Rantings of a Lunatic

There is a pleasant surprise in my email this morning:
Package Progress
Location Date Local Time Description
AUSTIN,
TX, US 11/14/2008 6:08 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

And the expected delivery date for this is 11/19/08, and it should be at my door today…
Unfortunately I had planned on it not being here, and am heading out of town for the weekend. Oh well, it will all still be there next week, and from the look at the servers last night, its probably for the better.

So, after working late today, Kelly and I went to dinner, and as we got home, her new comp was on the doorstep. I thought it was odd, but, apparently shipping doesn’t require signatures anymore. The computer was there, so I guess leaving a box clearly labeled Dell on the side wasn’t that bad of an idea, I would never have left it there myself. Anyway, thats part one, I wasn’t expecting it until the 21st, and its Kelly’s birthday present, which would have been early then, but I guess I shouldn’t complain about quick service. Now its just a matter of waiting on the other two parts, which I preordered, so I should see them on my doorstep on the 19th. Thats next Wednesday, which means the servers should be a little calmed down by then. Tonight, our server which rarely has a queue was queued up to about a thousand users. In fact, every server I have toons on was queued up between 700 and 1800 users.

And with a swift blow, he thought he had defeated the Tyrant Devilsaur.

He had been wrong before.

So, back in the days of 286 and 1200bps external modems, I played the greatest computer games ever written. And just last night I ran across it again. I have not gotten it to play, because I apparently no longer have a copy of “Dos”. I know it should be easily resolvable through FreeDOS, but while I spent a while trying to let it install last night I don’t think it should take that long in a virtualized environment on a dual core 2.16Ghz computer. I know if I had paid more attention I didn’t need all of the networking, assembly compilers, etc. However, I wanted to play some dnd. For the record, here is the site and a mirror:

http://dnd.lunaticsworld.com/– The Main Page
http://members.tripod.com/~rancourt/– The Mirror Site

I am pretty sure that I have a floppy disk (3.5″) somewhere that has my old game and my save games/map files on it, only because my uncle was kind enough to copy it over to a disk I could use years ago from the original 5 1/4″ disks I used to play it on. Its funny that I once again am stuck with the greatest game in the world, stuck on a format that I have no capability of reading. Oh well, I am pretty sure that I can get at least on version from that page to work correctly.

By the way, if you are in one of my guilds in WoW, and you are wondering why I never play anymore, give dnd.exe a shot. It could clear your addiction in its text-based glory. Oh, and the “server” never goes down.

Edit: Here is a screenshot…. I decided I would just boot my Windows XP install. Seems like a waste of horsepower just to run a 200K DOS app, but, man is it worth it.