While my slacking on releases continues, luckily the same is not true for the other members of Demonic Productions. Here’s a small batch of releases for June 2026:
First up, Opicron. Our biggest release in a while, by far, is Opicron’s new door game, in which players on a small island manage colonies and compete for limited resources. Its gameplay may be familiar to those who enjoy board games, combining resource management, strategy, and negotiation with other players. Users can compete head to head against up to three other players, and there’s also support for bots with three different skill levels. It also connects to a central server for a wider pool of potential players. Nice!
Coded in Python, this game supports a few different methods, including launching via Mystic’s embedded Python2 or Python3, launching via Python as an external program and reading the DORINFO1.DEF dropfile, and also operating as an actual DOOR32.SYS door. This has been tested in both Windows and Linux with multiple BBS software packages. This is a pretty damn cool release. Give it a spin, and let us know what you think!
Opicron also brings us an 1.1 update to his LastCallers MPY script for Mystic BBS. This mod is a last callers replacement featuring additional stats, a scrollable caller list, and is fully customizable. It also supports both traditional 80×25 as well as 132×37 terminals. For Mystic 1.12 A46+ with Python 2.7. Version 1.1 makes some optimizations to how terminal details are stored to speed things up a bit.
The man, the myth, the legend xqtr also rings up a trio of new releases.
HEXBIN is a little utility written in Python3 to view binary files in hex format, but with one twist. It’s intended to be used with structured data files, and highlights the bytes depending on what data structure they belong to. Very handy for reversing engineering old software, particularly all of that beloved 90s BBS stuff, so often coded in Borland Pascal, in which using structured binary files to store configurations and other data was the norm. Speaking of which, this release also includes Rec2Struct, a bonus script that converts Pascal record structures to Python record structures!
A follow-up to his popular Mystic Screensavers script release, his v2 release includes 4 new MPY based screensaver scripts: three plasma effects and one cool fire effect. As with the original release, it comes with short but sweet instructions on how to modify your existing menus to make these scripts function like actual screensavers using Mystic’s TIMER function. Equally playful, xqtr’s Starfield TextFile Scroller is a MPY based Mystic mod that scrolls text from bottom to top while a starfield twinkles in the background, kind of like those famous Star Wars opening text crawls. Very cool!
Both of these releases are for Mystic/Linux, but that’s mainly because they were written and tested under Linux. They can be easily adapted to Mystic/Windows: all 5 scripts contain a statement to combine all of the rendered lines to output them that inserts a “\n” to add line feeds between lines. Something like “write('\n'.join(output))” If you change “‘\n'” to “‘\r\n'” to add that good old carriage return it should output as intended. Additionally, the Starfield TextFile Scroll contains numerous uses of “quit()” to exit the script. In Linux this returns users back to the BBS, but in Windows it will kill the entire session, disconnecting the user. This can be fixed by removing the “quit()” at the very end of the script and replacing other instances of it with “break”. This may need a tiny bit more tweaking, but generally, that should do the job.
More releases soon!
