Part IV of my LORD playthrough on Realm of Serion BBS: Days 31-43 of the tournament, as a handful of players take the lead by slaying the dragon! Plus a bonus lesson in probability, an attempt to answer that age-old question: What are the odds of winning the Mystical Skills number guessing game? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iromeo256 · 2022-02-12 01:54 That’s cool! T-lord? I am playing as well now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NeonSomething · 2022-02-12 02:16 Cool! I think T-Lord is the Worldgroup BBS version, but this is just a version of the generic "door" version of LORD that features tournaments? I don't know the differences between all the versions honestly, hah. But this version came out in 2000 according to the title screen, version 4.06. I didn't realize they were still making new versions at that point! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iromeo256 · 2022-02-12 02:27 You’re right they haven’t made new ones for a very long time. It’s two differently configured versions of the same games. T gets reset I would assume extreme does not. There are specific requirements they need to be set to “finish” the game. That makes it Tournament. I found serion the other day looking up local BBS. I was over the moon that they offered LORD and exitilus! I’m sure you can guess my handle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NeonSomething · 2022-02-12 04:25 Yeah, Serion has got a nice set of games. I ought to give Exitilus a fair shake, as I always hear it's a good one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iromeo256 · 2022-02-12 04:33 Yeah! Back in the day I was playing these games over 9600 baud. It’s so nice to play them in a browser bbs comparably. In high school I bought a copy of lord and set it up on our lan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NeonSomething · 2022-02-12 05:05 Hah yeah I first played door games starting with The Pit, 2400 baud. You had to wait for the ANSI menus to draw before your eyes. I'd sometimes turn off color just to get them to display faster. :) You probably know this, but as an alternative to the web client, you could also telnet into a modern BBS with a client such as SyncTerm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iromeo256 · 2022-02-12 06:08 2400 wow! I had the good stuff then. I use Firefox the built in client works really well. I will check out syncterm. Remember hyperterminal? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NeonSomething · 2022-02-16 17:31 The name Hyperterminal rings a bell but I don't know if I tried it. My favorite dialup clients were QModem and Terminate. IIRC QModem let you have an enormous history which I liked, and Terminate had nice macro support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iromeo256 · 2022-02-16 17:49 Hyperterminal was an old windows built in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nevarro · 2022-02-17 01:57 Runs on windows 10 just fine if you can find the download for it :)