Attention:  Lord/Lord II/Tournament LORD authors:
(Also covers any TEOS authors interested)

Authors.txt file updated June 17, 2000:

I am producing a new Lord IGM Authors Newsletter, taking up from where
Bryan Turner stopped doing his newsletters a couple of years ago.  I
have so far released two newsletters, and am working now on my third
issue, for release on June 19, 2000.  Issue #4 will cover events for
late June and July-September 2000.
    This covers anyone who has ever written programs for Lord, Lord II,
Tournament Lord, (or TEOS); non-author Lord web-site developers;  and
anyone else who is interested in the Lord Newsletter.  Entries, provided
they are relating to LORD, will be accepted for usage from anyone who
provides them.  Send all e-mail to donald.tidmore@usa.net.

    One thing that I feel might be of interest to newsletter readers
is the opinions of authors and Lord players of the newest LORD, v4.05
public Beta, developed by my friend Michael Preslar.
    Thanks to my friend Bobby Queen, information is now included in
Issue #3, listing changes to LORD between v3.55 and v4.05 pb.  His
file is included in the CCIGM-03 Archive as "Lord-Changes.txt".

    Information provided by authors who have not previously contacted
me should include a listing of your Lord programs, if any, and the
address of any Internet web-site you have that is Lord-related.  This
will be used in maintaining and updating my LORD web-pages on my Castle
Camelot web-site.  When writing, please answer these questions:

1) Are you inactive or active.  Examples to be considered active:  You
have released a Lord program in the last 3-6 months, or you have updated
your web-site (significantly) in the last 3-6 months.

2) If you wish to be a contributor to the newsletter, will you provide
me updates on your Lord work, monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly?

3) If you have quit writing for LORD, LORD II, or Tournament LORD,
do you still support your programs?  And are you willing to turn over
(or sell) your programs to another LORD author, including Korombos
and Michael Preslar?

4) My Castle Camelot LORD Links Page -- available at:
   http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/5389/camelot5.html --
   lists known LORD-related web-sites.  Please let me know if you are
   not listed, and I will add a listing for your site.  If you are
   listed already, and some of your programs are not listed, please
   let me know which ones need to be added.

5) I am collecting information, to forward to Michael Preslar, on how the
   various Lord II authors feel Lord II should be upgraded, or about any
   current bugs that need to be fixed in it.  Please send me any ideas or
   thoughts you have for upgrading/fixing Lord II.  Comments on future
   upgrades of LORD will also be appreciated.

Previous issues of my newsletters are currently available on my web-site
in text format.  Issue #1 is currently available as an HTML web-page, and
Issue #2 will be available in HTML sometime this month (June).  Each of
the newsletters are also available in archive .ZIP files.  (These files
are also now available through the Kiteria's Korne web-site at:
http://www.shelby.net/wizards/kiteria - which has been revamped by Bobby
Queen and myself.

If any of you need to have your programs distributed for Lord, Lord II,
or Tournament Lord, and you do not already know how to do so, here's
contact information for the people who can help you with this.  Also, you
can send your programs to me, and I will forward them to these people.

Lord II programs should ALWAYS be sent to Bobby Queen at wizards@shelby.net.
At present, Bobby is not able to review the programs, but will post your
Lord II files on his Official Lord II IGM Archive Site --
http://www.shelby.net/wizards/lord2igm/index.htm .  He also wishes to
have anyone with TEOS files send them to him.

All Lord/Teos programs can be sent to Mike Ehlert at mike@pcmicro.com
for distribution through the Pacific Coast Micro website -- 
http://www.pcmicro.com .

All BBS-related programs, including Lord/Teos files, can be sent to
Ruth Argust at ruth@doorgames.org for distribution on the DDS website --
http://www.doorgames.org.  This applies ONLY to the programs' authors,
unless you have their written permission to distribute their programs
for them.

Thanks in advance for any advice, upgrade information, programs information,
website addresses, and so forth that you send me.  All those who do help me
with this project will be acknowledged for their aid either in a Newsletter
or on my LORD Links Page.

Donald Tidmore.  Email:  donald.tidmore@usa.net
Castle Camelot Waterfalls Homepage --
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/5389/camelot.html

Previous Newsletter issues:
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/5389/CCIGM-01.TXT
  -- LORD Authors Newsletter #1 - Text (47 KB)
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/5389/CCIGM-02.TXT
  -- LORD Authors Newsletter #2 - Text (31 KB)
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  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/5389/Archives/ccigm-1.html
  -- LORD Authors Newsletter #1 - HTML Web-page format (49 KB)
            
Updated June 17, 2000 at 12:33 am.

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