Subj : Re: Noddy Update
To   : esc
From : apam
Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 11:06 am

 > This is super cool. Totally tangential/sidebar here but recently I
 > registered Wildcat! WinServer 8, which cost an arm and a leg. I guess
 > the dev focus nowadays is less on the telnet side of things and more
 > on web - evidently some small businesses, educational institutions,
 > hospitals, etc., use WinServer to manage internal comms and files and
 > the like. I find this...dubious, but nevertheless that's the claim.

Cool, I'd love to play with wildcat, for nostalgia's sake, but I couldn't
afford the price tag, and if I could I couldn't justify it. I suppose it
could be true that there may be a few schools etc, not all schools have
the budget to hire people that know what they are doing.

 > In any case, since the telnet BBS is largely ignored at this point,
 > there are a ton of compatibility issues with old Wildcat! stuff.
 > Which...is unfortunate. Had I known that I would never have paid for
 > it lol.

Ah that sucks, I've noticed some weirdness from their FTN implementation
too, I can't remember what it was exactly.

It's a shame, it would be cool if they had a BBS version like NetSerial
has, I reckon they might make more money charging less to more people
than they do charging lots to a few - especially since most nostaliga
trip type sysops will prefer a name they recognise.

 > On the other hand, being able to interact with the BBS from a proper
 > web CMS is fantastic. I'd love to see a full web implementation of
 > messages and files. That would be sick.

I had that with magicka, the problem was it was *nix only, ie no windows
version. Synchronet does it well too, though it can be a lot to
configure, I'm not overly keen on the layout of echickens web interface
(no offence - it's great work, it's just not to my taste)

 > Btw - I noticed there's a doorgame on your BBS which you haven't
 > released (the name escapes me). Is that one you intend to release? I
 > had some fun playing it.

Yeah, that game isn't finished - there's a lot of work to go, mostly
filling out the database with items / monsters, but i'd also like to add
pvp as an IGM, and possibly interbbs pvp. I picked it up again recently
but it's on the back burner again while I work on this node js thing

Andrew


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