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The game server is still around but its hard to find any time to move it forward.  The game is actually much larger than I remembered and it was taking a long time to convert everything and make it "safe" for multiple players at once.  In the end I focused a bit on trying to make the old game more playable on modern servers, but even that is a bit daunting.

I'm currently working towards putting the original game back up where you can play using just a modern browser.  It's kind of funny that it took this long for browsers to catch up to what we had implicitly in the modem days.

Ok cool. 

place is kind of a ghost town right now.  While it's been running for 8 months I never told anyone about it.   About to officially open it in a week or so... just tweaking things like some of the menu,s adding games and adding a facebook app to access it.

There's also a Tradewars Game Server running there as well.  ( tradewars.fleethq.org for direct telnet).

I wonder if there's been any further dev on the Overkill game server?  Saw posts about it but nothing in years.  Would be spiffy to run that.

--Chris

I was able to log in tonight.

Did it not let you in at all?  You definitely connected, that 'resolving hostname' bit was my server trying to do a reverse dns resolution on you.  It should just timeout after a few seconds and let you in.  Were there any other error messages or did it disconnect?

I'll look to see if there is a config setting that requires reverse DNS to be working ... tho 99times out of 100 the ISP's at least have generic rev-dns setup, so it's pretty rare to find an IP that doesn't reverse resolve.


edited:  just checked the logs... see you came in, took my stuff 6 sec to do a reverse resolve (not great) but it worked... then a couple min later it saw a disconnect.  Strange.  I'm assuming you tried hitting enter or something during that time?  I wonder if it was having trouble displaying the entry screen.  I'll poke around a bit and see if I can figure out what's up...  I use Syncterm to connect and play overkill... wonder if the overkill term has issues with my ansi login page?

--Chris

I tried connecting to bbs.fleethq.org and it said that it connected on port 23 but it couldn't resolve the hostname.

>> Connecting to bbs.fleethq.org on port 23 ... Connected.

Synchronet BBS for Linux Version 3.16
Connection from: 129.42.161.36
Resolving hostname...

I was using Overkill Term -- V1.20 (Win32) [Build 0016]

I've finally got my old BBS back online...  Started working on bringing it back to life last summer but got tied up with 'real life' for a while. 

Just about ready to open it to the public again... but if anyone wants to get some 'overkill fix' feel free to hit it up now.  Have 3 games configured now using Vidland, NightOwl and Paradox with varying config options between them to keep it interesting. 

bbs.fleethq.org  (runs Synchronet, available via telnet or ssh, or hit it with HTTP and you can use flashtelnet)


Tarix: if you need hosting let me know.  I can give you a whole VMWare VM for this stuff if you want or a VPS slice if you don't need much in the way of resources.

--Chris

The forum is accepting new members again.  The captcha is pretty complicated so I hope it keeps the bots out!

Haha.  Thanks a lot!

I won't be doing that again!

The first thing that needs to be done is I need to move this to a new host, spam protect it, and update it.

I hope you get it going!  I always come back here and I'm always glad it's here to come back to.

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