Subj : Re: opendoors
To   : Evan Elias
From : Andy Alkaline
Date : Tue Jul 13 2004 06:13 pm

-=> Evan Elias wrote to Andy Alkaline <=-

 EE>   Re: Re: qwk upload rz/sz
 EE>   By: Andy Alkaline to Digital Man on Sun Jul 11 2004 06:29 pm

 > Do you know where I can locate a 32-bit door library for Borland C++? I
 > have the borland 5.5 command line tools.

 EE> If you want to make Door32 games (they'll run on Synchronet, Mystic,
 EE> EleBBS, GameSrv, and supposedly the new WWIV 5), check out OpenDoors.
 EE> It also semi-supports WildCat 5 Winserver but has problems with carrier
 EE> loss.

 EE> If you want to make Synchronet-exclusive games, check out the
 EE> Synchronet XSDK, which supports added features like inter-node
 EE> messaging.

 EE> Both work very well with Borland 5.xx.  I've recently discovered that
 EE> (with a little work) you can make an exe that includes both libraries,
 EE> and then use conditional wrappers for your i/o and dropfile-related
 EE> calls.  You'll take a minor efficiency hit but that way you can support
 EE> everything in a single executable.

Thanks for the info, I'll google a bit for that OpenDoors file. I hope 
it's got good documentation. I've never written software that requires 
libraries other than the ones that come with a compiler and everything's 
automatic.

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