It’s time for another batch of releases from your friends at Demonic Productions!
First on the list is XQ-MineSweeper – xqtr’s Mystic Python (MPY) take on the Microsoft classic Minesweeper! I mean, who doesn’t love a little Minesweeper?! It can also be used as a bot checker if you’re a truly sick and twisted individual. As you should by now have come to expect from an xqtr Mystic mod, this release is completely and easily customizable.
Not quite done with the entertainment, xqtr also brings us Lights Out v1.0, an impressive new ANSIfied take on the classic Lights Out game. This time it’s not a Mystic mod, however, but rather an actual 16-bit FOSSIL powered door, meaning you can run it on just about anything, even that old 386 you’re currently using as a doorstop. Oh, and it includes the Pascal source code too!
Next up is a bit more of a utility – less of a standalone mod and more something you can use in your own mods. Xqtr’s URL Downloader! is a Mythic Python script that lets users download files from the web and save them in their node’s temp directory on demand, which you can probably imagine could be useful for all kinds of purposes.
Similarly, xqtr rounds out his batch of new releases with XQ-DBASE, another Mystic Python script which lets users interface with data from a SQLite3 database. While this sounds more like something you might use for your own mods, it provides users with a handy user interface for browsing, and even includes some sample databases to play with. Of course, if you want to incorporate SQLite in your own mods, this will also serve as a nice example.
Next up, esc brings us two new entries in his series of refreshed and fixed versions of classic DayDream/Linux mods/doors. The first is a fixed version of UnLZX, a little utility to handle LZX archives. The other, similarly, is DMS DIZ 2.3, an updated version of a utility for extracting DIZ descriptions from .DMS files. Both of these releases were originally by Hamlet, and both include their c source code so someone else can fix them when they break again one day. 🙂
Never done tinkering with DayDream, esc has released the first beta version of his DayDream Configuration Editor, written in Python 3. Not 100% feature complete, but already a huge time-saver for DayDream/Linux SysOps! Try it out!
Finally, esc brings us his Demonic BBS Web Uploader. This little bash script uploads locally hosted files to a temporary web host and returns the URL to the user. Handy for users who can’t or don’t want to file with transferring files the old fashioned way, and with BBS software that don’t have their own web server. This should work with just about any Linux BBS too!
Oh, speaking of our buddy esc, his sweet Amiga ASCII filled BBS Monterey (running DayDream, naturally!) is finally opened to the public again. Check it out!