Subj : Re: DBOLCLIP
To : Alexander Grotewohl
From : Tim Whitson
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 05:51 pm
Re: Re: DBOLCLIP
By: Alexander Grotewohl to Jas Hud on 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 Charle
> JH> > Crawford. The game is free, however it uses a program called DBOLCLI
> JH> > for game file management. This program requires registering. It ha
> JH> > copyright of 1993 by Merlin Systems Inc. Or maybe even DBONLINE, th
> JH> > not sure. Anyone know of a way to register this program?
>
> 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 the
> pull with their accounting system.. and this guy made a baseball game out of
> 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..
> took steps to prevent running into the database limitation so even with a
> registered version of the "parent" door, it would still limit itself
The game actually runs all nine innings. It's rather different, but it works
with the patch. The problem I have is when you get to the end a screen pops
up stating the DBONLINE is not registered and it quits and hangs up the BBS so
you have to ALT-H out. I can do without the game but it'd be nice to still
have it.
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