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  • Trying to find Forbidden Lands 3 (Book III): The Islands of Dawn

    From aaronmgray@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 21 11:21:02 2018
    I'm still holding out hope, so many years later :)

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  • From monte.jeu@gmail.com@21:1/5 to aaron...@gmail.com on Wed Feb 13 13:39:14 2019
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    What diskette?

    Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

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  • From aaronmgray@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 13 13:35:07 2019
    What diskette?

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  • From monte.jeu@gmail.com@21:1/5 to aaron...@gmail.com on Wed Feb 13 13:26:47 2019
    On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 11:21:03 AM UTC-7, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    I'm still holding out hope, so many years later :)

    You may not have to hold out too much longer...

    To begin, copy the contents of the diskette to the development directory of your hard drive (usually \tc\include). Type "grim" and the following
    files will be be extracted:

    grim.c
    grimcomm.c
    grimmap.c
    grimrout.c
    grimitms.c
    grimhapp.c
    grimmons.c
    grimcomb.c
    grimcom1.c
    grimutl.c
    grimzap.c
    grimmine.c
    grimtime.c

    grim.h
    grimzap.h

    grimtxt.msg
    grimrms.msg
    grimcfg.msg...(configuration variables...level 2)

    grim.rms
    makegrim.bat..(protected mode batch file)
    grimplyr.dat
    linkgrim.fil
    grim.doc......(this file)
    vspells.doc...(an explanation of Spells, to be attached to a SIG message.)

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  • From aaronmgray@gmail.com@21:1/5 to mont...@gmail.com on Wed Feb 13 13:40:13 2019
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:39:15 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    What diskette?

    Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

    Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

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  • From monte.jeu@gmail.com@21:1/5 to aaron...@gmail.com on Wed Feb 13 15:03:07 2019
    It will be awhile before anything like that happens. Zips may not be of stock unmodified code. Multiple versions are there, but it might just be different revisions from the developer. The previous owner was into making changes, but didn't document or
    specifically backup the originals. But rest assured they do exist.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:40:14 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:39:15 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    What diskette?

    Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

    Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

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  • From monte.jeu@gmail.com@21:1/5 to mont...@gmail.com on Wed Feb 13 21:49:08 2019
    I just realized the source I'm looking at is fl2 not fl3. The sysop who bought it told me to look for the wrong name. I have to see if the fl3 source is even available in this archive. At least the binaries I got from a different sysop have been cracked.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 9:33:18 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    Looks like the demo versions I had from got cracked. They are unmodified as far as gameplay and a fairly later version of the games. Bugs and all. BJS uploaded them to major.butt.care. I wish I could somehow diff the source and the dll to see what may
    have been modified.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 3:03:08 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    It will be awhile before anything like that happens. Zips may not be of stock unmodified code. Multiple versions are there, but it might just be different revisions from the developer. The previous owner was into making changes, but didn't document
    or specifically backup the originals. But rest assured they do exist.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:40:14 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:39:15 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    What diskette?

    Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

    Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

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  • From monte.jeu@gmail.com@21:1/5 to mont...@gmail.com on Wed Feb 13 21:33:18 2019
    Looks like the demo versions I had from got cracked. They are unmodified as far as gameplay and a fairly later version of the games. Bugs and all. BJS uploaded them to major.butt.care. I wish I could somehow diff the source and the dll to see what may
    have been modified.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 3:03:08 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    It will be awhile before anything like that happens. Zips may not be of stock unmodified code. Multiple versions are there, but it might just be different revisions from the developer. The previous owner was into making changes, but didn't document or
    specifically backup the originals. But rest assured they do exist.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:40:14 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:39:15 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    What diskette?

    Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

    Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

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  • From aaronmgray@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 10 10:33:33 2020
    I found it. Now I have to get MBBS running again. A real PITA since it wont work on Win10 x64 anymore, so time to VM. Anyhow here it is:

    https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS

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  • From blixel@21:1/5 to aaron...@gmail.com on Sat Jul 11 06:49:31 2020
    On Friday, July 10, 2020 at 1:33:33 PM UTC-4, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    I found it. Now I have to get MBBS running again. A real PITA since it wont work on Win10 x64 anymore, so time to VM. Anyhow here it is:

    https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS

    Yeah, these were found, cracked, and made available on major.butt.care about 16 months ago. Unfortunately there was no source code - and the default timings of FL3 are set such that the game is unbearably slow to the point of being totally unplayable in
    my opinion.

    Hopefully someone will release the source code so this game can be enjoyed.

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  • From Mike K@21:1/5 to blixel on Tue Dec 22 09:17:14 2020
    Can someone point the cracked files instead of the executable? I am using the emulator...
    I can dig into getting DOSBox and whatnot up and running again but it'd be easier if someone already has the post-cracked version

    On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 9:49:31 AM UTC-4, blixel wrote:
    On Friday, July 10, 2020 at 1:33:33 PM UTC-4, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    I found it. Now I have to get MBBS running again. A real PITA since it wont work on Win10 x64 anymore, so time to VM. Anyhow here it is:

    https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS
    Yeah, these were found, cracked, and made available on major.butt.care about 16 months ago. Unfortunately there was no source code - and the default timings of FL3 are set such that the game is unbearably slow to the point of being totally unplayable
    in my opinion.

    Hopefully someone will release the source code so this game can be enjoyed.

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  • From blixel@21:1/5 to Mike K on Wed Dec 23 06:23:51 2020
    On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:17:15 PM UTC-5, Mike K wrote:
    Can someone point the cracked files instead of the executable? I am using the emulator...
    I can dig into getting DOSBox and whatnot up and running again but it'd be easier if someone already has the post-cracked version

    Agreed. I went through the steps in a VM and kept a copy just for this reason, so here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LaGwHi9G2xO_4JLSrngU_huZkFZMTZgn/view?usp=sharing

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