Subj : L.O.R.D.
To   : Jason Hud
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Sun Jul 01 2007 06:31 pm

> Re: L.O.R.D.
> By: Daryl Stout to SEAN DENNIS on Fri Jun 29 2007 11:13 am
>> He used to do a deal with The BBS XChange...I think Mike Ehlert is
>> handling that now.
>> I don't know if something happened to Michael Preslar or not...he just
>> "disappeared".
>> Daryl
> i heard he died.

It would be nice to know for sure what happened to him.  And it would be nice 
to know who, if anyone, is responsible for technical support for the games.  
Most of us paid money for a legal registration of LORD, and that entitled us to 
technical support I think.  Many people want to know if the games are indeed 
abandon-ware, dead-ware, etc -- or not.  They may not express that sentiment on 
Fidonet, but it doesn't mean that it is not a question that most LORD fans are 
continually wondering about.

Part of the problem with writing to Michael Preslar directly, at least in my 
case, is that he often ignored my legitimate bug reports in the past two years 
period -- until someone else made them also.  And of course, he seemed to love 
to scream at me in email which I just got tired of.  So I pretty much gave up 
trying to communicate with him via email. And he abandoned Fidonet's BBS echoes 
like this one over a year ago, if I remember correctly.  One can look through 
the BBS-related echoes for over a year, and not once see his name under the 
FROM column heading for messages.  

Everyone wants to know whether a game they love is supported or not. That's the 
basic question people are asking.  In the past couple of weeks, its been said 
on this echo or in DoorGames echo, that he refused/refuses to give the most 
current Lord source code to Gameport. If that's indeed true, would that be 
classified as breach of contract between program author and program owner?   

If anyone knows answers to questions like these, perhaps they need to start 
giving them. Its easy enough to do the "bite donald's head off" routine for my 
asking questions like this.  Its harder to tell the truth and stand by one's 
opinions, especially when you get flamed for doing so, in my case.  But the 
truth is what we all deserve to know.

Perhaps its time for a discussion of just how many BBS programs are now 
unsupported simply because the authors gave up on them, because no one 
expressed feedback about them to the authors.  We all like to rant about one 
thing or other at times, but its been years in this echo since we had a good 
discussion about LORD that wasn't about flaming.  That is sad, isn't it?  
Donald


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