Legend of the Red... I mean, Green, Dragon

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 12:04 pm

OK, long story short: some genius figured out how to effectively port the game "Legend of the Red Dragon" to Unix. And the web.

I have this code.

It needs to access a MySQL database, which my hosting company gives me (this BBS uses it). Therein lies a question befitting of a rank amateur:

If I go and install this thing, the MySQL code can't overwrite anything that the BBS uses, can it? I presume what happens is that this game is going to section off its own area and then create all the tables it wants from there. But geez, I don't know how easy it is to mess something up and ruin everything.

Links can be provided if that'll help.

(Tradewars also seems to be available but I don't know if enough people come here to make that a worthwhile venture.)

loafergirl · Post by **loafergirl** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 2:41 pm

LORD er um LOGD LOGD LOGD!!!! =)

Molly Muffsweet · Post by **Molly Muffsweet** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 6:04 pm

...I have no idea what you're trying to say here, Jonsey. I think it involves cutting your hair and swearing on the grave of your dead best friend, but I could be wrong. Try thinking the post through, slow down a bit when you write it, and start over.

Only the Sweetest,

Molly Muffsweet

Base Monitor · Post by **Base Monitor** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 6:12 pm

MOLLY IS PRETTY VILE.

n/t

Mercator · Post by **Mercator** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:07 pm

I installed LOGD on my test site which is running a CMS using PHP and a MySQL db. It creates its own tables and it didn't interfere at all with any of the CMS tables. Regardless of that, I had a hard time getting the script installed correctly; I'd get weirdness like it not allowing me to log in (i.e., it kept dumping me back at the log in screen), but then sometimes it would let me in. Random intermittent crap like that.

However, if you can get it setup correctly, I think it'd be a great addition to JC. The TW..are you talking about Black Nova Traders, or a port of the old BBS TradeWars game?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 1:25 am

Mercator wrote:I installed LOGD on my test site which is running a CMS using PHP and a MySQL db. It creates its own tables and it didn't interfere at all with any of the CMS tables. Regardless of that, I had a hard time getting the script installed correctly; I'd get weirdness like it not allowing me to log in (i.e., it kept dumping me back at the log in screen), but then sometimes it would let me in. Random intermittent crap like that.

Hmm... that could be problematic. I am going to be very unfair to free software for a moment: sometimes having key features missing doesn't always seem to be the biggest of deals when it comes to uploading a version to Sourcesafe. The benefits obviously outweigh that downside, but I appreciate you giving me a heads-up there.

I was pretty sure that the MySQL portions of it would behave nicely, but I really have a lot of experience to make up before I go casually installing things.

However, if you can get it setup correctly, I think it'd be a great addition to JC. The TW..are you talking about Black Nova Traders, or a port of the old BBS TradeWars game?

I thought that it was a BBS port of Tradewars.... lemme check.

... OK, yeah, it looks like Tradewars can be done, but it requires people to connect via Telnet.

Upon further research, it appears that when it comes to the Legend of the Red Dragon:

1) For $15 we can be playing LORD. Albeit through telnet.
2) For $0 we can be playing LOGD. Through the web.

The money doesn't matter to me. I just want whatever is more fun to be available. I'll attempt to get LOGD up and we'll see how it goes. If it's missing a lot of the "magic" of LORD, then we'll scrap it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 1:37 am

OK, for the interested I'll detail exactly what I'm doing in terms of getting LOGD running...

First step: MySQL entries:

MySQL Setup:
Setup should be pretty straightforward, create the database, create
an account to access the database on behalf of the site; this account
should have at least "Select Table Data", "Insert Table Data",
"Update Table Data", "Delete Table Data", I'm not sure about
"Reference Operations", and "Manage indexes", I run them on my server
but they may not be necessary. It should be safe to run with full
permissions.

After you have the database created, run all the sql scripts in the
logd-0.9.x-sql.tar.gz archive to create your database.

OK. Off to figure out what that means.

Molly Muffsweet · Post by **Molly Muffsweet** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 7:32 am

Base Monitor wrote:MOLLY IS PRETTY VILE.

n/t

Whoa. I...I don't know what to say. I...I...

Only the Sweetest,

Molly Muffsweet