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|  Message 1046  |
|  Alexander Grotewohl to Jas Hud  |
|  Re: DBOLCLIP  |
|  19 Jun 23 17:04:10  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47 MSGID: 1:120/616 63fa28ab REPLY: 7766.doorgame@1:103/705 28f58e8b TZUTC: -0400 On 19 Jun 2023, Jas Hud said the following... JH> > I recently installed a door game called Charlie's Baseball by Charles JH> > Crawford. The game is free, however it uses a program called DBOLCLIP.E JH> > for game file management. This program requires registering. It has a JH> > copyright of 1993 by Merlin Systems Inc. Or maybe even DBONLINE, that JH> > not sure. Anyone know of a way to register this program? JH> JH> whats the filename cbb-v11.zip is the game data, which includes one of the doors from... the "door kit" it uses: http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/cotc 3/BBS/DBONLINE.ZIP it's litearally a door intended to use with dBase/clipper/foxpro stuff.. i'd guess the author imagined people creating order forms with it they could then pull with their accounting system.. and this guy made a baseball game out of it lol it seems the binary contains both the unregistered and fully registered versions at least.. it opens dbonline.key and attempts to verify if it's registered or not, but that's as far as i got (it was late) from the docs he made it sound like the game is permanently broken though.. he took steps to prevent running into the database limitation so even with a registered version of the "parent" door, it would still limit itself --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32) * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi (1:120/616) SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 17 705 105/81 106/201 SEEN-BY: 120/302 616 123/10 131 129/215 305 153/7715 154/10 30 40 SEEN-BY: 154/50 700 218/0 1 109 215 501 601 700 720 810 820 840 850 SEEN-BY: 218/860 880 900 220/90 221/6 226/18 30 70 227/114 229/110 SEEN-BY: 229/112 113 200 206 307 310 317 400 426 428 452 470 550 664 SEEN-BY: 229/700 266/512 282/1038 291/111 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 633/280 712/848 2320/105 3634/12 5075/35 PATH: 120/616 154/10 301/1 218/700 229/426 |
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