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I spent a lot of late night hours 'lurking' over his tactics, because he had relentlessly went about looking for any logical bug to exploit with an added reward of smug satisfaction, aka, his entertainment. Over the next quarter century, I would be invested to listen to my father's game play improvement ideas, aka, crackpot, along with his paranoia rants on how much it was rigged against his approach to playing, aka, my entertainment. Two of my brothers also enjoyed playing on this BBS for a while, but to say my father was fanatical over it is a bit understated. The journey began with this MS-DOS version (1991 - 1992) on an IBM XT with 512k RAM and two 5-1/4вЂі floppies. My reward was taking a hard-copy listing of the Apple BASIC source code as my starting point to port it to other machines. After my patch, I uncovered other nifty, hidden surprises such as the Hero class to the sysop's delight. Sir Richard provided me with an opportunity to debug its code. I often played a Bard class: whenever in the dungeon and stumbled across a random scroll spell already in possession, the game mistakenly ADD-ed to the bit field instead of using a logical OR, which made for bad mathematical havoc to what was in my bag of tricks! He was generous to keep it free all of the time.

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The TProBBS software was run on an Apple в…Ў by Sir Richard in Coventry, Rhode Island off a dial-up 2400 baud modem. It was more of a social networking space for geeks rather than the pirated & public domain software files that were springing up. This online game goes back to 1986 from one of the first BBSes we had in our state: The Roundtable.