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  • Re: Doors and DosBox

    From Brokenmind@TIABBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, February 03, 2023 11:18:55
    Re: Re: Doors and DosBox
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Brokenmind on Fri Mar 06 2020 06:45 am

    I don't think so; passing the door info and a hot comm port into DOSBOX would be tricky. There's been some effort to build a 3rd party 16-bit DOSVDM called NXVDM (I think) that looks promising.
    Since this was posterd I use NXVdm and it works great usualy but once in awhile it gets screwy and I have to uninstall and reinstall it but i'm running a ton of door mostly smoothly for the most part

    BrokenMind

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  • From Nelgin@EOTLBBS to Brokenmind on Sunday, February 05, 2023 01:59:46
    Re: Re: Doors and DosBox
    By: Brokenmind to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 03 2023 11:18:55

    I don't think so; passing the door info and a hot comm port into DOSBOX would be tricky. There's been some effort to build a 3rd party 16-bit DOSVDM called NXVDM (I think) that looks promising.
    Since this was posterd I use NXVdm and it works great usualy but once in awhile it gets screwy and I have to uninstall and reinstall it but i'm running a ton of door mostly smoothly for the most part

    DosBox uses disk caching so you would likely run into all sorts of problems. There is a version that's been modified but I didn't really get it working.
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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to Nelgin on Sunday, February 05, 2023 11:16:39
    Re: Re: Doors and DosBox
    By: Nelgin to Brokenmind on Sun Feb 05 2023 01:59 am

    Re: Re: Doors and DosBox
    By: Brokenmind to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 03 2023 11:18:55

    I don't think so; passing the door info and a hot comm port into DOSBOX would be tricky. There's been some effort to build a 3rd party 16-bit DOSVDM called NXVDM (I think) that looks promising.
    Since this was posterd I use NXVdm and it works great usualy but once in awhile it gets screwy and I have to uninstall and reinstall it but i'm running a ton of door mostly smoothly for the most part

    DosBox uses disk caching so you would likely run into all sorts of problems. There is a version that's been modified but I didn't really get it working.

    if you are using dosbox for bbs doorgames and dosgames you want your users to be able to play (like i am), you can set synchronet to only let one user in at a time. right now we wont have a problem with 2 users on at the same time.
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