@Trenton and @dark Great to have you guys playing! the more we have playing, the better!

About Eamon, I'll give Frank an email and see if we can work something out even if I can help him port to something like doorway which runs bs style doors by username.  I think I would want to make sure that people really knew that if I did this, that their characters would *not* necessarily be safe.  I do know that it's possible to default to vi mode, and that I can make happen upon launch.  This is all definitely doable, and if you guys don't care about the character aspect, I have no problem attempting to make it happen.  For the purpose of this bbs, I had to run Windows 7 32, because of the limitation fo Windows.  I'd love for others to have the ability to log on.  Afte work, I'll have a look at implementing access.  When it's done, I'll let everyone know, and you'll all have to determine if it's a workable solution.  Perhaps this is what we need to catalyze some more support and also get people more interested in figuring out how to circumvent the ansi graphics.  Here's something, how would you all like playing eamon on your iphones?  This will be possible with the correct emulator if in fact I can get the video to be intercepted to comm.  I'll update when I have something. Eamon has been downloaded.

Ner

@zseli,  I don't know about windows 7, but   last I checked there wasn't a 21 bit version of windows 7, just 32 and 64, as Ner said it'll run on 32 bit windows, I don't know about 64.

As to what you need, well you need the internet in the sense of an  actual internet connection, but you don't need a web browser such as internet explorer or firefox, in that way it is very much like a mud, though you need either telnet or  a terminal  to connect rather than a mud client.

I don't know about the emulators, but I've had no problem with telnet, I just type "telnet" into the run box, hit o to connect then when I'm asked what to  connect to write nerbbs.com, that is all.

@Ner, Eamon deluxe would be a great fix. There is a program called I basic on the Iphone that includes some classic eamon adventures, but as far as I could gather the text isn't readable with vo, much like running the  original Apple ii eamon on windows with an Apple Ii emulator.

Eamon deluxe has also been heavily modified and expanded, and every adventure that gets ported has recieved several tweaks.

The biggest improvement in eamon Deluxe however are the access fixes.

though Eamon was a textual gaming system, the text version of the original main hall by Donald brown has very few functions available by default, you can't for example raise your characters stats or train their weapon abilities with gold.

For this reason original  Eamon authors wrote some extra versions of the main hall program wich most people used, however those extra halls were actually graphical not text. The first version a textual main hall appeared in Eamon with all the same features as the graphical  one was actually in Eamon deluxe in january for 2012.

Frank has also been great about some other access  fixes, often miner things like describing ascii art or the like, and has even modified some of the punctuation so that it speaks correctly (he downloaded a copy of Nvda and  tested it out).

So,  the more access people can have to Eamon deluxe the better. Ironically Frank contacted me the other day to say hi, so I told him about this topic, but he is a busy fellow.
An Iphone version would be great, I suspect an  Iphone version would need some rather basic  tweaking just to get the commands to work since even though Eamon has a great word   recognition routine so that a command like "open iron door" can be abbreviated to "op ir"  it could still be a little   urksome having to constantly type those sorts of things in with the on screen  keyboard and vo, and not everyone has an external keyboard with them (indeed though I own a bluetooth external keyboard it's a bit large to fit in my shoulder bag so I don't carry it around with me).

Well as to playig games, the good news is usurper seems to be going better now,  mostly because I've got enough gold and armor to run with, I've also seen some of the funnier options in the game.

The  inventory was giving me a little trouble, since it doesn't display  what items you have or are using by default and you need to enter a question mark, but it's fixed now. One thing I have been wondering in  usurper is how to reply to a tell once you get one? or do you have to hit ctrl t and enter the other player's name, particularly since all the npcs there keep asking me random stuff or giving random comments. Btw, is there a way to know who is an npc and who isn't? I don't want to go telling other human players I want to  kiss them or kick their rears or something else .

I think I need to sit down and read the trade wars  documentation, indeed if you have a link to the manual so I could read it through that would help (I know it's available in the game but it'd be nice to read through straight off, indeed if it were possible having the instruction manuals to games available in the  nerbbs wiki might be   handy, though I know the tradewars documentation and lots of other resources available on . The main tradewars.com site

There is a dummy's guide which looks pretty  useful which I'll need to read through.

Actually Trenton, I feel a bit of a fool, since on the same page where the guide is downloaded is a link to read the hole thing online as a nice html document even with decent header navigation, hence why I edited that bit out of my post .

Hi,

The "people," telling you random messages like that aren't players at all, but NPCs. The game is designed to give them almost as much freedom to do things as players have, and it's kind of fun even when you're the only real human around. Don't take them too seriously, they're being silly.
As for "life revives," if you mean resurrections, you only get three of them per day. If you meant something else, I don't know what you're talking about I'm afraid.
Hope this helps,
Zack.

Hi,
@ner thanks for all of that. I noticed I do get 500 minutes per day . I'm not sure on how to withdraw from the bank, all I can do is exchange credits for minutes. I had like 10m when I started to I exchanged all of them and I have 600 minutes banked but I'm not sure on how to withdraw them, there doesn't seem to even be a menu there. By th way, I noticed I only have 50 logons per day. I normally keep logging on and off, and although I don't think I'll ever use up 50, I do think some of these limits, like the time, the logons and all those should be removed. If this'll all be free we shouldn't have limitted minutes. OK, maybe this is still active because you made it that way because of server costs or something, but if you didn't, it really makes no sense to keep it there. Probably since people used dial-up connections for this it was hard as hell to keep the server active and all of this was made, but now, with high-speed broadband connections and such it really doesn't make sense to keep that active unless it's still there for a reason nowadays. It makes me feel limited to have X minutes to play games, chat and have fun, even though I have 5 hours it still makes me feel weird. Well that might just be me .

@dark it really would. Saves you from having to download stuff and it weighs a lot less and uses up less resources, since all it has to do is to receive and send data. I still want to finish world of legends, I got sort of stuck at one point.

Hey guys,

I know that there are other questions and don't have too much time to answer them at the moment, I promise I'll get to them.

I've increased the amount of time available in level 50, the normal user amount from 400 to 800. I also increased time allowed per call to 400 minutes, and login amounts to 100 per day.  If you need more tme, the timeyou bank will be used.  I thought you had to withdraw it but apparently not.  Those changes will take place in the normal maintenance times, generally 0000 est, 05:00 utc, so if you by some amazing thing need more time today, let me know.  More games coming online shortly, especially since the snow should allow me to work on installing stuff more.

Noel (NER)

Sorry, i did not mean 21 i ment 32 bit. thanks though

I have some explanations about the limited time/logins thing. As you suspected, that is a holdover from the old time BBS days. And in those days, if you were very lucky, you had a BBS you could call that had multiple phone lines. But most of them just had one phone line. That meant that there could be exactly one person on the system at a time, not counting the sysop who might be sitting at the physical computer running the board. Naturally, time limits were put in place so one user couldn't hog up the system all day/night long and keep everyone else from connecting. Remember, if you're on any of these systems, anyone else who calls in is going to be frustrated to no end, getting busy signal after busy signal after busy signal.

Hi,

I just started trying to log into this nerbbs.com thing, and I keep getting a connection timed out error.
I downloaded Tera Term, and I fill in nerbbs.com, telnet port 23.. That's really the only instructions that were given. There's some other buttons there like a history check box that is there, but other than that I have followed all the instructions. Am I missing something?

Hi. Dark, when i type telnet, it just gives me an error. It doesn't find, telnet. Can someone tell me what's wrong?