Subj : Re: Darkness 2.0
To   : Warpslide
From : dejavu
Date : Sun Jun 14 2020 10:34:54

On 14 Jun 2020, Warpslide said the following...
 
Wa> On 13 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following... Wa> a>  de> Hey maskreet,
thanks for the response.  Mystic is new to me, I'm find Wa>  de> it extremely
difficult to follow any simple installation guides, it s Wa>  de> everything is
written as if the installer has installed add-ons to Wa> de> Mystic, when it
fact everything I am trying is for the first time :)
Wa>
Wa> Have you seen Paul (a.k.a Avon)'s videos on YouTube yet? Wa> Wa>
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPOUHszVXaGNSlK3AdI7kLQ/featured Wa>

Hey Warpslide.  Yes, absolutely.  I decided to go with Mystic BBS because of
Paul's videos and those videos got me here and linked to the fsxNet.  If it
weren't for his videos I wouldn't have known about this place or be linked
right now. 

Wa> I found those videos to be of enormous help, especially with the message
Wa> networks.
Wa>

Paul's videos a tremendous help to getting the message networks established,
however as far as the topic of file bases, and games, not so much.  I'm
stuck with no clear path to move forward.

I'd would really like push for a weekly or bi-weekly MRC chat session for
fsxNet networked SysOps to join to help onboard new fsxNet SysOp's.  The MRC
chat addon is pretty slick now, it connects to one server and then any user
on any BBS can chat with the SysOp of that system and all the users of that
particular BBS.

 Wa> As for Door Games,
I have all of mine installed locally.  I'm running  Wa> Windows 10 (32 bit)
to makes things easier with running older door games  Wa> like LORD, Planets,
etc.  With older door games, you'll need to load a  Wa> fossil driver
(http://pcmicro.com/netfoss/download.html) before loading  Wa> the game.  
Wa>  
Wa> The downside to this approach is door games won't
work through SSH, only  Wa> through Telnet & RLogin.
Wa> 
Wa> Newer games like Darkness however don't require a fossil driver to work
Wa> if you're using the 32 bit version, making them a little easier to
Wa> install.  With Darkness, I didn't even need to create a batch file to
Wa> switch it to the proper directory first.
Wa> 
Wa> Here's my Mystic menu setup for LORD:
Wa> 
Wa> Command: D3
Wa> Data:
Wa> c:\mystic\netfoss\nf.bat /N%3 /H%0 c:\mystic\doors\lord\start.bat %3
Wa> 
Wa> nf.bat is included with NetFoss & start.bat is included with LORD.  I
Wa> only modified them to either add a %1 to line 3 with nf.bat or to switch
Wa> it to the proper path with start.bat.
Wa> 
Wa> And my Mystic menu setup for Darkness:
Wa> 
Wa> Command: D3
Wa> Data: c:\mystic\doors\dark\dark32.exe /N%3
Wa> 

Thank you for all this information.  I will work on implementing doors when I
get a handful of items that are non-working functional again.

Thanks again!
-Dejavu

Wa> Jay
Wa> 
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