Subj : IGM Registrations
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Wed Dec 07 2005 10:49 pm

> Donald...
> I got the runtime patched versions of Maldorf's Mountain, and Talent
> For The Skill. But, even though they're freeware, the registration
> information isn't showing up for my BBS. Will just your name and Castle
> Camelot work for those??
> ---


Maldorf's Mountain is also a dead igm.  It, along with Aladdin's Palace IGM and
Show Conversations utility, were written by Devon Brooks.  I have been unable
to locate him anywhere in the past 2+ years of searching for lost Lord/BBS
authors.  At any rate, even if he had been found, he could not legally
authorize me or anyone else to distribute updates of any kind for his programs.
He had sold everything he did BBS-wise to Korombos, who is in prison for
attempted murder in Arizona.  No one knows what Korombos did with his computer
software.  Doug Rhea tried to contact him in the prison and never got any
response.  If I recall right, his real name is David Lambert or something like
that.

I simply made RTE200 patches of various Lord programs and made them available
for others to use.  Over time, most of them have been authorized for official
distribution by Lord authors I've found, who found me, or who Doug Rhea
located.  If my patch archives save someone the hassle of dealing with EXE
files that are sometimes compressed with PKllite, etc, and  which have RTE200,
then my work was worthwhile to someone.

Don't assume that I am the author of programs unless I specifically say that I
am, just because I did rte200 patches of  Lord programs.  These igms, that I
will list below, have Non-Distribute status.  Some were patched for RTE200 and
verified as working either by myself or by other Lord users to sent their
patched
archives to me.

I repeat, I do NOT have legal right to distribute these, but will allow others
to
have them upon email request.  They are available online at the Nightfall Games
server Lord site because its owner, Michael Everett, had no problem with
hosting
ALL of my RTE200 patch programs unless their author made objection.  Since
those
authors, with three exceptions noted below, can't be located to this day, no
one
has made any such objections.

Aladdin's Palace 2.01 patch, Dragon's breath Mountain v7.4 patch, The Graveyard

3.40 patch, Jenny's Kitchen 1.5 patch, Kanen's Lotto Hut 1.10 patch, Maldorf's
Mountain 2.60 patch, Pleasant Valley 1.00 beta (not rte200), TeamLord rte200
patch, and Zephyr Town Square 0.9a patch.

Exceptions data:
I never got around to doing an RTE200 patch of the Kanen igm's v1.11 archive.
Marc Ryan, the author of Pleasant Valley, was not satisfied with his work and
he
removed it from distribution a couple of years ago.  Plus he never finished its

development before losing interest in Lord programming.  TeamLord belongs to
Michael Preslar.  He has copy of the Teamlord patch archive, but has never
posted it online for download anywhere that I know of.  He is the only one with

the legal right to distribute TeamLord, therefore I don't try to do so with the
patch
I have -- which I did not do personally.  Whether or not TeamLord is ever
updated
again, is up to Preslar to decide.

I'm hoping I can find the author of the Zephyr igm and The Magic Shoppe -
Stephen
Oberholtzer - with Ken Davis's help, but to date have had no luck on that
author.
I have minimal source code used with Magic Shoppe from Ken Davis, but it is a
skeleton framework that does nothing, which Ken used to create The Village Hut.

The Graveyard's author was found by Doug Rhea and he lost the source code
years ago.  Its a dead igm.  The author of Jenny's Kitchen requested that NO
ONE
distribute any versions of his igm which he was disappointed in.  Consider it a
dead igm as a result.

I am now the author of The Village Hut, which Ken Davis has turned over to me,
and I am working on updating it to use standard DDIGM/DDPLus coding. The igm is
available for beta testing if others wish to help with testing. Contact me via
email at [email protected] or [email protected]. If neither address
works for you, use [email protected] which is my long-term permanent email
account.

Currently, Michael Preslar is handling update of LordNet program personally as
he has stated earlier this fall in this Lord echo, due to fact that a whole lot
of it uses proprietry Lord coding.   I don't know the story on that unless
Seth Robinson allowed Joseph Masters special access to LORD source code to
create that program years ago.  I have no idea if Preslar has anyone else
working on updates of his other Lord programs that he acquired the rights to
from Joseph Masters.  He had entrusted all of the J.M. programs to Chris
Martino who as everyone should know by now disappeared from sight in late May
2005.  His Oddware web-site then disappeared the next month. I don't know if
Chris kept Michael updated with source code from his work on the JM programs,
but I do know that he failed to do so with my programs that he was doing
Lord/32 versions of for me.  Martino was, and is, a huge disappointment and a
big example of how NOT to handle other people's computer software.

If you want to bring old igms back to life, and are interested in updating
Joseph
Masters's programs, you can always ask Preslar to let you update them.  He can
be reached in various ways, including through this LORD echo, and via email at
[email protected].   Donald

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