Contact Mike Jordan
Effective 9/10/2021
I am the author of the M&S Software line of BBS Door games. I created these BBS door games from 1989 until about 2005. Once the internet took over from modem based Bulleton Board Systems there was very little interest in BBS door games, resulting in a lot of authors closing down creation and support of their doors. I held on longer than many and even after I stopped creating I still provided support and registration for my doors. Sometime after 2000 I stopped charging for registreation and provided free keys to any sysop that requested one. Every year, up to this year, 2021, I have received requests for registration of my doors. Over the years, I have been one of the very few door authors that was still reachable... both by phone and email. A few years ago I cancelled that phone line in my info file but kept my email active, with the intention of maintaining that email address as long as I could.
Unfortunately, after my having the email address, mjordan@europa.com, since 1994, the hosting company for the europa.com domain decided to retire the domain, forcing those of us still using it to move to a different email domain. For what ever reason, they said that it could not be migrated to another company or site and would be shut down at the end of September, 2021. They gave us a whole 30 days to make all of the changes and updates needed to migrate almost 28 years of use over to a different email address. While updating most of my email addresses could be done, the one problem I ran into was that I can not update all of the copies of my software that are found on the internet. So those sysops wanting to obtain a free registration key for my doors would no longer be able to contact me.
This is why I created this web page. I am hoping that when those wishing to register my doors find that the contact information is no longer valid, they will still do a internet search for my name, my software name or the door game names and locate this page and be able to contact me. There are also various BBS groups on Facebook that I will contact and let know that I'm still available to create free registration keys.
I find it amazing in how many people still have some of the old BBS software running and active on the internet. And still have many of the old BBS door games running as well. And though I do not get a lot of requests to register my doors, I have received requests every year, so I hope to be able to provide registration keys for as long as there is a request. If you are a sysop that wishes to register my doors, all I need is your real name, sysop name, BBS name and email address. I have never nor will I ever, give out any of this information. As long as I can keep my key maker working... which has been a challenge at times because it was created in Windows XP and many computers ago, I will keep creating registration keys for my doors.
The following is a list of Door games I created. If you need the zipped files, let me know. They can also be found on a number of BBS sites as downloads. They have built in support for most of the major drop files created by the majority of BBS software. All doors are Fossil and RIP aware and will work with a locked DTE and non-standard addressing.
Booby Trap v4.0 - Door Game requiring skill and thought.
Find the 25 booby traps without blowing yourself to bits
in a field of 152 squares.
Keeps track of time, so be
accurate but be fast.
Now with the Sysop FeedBack feature.
InterBBS aware version.
File: BBYTRP40.ZIP 115k
Chuck-A-Luck 1.3 - Bet on the roll of 3 dice to
try and win a bundle, but beware, the House _does_ have the
advantage.
Based on the Las Vegas dice game by the same name.
File: CHUKALUK.ZIP 120k
Hot-Dice v1.7 - Roll the dice and pick the numbers
from a 3x3 grid that equals the roll of the dice.
Try to get all the numbers before you run out of playable dice rolls.
File: HOT-DICE.ZIP 118k
Knight's Move v1.6 Door Game requiring skill and thought.
Move the chess Knight around the board trying to land on each square only once.
File: KNGHTSMV.ZIP 115k
Peg-Jump v1.6 - Door Game requiring skill and thought.
Jump the pegs in this classic game.
But it's not just a solitaire game this time. Compete against other players for the high score.
File: PEG-JUMP.ZIP 114k
Tri-Bingo v3.0 - Door Game. _THE_ best Bingo Door Game available.
Many features added, play up to 3 cards at a time and choose from
several types of Bingo games.
Several "Special" games that allow
bonus payoffs.
Now with the Sysop FeedBack feature.
InterBBS aware version.
File: TBINGO30.ZIP 115k
Poker Bandit v1.1 - Poker Door Game.
Poker in a slot machine.
Place your bet and pull the handle. Payoff is based on the odds of the "Hand" that comes up.
File: POKER-BN.ZIP 120k
Jewel Thief ver 2.1 - Jewel Thief is a multi-level, action game,
that requires concentration, courage, fast reflexes and good eye/hand coordination to be able to steal all the Jewels in each room...
Without getting Zapped by the over protective guards.
Jewel Thief is now InterBBS playable!
File: JEWEL21.ZIP 140k
Video Bandit ver 2.0 - Video Poker in a slot machine.
Similar to Poker Bandit, but in Video Bandit you can select the cards to Hold or Discard and spin again.
InterBBS aware version.
File: VIDEO20.ZIP
Contact: Mike Jordan