On 18 Nov 2024 at 11:02a, apam pondered and said...

Hi Apam,
Avon says I should contact you here.

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it's not really a problem, but you can get the latest at https://gitlab.com/apamment/galactic-dynasty/

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Galactic Dynasty is pretty old now, and I probably did a ton of things wrong when I wrote it. You could fork it and fix it if you want to. I don't really have any motivation left to fix it.

..so just following up on this comment, I'd best try and get the 'current' versions of the software for Windows and Linux and ensure they are the ones hatched out to nodes..

But I'm also left wondering if bugs pop up and you (and fair enough) opt not to want to fix them any more... is it worth continuing to run the inter-bbs game if a bug that's discovered may not get fixed going forward?

I'm moreover just pondering aloud I think as I play catch-up in echomail... and to be fair from what I can see the game has not really been an issue in terms of any know bugs that I'm currently aware of in recent times or earlier..

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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..so just following up on this comment, I'd best try and get the
'current' versions of the software for Windows and Linux and ensure
they are the ones hatched out to nodes..

To be honest, I've lost track of which versions are which. I thought I'd
fixed the lua bug a while back but I mustn't have committed it. If you
want me to make another build for you I can, (though the lua bug just
really needs the .lua file copied over)

But I'm also left wondering if bugs pop up and you (and fair enough)
opt not to want to fix them any more... is it worth continuing to run
the inter-bbs game if a bug that's discovered may not get fixed going forward?

Maybe not, I guess that's a question best put to those who are playing
it. Apart from the buying billions of planets overflow thing, which can
be avoided by resetting fairly often I guess, I don't think there's
anything too game breaking. (and it's not like Barren Realms Elite or any
of the other more popular InterBBS doors are getting updates either ;)

If people are actually keen on playing it (rather than just setting it up
for the sake of setting it up) I would be happy to fix that over flow bug
(but it would mean an actual update)

Andrew

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On 12 Dec 2024 at 03:43p, apam pondered and said...

To be honest, I've lost track of which versions are which. I thought I'd fixed the lua bug a while back but I mustn't have committed it. If you want me to make another build for you I can, (though the lua bug just really needs the .lua file copied over)

let me dig out which latest versions I have and perhaps there's no need.. will get back to you. thanks Andrew.

opt not to want to fix them any more... is it worth continuing to run the inter-bbs game if a bug that's discovered may not get fixed going forward?

Maybe not, I guess that's a question best put to those who are playing
it. Apart from the buying billions of planets overflow thing, which can
be avoided by resetting fairly often I guess, I don't think there's anything too game breaking. (and it's not like Barren Realms Elite or any of the other more popular InterBBS doors are getting updates either ;)

If people are actually keen on playing it (rather than just setting it up for the sake of setting it up) I would be happy to fix that over flow bug (but it would mean an actual update)

seems to me like there's a core group of people actively playing the game and some who set it up and never play it, so the usual mix of engagement / disengagement.. same can be said for any inter-bbs game I think.

I agree other inter-bbs doors are not (for the most part) being actively updated/extended... and mostly work fine even now :) I guess that was an appeal at the time for GD and FH in that the community had you developing something at that stage.

If you opt to do further work on the games then that's great but if you're essentially done with them I understand that also. I just need to factor in to offering the inter-bbs stuff the issue of supporting stuff if it breaks and my ability to do so (or not)... so that's what I'm pondering.

I think it seems fine to keep them running at the moment in Z21...

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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seems to me like there's a core group of people actively playing the
game and some who set it up and never play it, so the usual mix of engagement / disengagement.. same can be said for any inter-bbs game I think.

Sure, I'll look to fixing the planet over flow bug, but mighn't be for a
few days yet.

I agree other inter-bbs doors are not (for the most part) being
actively updated/extended... and mostly work fine even now :) I guess
that was an appeal at the time for GD and FH in that the community had
you developing something at that stage.

One of the main reasons I started writing doors was to give people on
raspberry pis etc to have an easier way to get games working without
having to deal with dos emulation etc, which at the time was pretty hit
and miss (dosbox not having file locking etc). Galactic Dynasty at this
stage (apart from the bugs) I think of as finished - I don't plan on
extending it further.

I think it seems fine to keep them running at the moment in Z21...

Ok

Andrew

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One of the main reasons I started writing doors was to give people on raspberry pis etc to have an easier way to get games working without
having to deal with dos emulation etc, which at the time was pretty
hit
and miss (dosbox not having file locking etc). Galactic Dynasty at
this
stage (apart from the bugs) I think of as finished - I don't plan on extending it further.

I remember in my early retun-to-BBSing days, I was running Mystic on Pi
and when i realized it'd be difficult (but not technically impossible) to
run DOS doors, I was bummed.

Door servers were the answer then and now, but it's also cool that new-ish Dosbox variants (X, Staging) support SHARE and run headless on linux..
QEMU as well, but that's got its own foibles...

But I digress! GD2 is one of the great modern doors IMHO and I was/am
stoked to have games that run natively on linux.


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