Subj : Re: This version of LordCfg...
To   : Jason Hud
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Sat Jul 07 2007 04:32 pm

> well that igms comment was just an after thought.
> i MEANT it worked with jay's lord linux igms.
> does someone have it working with regular 16 bit igms? i'm sure someone is
> doing it. Is it impossible to get it working with 16bit igms?
> Anything is possible, but skiing through a revolving door.

I have no firsthand knowledge of the 32-bit igms situation other than for the
Lord/32 game's usage of them.  All of the LORD versions use the same data files
names, but in different ways.  They all use a 3rdparty.dat file, but only DOS
LORD and LORD/32 can actually RUN an igm that is listed in one.

DOS LORD can not run a LORD/32 igm, and vice-versa.  The 32-bit versions of
LORD use a different structure for the player.dat file.  The structures for DOS
LORD use one set of variable names and variable types, whereas LORD/32 has to
use a different set.  One was designed for Turbo/Borland Pascal by Seth
Robinson (DOS Lord), and the other was designed by Preslar to only work with
Free Pascal v2.00, Virtual Pascal v2.19, and I think Borland Delphi (LORD/32).
Preslar gave me instructions in June 2006 for compiling a 32-bit LORD igm,
however, they don't work for me since my Windows XP system installation of Free
Pascal v2.00 refuses to compile the Manndoor Toolkit component files.

The 3rdparty.dat file format is reversed in LORD/32 where the IGM Title line
comes first, then the command line is listed.  And it integrates the INFO node
number reference into the command line.  Whereas the DOS LORD 3rdparty.dat file
starts with those text lines designed by Seth Able, then you have the actual
2-line sets for each installed igm. The command line that LORD executes comes
first, followed by the igm title line.

If you want to know more information on how Lord/32 igms are designed, you can
check out a 32igms.zip archive that Preslar released for people to use last
summer in 2006.  I think there is a copy on the Camelot LordNews FDN in the
Lordfile directory.  http://www.filegate.net/camelot/ if you want to check it
out.  Donald

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