[GRLUG] Text-based games

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:50:32PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>> >> What are your fondest memories of text-based games?  Most of mine are
>> >> still accessible at telnet://bbs.grnet.com ...
>>
>> You're familiar with Cyberspace BBS?  You might remember me as Short
>> Circuit, Digger and Blue Eyes' son.
>>
>> Actually, Dijon runs it now; It was passed on to him a few years ago.
>
> Greetings, Mrj, glad to see you back again.
> You are caller 3277347!
> You were last online 05/07/01.
>
>  Account Created ............ 07/09/91
>  Last Logon ................. 05/07/01
>  Account Class............... DEMO
>
> Wow, that's some serious data retention for a DEMO account.

I think the user database was only ever cleared out once, back in the
mid 90s, when Count Zero and Annie decided on a one-account-per-person
policy.

Hm.

"You're in the LIFER class with +439351 credits and UNLIMITED days left"

Want some credits?

>
> The only game I really got into on there was InFiNiTy CoMpLeX (the v5.x
> version with the letter commie names, the web tells me).

InFiNiTy CoMpLeX always had to run on a slave machine; It was
incredibly unstable, and would periodically bring down whatever
Worldgroup or MajorBBS machine it was running on.  These days, Cyber
doesn't have any slave machines, so the slaved games aren't available.

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