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   TID: SBBSecho 3.23-Win32 master/6d7f85680 Nov 18 2024 22:10 MSC 1916   
   BBSID: CONCHAOS   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
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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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