Wow, I actually got a piece of mail today. =) It concerns what's been going on at Rippers: From: Wade Massey Rippers has been tarnished yes. The old TW moderators have all been bannes from Rippers. We have a new game. Just re-banged about a week ago. There is only one person with access to the setup at this time. Please recognize the change on your site. It would be very much appriciated While it's nice to see a good effort from them, I don't forsee Rippers leaving the Hall of Shame anytime soon. But they do have my wishes that their past incident doesn't happen again. ATTAC Not dead Looks like TWAR isn't the only news for today. Taken from Hekate's Website: Nik and Earth will still be involved with [ATTAC] As part of the development team, but "Mr. X" will assume all project management duties and the role of technical lead. As a first step in the process, "Mr. X" will be looking over the code to see what can be retained, but he is looking towards at least a very significant re-write. For the whole story, visit Hekate's site. Zathras finds how to get Best Port Pairs working. Zarathos has found a way to get the Best Port Pairs finder in TWAR for Windows working properly. From Zarathos: It appears that Best Port Pairs requires IDBAT32.DLL file to run properly. This is part of the Borland installation files. Copy ... 'IDBAT32.DLL' to one of the following subdirectories: 1 - c:Program FilesBorlandCommon FilesBde 2 - c:Program FilesTWAR for Windows 3 - C:WindowsSystem 4 - C:Windows Again, you need to put IDBAT32.DLL in only ONE directory! (Your best bet is probably your Home directory for TWAR) Thanks Zarathos! Get IDBAT32.DLL Alternate site

Changes: - Fixed MBBS Evil scripts. Some differences between Gold & MBBS were causing some scripts to fail. The "Q" after a transport needed the Carriage return. Thanks out to Hekate for her assistance. - Ripped out Trigger handling routines and re-wrote to solve the "Out of Trigger Slots" error. All triggers are destroyed after any Script ends and re-initialized for the next Script. - Found I/O Error #103 bug. A Queue in the SectorDistance Finder was set for a maximum of 3000. Way too small for a 20,000 Sector CIM. - Using the Chat window in MBBS will now send the message immediately when "Send" button is hit while not running a script. Before the Chat windows was only working while scripts were running in MBBS mode. - Added a check to see if the Best port file is open before Best Port reports and using the Navigator button. Some people are getting errors on "Closed Table". - Added a Busted Port List to the Evil Menu. - Added a Save Size/Position to each of the forms and dialogs in TWAR. Sizes and positions are now saved. - Fixed Zero map to use the "^" when in Gold. CIM can be run from anywhere now. - Fixed the "List out of Bounds" error with Bookmarks. It was caused after "Reset Game" creating an Empty List. - Fixed a bug that created an endless loop if Sectors set to 5000 and you read a sector greater than 5000 if you were in a 20,000 sector game. - Did some Socket house keeping to close a socket before connecting to a new game. John Pritchett noticed Sockets were left open when leaving a Game using TWAR. - Fix for Incoming Global messages on MBBS. - Fixed the "robbed" indicator in the CIM database to display when port was last robbed. It was saving Robbed status as "Visited". Noticed by Hekate. - Added an "Online" indicator on status bar. Temporary for now. It will eventually display time that you are online and the Wormhole will spin when online, stop when offline. - Fixed up the Tab control for Evil Custom dialog. - Added Quick Trade if you are moving and at the "Stop at This Sector" prompt.

Revision D is out. Get it! What's new: - ONLINE Ordering is finally up. - Quantity bug is now fixed. - Fixed the Alias for Best Port Reports. - TAPI Modem Setup problems for Local BBSes. - The Screen Maximize settings are now working. - Tw2002 Version 3.08 and up will now access CIM via the "^" character instead of the older Computer Prompt CIM Access. - Gold Users can access CIM from any point in the Game now. - Resource mover wouldn't allow planets over 1000 and Sectors larger than 20,000. It is now fixed.

Hekate has put up a list of TWAR mirror sites. I would suggest going to any of those sites instead of the twar site for a faster download. (Since TW2002 is located in Texas, there's no point of me putting up a mirror since I live only a few hours from there.) Alien AI and Ship Export/Import not in v3.09 Looks like the Alien AI modules and Ship Import/Export utilites that were slated for v3.09 of TradeWars Door is delayed until v3.10. John Pritchett has said, "I have been focusing on getting a nearly flawless v3.09 out the door and have put [Import/Export] and the AI module dev kit on hold until v3.10"

TWAR for Windows is out now! Go Get it! *NOTE* If you have TwarWin100A.zip, you'll need to download the link above (Revision C) since it doesn't install correctly. I will have an alternate server from which to download TWAR for you people living in the southern US tommorrow. Hall of Shame Updated Unfortunatelly, there's been a new inductee into the Hall of Shame. I've also re-done the layout of HOS to a more palatable format. Tell me what you think!

First, the Real News: Home Sector relocates The Home sector has relocated to Pir8.net, update your bookmarks! Pir8.net Reset Pir8.net has reset. Nuff said. Tips.bbs Weasel has posted some information on why tipsbbs has gone down and what's in store for the future. Go Read it. TWAR released tommorrow TWAR for Windows has a tentatively set release date for tommorrow. So get your credit cards ready. I'll try to set up a mirror when it comes out. Now, the fake news: April fools comes six months early! I originally wanted to post these Thursday, but my C++ Compiler and my car had other plans. I therefore submit to you, these parodies: Nik to Sue Himself In breaking news today, Nik has announced that he will be suing himself. "I caught myself saying, 'Attac suxs,' and if anyone should be suing this person, it should be me." Will Smith, Nik's lawyer, has said to TWWU that, "This is a remarkable case that I think that has the potential of creating new paradigms in how law is done." With the expected money Nik is expecting to make with this case, he's told us that he's already making plans to port ATTAC to Machine Language. "I plan to forgo the limitations of Visual Basic, and intend to port ATTAC straight to Machine Language. This should cut the size of ATTAC from 7 Megs to 6, and is going to be made a reality by this impending lawsuit." Human Population to evolve before TWE's release Recent studies have given an interesting turn to TWEnhancer's development. The studies states that the Human population will evolve to a higher state of being before TWEnhancer will be released. "Even though humans will be living in a state of pure energy, I will still try to release TWEnhancer in case any would be aliens ever find out about Tradewars and need a good helper. That way, those Aliens would elevate me to god status, and then I'd make $$$ for the registrations." said Saluki. Saluki Enterprises is an invester in TWWU. Nik's 2002 Web Heaven Blasted.... Literally Late last night, Nik's 2002 Web Heaven's server was blasted by a Nuclear Missle. Fortunatelly, Both Nik and Earth had left 1 hour prior to the Missle's impact. The IP header retrieved on the Missle points to a band of Gypsies living in the country of Azi, located in North America. Ricardo Gin, the leader of Azi, has said, "This is absurd that we're being pointed to for this Attac. If we sent out this missle, it obviously would have been while Nik would have been AT the site! Think about it people!" Further investigations are being planned.

The Home Sector has just found a new way to get turbocom working under Win98. Also, HS will be moving to Pir8.net very shortly. TWAR BBS database Doug Underwood is trying to compile a list of BBSs that will show up on the dialing (telnet) directory when first installing the helper. If your interesting in getting your BBS in this, mail Doug Underwood NOW! Also, Doug has said that he won't be including "Message Log Posting" advertisements in the Windows version! Go Doug! 2 days to TWAR! Just wanted to remind you, only 2 days to October 2nd weekend, the weekend TWAR will be released! I won't have easy access to a computer this weekend, but I'll try to notify on here when it's released.

The date has been set for Outlaw's first game. It will be up on Friday, September 25 at 6:30 pm CST. telnet to outlaw.flash.net to set up your account now!

I got to talk to Saluki/Destroyer a bit about TWEnhancer's schedule, "Actually, Saturday and Sunday are really the only days I have a lot of time to work on it.. So, after trial error and fixxes, I cant report a whole lotta change.. but every little bit makes it closer to release..." More info linking Hacker to Nik In another post, Saluki did a little homework to get more info on the origins of where Hacker's post came from. As he said, "Make your own judgement." I should be getting a threatening letter from Nik about... Now.

In a recent Post, Hacker accused The War Room of being a fraud. However, Hekate has said that, "Everything said there I heard from Nik ... Nik gave me all that info before I read any post (day or 2 before)" While Hacker's IP doesn't match Nik's, something fishy is definatelly going on.