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   Message 1,047 of 1,554   
   Tim Whitson to Alexander Grotewohl   
   Re: DBOLCLIP   
   19 Jun 23 17:51:45   
   
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   MSGID: 499.fidonet_doorgame@1:105/500 28f63014   
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   PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928   
   COLS: 80   
   BBSID: FQBBS   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
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     Re: Re: DBOLCLIP   
     By: Alexander Grotewohl to Jas Hud on Mon Jun 19 2023 05:04 pm   
      
    > On 19 Jun 2023, Jas Hud said the following...   
    >    
    >  JH>  > I recently installed a door game called Charlie's Baseball by Charle   
    >  JH>  > Crawford. The game is free, however it uses a program called DBOLCLI   
    >  JH>  > for game file management.  This program requires registering.  It ha   
    >  JH>  > copyright of 1993 by Merlin Systems Inc.  Or maybe even DBONLINE, th   
    >  JH>  > not sure.  Anyone know of a way to register this program?   
    >    
    >  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 the   
    > pull with their accounting system.. and this guy made a baseball game out of   
    > 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..    
    > took steps to prevent running into the database limitation so even with a   
    > registered version of the "parent" door, it would still limit itself   
      
   The game actually runs all nine innings.  It's rather different, but it works   
   with the patch.  The problem I have is when you get to the end a screen pops   
   up stating the DBONLINE is not registered and it quits and hangs up the BBS so   
   you have to ALT-H out.  I can do without the game but it'd be nice to still   
   have it.   
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