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  • Re: Trying to find Forbidden Lands 3 (Book III): The Islands of Dawn

    From aaronmgray@aaronmgray@gmail.com to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Wed Feb 13 13:35:07 2019
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    What diskette?
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  • From monte.jeu@monte.jeu@gmail.com to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Wed Feb 13 13:39:14 2019
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    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    What diskette?

    Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.
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  • From monte.jeu@monte.jeu@gmail.com to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Wed Feb 13 21:49:08 2019
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    I just realized the source I'm looking at is fl2 not fl3. The sysop who bought it told me to look for the wrong name. I have to see if the fl3 source is even available in this archive. At least the binaries I got from a different sysop have been cracked.
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 9:33:18 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    Looks like the demo versions I had from got cracked. They are unmodified as far as gameplay and a fairly later version of the games. Bugs and all. BJS uploaded them to major.butt.care. I wish I could somehow diff the source and the dll to see what may have been modified.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 3:03:08 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    It will be awhile before anything like that happens. Zips may not be of stock unmodified code. Multiple versions are there, but it might just be different revisions from the developer. The previous owner was into making changes, but didn't document or specifically backup the originals. But rest assured they do exist.

    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:40:14 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:39:15 PM UTC-8, mont...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    What diskette?

    Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

    Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx
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  • From aaronmgray@aaronmgray@gmail.com to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Fri Jul 10 10:33:33 2020
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    I found it. Now I have to get MBBS running again. A real PITA since it wont work on Win10 x64 anymore, so time to VM. Anyhow here it is:

    https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS
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  • From blixel@blixel@gmail.com to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Sat Jul 11 06:49:31 2020
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    On Friday, July 10, 2020 at 1:33:33 PM UTC-4, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    I found it. Now I have to get MBBS running again. A real PITA since it wont work on Win10 x64 anymore, so time to VM. Anyhow here it is:

    https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS
    Yeah, these were found, cracked, and made available on major.butt.care about 16 months ago. Unfortunately there was no source code - and the default timings of FL3 are set such that the game is unbearably slow to the point of being totally unplayable in my opinion.
    Hopefully someone will release the source code so this game can be enjoyed.
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  • From Mike K@simplyinzanity@gmail.com to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Tue Dec 22 09:17:14 2020
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    Can someone point the cracked files instead of the executable? I am using the emulator...
    I can dig into getting DOSBox and whatnot up and running again but it'd be easier if someone already has the post-cracked version
    On Saturday, July 11, 2020 at 9:49:31 AM UTC-4, blixel wrote:
    On Friday, July 10, 2020 at 1:33:33 PM UTC-4, aaron...@gmail.com wrote:
    I found it. Now I have to get MBBS running again. A real PITA since it wont work on Win10 x64 anymore, so time to VM. Anyhow here it is:

    https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS
    Yeah, these were found, cracked, and made available on major.butt.care about 16 months ago. Unfortunately there was no source code - and the default timings of FL3 are set such that the game is unbearably slow to the point of being totally unplayable in my opinion.

    Hopefully someone will release the source code so this game can be enjoyed.
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  • From blixel@blixel@gmail.com to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Wed Dec 23 06:23:51 2020
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    On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:17:15 PM UTC-5, Mike K wrote:
    Can someone point the cracked files instead of the executable? I am using the emulator...
    I can dig into getting DOSBox and whatnot up and running again but it'd be easier if someone already has the post-cracked version

    Agreed. I went through the steps in a VM and kept a copy just for this reason, so here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LaGwHi9G2xO_4JLSrngU_huZkFZMTZgn/view?usp=sharing
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