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   Message 1,046 of 1,554   
   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   
      
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