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  • Immortal Barons-BRE clone

    From Andy Alt@21:4/106 to Dumas Walker on Tue Jul 7 18:20:18 2026
    Dumas Walker wrote to Andy Alt <=-

    Sorry I think I read something wrong and had the impression that you didn't really think it was ready for others to be installing yet. ;)
    I am curious enough that I will try to grab a copy in the next couple
    of days.

    Not your fault, I think I wasn't too clear. So... I would say it's not ready enough for regular players. They may find very unwanted design problems after a few days into a game. At this point, if a sysop is curious about the game and wants to try it for the purpose of reporting bugs, general feedback, UX problems (I do look and test for these myself so they should be rare at this point), then I would encourage installing Immortal Barons as a door that's not visible to other users. For players who are curious, I would say, give it a try, but don't plan on having a long game yet.

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  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Andy Alt on Wed Jul 8 20:32:00 2026

    Dumas Walker wrote to Andy Alt <=-

    Sorry I think I read something wrong and had the impression that you didn't really think it was ready for others to be installing yet. ;) I am curious enough that I will try to grab a copy in the next couple of days.

    Not your fault, I think I wasn't too clear. So... I would say it's not ready enough for regular players. They may find very unwanted design problems after a few days into a game. At this point, if a sysop is curious about the game and wants to try it for the purpose of reporting bugs, general feedback, UX problems (I do look and test for these myself so they should be rare at this point), then I would encourage installing Immortal Barons as a door that's not visible to other users. For players who are curious, I would say, give it a try, but don't plan on having a long game yet.

    There is a snapshot binary available! I got the Win32 version. It appears
    to be UTF-8 Instead of CP-437, though.

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  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Andy Alt on Thu Jul 9 12:09:00 2026

    Shurato wrote to Andy Alt <=-

    There is a snapshot binary available! I got the Win32 version. It appears to be UTF-8 Instead of CP-437, though.

    Thank you for the report. I've pushed a fix and new snapshots are available. There is also a document now at https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/charset/

    You probably won't need to read that though, Immortal Barons should just work with cp437 encoding on your BBS automatically.

    Thanks. I saw that the snapshot area was empty...

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  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Andy Alt on Thu Jul 9 12:11:00 2026

    Shurato wrote to Andy Alt <=-

    There is a snapshot binary available! I got the Win32 version. It appears to be UTF-8 Instead of CP-437, though.

    Thank you for the report. I've pushed a fix and new snapshots are available. There is also a document now at https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/charset/

    You probably won't need to read that though, Immortal Barons should just work with cp437 encoding on your BBS automatically.

    Nevermind, found it! It was hidden because it had just been updated!

    --
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp,
    ,wss, ssh utf-8) (22,23,110,21,119,999,2222) shsbbs.net FREQ FILES !


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (21:2/148)
  • From Andy Alt@21:4/106 to Shurato on Thu Jul 9 09:35:08 2026
    Shurato wrote to Andy Alt <=-

    There is a snapshot binary available! I got the Win32 version. It appears to be UTF-8 Instead of CP-437, though.

    Thank you for the report. I've pushed a fix and new snapshots are available. There is also a document now at
    https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/charset/

    You probably won't need to read that though, Immortal Barons should just work with cp437 encoding on your BBS automatically.

    --
    -Andy
    Website: https://andy5995.github.io


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