Subj : Lord IGM's
To   : Scott Brown
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Wed Jul 08 2009 04:06 am

> Can anyone name some good IGM's for LORD? Preferably ones that are for all
> ages.  > Thanks, > Scott > Lord Blue > The Realms Of Blue BBS
> blues.zapto.org

Send me an email at either gtidmore (at) hiwaay.net or ktidmore (at)
bellsouth.net, and I'll prepare a list of good igms for you.  If you want igms
that are still supported by their authors, there are only a few dozen. Most of
which belong either to me, Lloyd Hannesson, Marty Blankenship, Jay Hodges, or
to Bryan Turner.  Pretty much every other LORD author has given up on
supporting their igms.  Its been over two years now since anyone besides me
(and Jay Hodges) released any igms for the DOS LORD game.

All of my igms are for all ages of LORD users.  Some might need to be played
with LORD in Clean Mode if the users are children.  On the other hand, if they
can handle LORD itself, then they should be able to handle my igms.  Otherwise,
they have no business playing the LORD game I believe.  It was pretty much
created for teenagers and adults if I recall correctly.

There are something around 250 or so LORD IGms counting only their last
released versions.  Of those igms, though, pretty much 80 percent of them are
either 100% dead igms or abandoned igms.  Their authors can't be located or
they don't provide support for their programs.  In some cases, the authors of
dead igms have been found by me or others, but reported that they no longer had
the program's source code.  If you want only igms that can be registered, there
are around a dozen LORD IGm authors that you can rely  upon.  And the number
keeps dwindling as time goes by, and people get the impression that the LORD
game has been abandoned by both Michael Preslar and by Gameport.  Many have had
so much hassle getting LORD 4.07 to work under DOS/Windows or under OS/2 that
they simply gave up on the game, after they found it impossible to get
technical support for the game. This is based on what I've read here on
Fidonet, and on Preslar's web-site. Basically since Gameport doesn't really
care about LORD since it makes little money form the game, they won't even try
to give you technical support.  At least that's how I've heard things from a
lot of people over the last couple of years.

The situation with LORD II and Wildcat Tournament Lord is even worse, where
both games are considered to be dead by many people.  WT-Lord is definitely
dead since the author can't recreate the game, due to having lost pretty much
all of its source code over the years.  Plus no one now makes any WT-Lord igms
at all, since Joseph Watson disappeared over 18 months ago.

Give me some idea of your criteria for what a "good igm" is when you respond.
If its an igm that is supported by someone today, expect the list to be around
3 to 4 dozen igms in all.  And of those authors, I have not heard a thing from
over half of them in well over a year.  Pretty much every one of them has
officially retired from doing BBS programming of any kind. Donald

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