The Sierra Network (ImagiNation) – Lives again

Back in the early 90′s, yes back even before most had even heard of the Internet and the geeks spent most of their time on BBS’s there were a few online services trying to get going. AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe were fairly well known, but there was one other that stole my heart. It was the ImagiNation Network and primarily MedievaLand and its first game The Shadow of Yserbius.

Way back before World of Warcraft, Never Winter Nights, Ultima Online there was The Shadow of Yserbius which really set the bar for online gaming.

The whole network was unbelievable in its scope. You could play the D&D style Yserbius, card games at the club house, gamble at CasinoLand, have simulated dog fights in the Red Baron game, play the popular Boogers game, and ever get help with your home work.
To this day I have not seen anything to match the fun and variety that I had the privilege to experience back in the days when I was spending thousands of dollars and endless hours experiencing life “online”.

I have cherished my memories of those days and have copies of all the old software and hacks which I have kept faithfully for the last 15 years. I have joined a couple efforts to re-create the world, but all have failed… until now. A guy that goes by the name of byoung was able to re-create the server so that the old client software is able to work in DosBox which redirects the modem calls over TCP/IP. His website has all the software and directions to get setup very easily. It took me all of 10 mins to get everything installed and working. **To make it even easier to get started use the installer I created**

I spent about 4 hours online yesterday playing The Shadow of Yserbius with a few other people and building up my character. Oh man have I forgotten a ton, but the memories flooding back are a total blast. Even if you never played back in the day, I encourage you to get setup with it and join the growing community of users. If you let me know you will be in, I will be glad to join you for any game you like. Im having fun re-discovering all the cool stuff in this world of ImagiNation.

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About Dan Kuykendall

Dan Kuykendall is the CTO and Co-CEO at NT OBJECTives. Dan is a founder of NT OBJECTives and has been with the company for more than 10 years. He is responsible for the strategic direction and development of products and services and works closely with technology partners to make sure integrations are both deep and valuable. As a result of Dan’s dedication to security, technology innovation and software development, NTO application security scanning software is often recognized as the most accurate because of its sophisticated automation techniques. Dan joined NT OBJECTives from Foundstone, where he was responsible for the portal interface to the company’s flagship product, FoundScan. Prior to Foundstone, Dan was the founder of the Information Security team in the United States branches of Fortis. Dan is a regular blogger on web application security issues on ManVsWebApp.com and co-hosts An Information Security Place Podcast. His has presented on the topics of mobile and application security at many of the top security industry conferences such as ISSA (2011), B-Sides (2012-2013), OWASP AppSecUSA (2012), HouSecCon (2010-2012), ToorCon (2013) and THOTCON (2013). Dan has been involved with Web Application Security Consortium and is a regular contributor to many open source development projects including founding the RPM Builder, phpGroupWare and podPress projects. Connect with Dan on Google+

One thought on “The Sierra Network (ImagiNation) – Lives again”

  1. J.R. Holland
    August 21, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Dan -

    Do you still play on Inn Revival? I just downloaded the client from your blog and am interested in knowing if anyone is still playing.

    I’m doubting it, but who knows?!? Send me an e-mail at the address above if so.

    J.R.

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