How I spent two decades tracking down the creators of a 1987 USENET game and learned modern packaging tools in the process. The Discovery: A Digital Time Capsule from 1987 Picture this: October 26, 1987. The Berlin Wall still stands, the World Wide Web is just text, and software is distributed through USENET newsgroups in […]
Hello! Just found this, I am the author of the article, and the one who relicensed the code.
I am preparing the next step. A new project: conquer-web, to have a way of connecting to the running conquer process (with ncurses) through the web, in addition to being able to connect as before, just by having a session on the machine (ssh).
As I see there is interest. I will speed up that process. I already have it online, but I haven´t published it yet, because I want to introduce a better authentication system to prevent DOS or brute force attacks.
Hello! Just found this, I am the author of the article, and the one who relicensed the code.
I am preparing the next step. A new project: conquer-web, to have a way of connecting to the running conquer process (with ncurses) through the web, in addition to being able to connect as before, just by having a session on the machine (ssh).
As I see there is interest. I will speed up that process. I already have it online, but I haven´t published it yet, because I want to introduce a better authentication system to prevent DOS or brute force attacks.
Current code for that is in: https://github.com/vejeta/conquer-web
Contributions welcome.