Subj : Re: DOS BBS
To   : NuSkooler
From : Jokker
Date : Sat Feb 29 2020 18:57:06

 Nu> I think you're way far ahead of me for what I use QEMU for BBS-wise, but
 Nu> I do run some DOS doors under QEMU on my board. 
 Nu> 
 Nu> I have some of it documented here:
 Nu> https://nuskooler.github.io/enigma-bbs/modding/local-doors.html
 Nu> I'd like to get around to putting up a sub-board on a physical DOS
 Nu> machine I have here maybe running Oblivion/2.

Yeah I'm a glutton for punishment because since that particular message
things have changed quite a bit. :)

Still running pure MSDOS with QEMM/DV but I've switched to using QuickBBS
2.90 (had to reverse-engineer it to generate regkeys). I tried using JMAIL
and cracked/wrote a keygen for it but it has problems with dates so I
switched to FMAIL. I did update the source to binkd to build with
DJGPP/WATT32 so now I have binkd 1.1 running in DOS instead of 0.9.8.
Quickbbs has an absolutely shitty mail interface so I set about writing a new
one, in the process I've been porting the OpenDoor SDK to DJGPP as well. Just
finished up the FOSSIL routines and now I can write a library for GoldBase
message format (Quickbbs) and "then" I can write a nice mail interface like
Mystic has. All of this just because I want to simulate how I ran things back
in the day. <LOL> I have learned a lot though, and honestly it's been fun
learning all this stuff. Ah well back at it!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (80:505/0)

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