Trying to find Forbidden Lands 3 (Book III): The Islands of Dawn

[blixel]

This newsgroup is understandably inactive, so this is a long shot at best. But I'm hoping to find a copy of Forbidden Lands 3 for the Major BBS. I have Forbidden Lands 1: The City of Falchon, and Forbidden Lands 2: The Vale of Grimyre, so I would really like to find part 3 to round out my collection.

If you're not familiar with Forbidden Lands and want to see it, I made a package a couple of years ago that can be ran under DOSBOX. (I assume it would work just as well under VirtualBox, VMware, and so on, but I've only tested it under DOSBOX personally.)

I put this package on megaupload, but it's gone now of course.

http://db.tt/wkqEKWEQ

If anyone has Forbidden Lands 3, please contact me!

[a***@gmail.com]

Did you ever find a copy? Please let me know, I miss playing it.

Post by blixel
This newsgroup is understandably inactive, so this is a long shot at best. But I'm hoping to find a copy of Forbidden Lands 3 for the Major BBS. I have Forbidden Lands 1: The City of Falchon, and Forbidden Lands 2: The Vale of Grimyre, so I would really like to find part 3 to round out my collection.
If you're not familiar with Forbidden Lands and want to see it, I made a package a couple of years ago that can be ran under DOSBOX. (I assume it would work just as well under VirtualBox, VMware, and so on, but I've only tested it under DOSBOX personally.)
I put this package on megaupload, but it's gone now of course.
http://db.tt/wkqEKWEQ
If anyone has Forbidden Lands 3, please contact me!

[a***@gmail.com]

I just wanted to add that a few years ago I did find a torrent with every damn MajorMUD game I can remember. It did have FL1, FL2 and FL3. I never played FL1 so I played FL2 and FL3, MajorMUD (an old release) and Tele-Arena. I later nuked the file, stupid me.

It WAS on that one torrent. Just not sure where the hell it is these days, cant find it on any oft he torrents I find online available. They dont ahve FL3.

Post by a***@gmail.com
Did you ever find a copy? Please let me know, I miss playing it.

Post by blixel
This newsgroup is understandably inactive, so this is a long shot at best. But I'm hoping to find a copy of Forbidden Lands 3 for the Major BBS. I have Forbidden Lands 1: The City of Falchon, and Forbidden Lands 2: The Vale of Grimyre, so I would really like to find part 3 to round out my collection.
If you're not familiar with Forbidden Lands and want to see it, I made a package a couple of years ago that can be ran under DOSBOX. (I assume it would work just as well under VirtualBox, VMware, and so on, but I've only tested it under DOSBOX personally.)
I put this package on megaupload, but it's gone now of course.
http://db.tt/wkqEKWEQ
If anyone has Forbidden Lands 3, please contact me!

[blixel]

Post by a***@gmail.com
Did you ever find a copy? Please let me know, I miss playing it.

No. Hopefully Forbidden Lands 3 will get unearthed some day.

[a***@gmail.com]

I'm still holding out hope, so many years later :)

[m***@gmail.com]

Post by a***@gmail.com
I'm still holding out hope, so many years later :)

You may not have to hold out too much longer...

To begin, copy the contents of the diskette to the development directory of
your hard drive (usually \tc\include). Type "grim" and the following
files will be be extracted:

grim.c
grimcomm.c
grimmap.c
grimrout.c
grimitms.c
grimhapp.c
grimmons.c
grimcomb.c
grimcom1.c
grimutl.c
grimzap.c
grimmine.c
grimtime.c

grim.h
grimzap.h

grimtxt.msg
grimrms.msg
grimcfg.msg...(configuration variables...level 2)

grim.rms
makegrim.bat..(protected mode batch file)
grimplyr.dat
linkgrim.fil
grim.doc......(this file)
vspells.doc...(an explanation of Spells, to be attached to a SIG message.)

[a***@gmail.com]

What diskette?

[m***@gmail.com]

Post by a***@gmail.com
What diskette?

Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

[a***@gmail.com]

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Post by a***@gmail.com
What diskette?

Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

[m***@gmail.com]

It will be awhile before anything like that happens. Zips may not be of stock unmodified code. Multiple versions are there, but it might just be different revisions from the developer. The previous owner was into making changes, but didn't document or specifically backup the originals. But rest assured they do exist.

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Post by a***@gmail.com
What diskette?

Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

[m***@gmail.com]

Looks like the demo versions I had from got cracked. They are unmodified as far as gameplay and a fairly later version of the games. Bugs and all. BJS uploaded them to major.butt.care. I wish I could somehow diff the source and the dll to see what may have been modified.

Post by m***@gmail.com
It will be awhile before anything like that happens. Zips may not be of stock unmodified code. Multiple versions are there, but it might just be different revisions from the developer. The previous owner was into making changes, but didn't document or specifically backup the originals. But rest assured they do exist.

Post by a***@gmail.com

Post by m***@gmail.com

Post by a***@gmail.com
What diskette?

Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

[m***@gmail.com]

I just realized the source I'm looking at is fl2 not fl3. The sysop who bought it told me to look for the wrong name. I have to see if the fl3 source is even available in this archive. At least the binaries I got from a different sysop have been cracked.

Post by m***@gmail.com
Looks like the demo versions I had from got cracked. They are unmodified as far as gameplay and a fairly later version of the games. Bugs and all. BJS uploaded them to major.butt.care. I wish I could somehow diff the source and the dll to see what may have been modified.

Post by m***@gmail.com
It will be awhile before anything like that happens. Zips may not be of stock unmodified code. Multiple versions are there, but it might just be different revisions from the developer. The previous owner was into making changes, but didn't document or specifically backup the originals. But rest assured they do exist.

Post by a***@gmail.com

Post by m***@gmail.com

Post by a***@gmail.com
What diskette?

Unfortunately no diskette's have been located just old zips of files. Diskettes are most likely long gone. Need to examine it. Might not be 100% original, but should be nearly the same as stock.

Cool, well if you happen to have the zips of the disks, i'd hack away at it and try to make it work on my MBBS install on my PC. Thx

[a***@gmail.com]

I found it. Now I have to get MBBS running again. A real PITA since it wont work on Win10 x64 anymore, so time to VM. Anyhow here it is:

https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS

[blixel]

Post by a***@gmail.com
https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS

Yeah, these were found, cracked, and made available on major.butt.care about 16 months ago. Unfortunately there was no source code - and the default timings of FL3 are set such that the game is unbearably slow to the point of being totally unplayable in my opinion.

Hopefully someone will release the source code so this game can be enjoyed.

[Mike K]

Can someone point the cracked files instead of the executable? I am using the emulator...
I can dig into getting DOSBox and whatnot up and running again but it'd be easier if someone already has the post-cracked version

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Post by a***@gmail.com
https://akira.voidbbs.com/MBBSMODS

Yeah, these were found, cracked, and made available on major.butt.care about 16 months ago. Unfortunately there was no source code - and the default timings of FL3 are set such that the game is unbearably slow to the point of being totally unplayable in my opinion.
Hopefully someone will release the source code so this game can be enjoyed.

[blixel]

Post by Mike K
Can someone point the cracked files instead of the executable? I am using the emulator...
I can dig into getting DOSBox and whatnot up and running again but it'd be easier if someone already has the post-cracked version

Agreed. I went through the steps in a VM and kept a copy just for this reason, so here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LaGwHi9G2xO_4JLSrngU_huZkFZMTZgn/view?usp=sharing