From: corey@tsgc.dyndns.org.remove-4o8-this   
      
     To: Questman   
     Re: Re: Running multiple copies of a module on WG2.0   
     By: Questman to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Thu Nov 11 2004 06:59 pm   
      
    > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.majorbbs   
    >   
    >   
    > 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   
    >   
    >   
    > --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76   
      
   err, yeah, that too.   
      
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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