Re: Traveller PBM (was Re: Writing new PBeM software and need a programmer)

From: travpbm@aol.com (TravPBM)

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Here is a short summary of what I know about the game's ups and downs.

Eclipse Entertainment agreed to sell the game to me. They sent me the
software(well most of it anyway). I installed the software and started data
entry. I had to sent the disk with the data on it to Eclipse who processed it
and sent it out. This went on for 2 turns. The software was hardcoded(i think
that's the word as I am not a programmer) to only work with a HP IIIsi printer.
We tried others with similiar languages. We got the printer and started
processing turns. A few bugs but nothing major. Then, I try to get info about
the endgame. I find out that games 3 and 4 are as far along as Eclipse has
programmed the game! It was not even finished. Well, bugs start popping up
everywhere. I am working with Eclipse to solve the problem but I am getting
frustrated. Then, My harddrive crashed and I discovered that some of my backups
are corrupted. At my own expense I send my harddrive off to get the data
recovered.(about $1000) I send the info to Eclipse and tell them I am no longer
interested. The contract I sent them originally to sign had a performance
guarantee on the software. (Funny, they never signed and returned it.) Anyway,
I am out my own money recovering the data and whatever equipment I purchased.
No big deal, I treated this as a business and was prepared for this kind of
failure. Eclipse then gave the game to Ken Ditto. He tried for awhile and
encountered the same types of bugs and such that I had. After fighting it for
awhile he gave up and returned it also. That is as far as I know what happened
to the game.

Bobby Howell

References

Re: Traveller PBM (was Re: Writing new PBeM software and need a programmer)
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Traveller PBM (was Re: Writing new PBeM software and need a programmer)
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000