Back in the early 90s, my buddy Bill Reamy wrote his first and only door
for my BBS. Like most of the code Bill ever wrote, it was awesome and
different.

Here was a platform shooter that used nothing but ANSI and stick
figures. It didn't take the world by storm, but I and many others
thought it was very cool.

Sadly, Bill has recently passed away.

For anyone interested, I've put up a webpage for Stickman as a memorial
to my friend:

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/stickman/

Included are some screens as well as instructions for installing under
Synchronet and 64-bit Windows using Dosbox-X.

There's also info for those wishing to request a branded registered
version.

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Re: Stickman Door
By: dragon to DOVE-Net.Advertisements on Sat Dec 09 2023 11:31 am

> Back in the early 90s, my buddy Bill Reamy wrote his first and only door
> For anyone interested, I've put up a webpage for Stickman as a memorial
> to my friend:

I'll take a look at this. I also ran a BBS back in the 90s - a Searchlight BBS. I loved that BBS program. Anyway, I had a friend who was going to write a program for me that was to be sort of one of those BBS hacking simulators, only our game would actually affect my BBS. For example, you could affect another user's time limit or number of files they could download or access level. I thought it would be a barrel of laughs. Unfortunately we never completed that game.

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Re: Stickman Door
By: Alonzo to dragon on Thu Dec 14 2023 07:26 am

> Re: Stickman Door
> By: dragon to DOVE-Net.Advertisements on Sat Dec 09 2023 11:31 am
>
> > Back in the early 90s, my buddy Bill Reamy wrote his first and only door
> > For anyone interested, I've put up a webpage for Stickman as a memorial
> > to my friend:
>
> I'll take a look at this. I also ran a BBS back in the 90s - a Searchlight
> BBS. I loved that BBS program. Anyway, I had a friend who was going to write
> a program for me that was to be sort of one of those BBS hacking simulators,
> only our game would actually affect my BBS. For example, you could affect
> another user's time limit or number of files they could download or access
> level. I thought it would be a barrel of laughs. Unfortunately we never
> completed that game.

i said this before but i knew a dude that ran a bbs where everyone was the sysop and each week it would get reset. it was controlled chaos.
imagine this in the height of bbs popularity with lots of callers.

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Re: Stickman Door
By: Alonzo to dragon on Thu Dec 14 2023 07:26 am

Al> I'll take a look at this. I also ran a BBS back in the 90s - a Searchlight
Al> write a program for me that was to be sort of one of those BBS hacking
Al> simulators, only our game would actually affect my BBS. For example, you
Al> could affect another user's time limit or number of files they could
Al> download or access level. I thought it would be a barrel of laughs.

Sounds like a great way to lose your entire user base.
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Re: Stickman Door
By: Hustler to Alonzo on Sun Dec 17 2023 07:42 am

> Re: Stickman Door
> By: Alonzo to dragon on Thu Dec 14 2023 07:26 am
>
> Al> I'll take a look at this. I also ran a BBS back in the 90s - a
> Al> Searchlight write a program for me that was to be sort of one of those
> Al> BBS hacking simulators, only our game would actually affect my BBS. For
> Al> example, you could affect another user's time limit or number of files
> Al> they could download or access level. I thought it would be a barrel of
> Al> laughs.
>
> Sounds like a great way to lose your entire user base.

i had a game i wrote that would disconnect people and do weird stuff.
people seemed to like it.

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-=> MRO wrote to Hustler <=-

> Al> I'll take a look at this. I also ran a BBS back in the 90s - a
> Al> Searchlight write a program for me that was to be sort of one of those
> Al> BBS hacking simulators, only our game would actually affect my BBS. For
> Al> example, you could affect another user's time limit or number of files
> Al> they could download or access level. I thought it would be a barrel of
> Al> laughs.

> Sounds like a great way to lose your entire user base.

MR> i had a game i wrote that would disconnect people and do weird
MR> stuff.

Really? What was the name of it? Where is it available to check out?

MR> people seemed to like it.

Your imaginary friends?

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Re: Stickman Door
By: MRO to Hustler on Sun Dec 17 2023 08:30 am

> i had a game i wrote that would disconnect people and do weird stuff.
> people seemed to like it.

My friends would shock themselves with my dogs electric collar. People like
weird stuff.

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Re: Stickman Door
By: Nopants to MRO on Sun Dec 17 2023 02:50 pm

> My friends would shock themselves with my dogs electric collar. People like
> weird stuff.

Did they put it on video? My friends made a video ... and one of them let the
other have the button while wearing the colar.

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> > My friends would shock themselves with my dogs electric collar.
> > People like weird stuff.
>
> Did they put it on video? My friends made a video ... and one of them
> let the other have the button while wearing the colar.

Sounds like a potential plot of a Bevis and Butthead episode... Butthead
convinces Bevis to put on the collar while he operates the button. ;)

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