Subj : Re: DBOLCLIP
To : Jas Hud
From : Alexander Grotewohl
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 05:04 pm
On 19 Jun 2023, Jas Hud said the following...
JH> > I recently installed a door game called Charlie's Baseball by Charles
JH> > Crawford. The game is free, however it uses a program called DBOLCLIP.E
JH> > for game file management. This program requires registering. It has a
JH> > copyright of 1993 by Merlin Systems Inc. Or maybe even DBONLINE, that
JH> > not sure. Anyone know of a way to register this program?
JH>
JH> whats the filename
cbb-v11.zip is the game data, which includes one of the doors from...
the "door kit" it uses:
http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/cotc-3/BBS/DBONLINE.ZIP
it's litearally a door intended to use with dBase/clipper/foxpro stuff.. i'd guess the author imagined people creating order forms with it they could then pull with their accounting system.. and this guy made a baseball game out of it lol
it seems the binary contains both the unregistered and fully registered versions at least.. it opens dbonline.key and attempts to verify if it's registered or not, but that's as far as i got (it was late)
from the docs he made it sound like the game is permanently broken though.. he took steps to prevent running into the database limitation so even with a registered version of the "parent" door, it would still limit itself
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