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   I take it theres no easy way to trick a module into using a different db?   
      
      
      
   Questman wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Because the games are coded to use specific database files.  What most   
   > game writers did not do was allow you to specify locations of message   
   > files and data files - that would have allowed it.   
   >   
   > It's possible, but most ISV developers did not take advantage of it.   
   >   
   > Rick   
   >   
   > Nathan wrote:   
   >   
   >> Yea, i get it.   
   >> door's on wg seem to suck though.   
   >> its just frustrating sometimes, i like wg, i'm getting to know it   
   >> pretty well too, and i like what i see, most of the time, but some   
   >> stuff is just... well.. dumb.  Why's it have to be so difficult to run   
   >> 2 copies of the same game? Its simple to do it with door games on   
   >> other bbs's, why can wg do it too... hmph..   
   >>   
   >> anyway, thanks for the replies.   
   >>   
   >> Do you get the feeling that you and I are the only one's who read this   
   >> group anymore too?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Corey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   To: Nathan   
   >>>   Re: Re: Running multiple copies of a module on WG2.0   
   >>>   By: Nathan to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Thu Nov 11 2004 06:07 pm   
   >>>   
   >>>  > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.majorbbs   
   >>>  >  > Great, so tell me again, why was WB/Mbbs so popular?  expensive,   
   >>>  > proprietary, and very limited expandability.......   
   >>>  >  >  > Corey wrote:   
   >>>  > >   To: Nathan   
   >>>  > >   Re: Running multiple copies of a module on WG2.0   
   >>>  > >   By: Nathan to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Thu Nov 11 2004 04:57 pm   
   >>>  > > n   
   >>>  > >   
   >>>  > >  > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.majorbbs   
   >>>  > >  >   
   >>>  > >  > Is there any way to run two or more copies of the same module   
   >>> (say, a   
   >>>  > >  > game) on a single WGBBS system? Each configurable on its own.   
   >>>  > >  >   
   >>>  > >  > Thanks.   
   >>>  > >  >   
   >>>  > >  > --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76   
   >>>  > >   
   >>>  > > there was a hack for majormud I saw once.   
   >>>  > > normally no, becuase the two moduals would clash resources and   
   >>> stuff.   
   >>>  > >   
   >>>  > > Fr Corey Blake OSB   
   >>>  > >   
   >>>  > > "Photons have mass!!?? I didn't even know they were Catholic..."   
   >>>  > >   
   >>>  > >   
   >>>  > > --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76   
   >>>  > > From The Three Stooges Gentlemens Club   
   >>>  >  > --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76   
   >>>   
   >>> it was ahead of it's time.   
   >>> no one else could touch it back then for performance.   
   >>> it was fast.   
   >>> you could do over 128 lines on a 386 computer with 16 megs of ram.   
   >>> while most everyone else was multinode, it was multiline.   
   >>> for a multinode bbs to even come close to a mbbs system you needed   
   >>> a huge room of computers on a fast network, like netware or lantastic.   
   >>> it's only even near competitor was Tbbs, and they are dead too.   
   >>> and they cost about the same also.   
   >>> Mbbs and Tbbs had special games none of the multinode systems had.   
   >>> shall I go on?   
   >>>   
   >>> Fr Corey Blake OSB   
   >>>   
   >>> "Photons have mass!!?? I didn't even know they were Catholic..."   
   >>> --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76   
   >>> From The Three Stooges Gentlemens Club   
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