Re: Episode 8: The Terminator Returns
By: Kirkman to Digital Man on Fri Oct 23 2015 09:27 pm
> Re: Episode 8: The Terminator Returns
> By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Fri Oct 23 2015 04:00 pm
>
> DM> I'm using dokuwiki for wiki.synchro.net and it has an external
> DM> authentication feature which I'm using (with Deuce's PHP help) to allow
> DM> any Vertrauen user to login and edit the wiki, no additional
> DM> registration necessary. If you wanted to switch to dokuwiki, you could
> DM> do the same, but I'm not sure your Synchronet BBS is actually open to
> DM> the public. And switching from your current wiki engine might be a
> DM> pain.
>
> I've been using MediaWiki, mostly because it's the same software that WP
> runs, and so it's well-supported, and I could easily fork articles and
> content from WP onto my site.
>
> But I'll definitely check out dokuwiki. I've been finding my MW install very
> slow lately, and despite my best efforts, it's not running any faster.
>
> As far as the BBS, to this point it has been private, but I may be opening
> it up soon, and it would be cool if users on my board could edit the wiki
> without needing a separate account.
If you choose to try DokuWiki with Sychronet, here's the auth plugin for sbbs:
ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/dokuauth.zip
> DM> Yeah, I saw your post in the Synchronet BBS group on Facebook with the
> DM> video. It's impressive (the best *looking* ANSI game/demo I recall ever
> DM> seeing) and I look (very much) forward to seeing the actual game.
>
> Yeah, this new demo is based on the same code I used to make the "girl in
> the forest" parallax demo I posted on FB. The new one features art by
> Whazzit of Blocktronics/Mistigris, and is more polished, and will be in the
> next Mistigris artpack.
>
> I'm hoping that my daughter and I can make something playable from my
> 'tileset' code. But I'm still busy drawing/adapting RPG tiles into ANSI, and
> haven't done enough code work on the actual game.
Looking forward to it. I thought the demo you put on FB looked like > 16
colors, but I guess just the extra cells of a 132x60 terminal helped to create
that effect. Very Zelda-esque, imho. Keep it up!
digital man
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