I was wasting some time at work Friday, reading the news at slashdot.The article on Tradewars, an old BBS door game, being rewritten to run on the web brought back a lot of memories.And an overwhelming need to play LORD and Usurper again.Luckily there are still plenty of people out there running BBSs - BBSs you can telnet to.After trying 4 different Telnet clients, I finally found one that displayed ANSI art properly.Then I set to “dialing” about 40 different BBSs. After numerous disappointments, I found a total of 2 boards that had a decent selections of working door games.I was shocked to find out that some of these boards still insist on call back verification.Even though I always closed the window when I was warned about a call back, I think someone still tried to contact me this afternoon when I was taking a nap……Anyway, I found 2 BBSs that I will continue going back to: Darklands BBS and Telery.Both have a large number of people playing LORD and Usurper - Telery is even running 2 different games of Usurper, a must since you have a good chance of dying within 3 minutes no matter how powerful you are.I highly recommend logging on and giving them a try, both games remain highly playable (and addictive).Look for Booska (or Chamegon in game 2 of Usurper at Telery) on both boards - maybe we can team up and r0><0r one of the Usurper games.
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I was wasting some time at work Friday, reading the news at slashdot.The article on Tradewars, an old BBS door game, being rewritten to run on the web brought back a lot of memories.And an overwhelming need to play LORD and Usurper again.Luckily there are still plenty of people out there running BBSs - BBSs you can telnet to.After trying 4 different Telnet clients, I finally found one that displayed ANSI art properly.Then I set to “dialing” about 40 different BBSs. After numerous disappointments, I found a total of 2 boards that had a decent selections of working door games.I was shocked to find out that some of these boards still insist on call back verification.Even though I always closed the window when I was warned about a call back, I think someone still tried to contact me this afternoon when I was taking a nap……Anyway, I found 2 BBSs that I will continue going back to: Darklands BBS and Telery.Both have a large number of people playing LORD and Usurper - Telery is even running 2 different games of Usurper, a must since you have a good chance of dying within 3 minutes no matter how powerful you are.I highly recommend logging on and giving them a try, both games remain highly playable (and addictive).Look for Booska (or Chamegon in game 2 of Usurper at Telery) on both boards - maybe we can team up and r0><0r one of the Usurper games.