Yesterday, I concluded my search for some code and (particularly) database schemas and gave in to the fears that it was a lost cause. A couple of years ago, I started a PHP framework for a game that I don’t dare to mention here because only mentioning the intention to build such a game does make a certain company go after their (well-protected) trademarks.

Anyways, after a frantic search that ended up with me (legitimately) breaking the password for the root account of one of my oldest linux servers [after 3 years I forget passwords too, yes], I gave up and considered the data: (warning Web 1.0 HTML code ahead! If you don’t have a Web 1.0 compatible browser, please consider downloading Mosaic)

gone

Next time, I do these kinds of things, remind me to make snapshots of code. Actually, I already do that (I rescued plenty of code from the Binary Heaven recently) but in the case of the previously mentioned framework, well, I guess I did forego that. I’ll probably start recoding that stuff, if I can make some time. Before you know it, I’ll end up becoming a millionaire. You heard it here first.

Somewhat related: Looking for other webbased stuff around, I found Merchant Empires: a game that actually seems to look good for a ‘turn-based browserbased’ game. But for heaven’s sake, it runs on a mix of C, Python, PHP and Postgres (I like Postgres). Man, I’d love to run that on my home-server, but that wouldn’t really bring a-uh-yes-crowd… unless I started providing free Wi-Fi around and… and… You could also try to buy lottery tickets. Bonne chance!