Subj : Re: New PCBoard->Icy Board
To   : Fusion
From : Exodus
Date : Wed May 15 2024 10:03 pm

F> at least they tried. it sounds like you just want someone else to do it all
F> for you. sorry i didn't know the entire history of renegade porting.

Do I want to try?   No.  I am happy running on DOS.  I update this code for 
what I want.  I opened the code up for anyone to do what the wanted years ago,
no one touched it until I came back to it 7 years later.

F> one simple reason: you could actually do it. the WFC is already useless

Depends how you run it.

F> anyways. all of the com port/fossil stuff is useless. rip it all out and ma
F> it work with writeln and keypressed/readkey .. fix all the files one at a t

Not really.  There are still dialup and comport use in Renegade.  FidoNet Z1 
over at Dark Realms is run via dialup and comport.   I have a seperate 
instance of the board that runs via the com port just to run old doors that 
are comport only.   Useless?  Not to some of us.

F> actually works on windows! get over the pride and you can even have people 
F> into it with the suggested method.

It's not pride, it's people taking an off shoot, that is versions behind the 
code and then releasing it.   Half working and saying look at me, I did this. 
Which makes the software look bad, as anyone trying to use that would be like 
that shit doesn't even work, why would I run it?   Thus ruining the updates 
we've been hashing out since 2003.


F> and write to the socket and the screen at the same time.. make it
F> read door32.sys files and you could have it working with gamesrv in an hour

Again why go that route?   Plus RG can already read DOOR32.SYS files since 
like 2004.  Does it do anything with it?  Not really.

F> all of this could be one-at-a-time steps with some sort of rewards along th
F> way. and surely when you bring back that blue WFC screen for your telnet
F> server, it'll be pretty f'n sweet.

Probably, but at what point?   I don't want a windows system.  I have over 600
DOS doors that run locally here.  RG doesn't have its fan base it did in the
1990s.

Would it be nice to port?  Yes.  Do I want to spend time doing it for 9 
people that run it?  No.

F> server, it'll be pretty f'n sweet.

Yeah, it would be.

.... Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.

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