If there's a bounty to be paid, I'm happy to chip in but don't know how substantial of a donation I could make. But hell, I wouldn't mind being co owner ;)
I don't think the True boolean was a keyword that could be used this way previous to Python 2. This is a bit of a wild-ass-guess, but instead of "while True" try doing "while (1)" or "while 1" or some variation thereof. Essentially you just need to create an infinite loop. You could even try...
@Byte Knight stellar news! Thanks for running this down!
Follow on question - not to be too greedy ;) Do you think these folks that agreed to this crack would also agree to someone getting a hand of the source and re-adding old external compatibility?
Cloverskull is from a hat that I had, my teammates in the military adopted the symbol as our logo. We said we were "lucky we ain't dead" lol.
Bummer he stopped communicating with you. I wonder if we were asking too much of him and he got spooked :(
I encourage your adventure creating new...
Hm, I wonder if this would be possible using the python Hermes II capabilities today. Could be cool. That said, for me, the big benefit to running Hermes II at all is playing the native games that can't be played on a typical x86 BBS :)