FAN FORUMS FOR WALL STREET RAIDER:
From time to time, various Wall Street Raider fans have set up forums or blogs
for players of W$R to swap stories, exchange ideas and game strategies, and check
for developments relating to W$R. (We also post information about new releases on
this RoninSoft.com web page.)
While Ronin Software is glad to see fans of the game create online forums, we
do not endorse or sponsor any of them and are not responsible for their content. One
such forum that we recently became aware of, which is called the "Wall Street Raider --
Official Forum," but with which we have no actual sponsorship or involvement, can be
visited at: WSR Fan Forum.
There is also an active Reddit page on Wall Street Raider, at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WallStreetRaider/
Also, be sure to check out the Steam WishList Page for Wall Street Raider, at:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3525620/Wall_Street_Raider/
NOTE: Version 9.85, the final "antique" or "classic" version of Wall Street Raider, is
now available for sale through Ben Ward's HackJack Games on
itch.io.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING WALL STREET RAIDER AND SPECULATOR.
At this point, as I am now nearly 82 years old, I have gone as far as
I am going to go with development of the two programs, at Version 9.85
of W$R and 4.12 of Speculator.
However, a Version 10.0 of Wall Street Raider is nearly ready for
release, being done by Ben Ward, a software engineer (not an amateur programmer
like me) who has remastered and greatly improved and modernized the user
interface, in addition to adding other new features. Here's a link to a terrific podcast he
recently did with AJ Churchill on
Outsider Gaming
about the new Version 10.0 that will soon be becoming out. He had planned to
release it on Steam on March 12th, but technical problems with Steam resulted
in erasing all the information he had submitted last year, and their system
has been locking him out so he has been unable to re-submit the required
information. Catch-22, in other words. If necessary, he will have to go
around Steam and simply begin selling Raider from WallStreetRaider.com, the
website I set up a few years ago, which I have now transferred to Ben, who
has re-done it from the ground up.
I've waited a long time to find someone capable of transitioning the program
to a modern GUI or different platform, so I guess I can wait a little bit longer.
I know a lot of you who are devoted WSR addicts are growing impatient, but the
time is nigh....
Ben has already indicated that if his remastering of Wall Street Raider is
well-received, he would like to do the same with Speculator, now that he has
figured out a way to deal with my Late Pleistocene-era source code!
To view the new Wall Street Raider channel on YouTube, and
a 20-minute video I did about the origins and development of
the game,
Click here.
Game over. It has been a good run for me, which has been
great fun and an intellectually satisfying challenge. I greatly
appreciate all the good and bright people who have supported Wall
Street Raider over 40 years of development with their repeated
purchases and so many good ideas that I've incorporated into the
game. I've been blessed with a wonderful cohort of customers and
colleagues, scattered throughout 124 countries (if Antarctica counts
as a country) in every part of the globe and am sincerely grateful
to be part of such a friendly and helpful group of people, who were
able to look beyond my limited programming skills and appreciate the
content and depth of the games. I have rarely ever had to deal with
a "troublesome customer" in all that time.
(Be sure to check this page or Reddit for news on when 10.0
is published, which is when the next chapter in this long saga will
begin, in earnest. My plan is to live forever, but just in case I
don't, I'd surely hate to see W$R die with me, so I'm passing the
torch on to younger and more capable hands!)
