Wow... those were some nice old renders.

It's amazing what you find sometimes. Not long ago I was looking for
something on an old hard drive and I found some stuff from back in the
90's. VT-52 screens I did for friends... other notes and things for game
ideas in various stages of detail.

A private message exchange from one of my favorite BBSs of the day with a
young woman named "Simply Red"... whom I never did get to meet. :(

But to bring it back on topic... I had written a hex based starship
combat game for the Atari ST way back in the day and I had done a ton of improvements to it which I thought were totally lost (and I was too
heartbroken at that to ever go back to it).

Well... apparently I had backed up the stuff to a different hard drive
and still have about 80% of it... so who knows?

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I also found my Excel sheets I was making a full map of ArrowBridgeII
and all the Dungeons, etc. Kinda neat to "remember" on a Memorial day --

Ah, cool. I never really got into ArrowBrige I or II, but maybe they deserve another look. Thanks for sharing, the artwork was cool!

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It's amazing what you find sometimes. Not long ago I was looking for

I have been trying (off and on or course over the past couple years) to locate my box of printouts (which also included a lot of my BBS Door Game Registration Codes. I was able to obtain some again if the author is still alive and contactable .. just provided my old mailing address at the dial-up time and they were able to locate codes. Other's I had to pay like $5 to update. Other's no contact at all (but I really wish I could).

Well... apparently I had backed up the stuff to a different hard drive
and still have about 80% of it... so who knows?

We all wish we had 32 hrs a day and open jobs and life that allow us to take advantage of what we used-to-could :(

Timothy Norris
aka SirRonmit
admin@f4fbbs.com
bbs.f4fbbs.com:62323

... You can learn many things from children... like how much patience you have

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I have been trying (off and on or course over the past couple years) to locate my box of printouts (which also included a lot of my BBS Door
Game Registration Codes. I was able to obtain some again if the author
is still alive and contactable .. just provided my old mailing address
at the dial-up time and they were able to locate codes. Other's I had to pay like $5 to update. Other's no contact at all (but I really wish I could).

Would you be willing to share the details of the authors that were still able to offer registrations for old doors?

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Would you be willing to share the details of the authors that were still able to offer registrations for old doors?

I'll dig thru my emails and see if they are still there. I also believe I saved .txt files in each directory as well (I hope).

Timothy Norris
aka SirRonmit
admin@f4fbbs.com
bbs.f4fbbs.com:62323

... Top secret! Burn before reading!

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On 29 May 23 08:28:18 SirRonmit wrote...

It's amazing what you find sometimes. Not long ago I was
looking for

I have been trying (off and on or course over the past couple years)
to locate my box of printouts (which also included a lot of my BBS
Door Game Registration Codes. I was able to obtain some again if the
author is still alive and contactable .. just provided my old mailing address at the dial-up time and they were able to locate codes.
Other's I had to pay like $5 to update. Other's no contact at all
(but I really wish I could).

Well... apparently I had backed up the stuff to a different hard
drive and still have about 80% of it... so who knows?

We all wish we had 32 hrs a day and open jobs and life that allow us
to take advantage of what we used-to-could :(

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

On the first part... yeah... It's a shame to lose contact with the
Authors.... it's even worse in the Atari community as many have passed
away or moved on to the PC realm. :( Most of that is lost forever. I'd
kill to have registered versions of some of this stuff.

To the second part... If only, right? I'm old enough I want to spend my
days working on the hobbies in the name of nostalgia... too young to
retire. Too broke to retire ever unfortunately. :(

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On the first part... yeah... It's a shame to lose contact with the Authors.... it's even worse in the Atari community as many have passed away or moved on to the PC realm. :( Most of that is lost forever. I'd kill to have registered versions of some of this stuff.

Yeah, we've entered the same era that people passionate about old cars, old typesetters, old vending machines and you name what old that is long gone in memories of most lacks of parts, manuals and other stuff required to renovate, restore and keep working as it if was in its genuine time.

Preserving is part of that in our ecosystem, and for that single reason I'll never judge data hoarders, regardless of the legal status of their data.
I trust the community more than any Google indexing service.

But if something is lost (and a lot is preserved), plus we have much more knowledge than in the past, I take it also as an opportunity to recreate.

To the second part... If only, right? I'm old enough I want to spend my days working on the hobbies in the name of nostalgia... too young to retire. Too broke to retire ever unfortunately. :(

No, you're note alone :) and if you can afford spending time on it.. you're not that broke as you think. Remember, the most valuable currency is time!

-h1

... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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On 30 May 23 01:48:51 hollowone wrote...

No, you're note alone :) and if you can afford spending time on it..
you're not that broke as you think. Remember, the most valuable
currency is time!

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

Alas, then I'm even more broke than I thought... I never seem to have the
time. :(

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