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    CH> For those who may not have heard or noticed, we lost a couple prominent   
    CH> door game sites earlier this year.   
      
      
    CH> * Sunrise Door Software (sunrisedoors.com)   
      
    CH> Sunrisedoors.com started reporting an Error 500 roughly sometime after May   
    CH> of this year. I reached out to Al Lawrence to ask whether he was aware,   
    CH> and he told me "Yes, I am aware that the website is down Permanently [bold   
    CH> and underlined]. Mother Nature has a way of telling you to call it quits   
    CH> !!!!" I didn't press him for details of what he meant by that, and instead   
    CH> just thanked him for his time and contributions to the BBS world, and   
    CH> wished him well.   
      
    CH> Al had been offering his doors for free (with an optional "coffee fund"   
    CH> donation) for many years, so they are often found running on many BBSes,   
    CH> sometimes in their own dedicated category. They're good games, too. Wheel   
    CH> of Fortune in particular enjoyed a high amount of play time on my board   
    CH> back in '22.   
      
    CH> It's sad to see the sun set on Sunrise. Best wishes to Al.   
      
      
    CH> * Metropolis Gameport (gameport.com)   
      
    CH> This was the "official" home of LoRD, LoRD II, Planets: TEOS, plus a bunch   
    CH> of Worldgroup addons like MajorMud. Arguably this website had already been   
    CH> dead for many years, considering the owners had been generally   
    CH> non-responsive to requests for door registrations, leading to years of   
    CH> frustration for many new sysops wishing to run legitimately registered   
    CH> LoRD games. One of its many signs of age was the fact that the   
    CH> registration page instructed purchasers to print the order form page and   
    CH> mail it in with a paper check, leading to stories of mailed payments   
    CH> (CASHED payments) with unreceived keys. Some persistent sysops did   
    CH> discover that the doors could be registered by emailing William Hughes   
    CH> directly, and often within the same day he provided keys in exchange for   
    CH> Paypal payment. Maybe that's even still the case; does anyone know?   
      
   I'm pretty sure this is still true.   
      
      
    CH> In any case, the website has been reporting a "Host error" since   
    CH> approximately September of this year. Certainly not the first time we've   
    CH> seen this happen for this site, but considering this long of a stretch,   
    CH> I'm calling it dead. Even if it comes back from the dead, it will still be   
    CH> dead to me.   
      
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