Subj : Re: installing door games
To   : Alonzo
From : esc
Date : Mon Jan 02 2023 16:39:49

 Al> I've had a lot of trouble installing doors on my Mystic BBS. I can't run
 Al> 32 bit programs on my 64-bit computer so I thought the answer was to use
 Al> Netfoss, but of course Netfoss won't run in 64-bit either. So what's the
 Al> answer? Does my Windows 10 operating system need to be 32-bit? I tried
 Al> installing the operating system again - thought I could pick to install
 Al> it as a 32-bit OS but I didn't see a chance to install it as 32-bit. Did
 Al> I miss something?

The trouble is that Microsoft removed NTVDM support and you need to do some real hacky stuff to get NTVDM support back - http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html

What I have is a 32 bit Windows 7 VPS slice hosting all of my DOS doorgames. It works well and I don't have to change core parts of my OS to do so.

 Al> Also, what do you have to make copies of when you are backing up a
 Al> Mystic BBS? I tried to copy only the files in the C:\MYSTIC directory
 Al> but that messed me up for a while. I finally got the BBS working again
 Al> but it was a pain. Any ideas for running doors?

I run backup scripts using rsync in linux but not Windows, sorry, can't help ya :) I'm sure there is some Windows backup 3rd party thing you could use and point it at your Mystic directory.

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