Kalgoorlie Retro runs a LORD Server that any BBS can link to. Your callers pick it from your door menu and play Legend of the Red Dragon in a realm shared with players from other boards. You don't install LORD, and you don't need to ask us first.

You do it once, in two parts:

1. Get a key. You connect to our server once and sign your BBS up. It gives you a key: a code like 7KQ2-M9XD-4TPW-H3NC that proves the players are coming from your BBS.

2. Add a door to your BBS that connects to our server and sends that key.

Allow about ten minutes. Pick your BBS software below and follow its steps from top to bottom.

Before you start, decide:

• your BBS's name as you want it listed, 3 to 40 characters (e.g. The Example BBS);
• your tag (e.g. EXB).

Your BBS must be able to connect out to bbs.theiguru.au on TCP port 5130. Most home and hosted BBSes can; if you have a firewall that blocks outgoing connections, allow that one.

Whichever BBS software you use, signing up shows this screen. Type your BBS's name and press Enter, type your tag and press Enter, then press Y:

LORD Server: BBS sign-up
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This gives your BBS a key, so your door can send players here.
Each of your players gets their own account, so a player with the
same name on another BBS is someone else.

BBS name: The Example BBS

A short tag for your BBS, 2 to 8 letters or digits.  It goes after
your players' names in this server's lists: Bob@TAG.
Tag: EXB

Sign up "The Example BBS" as EXB? (Y/n) Yes

Signed up.  Your BBS key is:

7KQ2-M9XD-4TPW-H3NC

Write it down now: it isn't shown again.

Write the key down (or copy it from your terminal window) before you press a key: the screen closes and the key is never shown again. If the tag is taken, it asks for another. If you press N, nothing is saved and you can start again.

There are two ways. Way 1 is shorter: you sign up from your BBS's main menu, then make the door once. Use Way 2 if you can't use the sysop commands (for example, you don't have the system password).

Get the key

1. Log in to your BBS as the sysop, with a terminal program (SyncTERM, NetRunner and so on).

2. At the main menu, type this exactly, starting with the semicolon, and press Enter:

;EXEC ?rlogin bbs.theiguru.au:5130 -s register -P

The semicolon tells Synchronet this is a sysop command. EXEC runs the rest of the line; ?rlogin is Synchronet's rlogin program; -s register asks our server for the sign-up screen; -P starts without a pause.

3. Synchronet asks for your system password (the one set in SCFG > System). Type it and press Enter.

4. The sign-up screen appears. Fill it in as shown above and write down the key.

5. Press a key. You are back at your main menu.

Make the door

1. On the computer running Synchronet, open a command prompt or terminal and run SCFG: /sbbs/exec/scfg on Linux (as the user the BBS runs as), or C:\sbbs\exec\scfg.exe on Windows.

2. Choose External Programs, then Online Programs….

3. You see a list of program sections (for example “Games” or “Doors”). Choose the one you want the door in, and press Enter.

4. You see the list of programs in that section. Press the Insert key (or move to the empty line at the bottom and press Enter) to add one.

5. At Online Program Name, type what your callers will see, e.g. LORD - Kalgoorlie Retro, and press Enter.

6. At Internal Code, type a short code with no spaces, e.g. LORDKRG, and press Enter.

7. The new program's settings open. Move to each of these with the arrow keys, press Enter, and set it:

Leave everything else as it is. Start-up Directory stays blank.

8. Press Esc until SCFG asks Save Changes?, and answer Yes. Then leave SCFG. Synchronet picks up the change by itself within a minute or so (or restart the BBS).

Now go to try it.

Make a temporary sign-up door

1. Run SCFG and add a program as in Way 1 above (External Programs > Online Programs… > your section > Insert), named e.g. LORD sign-up with Internal Code LORDREG.

2. Set these:

3. Press Esc, answer Yes to Save Changes, and leave SCFG.

Get the key

1. Log in to your BBS as the sysop, open your door menu, and run LORD sign-up.

2. Fill in the sign-up screen and write down the key. Press a key to go back to your BBS.

Change the same door into the real one

1. Run SCFG again and go back to the same program (External Programs > Online Programs… > your section > LORD sign-up).

2. Change these:

3. Press Esc, answer Yes to Save Changes, and leave SCFG.

Until you change it, the door shows the sign-up screen instead of the game, which is why it is limited to SYSOP in the meantime.

?rlogin bbs.theiguru.au:5130 -s 7KQ2-M9XD-4TPW-H3NC -t xtrn=A -P

Synchronet sends each caller's alias as their name, so their account on our server is <alias>@<your tag>.

Mystic has no sysop command for this, so you add a menu item, run it once to get the key, then change the same item into the real door.

The menu editor's layout differs a little between Mystic versions; the steps below say what to set. Mystic's own help is on its wiki: menus and menu commands.

1. On the computer running Mystic, open its configuration: mystic -cfg (mystic.exe -cfg on Windows), in Mystic's folder.

2. Open the Menu Editor (in the Editors menu), choose your theme, and open the menu your doors are on (for example doors; if you don't have one, use main).

3. Insert a new menu item, and set:

4. Give the item one command:

5. Save the menu. If the menu uses its own ANSI screen rather than a generated list, add the item to that screen too, or just press the hot key: it works even if it isn't shown.

1. Log in to your BBS as the sysop, go to that menu, and press the hot key (L).

2. Fill in the sign-up screen and write down the key. Press a key to go back to your BBS.

1. Open the Menu Editor again and the same menu item.

2. Change these:

3. Save the menu.

Add /prompt if you'd rather not show Mystic's connecting messages. Mystic sends its user and password fields the other way round from Synchronet; our server takes them either way, so don't swap them.

Use your software's rlogin door, gateway or menu command. Sign up first with register as the server user name (some software calls it the password), write down the key, then change register to the key:

If your software can't do this, email slaterm@theiguru.au with your BBS's name and the tag you'd like, and we'll send you a key.

1. Log in to your BBS as an ordinary user (not the sysop) and run the door.

2. You should go straight into Legend of the Red Dragon. The first time, it asks you to make a character: a name, then male or female, then a class.

3. Play a little, then quit LORD (Q at the town square, then confirm). You should be back on your BBS.

If something is wrong:

• The key is made by our server and sent to the screen of whoever runs the sign-up: you. Your BBS passes it through like any other text and doesn't store it.
• Our server keeps only a scrambled copy (a hash), so we can't look it up either: a lost key is replaced, not recovered.
• Afterwards it lives in your door's settings. Your callers never see it. Anyone who can open SCFG or Mystic's configuration on your BBS can.
• Anyone who has your key can play as your players, so keep it to yourself.

If you lose your key, or think someone else has it, email slaterm@theiguru.au from the address you use as sysop, with your BBS's name and tag. We'll make a new key (the old one stops working at once) and send it to you; put it in your door in place of the old one. Your players and their characters are kept.

To host LORD for your own players, and let other BBSes link to you, install LORD Server on a Windows computer: see Quick start and Linking a BBS. Everything on this page works the same with your server's address and port.