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Life has a funny way of interrupting our best laid plans. Even after all these years though, there are still a bunch of wonderful people into Bulletin Boards and door games, and I find myself wanting to give a long-overdue update.

The TLDR Version

• A new automated registration system is now in place
• A new lost registration code lookup system is in development
• Work on a new, modern door library is underway
• Work on modernizing all of the software is still in progress
• Vote-O-Rama has been updated for testing thew new library
• Global War will be next focus after Vote-O-Rama

The Long Version

It's been a VERY long time since the last release and words cannot describe how unhappy I am with that fact. Over the last many years though — and as time has permitted — I have been slowly plugging away on a variety of things, trying to get to a place where there will be genuine and exciting news.

Registrations

The payment processor that I had used for many years dropping me as a client last year turned out to be a bit of a set-back, but I'm happy to report that the new automated registration system is finally finished and in place. As it is new, please let me know if you encounter any issues.

This new system processes registrations immediately and there should be no delay in delivery of registration codes. The development of it turned out to be inspirational, as it set me off to tackle a couple of related long-time challenges:

1. Cleaning up the large array of mismatched historical registration data, and
2. Dealing with lost registration codes requests

Lost and Found

I receive quite a few lost registration code requests and handling them has been hit-or-miss. Apologies to anyone who hasn't received a reply. Please contact me again and provide as much information about your original registration as you can.

The historical records of registrations for the products I became custodian of years ago was a bit of a mess. Finding old codes was a very time-consuming process of manually filtering through many different files and many records, trying to decipher a match.

Along with the new registration system, I've been slowly working on making the historical data usable, consistent, singularly located, and as reliable as possible. I'm nearing the end of that cleanup, and have begun working on creating a registration lookup tool. It won't be perfect for long-past registrations because the data is not complete, but it will be a tremendous help, and any future registration codes will be easy to locate.

Door Development

Work to update much of the software to the modern era started a long time ago and is still in progress. The task is slow and tedious due to limited time and the differences in computing since the software was written.

Part of that process involves developing a modern door library to replace the three completely different ones used across all of the software. To test the door library, I needed a simple door and chose to update Vote-O-Rama for that purpose.

Once the door library and Vote-O-Rama are tested and complete, I will be focusing on the next release of Global War.

Thank you for reading and sticking around. More to come.