Subj : Operating Systems
To   : Utopian Galt
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Apr 06 2024 09:48:50

  Re: Operating Systems
  By: Utopian Galt to All on Fri Apr 05 2024 09:33 pm

 UG> I would like to migrate to Linux. Windows 32 bit will be negated
 UG> eventually. Perhaps run Mystic/Linux and use dos emu for the door games.
 UG> But door games will only be a memory in 14 years with the 2038 problem.

I moved my BBS from 32-bit Windows to Linux a couple years ago.  I had a couple other servers I was running in Linux, so for a while I was running my BBS in a Win32 VM on that PC, and finally decided to move my BBS to Linux as well.

I imagine there's probably no way to patch old DOS binaries to fix the 2038 problem, which is a shame..  Unless some people make new versions of all the old DOS door games.  There's a LORD & LORD2 written for Synchronet's JavaScript, but of course, those will only run in Synchronet.  There is also a program called 'jsdoor' that would allow a Synchronet JavaScript door to run outside of Synchronet, which is supposed to allow such door games to run on any BBS, so I'd wonder how well itworks with those JS versions of LORD & LORD2.

Nightfox
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