Hi there,

i think, i need some brain refreshing :)
If i want run a Door program on Linux, what is made for Dos, is there a solution to run it in BBS conditions ? Do i need Node.js or something else ?

Greetings
Goose

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On 17 Jan 2023, Goose said the following...

Hi there,

i think, i need some brain refreshing :)
If i want run a Door program on Linux, what is made for Dos, is there a solution to run it in BBS conditions ? Do i need Node.js or something
else ?

Greetings
Goose

I used emudos but I don't think its maintained anymore so might want to check out emudos 2 or was it dosemu. I'm sure google will fix it. Either way Once I got this in and setup the rest was normal dos setup.

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i think, i need some brain refreshing :)
If i want run a Door program on Linux, what is made for Dos, is there a solution to run it in BBS conditions ? Do i need Node.js or something else ?

I haven't run any dos doors in years but when I did I used dosemu. That is still a solution that works most of the time.

Today there is also dosemu2 although I haven't tried it. It's config is going to be a bit different than dosemu. I have heard good things about dosemu2.

There is no possibility to use to use DPMS with dosemu anymore because of recent changes in the kernel. Most doors don't use dpms but trade wars does.

I believe dosemu can use DPMS but I have no personal experience with it.

Dosbox is another option but you can't run multinode with it.

dosemu or dosemu2 are your best bets I think.

QEMU is another possibility but again I have no personal experience with it.

That should give you some direction anyway. :)

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Hi Al,

Today there is also dosemu2 although I haven't tried it. It's config is going to be a bit different than dosemu. I have heard good things about dosemu2.

thanks for your answer. I will try setup dosemu2 to my BBS Server. I let you know what happend if you want :)

Cheers
Goose

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i think, i need some brain refreshing :)
If i want run a Door program on Linux, what is made for Dos, is there a solution to run it in BBS conditions ? Do i need Node.js or something else

There are two ways, one with dosemu2 and the other with qemu. Both ways are described in my tutor, which i wrote recently and work 100%. You can get it here: https://jackphla.sh/files/dem-new/xq!doors.zip, Another Droid BBS and more. Soon will be released in FSXNet also. Try them and tell us if it works for you.

FYI: the tutors are not 100% mine, are based on tutors of Deadbeatz and Gryphon. I just update them cause somethings didn't work as used to.

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Hi xqtr,

are described in my tutor, which i wrote recently and work 100%. You can get it here: https://jackphla.sh/files/dem-new/xq!doors.zip, Another

yeah, this is what i searched for. Thanks for your Files. Should be listet in file section :)

I got a Linux Server only installation without GUI.

Thx alot

Cheers
Goose

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thanks for your answer. I will try setup dosemu2 to my BBS Server. I let you know what happend if you want :)

Yes, please do. It's been on my todo list forever but I never seem to get much in the way of free time.

Let me know how it goes for you, I may just take it out for a spin too.

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Al wrote to Goose <=-

There is no possibility to use to use DPMS with dosemu anymore because
of recent changes in the kernel. Most doors don't use dpms but trade
wars does.

I believe dosemu can use DPMS but I have no personal experience with
it.

It can, so long as you are running dosemu on an older installation of linux that won't barf on the DPMS and crash the dosemu instance. I have trade
wars, and my old DOS BBS, running under dosemu on an instance of devuan
running in VirtualBox.



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It can, so long as you are running dosemu on an older installation of linux that won't barf on the DPMS and crash the dosemu instance. I have trade wars, and my old DOS BBS, running under dosemu on an instance of devuan running in VirtualBox.

Don't loose that box. That was an unplanned outage on the part of dosemu. I have high hopes for dosemu2, we'll see how it goes.

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If i want run a Door program on Linux, what is made for Dos, is there a solution to run it in BBS conditions ? Do i need Node.js or something

The basic answer is that you need dosemu, but it's a rabbit hole of details, good luck :)

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There is no possibility to use to use DPMS with dosemu anymore because of recent changes in the kernel. Most doors don't use dpms but trade wars does.

Of note is pkunzip - if you run interbbs doors using dosemu and pkunzip is a dependency, you'll need to customize somethingorother in dosemu for pkunzip to work properly.

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It can, so long as you are running dosemu on an older installation of linux that won't barf on the DPMS and crash the dosemu instance. I have trade wars, and my old DOS BBS, running under dosemu on an instance of devuan running in VirtualBox.

DPMS also works well in dosemu2 however I run into other random issues with that program :)

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Of note is pkunzip - if you run interbbs doors using dosemu and pkunzip is a dependency, you'll need to customize somethingorother in dosemu for pkunzip to work properly.

I used to have an .ini file of some sort for pkzip/unzip that I had to change for pkzip/unzip 2.50. I forget exactly what I was but it had to do with disabling dpmi, I think it was the "-;" switch, but it was a while ago.. I could be wrong.

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thanks for your answer. I will try setup dosemu2 to my BBS Server. I let you know what happend if you want :)

Goose

I would actually like to know how that goes. I used dosemu so would like to know how good dosemu2 is

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Al wrote to Blue White <=-

It can, so long as you are running dosemu on an older installation of linux that won't barf on the DPMS and crash the dosemu instance. I have trade wars, and my old DOS BBS, running under dosemu on an instance of devuan running in VirtualBox.

Don't loose that box. That was an unplanned outage on the part of
dosemu. I have high hopes for dosemu2, we'll see how it goes.

I have not played with dosemu2 yet. That is on the roundtoit list. :)
Good luck with it, I hope it goes well.


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