Does this require a Desktop linux environment or installing a window manager?
How does it work with serial redirection?
I am sorry. Everywhere I typed "dosbox" I meant dosEMU. :)
I'm not too interested in running a desktop OS. I guess if that's your perogative, then you could do that. The problem is you still have to run multiple instances of the DOS OS since you're not running the BBS inside of the emulator. If you run the Telnet version of TWGS, that is probably fine. I guess you could simply install Ubuntu Desktop, install some emulator (WINE, DosBox, ETC) that can run Win 3.1. Then launch multiple TWGS in Win 3.1 and have it sit on multiple telnet ports for multinode.
I don't know how WINE works so don't bust my balls here.
Do the instances of applications running in wine share a filespace? Can you launch WINE from the CLI and redirect the serial output to the console?
I got Trade Wars 2002 3.09 working with Mystic and 64 bit kernel!!!
Basically, I installed MS Dos 6.22 (the real stuff) using QEMU. Added X00 fossil driver and SHUTDOWN.COM I grabbed from the internet. I then installed TW2002 v3.09 with DPMI no problem. Then in Mystic, I
just call a bash script that creates a "run.bat" file for the node (standard stuff here). The script then launches qemu and redirects the serial I/O to STDIO (the terminal program you're using).
That is registered coolness. I wondered if qemu might be a solution but have not looked at it yet. I think qemu can be used on a Pi as well?
Awesome. On my debian 10 here dosemu isn't available as a package but I see several qemu-* packages. I'm hoping one day to get a menu full of Operation Overkill ][ maps.
Nice work. Now with multinode do you plan on trying to spin up multiple instances of DOS? If that's the only option - and to cut down on the worries of sharing and back doors, maybe think about making it so that
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