Subj : Ubuntu/JNS Door Games/dosemu2
To   : Nightfox
From : RickV
Date : Mon Aug 24 2026 05:20 pm


Hello Nightfox!

01 Mar 71 00:52, you wrote to me:

 Ni>   Re: Ubuntu/JNS Door Games/dosemu2
 Ni>   By: RickV to All on Thu Aug 20 2026 11:40 pm

 Ri>> I am unable to get any JNS games to run under Ubuntu, dosemu2. I
 Ri>> have gotten most of my other dos games to work, Sunrise and a
 Ri>> bunch of other classic doors working. Can anyone share there sbbs
 Ri>> cfg and the games cfg
 Ri>> setting for one JNS game (5 Card Poker maybe) with me?

 Ri>> This is all running under Ubuntu, with dosemu2.

 Ni> What happens when they run?  Does dosemu2 launch and produce an error
 Ni> message?

 Ni> I run my BBS in Linux Mint (very similar to Ubuntu), and I use
 Ni> dosemu2. I have some of the JNS doors installed and working.

 Ni> This is my SBBS config for Tri-Bingo:

 Ni> Name          : Tri-Bingo
 Ni> Internal code : TRIBINGO
 Ni> Start-up Directory : ../../doors/TRIBINGO
 Ni> Command Line  : DOOR.BAT %#
 Ni> Multiple concurrent users : Yes
 Ni> Native Executable : No
 Ni> I/O Method    : FOSSIL or UART
 Ni> Use Shell or New Context : Yes
 Ni> BBS Drop File Type: DOOR.SYS (52 lines)
 Ni> Place drop file in : Node Directory

 Ni> This is the DOOR.BAT I use for Tri-Bingo (note: Your drive letter &
 Ni> directory may be different) @ECHO OFF
 Ni> E:
 Ni> CD \TRIBINGO
 Ni> SET TBNODE=%1
 Ni> TRIBINGO.EXE TRIBINGO.CFG


 Ni> And my TRIBINGO.CFG:
 Ni> 1
 Ni> Y
 Ni> Digital Distortion
 Ni> Eric Oulashin
 Ni> DOOR.SYS
 Ni> D:\
 Ni> LOG
 Ni> E:\TRIBINGO\SCORES.ANS
 Ni> E:\TRIBINGO\SCORES.ASC
 Ni> GAP
 Ni> Registered
 Ni> 70
 Ni> 3
 Ni> 10
 Ni> 11


 Ni> One thing I do to debug dosemu2 stuff is, I created a script so that I
 Ni> can manually launch it with the same settings I use for Synchronet,
 Ni> and then within dosemu2, I go to the door directory and manually try
 Ni> to run it and see what happens - Then I may be more easily able to see
 Ni> any error messages produced.

 Ni> After looking at my configuration & batch file, I remember these doors
 Ni> are unique in that there is an environment variable set in the batch
 Ni> file before running the door (in this case, TBNODE).  Did you do that
 Ni> for your JNS doors? I think that's a unique thing about these JNS
 Ni> doors.

 Ni> Nightfox

Thanks Eric. I went to your system and got Tri-Bingo, installed it and set my 
setups just like yours, double checked everything but still doesn't work. All 
my JNS games start to load but sit there at a blank screen. I have to ctrl-c to 
return to the BBS. If I had any hair left I'd be pulling it all out! There all 
work great under Windows 11. I did copy your sbbs cfg, door.bat file and the 
TRIBINGO.CFG with the correct paths for dosemu2.

RickV


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