hi, please. give. me. a. tellnet. client. with. an. output. I. can. cycle. to. and. tell. me. a. way. to. get. rid. of. the. symboles.

Ner,
Would it be possible to get Majormud, Rose, or Telearena?

Oh emon, how I'd love to play that.  I know I could go through virtual emulation, but I'm not sure if my computer can handle that with only 4g ram. xd
that's another topic though.
i'll log on in a bit and see if I can't get any further

@narf Hello.  The time bank is a relic from bbs days of old.  Back then, since bbss had limited phone lines, system operators allowed people to bank time that they had left over so they could use time they had banked in case they ran out of time.  Should you use your 500 minutes, banking can help you.  No one has done this as of yet, so it's there just because .

Ner

@dark
Usurper is a challenging game.  What I would do is attack what you can as level 1, and bank what you get until you have enough money to upgrade your armor.  Post questions on twitter (I hope to have a mailing list soon for nerbbs) which should allow you to ask others who play, and play a lot.  Ixitilus has challenges much like Usurper.  To work up to a game that may be more eas until you get the hang, I would play Legend of the Red Dragon as it's easier.

I don't play the games much that I have installed, mostly because sysops are generally discouraged from playing so users don't worry about cheating sysops.  I do not cheat, but me playing a lot could cause user mistrust.

@stewie leveling up happens with your master. If you have enough exp, you can level up with him.  Once you're to level 2, you can go to the marketplace where you can train special skills based on your class.

@dark If people enjoy unatix, it can be registered. It's one which the authors are still around and taking registrations.  Let me know if you like it and I'll consider registering it.

Hi Dark and all,

Usurper is certainly a bit challenging at first. Hopefully I can help with some general advice however.
Gold from kills and leveling up is obviously very valuable. You want to deposit it in the bank as soon as possible, if only because it will earn interest. That being said, if you ever find yourself completely out of money you can opt to quit at the beggar's wall, which might get you some extra cash when nightly maintenance runs.
Regarding weapons and armor, take advantage of the option to have the shopkeeper help you with them both. Armor in particular requires multiple items to be effective, but if you wear the best items you can afford you might find yourself able to shrug off a lot of damage. Use the Quick Heal option in battles, and buy healing potions when you're offered the chance to do so.
Leveling and training in the martial arts are separate. You level by (v)isn't with your master from the main town, and train fancy moves in the marketplace. The latter are only used in a few instances, however, as far as I'm aware, so it's not as important to train them constantly. Speaking of levels, when you level up you'll get a massive influx of gold, which is very helpful indeed.

Now, if I may switch topics, surely I'm not the only one who's interested in Trade Wars around here? It's multiplayer Smugglers basically, and awfully lonely if you're the only player. Also, Baron Realms Elite is a fun strategy game worth investigating.

Hope this helps somewhat,
Zack.

@dark Sorry about the multiple messages. My issue was that I had several messages to respond to on different screens.  Trust me, it won't happen again lest I get defenestrated.

I can't speak on usurper as much though I'm about to abolish my non-playing for fear that there won't necessarily be enough players to make the games fun.  It's been way too long since I've played.  That being said, I can speak about baron realms elite.  Yes, it's pretty much a build and conquer game.  BRE's strength and its main stay really is the building and researching part of things, and most importantly to me that is, the interleague part of diplomacy.  Baron Realms Elite is a game that you can complete pretty quickly, usually in a standard game, 8 turns per day.  When you get to know the game, finishing a day can take maybe ten or fifteen minutes which is great for me being the busy guy I am .  We will soon be joining BRE leagues.  These leagues work by sending game packets to and from other BBS around the world.  This allows the player to form alliances, attack other planets, perform recon, and generally take over.  There's no world exploration, but one can explore other bbss around the world by getting to know the players.  It also takes time for packets to get exchanged, so the neat thing is that that element adds a bit of travel time to your actions off planet (bbs).  One other game you might like which I haven't added yet because I need to connect to another network is Clans.  Clans is a medieval game that allows you to build your character in a village.  It's very much based on inter-league play as well, but it allows you to travel to other villages.  You issue a travel command, then, the next day, you log on to the bbs that hosts the village you travel to.  This lets you get to know other systems because each system has a different personality, and different people .  What I'm noticing through this whole process of re-settin up this bulletin board is that though the BBS community is small, relatively, there are thousands of people who log on per day to bbss around the world who love t play games etc.

Lunatix's registration cost is $10 whih is practically nothing compared to some.  I was going to register it, but wasn't sure if people would like it, so I wanted to give it some time.  Since you're a fan, I'll see what I can do .  Logging on to the BBS is totally free, but anyone who enjoys games, traditionally in BBS lore, sends a few bucks to the system operator so that games can be registered.  This is *not* necessary or compulsory.

Hope this helps.

NER

I've just got to level 10 in Userper.   only 90 more to go!
I do wish there were skills to use in fights, even so, its a lot of fun!
Thank god I'm remembering to use the bank.  I'm owning right now, but just wait for that one mob to come along and ruin everything...

Hey @dark

First, about Eamon, I have thought about that.  The only thing and you'll have to tell me what you think here, is that you wouldn't necessarily be able to save your progress in games ... well, you could save your progress but you would be able to access other player's saved games (if I'm remembering correctly).  The way bs games work is that you play as you were sitting at my computer.  I think possibly, well I'd think actually probably I could get it to work and yes, I think it would be a good idea.  What do you think about the saved game issue?  I have a post XP system, but I can run these dos games through Synchronet's special dos executor, so it should be possible if it writes directly to the screen.  I also want to run the old 1970s star trek game which I'm pretty sure can be done.

I find the Lunatix authors email address and see if he answers before we do anything.

About Trade Wars, I can help you there.  Your planet should have iron ore, fuel, and organics if I remember correctly.  YOu have to first go from Terra (believe that's sector 1) to your planet to take colonists so that they can get the resources from your planet.  This is possible right off, but what I would do is go around the ports (note your home planet sector) and see if you can find a port pair. That is, a pair of ports that sells one thing at a low price and buys something the other port neighboring has at a higher price.  ONce you do that port pair buying and selling, thed you should be able to build up your ship to add cargo holds so you can carry more.  Then it becomes more profitable to get colonists and ferry them to your plannet.  Sound repetitive?  Yes, it is, and there's a reason.  In trade wars, there are programs called trade wars helpers which basically monitor output, map your known universe, and make repetitive tasks more easy.  For instance, if you find a really good port pair where organics is selling at 500 but you buy it at the port that is selling at 100, you can tell your helper to go ack and forth.  Trade wars helpers are encouraged and allowed, so don't worry, this is not cheating.  This is why we only have a certain number of turns per day.  The same can occur with colonization.  If you want to get 10000 people to your planet, you can have the helper help you out and make those repetitive moves.  Ultimately, you would run the helper (for your tradewars session) rather than running your terminal emulator to get into the bbs and go into tradewars.  You can actually get into tradewars without logging onto the bbs but you must rlogin into port 2002 with a username of your full name for this to work.  Helpers can make life easier because they'll keep track of port prices, where your fighres are, that kind of thing.  One of the free helpers is twx proxy, and another one is shareare and is called Swath.  Swath has a "jaws" mode for screen reader users and the author is very willing to help blind users get things working.

Does this answer your question, in a roundabout way I'm sorry ?

Ner

Oo!

Oo! Eamon possibly coming to your BBS soon, I'm sure Frank Black would be proud! I've always enjoyed his Eamon Deluxe series. Even with the saving limitations, I'd still absolutely enjoy it! I'm sure the folks at: http://eamonag.org , would be very proud!

More people need to jump in to the BBS world!
I see that you have Gopher support with yours. Been trying to figure out how to start a gopher Server, under windows or Linux. Though I am an SDF member too, and possibly should just stick with that if its to difficult start a gopher server from my PC.

Ah, Legend of the Red Dragon. Though I never played LOTRD, I have played the Hogwarts Live variant of Legend Of The Green Dragon back in the day for years!

As there are so many Linux distros, not sure which one ya should base the instructions off of... It seems its better to play your games under Speakup screen reader, instead of using Orca, as it just works much better under a console with Speakup than a terminal under Orca.

Coming soon will be a separate thread on taking the plunge in to the Linux world, but I'm digressing here...

Keep up the wonderful work with this! I'm known as "Sunlight" on NerBBS, and on "SDF" as well.
Thanks for bringing BBS back to the world for everyone to enjoy!

PS. I'm only 29 years old, and didn't get to experience BBS, nor Gopher back in its heyday. Though learning both how they worked from Hacker Public Radio , and Talk Geek To Me , has been a joy!