Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Development
Subject: Re: WWIV5 doors with dosbox-staging
From:    Jimmy Mac #1 @707
To:      Rushfan #1 @513
Date:    Tue Jul 11, 2023 08:42

R> I've just tested to make sure fossil support works from both QEMU using
R> a Win64 host and also dosbox staging.
R>
R> Dosbox staging (https://dosbox-staging.github.io/) seems to be the only
R> one that works reliably with dos apps.  I used the socket inheritance
R> (so using normal Win32/Door32 and -socket on the commandline) and it
R> worked.
R>
R> Likewise the "Listen socket" support made using QEMU super easy, here's
R> the commandline I  used to set the serial port (com1) to use the bbs's
R> listen socket (which is %Z in chainedit)
R>
R>  -chardev socket,id=bbs,host=localhost,port=%1 ^
R>  -serial chardev:bbs ^
R>
R>
R> Hope this helps.
R>
R> btw, the ^ is a line continuation for DOS/Win32 just like \ is on *nix.

SWEET!!!   That's great to hear!  Will this be in the docs moving forward?



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