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While many of the most popular and memorable BBS doors have been games, numerous doors had non-entertainment applications such as user polls or the time bank, permitting users to time-shift their rationed BBS use. Frequently they act as a front-end to themed databases on subject such as astrology, numerology and fortune-telling, recipes ...
Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based online role-playing video game, released in 1989 by Robinson Technologies. [1] LORD is one of the best known door games. [1] [2] The player's goal is to improve their skills in order to defeat the Red Dragon which has been attacking the village.
Robinson Technologies is a Japanese video game developer founded by Seth Robinson. The company produced the BBS door games Legend of the Red Dragon, Planets: The Exploration of Space and Growtopia, an experimental multiplayer creative sandbox created as a collaboration with Hamumu Software, released in 2013 for iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
A Door game is a BBS door that allows users of a Bulletin board system to play a game, usually one that allows interaction with other players (either asynchronous or synchronous). Though some have been adapted to work with telnet BBS systems, they have fallen out of popularity. Some games require a telnet client capable of displaying code page 437.
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. [1] They are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social ...
The following is a list of usurpers – illegitimate or controversial claimants to the throne in a monarchy. The word usurper is a derogatory term, often associated with claims that the ruler seized power by force or deceit rather than legal right. [1] The term has often carried disdain to those who have been accused of being one. [2]
Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 for MS-DOS. It has been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, OS X, and Linux (Intel and ARM based systems such as the Raspberry Pi).
FBB (F6FBB) – packet radio BBS system, still in use. [5] GBBS (Graphics BBS) – used in the Melbourne area. GT-Power; L.S.D. BBS – written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG). The Major BBS; Maximus; McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald. Opus-CBCS – first written by Wynn Wagner III. PCBoard; PegaSys; ProBoard BBS – written by Philippe ...