Re: Running DOS door games in Linux
By: George Burdell to All on Wed Oct 06 2021 03:52 pm
Hello all!
new Synchronet sysop here. Just getting back into running a BBS.
I'm thinking of running Synchronet in Linux and using DOSEMU to run old DOS doors like LORD, TW2002, BRE, etc.
I looked at the Synchronet wiki for setting up doors in Linux, but it's a bit confusing.
Anybody successfully set up doors in Linux (RH, Ubuntu, etc.) willing to share how they did it, (example: LoRD) would be appreciated. Like a screen shot of the SCFG and maybe any batch files used.
Firstly, a JavaScript port of LORD is included with Synchronet - no DOSEMU needed for that one.
Secondly, running DOS doors on Linux isn't too hard once you have DOSemu setup:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu
And yes, a lot of Synchronet sysops have done so successfully. There's usualy nothing special for the configuration (same for Linux/DOSEMU or Windows) and you could even use the automated external program setup scripts/.ini files included with Synchronet to do so.
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