Setting up a Renegade BBS in a virtual machine reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScuttleSE · 2017-11-13 10:53 So, I am fiddling with setting up a Renegade BBS in a VMWare virtual machine, and so far everything seems to be working pretty OK. The machine is running FreeDOS, and I am using VMWare to create virtual serial ports that I redirect to a linux-machine running tcpser. One problem though, when I connect to the BBS, Renegade says it can't find menus, and drops me immediately. Is there something basic that I have missed? I downloaded Renegade 1.10 from renegadebbs.info and then updated to 1.20a with files from that same site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScuttleSE · 2017-11-13 12:03 Hm, it seems like the updates on renegadebbs.info aren't cumulative. I installed 1.10 and then applied the 1.20a update, and it seems like it was the update that broke stuff. If I regress to 1.10, stuff works fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScuttleSE · 2017-11-13 12:42 Figured it out RGV110F.ZIP RGV118A.ZIP RGV119A.ZIP RGV120UP.ZIP If you install the updates in this order it seems to work fine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m_bishop · 2017-11-13 17:59 Thanks! I was thinking of doing something similar, and I'm sure you just saved me an afternoon of chin scratching! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x15e · 2017-11-14 03:47 Sorry for not really answering the question but... Why on earth would you do this to yourself? I mean, I ran rg for a while and thought it was the bee's knees but it's *really* not up to the task of doing anything modern. I recently started looking into running a telnet bbs again and *really* wanted to use Renegade but in the end it just didn't make sense. Mystic will do everything rg did and do it without a bunch of weird shenanigans. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2017-11-22 07:22 the way the developers post cott lang handled updates made it very difficult for people do cumulative updates. that's why jesse and i did a 1.20a FULL release there are so many strings to update with each version and other changes, you really have to know your shit and read the various documents to patch up to the latest version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2017-11-22 07:30 I dont know what you mean by 'modern', but renegade can do what other bbses do. networked msg networks, doorgames, msg areas, files. there's nothing weird about running renegade and rg is actually less of a pain in the ass to run than mystic. you just use net2bbs which uses netfoss and it runs. mysticbbs is another bbs software; it's not a replacement for renegade. Furthermore, renegade is a good bbs from the user's perspective. it's easy to use and has an intuitive interface. the only shortcoming is renegade sucks for importing files. this can be overcome by using a files.bbs or a dummy files.bbs and then running the batch reimportation of descriptions. sounds more complicated than what it is, and it's easily automated. diversity is a great thing in bbsing. it keeps things fun. if we would all just run the best, most modern bbs software, we'd all be running synchronet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2017-11-22 07:30 there's a full version of the latest release for download. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m_bishop · 2017-11-22 12:49 So, no more need to download and patch like you did? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2017-11-22 18:28 there is a full version of the latest version for download. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- m_bishop · 2017-11-22 18:41 Nice! Thanks for the head's up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- westiewill · 2018-02-13 04:00 link to the 1.20a release? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2018-02-15 04:13 because? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- westiewill · 2018-02-15 06:10 The renegade site is down.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2018-02-16 00:23 "hello, can i please have the link to the 1.20 release? i can't reach the site" it's not down, he borked the dns settings, i think. i emailed the guy who owns the domain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- westiewill · 2018-02-16 01:14 Do you have a mirror link? I haven't ran an BBS since the early 90's wanted to throw one up on telnet and make some l33t ansi menus for it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2018-02-16 02:05 http://bbses.info/renegadebbs.info you can use net2bbs to put it up via telnet i contacted the domain owner [i owned enough domains and we partnered together to do rg support at that time so i let him have the domain] and he has a lot going on with his life but he should hop on it and correct it soon. not sure what is up with his cloudflare settings. he didnt lose the domain. have a good one, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2018-03-11 18:07 renegadebbs.info is now directed properly ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2018-03-11 18:08 renegadebbs.info is now working. he borked the cloudflare settings