Subj : Atari ST door game and PC port of an old door.
To : All
From : Matt Munson
Date : Sat Sep 19 2020 10:46 am
RE: Atari ST door game and PC port of an old door.
BY: All
Thieves' Guild: a BBS Game With the
Best 1990s Pixel Graphics You've Never Seen
-Slashdot 9/19/2020
"The sky is clear, the breeze is strong. A perfect day to make the long sea
voyage to Mythyn," writes BBS history blogger Josh Renaud. "You prepare your
galley, hire a crew of sailors, and cast off. But a few hours into your trip,
the dreaded words appear: 'Thou seest rippling waters...'"
He's describing the beginning of a 27-year-old game that he'd been searching
for since 2013. Slashdot reader Kirkman14 why the game is so special and so
rare:
Thieves' Guild is a BBS door game for the Atari ST that came out in 1993. [A
"door" connected the software running the dial-up Bulletin Board system to an
external application.] What made Thieves' Guild unique was its graphical
front-end client, which features dozens of eye-popping pixel art vignettes,
along with simple animated sprites, sampled speech, and sound effects.
As a BBS door game (strike 1) for the Atari ST (strike 2), not many people
played this game or saw its front-end in the 90s. But it's worth
re-discovering.
The game was created by Paul Witte and Herb Flower who teamed up again in the
early 2000s to produce the MMORPG "Linkrealms."
The Pascal source code for several versions of Thieves' Guild, including an
unreleased 1995 port for PC BBSes, has been rescued and published on GitHub.
https://github.com/Kirkman/mythyn-archive
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