbs.proboards.com/board/1/general-board Old downloads for v4.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20040615133415/http://ambroshia.thebbs.org /download.htm Old downloads for v4.5: https://web.archive.org/web/20080922095601/http://ambroshia.thebbs.org /Download.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bifrons · 2015-05-16 17:48 To be honest, I figured, since the links were from web.archive.org, that the archived links wouldn't have any downloadable files. It turns out I'm mistaken! Thanks for your help! v4.5 appears to be v4.0 in the v4.5 link, however, unless the installer says v4.0 erroneously. Further, it appears that, while v4.5 exists for Windows, only v4.0 exists for Linux, due to the author relying on a friend he hasn't spoken to in a while to compile the code for the Linux port. Lastly, this solves the ridiculous issue I saw yesterday where install.sh only had code to remove the installation files. The script in your links has a large chunk of code that was missing from the script I saw yesterday - code that would copy the Ambroshia binary files to the appropriate places, etc. I'll play around with these until I hear back from the author. I went ahead and sent him a message through the forum you linked in addition to the email I had sent him yesterday. Thanks again! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2015-05-23 05:16 registered copy of 4.5 running now, at capitolshrill.com. :/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2015-05-23 05:57 Have you heard from the author? I've tried contacting him a few times in the past. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sharphead_cgy · 2015-06-21 23:04 How? Would like to also get my copy registered at thenexusbbs.com as well. Running v4.5 on Win32 door server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2015-07-09 01:55 [deleted]