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My first serious game I made, 8 years ago... yes Eight years ago.

I've made games before that but they were mainly text based games. and at the time I made this I was into Magic the Gathering (i'll admit that). I was also a broke college student so I never wanted to spend money on the cards so I came up with this Card RPG simulation during the summer of 2001 and continued to work on it for a few years until I abandoned programming. I was never any good at it anyway.

As I started to drift more towards art. I abandoned this program more and more. I also lost my window of opportunity to make it a viable project as the only other game like it was Wizard's own MTG PSX games. I don't even think YuGiOh was mainstream back them.

Anyway I came across the file as I was cleaning out my server.
version 1.2 was the latest stable version I made public.

I just tested it on Vista and although I had to jump through some hoops, I got it to work. The game is windows only.

heres the link to the program (14mb)
http://www.pixoasis.net/downloads/TLDHBETA12.zip
make sure you read the readme.txt

here are the instructions for the game. The game is hard to understand without reading the instructions (try playing mtg without reading the instructions)
http://www.pixoasis.net/downloads/tldhinstructs.htm

You may also need vb5 runtime files like I did (which is strange because I thought I used vb6) anyway here is a link
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb50pro/utility/1/win98/en-us/msvbvm50.exe

Oh yea one more thing, I couldn't draw when I made this program so enjoy my 8 year old programmer art.
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downloading...

bug #1 -- if you double-click in the card listbox off a card it will crash with an index out of range error. you should always test the index before trying to access a list item.

I'll let you know what else I come across.

I'd like to note that I'm running this under Wine in Ubuntu Linux.

I installed the vbrun50 dll in wine using the link you gave, and then ran your setup program, and installed the game in wine.
I then ran the game from the terminal using wine.

It works. so far.

so..yeah..back to trying to build a deck so I can see more game than crashes XD ..this is the fifth time I've tried to build a deck


*edit*

Okay, I've been playing ever since my last post..and I'm unable to place a second summon card on the field O_o...

I _do_ really like where you were going with this game.
I'd like to see it revived and made cross platform via GTK+ or wxWidgets :)
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[mixzed]

Thanks for taking the time to look at it, it's appreciated

wow the game actually ran in linux? I've never used linux before is it normal for windows programs to run under linux?

the game itself has alot esoteric rules for placing cards down, I don't remember all of them.

I'd like to see it revived also but it's a pipe dream as far as I'm concerned I would have to redo the card graphics and that alone would take too much effort, and I don't really have the heart for it. I'm sure there are far better games that do the same thing out now.

thanks for the feedback.
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It hooks into an application's system calls and supports certain routines that can be equivalently run in Linux. (MDI for instance cannot be run equivalently.)

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