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Skriven 2024-12-05 09:36:29 av Craig Hendricks (743.fidonet_doorgame)
Ärende: Lost a couple door game websites this year
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For those who may not have heard or noticed, we lost a couple prominent door
game sites earlier this year.


* Sunrise Door Software (sunrisedoors.com)

Sunrisedoors.com started reporting an Error 500 roughly sometime after May of
this year. I reached out to Al Lawrence to ask whether he was aware, and he
told me "Yes, I am aware that the website is down Permanently [bold and
underlined]. Mother Nature has a way of telling you to call it quits !!!!" I
didn't press him for details of what he meant by that, and instead just thanked
him for his time and contributions to the BBS world, and wished him well.

Al had been offering his doors for free (with an optional "coffee fund"
donation) for many years, so they are often found running on many BBSes,
sometimes in their own dedicated category. They're good games, too. Wheel of
Fortune in particular enjoyed a high amount of play time on my board back in
'22.

It's sad to see the sun set on Sunrise. Best wishes to Al.


* Metropolis Gameport (gameport.com)

This was the "official" home of LoRD, LoRD II, Planets: TEOS, plus a bunch of
Worldgroup addons like MajorMud. Arguably this website had already been dead
for many years, considering the owners had been generally non-responsive to
requests for door registrations, leading to years of frustration for many new
sysops wishing to run legitimately registered LoRD games. One of its many signs
of age was the fact that the registration page instructed purchasers to print
the order form page and mail it in with a paper check, leading to stories of
mailed payments (CASHED payments) with unreceived keys. Some persistent sysops
did discover that the doors could be registered by emailing William Hughes
directly, and often within the same day he provided keys in exchange for Paypal
payment. Maybe that's even still the case; does anyone know?

In any case, the website has been reporting a "Host error" since approximately
September of this year. Certainly not the first time we've seen this happen for
this site, but considering this long of a stretch, I'm calling it dead. Even if
it comes back from the dead, it will still be dead to me.

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