Subj : Re: EleBBS/Linux and dosemu2...
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : Shurato
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 17:27:00


 Me> On 23 Jul 2024, Shurato said the following...

 Me> Sh> Has anyone been able to get the 2012 Build of Ele/Linux to run
 Me> dosemu2?
 Me> Sh> I get a screen full of errors on my terminal that points to Ele
 Me> source
 Me> Sh> code.  I could post a link to a screen capture if anyone thinks that
 Me> Sh> would help. I'm mostly wondering if anyone has had any luck with this
 Me> Sh> abomination...  I'm trying to switch from Windows to Linux and it's
 Me> not
 Me> Sh> going very smoothly so far.  I've got all of the built-in features
 Me> Sh> working like questionaires and txtfiles, but not the one executable
 Me> I've
 Me> Sh> tried so far.  I'm using fully qualified pathnames and dosemu2 starts
 Me> Sh> up, but when the dos program is supposed to run I get the errors,
 Me> which
 Me> Sh> probably wouldn't help anyone who wasn't willing to look at the
 Me> EleBBS
 Me> Sh> source.

 Me> Sure post a link that's fine, I will offer one in exchange =)

 Me> https://nuskooler.github.io/enigma-bbs/modding/local-doors.html

 Me> The link I just gave, although aimed at enigma1/2 BBSes, you can pick out
 Me> useful info there, which is how I managed to get Gutterbowl running in
 Me> Mystic a few years ago. I don't know if DOSEMU would be better than
 Me> DOSEMU2 in this scenario, YMMV.

I don't need a link, icy_term showed the error much better than any other
term program:

An unhandled exception occurred at $08159CF6 :
ERangeError : Range check error
  $08159CF6  RAEXEC,  line 786 of src/elebbs/execfunc.pas
  $080761A4  EXECUTEMENUFUNC,  line 425 of src/elebbs/elemenu.pas
  $08079382  ENTER_MENU,  line 1158 of src/elebbs/elemenu.pas
  $08072A0F  START_THIS_PROGRAM,  line 191 of src/elebbs/main.pas
  $080490E7  main,  line 557 of src/elebbs/elebbs.pas

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