Subj : LordMenu is Fixed
To   : Scott Adams
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Fri Jan 19 2007 12:46 am

> -=> Quoting Donald Tidmore to Scott Adams <=-

> Sounds like it is reading the first 26 but since the last 2 entries
> are the typical string length (256) they only display the
> last two lines. This might be a good clue.  Sounds like
> the program is not doing line feeds or separators and so
> reading it one screen. 

Dennis Collins figured out how to fix the program, and its working again 
properly.  Well not 100 percent, but good enough to make DOS LORD v4.08 beta 
happy.  Which is what is important.  The remaining glitches appear to be 
because Windows XP Home handles DOS ANSI emulation in a funny way.  Dennis also 
noticed the fact that the 3rdalt.txt entries made by my December 2005 beta of 
LordMenu only had the last two entries show up in LORD.  It was something about 
about the lack of carriage returns and line feeds I think.  He can explain the 
problem and how he fixed it better than I can.

I'll post the updated program code and program beta for others to use and check 
out soon on my web-site.  Dennis is going to make sure that the RIP graphics 
menu component works properly when he has time. I've never used RIP graphics 
myself with LORD, or anything else, so that's a part of LordMenu I never tried 
to figure out.

> I'll try to get back to this when I get time....
> ... "The year is 2258.  The name of the place is Babylon 5."

Its so nice to see another Babylon 5 fan out there.  Did you hear that there is 
going to be a Babylon 5 movie out soon?  Only bad thing is that its going 
straight to DVD, and won't be in the movie theatres, and probably won't ever be 
on network/cable TV.

I appreciate all the time you and others, including Dennis Collins and Bjorn 
Felten, have put into analyzing the 3rdalt.txt situation for me.  

Now I need to find someone who knows how to remove registration code from the 
Castle of LORD lord igm's exe file for me.  Trevor Herndon authorized my having 
that done, but I never got around to finding someone who could do it.  I've 
searched for years now and have yet to find anyone with a registration code for 
the igm that they would let others use publicly.  It has two events, The Palace 
and Training Grounds that you can't use in the shareware version, which is the 
only one anyone appears to have.  I can fix RTE200 most of the time in LORD 
program EXE files, but hex editing to remove "IF registered" type coding is not 
something I know how to do.

Does anyone know of any BBS sysops who are still around who would have been 
registering Trevor's igms back in the 1990's before he lost his computer in 
that home burglary in the mid-90s?   Donald

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