Who's still writing BBS door games? Shooter Jennings, that's who.
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RealDeuce · 2015-09-19 00:24

That's awesome.  Too bad he's using BASIC, it's unlikely there will
ever be a port to *nix.

I also wonder when he tried using Synchronet.

edit: Paging /u/ShooterJennings :-)

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Kirkman14 · 2015-09-19 03:38

Pretty sure it was within the last year.

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ScootyPuff-Sr · 2015-09-19 06:44

Previously on /r/bbs, "[If I made a door game for money would you play
it?](https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/32cwbh/if_i_made_a_door_gam
e_for_money_would_you_play_it/)"

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RealDeuce · 2015-09-19 08:22

Damn, I don't remember reports of deleted file and messages bases.
Seems like we let him down on that one.

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ShooterJennings · 2015-09-19 16:44

It deleted my file database several times. The files were still there
but they weren't cataloged within the BBS any longer. Strange stuff.
Happened three times and I got frustrated. I still love Synchronet. I
was always anti Wc but when Robert Wolfe showed me WcBasic I totally
could comprehend it. Like I said to Josh I'm not very skilled at c++
or java but I could make WcBasic work. Thomas Allan Kloos also helped
me a ton understanding how to load and save to data files etc.

Honestly I would love to mess around further with Synchronet at some
point and learn more c++ and java because I know I could do more with
it.

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RealDeuce · 2015-09-19 18:54

Well, if you ever want to give Synchronet another spin, we're always
around on irc.synchro.net in #Synchronet as well as on DOVE-Net to
help out.  I've don't recall hearing of Synchronet deleting file
databases before, but we're always happy to hear about and fix bugs!

It would be cool to translate your game to C (or C++) so other BBS
systems could run it.  Once you've finished it up, I would be happy to
help with that (I don't have time to teach you C, but I do have time
to rewrite a good door in C for someone else).

A couple things I noticed about your game... there's a lot of places
that say "Press any key [ ]" or some such, but you *have* to press
enter.  My any key doesn't seem to work there.

Also, it seems to have hung for me and I had to disconnect.

After that, I logged back on and tried sending a message to the SysOp.
First I looked for a message base for the door and didn't find one, so
I tried posting a message in the general public message base.  I
wouldn't let me enter a message claiming that the option wasn't
listed.  I got the same message when trying to post on the private
email sub.

It seems to be working now, so presumably you had to validate my user,
but the error messages I got were confusing rather than helpful.

EDIT: Logging back into the game, I'm back at Sunrise Fields... I'll
go back to the location it hung and check out if it happens again.

EDIT 2: Didn't happen that time... loved the Dark Horse Tavern!

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Idoiocracy · 2015-09-19 19:42

Thank you for the article link. I cross-posted it to
/r/TheMakingOfGames.