Subj : LORDANSI.DAT file vanishe
To : Daryl Stout
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Sat Apr 07 2007 12:17 am
>> I've had that happen before, in a fairly old version. . . what ver. you
>> running?
> L.O.R.D. 4.07 -- the latest one. I know that 4.08 is in beta, but I'm
> not beta testing anything L.O.R.D. Related...except for the L.O.R.D.
> Holidays IGM that Donald Tidmore is doing. > Daryl
It would be hard for anyone to update to LORD's various v4.08 betas, including
DOS LORD, since it appears that Michael Preslar is no longer sending beta
archives to anyone, I have been told. At least one person who wanted to update
from v4.07 to v4.08 never got any assistance from Michael, who appears to have
abandoned all support of the LORD games. And no one who does have a v4.08 LORD
beta is allowed to distribute their copy to others.
It has been over six months since LORD was re-released as 4.08 beta, for DOS
LORD, LORD for Windows, LORD for OS/2, and LORD for Linux, back in the last
week of September 2006. Since that time, no one seems to know why the games
seem to have been abandoned, and are not being worked on at all. And no one
can get any answers from the Lordlegacy web-site I have noticed, which has not
been updated since June 2006 as to its News page.
It took one registered LORD user several months to get their logon ID info from
Preslar for access to the LordLegacy Forums, which also appear to have been
left unattended in recent months. It is possible that Metropolis Gameport did
not want LORD to be worked on any more for some reason. There are a lot of
unanswered questions being asked about this situation by many people.
And there are several glitches in v4.08 beta that need to be fixed that should
have been taken care of months ago. There are several parts of LORD that are
not functional because of programming glitches, which are related to the
problem you have encountered in LORD 4.07 about it crashing when it could not
find an LORDANSI.DAT file. Which is not inside any of the LORD archives,
either for DOS LORD 4.07 or DOS LORD 4.08 beta.
In the Dark Cloak Tavern in the LORD Forest, for instance, it is impossible to
change your Skill Class with its bartender. When one tries to use that menu
option, nothing happens. The ansi code for that skill class change appears to
be intact in the LORD 4.08 beta LORDTXT.DAT file, but for some reason LORD
fails to make use of it. Things like that may not be major problems, but the
users of LORD deserve to have them fixed eventually.
If we are lucky, maybe we will learn answers some day as to why the LORD games
have been left unattended for all these months. In the meantime, we are all
forced to just live with the glitches and LORD crashes. Donald.
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