Demonic (frequently stylized as “Demonic Productions”) was an underground BBS modding and coding group founded in late 1996 and remaining semi-active until around 2006. In BBS terms, modding describes making modifications to BBS software (or an individual BBS setup) in order to customize its appearance and/or functionality. The modding scene consisted of SysOps, programmers, and… Read More »
I’m publicly releasing version 1.2.0 of my REFDoor REF scripting engine door today! This release contains all kinds of bug fixes, some new commands, and a slew of behind the scenes optimizations and improvements including changes which should greatly improve REFDoor’s performance when running on retro hardware. The most notable under the hood change is… Read More »
I had several sources of inspiration when working on Darkness 2.0’s simple “DRS” scripting language, from some specific dialects of BASIC to good old MS-DOS Batch. In the end, it most closely resembles a combination of the Exitilus Quest Scripting language (EQS) and RTSoft‘s “REF” scripting language. Syntax aside, REF was definitely the bigger influence… Read More »