Subj : Operating Systems
To   : Nightfox
From : Shurato
Date : Sat Apr 06 2024 14:16:00


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

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

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

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

It works fine with LORD, I don't know about LORD2, haven't tried that yet.
It doesn't work with an other Synchronet JS doors I've tried.

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