Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : esc
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Dec 13 2022 18:09:24

  Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
  By: esc to Arelor on Tue Dec 13 2022 11:20 am

 >  Ar> I have thought of setting an actual BBS with Roguelike DOors, but in th
 >  Ar> end of the day I find
 >  Ar> dgamelaunch better if you just want to host terminal games. Besides,
 >  Ar> dgamelaunch is easy to adapt to
 >  Ar> OpenBSD and its sandboxing models.
 > 
 > I'd love to learn more about how each of these games is able to share things
 > 
 > I mean, I think this is technically fine, but I would love to find better ne
 > 
 > Brogue would be so great if only there was an 80x25 mode I could use. Alas.
 > 
 > --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
 >  * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)

The traditional approach by BSD games was to have the scorefiles and the
savefiles in a common foolder (such as /var/games/whatever ) which belonged to
a system user (say, _games). Games were setgid so when a user launched the
game, the game manipulated the scorefiles directly.

Not the safest approach. OpenBSD has it disabled by default for the default
BSDGAMES.

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